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The holidays are almost here and I'm sure most of you are probably going to be gone for those. You'll either be visiting your children or grandchildren or even maybe getting away on a well deserved vacation. Either way, you're not going to be at home sitting in front of your computer checking your e-mail everyday like you normally do. So, what do you do with all that e-mail? Just let it pile up and deal with it when you get back? Let's take a look at your options for this one.
First of all, sometimes it is suggested to just let your e-mail collect while you're away. You can just go through and delete out all the unwanted messages when you return. Yes, it might take you awhile to do it, but you won't miss any important e-mails that way. Otherwise, some of them might slip through the cracks and you'll never get to see them. Now, if you're signed up for different mailing lists (newsletters, etc.), you can always stop those subscriptions while you're away and then just resubscribe when you return. This is what WorldStart tells you to do with its newsletters. I know that can sometimes be a pain to do though. Lastly, you could always disable your e-mail completely and turn it back on when you get home, but that method is more work than it should be and who knows how long it will take to get it back up and running once you do get back home.
So, if you don't like any of those options, what else can you do? Well, there's a wonderful thing called an auto reply and you can use it to your advantage while you're on your vacation! Now, creating a reply won't stop your e-mail from coming in completely, but it will notify all your senders that you are away from your computer and if you're lucky, they will stop sending you e-mails until you return. This will obviously work better for any friends who like to e-mail you than it will for any mailing lists you're on (they'll keep sending their e-mails no matter what), but in the end, you'll be surprised at how much your e-mail count is cut down during your vacation time. You won't be bogged down with as many e-mails this way.
Now, in your vacation reply, you'll just want to tell everyone that you're on vacation and you should include the dates that you'll be gone. If you let the senders know when you'll be back, they can pick up right where they left off with you when you first arrive back home. It's also nice for them to know when you'll be able to respond to them personally in case the e-mail is a little more important than just a forward, for example. You don't need to go into many details in the signature. Just be short and sweet, but make sure you say what you need to say. Okay, so how do you do this in the different e-mail programs? Let's take a look!
First of all, in Outlook Express, hit Create Mail just like you would if you were starting a new e-mail. Go ahead and type the message you would like to appear and then go to File, Save As. Give your auto reply a file name, make sure you know where you saved it and then click Save. You can now close that window.
Note: Make sure you save your reply in a filename.txt format so that just the text comes up in your auto message.
Now, you can make a new rule for your message, so you know it will go exactly where you want it to. Go to Tools, Message Rules and choose Mail. Click on New and in the first box, you're going to choose the last option that says "For all messages." In the second box, choose "Reply With Message" and in the third box, click on the link that says "Message."
A new menu will appear and you can go and browse to find your saved auto reply message. Select your file and then click Open. In the fourth box there, you'll want to name your rule "Auto Reply" and then click OK. Another window will pop up just confirming your rule and you can just click Apply Now.
Next, a screen will come up asking you where you want to place your selected rule. Make sure the Inbox is selected as the folder you want and then click Apply Now again, then Close. Then one more click on OK and you'll be good to go.
Now, for the other e-mail programs.
For Yahoo! mail, go to your main mail page and choose Options, Vacation Response. You can set the dates you're going to be gone and then type your message. Once you're done, just click Turn Auto-Response On.
For AOL, this is called an away message, but it has the same general meaning. Log in to AOL and choose the Settings tab in your mailbox window. Click on the Away Message (E-mail) link and then turn on your away message. You can either pick "I am unavailable to read your message at this time" or you can pick a time for when you will return. Click OK when you're done.
To create an auto reply in Gmail, log in to your account and click on the Settings link. Under the General tab, make sure the Vacation Responder is checked to be on. Next, type in what you want to say in your auto reply and click Save Changes.
In Mozilla Thunderbird, open it up and click on the Write icon to create a new message. Then write your auto reply message just like you normally would write an e-mail. Next, click Save and choose Template so it will be saved in your templates folder. Now, go to Tools, Message Filters and click on the New button. Choose a filter name (for example, "vacation response" or "auto reply") and check the option of "Match any of the following." Below that, use the drop down menus to choose "To" in the first box, "contains" in the second box and then type @ (the at sign) in the third box. The @ sign is a good default to use, because everyone's e-mail address contains that symbol. The message will then be sure to auto reply any e-mail that comes through to your Inbox with that symbol. Now, under the "Perform these actions" list, choose "Reply with Template" and choose the Auto Reply template that you created. Click OK. The message rule will then show up under your filter list. If you have other filters already in place, make sure you move this one up to the very first spot. This will ensure that it will be sent out to anyone who e-mails you while you're on vacation. Once you're done with all that, just close out the window and you'll be all set.
Now, make sure you don't forget to turn these message filters off when you return from your vacation. It's not hard to turn them off. Just go back in to each program like you did when you were creating the reply and reverse everything you did. For most of them, you just have to click one box that says something like "Responder off." It's all fairly simple to do and it's a great way to ensure that your e-mail friends know where you're at and why you're not responding to them like you normally do. No harm in that. Give it a shot and have a wonderful holiday season!
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Wellness Community Valley/ Ventura will host comedy night
A free Comedy Night for people affected by cancer will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Mon., Jan. 11 at The Wellness Community Valley/Ventura, 530 Hampshire Road, Westlake Village.
Karen Rontowski is a comedian whose sense of humor is optimistic and appropriate for all ages.
She has opened for such artists as Bob Hope, Ray Charles and The Monkees and appeared on Comedy Central, Live at Gotham, and Comics Unleashed. She is also a regular on radio's "The Bob & Tom Show."
The event is free for people with cancer, cancer survivors and their families. To RSVP, call (805) 379-4777.

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Ted Simons: Our next guest is a basketball legend. Ann Meyers Drysdale is the only woman to ever sign a free agent contract with an NBA team. She was a member of the first US women's basketball team to go to the Olympics, and she was one of the first women to be inducted into the national NBA Hall of Fame. She's a sports broadcaster and now an author. Her book, "You Let Some Girl Beat You?," is the story of her remarkable life on and off the court. Joining me now, to talk about the book is Ann Meyers Drysdale who we know in Arizona as the vice president for the Phoenix Suns and Phoenix Mercury.Thank you for joining us.
Ann Meyers Drysdale: Thank you Ted I'm excited to be here.
Ted Simons: That's good to hear because I have a lot of questions for you, the first is: Why that book, why now?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: A lot of people have asked me over the course of years to write a book. I never thought my story was very interesting. Joni Ravenna,the co-author of the book, pulled a lot of stuff out of me that I never would have talked about. I think, you know, being here in Phoenix and my tryout with the Pacers and UCLA, my family, Don, there are so many things that have happened in my lifetime. And certainly this being the 40th anniversary of Title IX, the timing just seemed right.
Ted Simons: I want to get to Title IX in a second, but before there was you and 11 kids in your family?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: That's right.
Ted Simons: Were you competitive from the get -- did you have to be competitive?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: I would say so. My dad and mom grew up in Milwaukee, and my dad played basketball at Marquette. So we grew up in sports, and having that kind of competitiveness, all of us being outside, it was great. Whether it was kicking the ball around or playing hide and seek, basketball, football, all kind of different games, it was very competitive.
Ted Simons: When you were young was there a point where you said, I'm pretty good at this, I can go pretty far with this. Was there a game or a point where you knew this was clicking?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: All of us played ball, my dad played basketball. I had an older sister Patty who played. And ya know, I was fortunate enough to come along when I did with Title IX. So many women opened the doors for me. Ya know, I just happened to come along when maybe the media, say, was paying a little more attention, but now you've seen what's happened with the young women of today. The women before me, and my sister Patty, they were always playing sports. I play basketball, but I love track and baseball and football. I was between two boys, my brothers David and Jeff. The three of us always were competing against each other.
Ted Simons: Let's talk about Title IX. What is Title IX, and talk about the impact on women's sports in general, your career in particular.
Ann Meyers Drysdale: It was a law signed in 1972 that that gives women equal rights-- it was an education bil— the equal right, as far as funds, to what males get. We know that today, 40 years later a lot of schools are still not in compliance with Title IX. A lot of men are upset because a lot of men's sports have been cut on the college level because of Title IX, they feel. But if they look before Title IX there's really on one sport, maybe two sports, that bring in the money, and that's football and men's basketball. A few women's schools bring in money with basketball, whether it be Tennessee or Connecticut. In saying that, if there's a certain amount of scholarships in one sport, the women get that same amount of scholarships. If there are 85 scholarships in football lets say, then you have to equalize the scholarships for women in something else. That's where it comes from. It was supposed to be equal, it was an education bill. It's become the calling card for women in sports.
Ted Simons: You can look up Title IX and read a book on that because of the way it's tried to be implemented and folks who have fought the implementation.
Ann Meyers Drysdale: We still fight, that it needs to still be here. If you look at the Olympics, the United States had a bigger delegation of women for the first time, the United States going over to London. We won more medals than the men did.
Ted Simons: Interesting.
Ann Meyers Drysdale: And most of the women will tell you, whether it be swimming, gymnastics, volleyball, soccer, field hockey, a lot of women have come up and said, I wouldn't be here today without Title IX.
Ted Simons: You were the first woman to receive a division one scholarship at --
Ann Meyers Drysdale: At UCLA.
Ted Simons: You were the first to sign a contract with an NBA team. A lot of firsts there. Back in the 1960s, 1970s, did you think -- did you know you were a pioneer? Was there more pressure because you were a pioneer?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: No, I was just doing something I loved to do, and that's what I was exposed to. If you were raised up in music, and Chrissie Evert and tennis with her family, I just happened to be basketball. And when I was growing up there were not a lot of organized sports for young girls. It was track and swimming. Tennis and golf were a rich man's sport. With 11 children, you didn't have a lot of money to put your kids in the kind of country club sports. Basketball was easy, you go down to the playground, or taped up a square on the wall and played basketball on the front wall. It was easy to go play by yourself too. For me, I thought I was going to the Olympics. Babe Didrikson was a role model for me because I read a book on her. That was another reason why I kind of wanted to write a book. That book made an impact on me in the fourth grade, to want to be an Olympian and represent my country. It came true for me, not in track and field, but in basketball.
Ted Simons: I asked about being a trailblazer and a pioneer, because when you signed that contract with the Indiana Pacers, first woman signing a deal with an NBA team, the reaction you write about, the reaction was hostile to the max. And that surprised you.
Ann Meyers Drysdale: My brother David was a senior at UCLA when I was a freshman. He was on coach John Wooten's last championship team in '75. The media took off on it, we were a brother and sister team, so it was very positive. Not only in Los Angeles, but throughout the country. David went on to play in the NBA, and of course Wooten retired, he was very influential in my life. He went on to UCLA, and we won the silver in the Olympics in 1976. Then Billy Moore was my coach, we won the championship my senior year. I'm the No. 1 draft pick in the WBL, the first professional women's basketball league. But you had to be an amateur to continue to play in the Olympics, and I wanted to go to the 1980 Olympics. During that time when I was playing for the United States, the new owner of the Indiana pacers approached me about coming into the NBA. As a young kid growing up, that's what I saw, maybe one a week TV shows of the NBA, which was tape delay, whether it be the Celtics, the Knicks, the Lakers, and you'd go out to the playground and practice those things. Now I was being asked to play in the NBA. It was an opportunity of a lifetime.
Ted Simons: But the reaction was tough, wasn't it?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: It was. What really helped me, I didn't pay attention to it. I didn't read the papers or look at the TV. I didn't really talk to the media a lot until I got to the try-out at the gym. It's like today, Facebook and twitter and social media is so -- if you were to pay attention to that, you would go into a little hole about how many people do not like you and say you're not good enough.
Ted Simons: The comments section on public websites are an interesting place to be. Talk about Don Drysdale. How did you guys meet? And talk about your relationship. You're a competitor, this guy was a competitor times 10. He would brush people back just for looking at him the wrong way. Were Scrabble games rough around the house?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: He was certainly the love of my life, no question about that, and losing him was difficult when he passed away. I really didn't know who he was when I met him. I'd grown up in Southern California and we had heard of Kofax and Drysdale, but my brothers were Giants fans. That wasn't good. I had been invited to the women's superstars for a TV competition for women and men. He and Bob Uecker were the announcers. My mom was from Milwaukee, Bob Uecker was from Milwaukee. Don and I hit it off. Don continued to peruse me and I'm so happy he did. Were we competitive? Yes, he got me into playing golf, and so we would go on the range and we would say, okay, for this we will see who can get the closest chip on this, and so forth. And doggone it, he always beat me. He loved competition. He certainly didn't let me beat him a lot of times.
Ted Simons: Well, such a similar trait between the two, I'm sure it was a remarkable relationship. Now, I just gotta ask, in losing Don, the good things in your life, the rough things in your life. Sports, lessons learned from sports, they really do last a lifetime, don't they?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: Absolutely. I've really been blessed, with my family, our three children, sports have taught us so much. It's so important for young girls and boys to compete today in sports, because of the life lessons. Self-confidence, leadership, how to win and how to lose. I don't think a lot of kids know how to fail today. I've always compared it to, like, in basketball. You have one size basket and one size ball. I failed a lot and lost a lot and got teased a lot. We've got different balls and everything is for success. You are always giving kids a medal, just for being in the race. That's all well and good. When you grow up in the business world and family world, you're not always going to have that success.
Ted Simons: I know one of the things you say often, the road to the board room is through the locker room. That's basically what you're talking about here, isn't it?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: Most people that are successful, it's been proven today women are in the corporate world, too, 80% of them have been athletes.
Ted Simons: Do you think the Title IX, the current crop of female athletes, women athletes, understand the importance of something like that? Understand what happened prior to Title IX?
Ann Meyers Drysdale: It's different. That's why it's so important. You don't want to beat a dead horse. But they have to find out a different way, there are still battles to be made. I think they will find out when things aren't going the way they think they should, because they are a woman and not getting paid the same as a man is. In the corporate world women still get paid 78 cents on the dollar that men do, and minority women 10 cents less than that. The women will understand what the fights are for them.
Ted Simons: Congratulations on the book, and continued success in your career with the Suns and the Mercury. Lets get that Mercury team turned around.
Ann Meyers Drysdale: A lot of injuries and and so forth, but we're excited about the Suns season. If we can get it turned around for the Mercury's season, there's always next year.
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Congressional leaders say they're planning a floor vote in the House of Representatives on a measure that would limit the sharp rate increases that are slamming homeowners in coastal regions, according to a report from McClatchy D.C. (see: "House plans vote to limit flood insurance increases," by Greg Gordon).
"The bill takes a different approach than a measure that passed the Senate on Jan. 30 to delay for four years many of the premium hikes under a 2012 law aimed at restoring the National Flood Insurance Program to fiscal solvency after the ravages of Hurricanes Katrina and Sandy," McClatchy reports. "It also is less generous, allowing some premium jumps at earlier dates."
Insurance Journal has this report (see: "House Republicans Release Flood Insurance Relief Bill," by Andrew Taylor). "GOP aides say their measure would also repeal a provision that threatens hundreds of thousands of homeowners with huge premium increases under new and updated government flood maps," the Insurance Journal reports. "It also would allow homeowners to pass on government-subsidized premiums to people who buy their homes instead of requiring purchasers to pay actuarially sound rates immediately, as required by the 2012 law … But people whose second home is in a flood zone and those whose properties have repeatedly flooded would continue to see their premiums go up by 25% a year until reaching a level consistent with their real risk of flooding."
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Cruising on a budget - great ship activities, water handy!: Freedom of the Seas Cruise Review by belannatorres
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Cruising on a budget - great ship activities, water handy!
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Port Canaveral (Orlando)
If you want to know about shore excursions, please see earlier well-written reviews by other on those topics. This is for those splurging on a cruise but watching their budget in other respects. So read on concerning hydration on ship, dining, ship activities and exploring ashore.
Many posts and questions have covered the water issue. Though we cruised in early August, we had no problem with keeping hydrated on the ship. In fact, we bought stainless steel bottles to use on board, but used them only once, and that was in our cabin with flavor packets late one evening.
The Cafe Promenade on the Promenade on Deck 5 has ice water, coffee, several varieties of tea bags and hot chocolate packets for free; it has hot More water to make the teas and hot chocolate. (You must pay for specialty coffees.)
The Windjammer Cafe and Jade restaurant at the back of the ship on deck 11 was open from 6 a.m. (for Jade, 7 a.m. for Windjammer) to 9 at night, with a slight break in the afternoon to set up for dinner. As the dress style is casual, it is easy to run down from deck 11 from basketball, the rock climbing wall, table tennis, or miniature golf to get ice water, iced tea, or the Freedom's delicious fruit-flavored waters - mango, strawberry-kiwi or lemon lime. The fruit-flavored waters also contain B vitamins and vitamin C.
However, DON'T run down to the Windjammer after doing the Flowrider for surfing or boogie-boarding. The dress is not that casual! Besides, if the Flowrider is going, the sign-up booth (called Wipeout, appropriately) will provide glasses of ice water.
There's also a water fountain, just forward of the sports area and Windjammer area, along the running/jogging track on deck 12 on the starboard (right) side.
Basically, between the Cafe Promenade, the Windjammer and Jade, the faucet in our room, and water and iced tea at meals, we kept quite well hydrated.
Dining on a cruise ship. Lots of food, of course!
We did splurge on the Murder Mystery Theater, which began in the Olive or Twist and then went downstairs to the Portofino, which is an extra charge if you choose to dine there. The theater was great fun, with the guests taking part to interview suspects to solve the mystery. The food was excellent, with a well-cooked prime rib, lovely fluffy potatoes, and a wonderful tiramisu in a baseball sized chocolate shell.
The Cafe Promenade on the Promenade on deck 5, mentioned earlier, was open 24 hours daily; it offered little sandwiches on rolls and croissants and desserts such as cookies, granola bars and sweet breads for free. A great place for a quick snack and to sit and people watch.
At the other end of the Promenade is Sorrento's Pizza, offering free food. It opened at 1 p.m. and closed at 3 a.m. We tried a seafood pizza there, quite good. Sorrento's has other types of pizza, breads including focaccia, as well as roasted peppers, prosciutto ham, little dessert cups of fruit salad, tiramisu and panna cotta, and biscotti. Again, all free.
In the pool area on deck 11 is Sprinkles, where you can make yourself a soft serve ice cream cone for free. Though if you want to splurge at Ben and Jerry's on the Promenade, a single scoop was $2.49, similar to Baskin Robbins back home.
In reading other reviews, we were a little confused about the location of Jade, which we knew was supposed to have Asian food. Here's how it works. As you enter the dining area on deck 11 at the back of the ship, you can walk to the left or the right around the bar area. On both sides you will go through Jade, which is a casual dining area that offers some Asian foods, varying by night. The dishes might include Chinese noodles, Indian or Moroccan dishes, Japanese miso soup (add your own condiments) and Burmese fish soup. It's all buffet style.
Jade also offered a quick pick-up breakfast beginning at 6, and other items later in the morning. All food in Jade was free.
Continue walking through Jade to reach the Windjammer Cafe at the rear of deck 11. It, too, is buffet style and the food is free. Try to get there for breakfast before 9:30, as it becomes crowded then. At lunch, it has a burger bar, which is great for the kids who may not want to try the more exotic dishes the adults want to sample. Those who enjoy casual dress and dining may also prefer the Windjammer for dinner. However, if you do, you'll be depriving yourself of the feeling of being pampered in the formal dining areas by your headwaiter and assistant waiter! And that is, indeed, a nice feeling.
We decided to ask for MyTime dining, which made it easier to plan around some activities on the ship we wanted to do or see. Though the Royal Caribbean webpage encourages you to schedule your MyTime dining before boarding the ship, we only did that for the night we knew we wanted to see the ice skating show. The MyTime dining was scheduled in half-hour increments beginning at 5:30.
Once you have checked the Compass newsletter of activities for the next day, call the MyTime dining extension number early in the day to be sure you get the time you want. One day we didn't call until late in the afternoon, and we had to take a later time than we wanted. Still, it wasn't a problem, as we didn't have anything major planned that evening.
The food in the formal dining room on deck 5 (formal dining rooms are on 3, 4 and 5) was delicious, and sometimes when we wavered between two choices on the menu, the waiter brought us both! The fruit soup appetizers were a nice taste treat and something different to try. The appetizers and entrees ran the gamut from steak, seafood, Italian, Indian, Moroccan. Do indulge yourself in the formal dining areas. Be sure to pack something for formal nights, though. The passengers who wear Hawaiian shirts look out of place.
We loved the activities on board the Freedom. We specifically picked this ship to try new things, such as climbing the rock wall, learning the basics of ice skating, and learning to ride the Flowrider. Two of our group made it to the top of the rock wall, and we're not teenagers! The staff in sports are very good with first-timers, both on the wall, on the Flowrider, and on the ice. We opted to stick with the boogie board on the Flowrider, which means we didn't have to stand up. One staff member was so kind as to go down to the foot of the Flowrider to show an older rider how to get to your knees on the board. If you choose to try ice skating for the first time, rest assured that your safety is important. Helmets are required. The staff also has knee, elbow and wrist pads available for your protection, and a free lesson was available.
The sports court was big enough for a couple of games of basketball at opposite ends of the court and a soccer game in the middle. The guests were quite considerate about sharing space during busy times. The netting around the area usually keeps balls in, though we did see a soccer ball plunge overboard one evening while dining. On the deck overlooking the sports court are two table tennis tables. We didn't get to those, but we did enjoy some rounds of miniature golf on the 9-hole course, which was nicely laid out.
Pools are on deck 11. The H2O zone for kids is toward the back, near what we considered the active area higher up with the sports court and Flowrider. The H2O zone is colorful, has different depths of water for different ages, and flowing and spurting water to amuse the children. The next zone toward the front is the regular pool, where people can swim laps or sunbathe. In this zone is a huge outdoor digital screen where movies can be shown. The staff also scheduled some Wii sports on the screen, but the Wii bowling didn't work too well and they had to switch to tennis. The next pool section, toward the front of the ship, is known as the Solarium and is more sedate. The water is shallower and you can even sit on barstools in the pool and enjoy a drink. The Solarium section also has two whirlpools that extend over the side of the ship.
Definitely go to the shows in the huge Arcadia theater, as well as the ice skating show on the rink in Studio B on deck 3. The skaters and musicians are wonderful, quality, live entertainment. One of the Arcadia shows gave fairy tales a modern twist. They set the tales to modern songs that carried the story along. Since this was a Dreamworks cruise, we also saw a couple of movies there in 3D format. There were several chances to meet Dreamworks characters, as well. Great entertainment, and all free.
Late at night, several venues around the ship offer live music. Latin rhythms, classical strings, guitar, dance music, popular tunes on the piano - take your pick. If you get hungry, you can always head to Cafe Promenade or Sorrento's for a snack. And if you've never tried karaoke, the ship has two private booths in the On Air area on deck 3 where you can give it a try.
Freedom has a library on deck 7; you can check out books or just sit there and read. Gaze over the Promenade from the front of the library, which also had daily sudoku puzzles. For other quiet pursuits, the Seven Hearts Card Room on deck 14 at the rear of the ship has several games in stock, including cards, Scrabble, checkers, Chinese checkers, chess, and dominos.
Shore excursions. We got off at every port, just to say we'd been there, but didn't pay for any excursions. Again, we were traveling on a budget.
Labadee. For beaches, your best bet is Royal Caribbean's private beach at Labadee, Haiti. Lovely white sandy beaches with plenty of deck chairs and hammocks. Barefoot Beach, the first you see as you leave the ship, gives a view of zipline riders. It also seemed to be less crowded than the beach over by the water park. We just dragged our own deck chairs over to where we wanted, relaxed and dozed. No fee. We also walked through the Artisans' Village but didn't see anything that caught our eye. The vendors were a little insistent, but some Royal Caribbean staff were on hand to ensure that the guests weren't bothered too much.
Falmouth, Jamaica. Once we got off the ship, we were in a triangular shaped public square where several new buildings were under construction. Some finished ones contained expensive jewelry shops. However, there was also a craft market with textiles, shirts, wood carvings, and other items to see and buy. You could get a good local souvenir here, if you wanted. On that day, the locals had started charging $10 per person for the formerly free shuttle into town. So we just wandered around the square, got a small souvenir, and headed back. The area actually looked like it was fenced off from the main part of town, but we saw later that we probably could have wandered through a pedestrian gate in the fence. That was okay. It was hot, and we enjoyed activities on the ship.
Georgetown, Grand Cayman. The small tender boats, which can carry up to 300, efficiently took people from Freedom to the pier. We left the ship at 8:30 a.m. before the rush. Look for The Sugar shop in The Shops at the Royal Watler Cruise Terminal. We splurged there on gelato, an Italian ice cream, on the way back to the ship. We wandered to some of the recommended shops for souvenirs as well as some of the T-shirt shops along the way and bought shirts that changed color in the sunlight, as well as some polo shirts. Some good places to get rum cakes, if you're interested.
Cozumel, Mexico. Getting off the ship, we immediately found ourselves in a bazaar of shops selling everything from jewelry to luchador wrestler masks to sombreros to scarves to T-shirts to Mexican vanilla to liquor to - well, you get the idea. You can find almost anything in this small area. The vendors are very good at luring you into their shops, so if you are a weak-willed shopper, take along someone stronger. By the way, if you're looking for Mexican vanilla, check the list of ingredients before you buy and don't get it just because it's cheap. One bottle had corn syrup and sugar among the ingredients. Though there are other shopping venues and sights outside the immediate port area, it looked like a long hot walk to anywhere unless we paid for a taxi. So we took our few souvenirs, including the Mexican vanilla, back to the ship.
Our stateroom with a balcony on the starboard (right) side of the ship gave us a good view of the ports we visited. It was very relaxing to sit out on the balcony at night or in the early morning. The closet space was just right for our belongings, and the hideaway bed was efficient. The cruise director joked in the farewell show that we would be amazed at the size of our home bathrooms when we returned, because in the shower we wouldn't feel like we were in a toothpaste tube waiting for Scotty to beam us up! But really, we understood the need for efficient space and the shower setup was quite nice with the sliding doors. The little shelves hidden behind the mirrors in the bathroom and living room provided cubbyholes to stash shavers, toothbrushes, deodorant, etc., to hide clutter.
The disembarkation process was well explained, both on paper and on the TV channel, and went smoothly. We had driven to Port Canaveral and stayed overnight, so when we left the ship it was quite easy to catch the shuttle back to the Best Western long-term parking.
Again, we enjoyed the cruise very much and look forward to trying Freedom of the Seas again in the future. Lots to do, good food, and very good service. Hope this helps those cruising on a budget. Less
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Bratislava's Old Town, on the north bank of the Danube, is a compact network of narrow streets lined with pastel-hued 18th-century houses and cafés. Outside the centre, the legacy of communism is more evident; ugly modern housing sits just across the river and the old castle shares the skyline with the UFO-like New Bridge.
Lording over the west side of the Old Town is Bratislava Castle, a 15th-century structure that looks like a four-poster bed. Some of it can be accessed as part of the Historical Museum, otherwise you can freely walk around the ramparts (00 421 2 5441 1441; snm.sk; 9am-5pm Tue-Sun; £2.50).
The Museum of Jewish Culture documents the history of Slovakia's Jewish community, wiped out during WWII. Staff can also arrange a visit to the tomb of rabbi Chatam Sofer, founder of Europe's most famous rabbinical school (00 421 2 5441 8507; snm. sk; 11am-5pm Sun-Fri; £6).
In Bratislava's Old Town, streets are lined with galleries and cafés, and baroque palaces crowd the main square, Hlavné nám, where you'll find craft stalls. The city's art gallery is housed in the beautifully restored rococo Mirbach Palace (00 421 2 5443 1556; Františkánske nám 11; £2.50).
Hire a bike and cycle along the flat path that follows the Danube to Devín Castle, which makes for hours of exploration (00 421 2 907 683 112; bratislavasightseeing.com; 10am-6pm May-Sep; bikes £3 per hour/£15 per day; castle £3.70).
South of Bratislava, in the village of Cˇ unovo, stands the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum. The avant-garde structure sits amid a sculpture garden on a spear-like peninsula that juts out into the Danube. Exhibitions are equally daring (00 421 2 6252 8501; danubiana.sk; Vodné dielo; 10am- 8pm May-Sep, to 6pm Oct-Apr; £3).
Eat and drink
You have to eat bryndzové halušky (gnocchi-like dumplings traditionally topped with sheep's cheese and bacon) before you can say you've really been to Slovakia. Peklo 6 serves the best in town (Hviezdoslavovo nám 11; lunch and dinner; mains £3-£5).
Prašná Bašta 7 is tucked away in a quiet nook in the Old Town with views of St Michael's Gate from the patio. In winter, the main room has the feel of a cosy wine cellar and is a great place to enjoy schnitzel (00 421 2 5443 4957; Zámoˇcnícka 11; lunch and dinner; mains £7-£12).
Beneath white barrel-vaulted ceilings, Restaurant Prešburg 8 serves classic Slovakian dishes with a nod to Austrian, Hungarian and Czech cuisine. Try the game goulash or baked trout with boiled potatoes. In summer, sit outside on French-bistro-style chairs (00 421 2 5443 8455; presburg restaurant.sk; Michalská 4; lunch and dinner Mon-Thu & Sun, lunch Fri-Sat; mains £7-£15). Housed in an elegant neoclassical building is Bratislava's finest restaurant, Le Monde 9 . Dine on lobster and asparagus pasta, and grilled salmon with potato purée (00 421 2 5441 5411; lemonde.sk; Rybárska brána 8; lunch and dinner; mains £10-£18).
Flowers Restaurant & Wine Bar 10 specialises in contemporary food. Eat in the glass-roofed atrium on fine dishes such as wild boar with rosehip sauce. The wine menu is fantastic too (00 421 2 2092 2733; flowersrestaurant.sk; Erdödyho Palác, Ventúrska 1; lunch and dinner; mains £8-£21).
With a prime location near the castle, you can overlook the boxy communist functionalism of Chez David 11. In fact, it's now a retro treasure, much like the UFO bridge. Rooms are basic and there's a restaurant on site (00 421 2 5441 3824; chezdavid. sk; Zámocká 13; from £55).
Design-driven details at Hotel Avance 12 include glass walls, back-lit nightstands and mosaic-clad bathrooms. The spacious rooms are wellequipped and furniture is modern (00 421 2 5920 8400; hotelavance. sk; Medená 9; from £65).
Comfortable and functional, Apartment Residence 13 has four double rooms and seven one-bedroom apartments. Aimed at business travellers, apartments are kitted out to a good standard with LCD TVs, internet access and kitchenettes (00 421 2 5273 1206; apartmentresidence.sk; Obchodná 48; from £75).
Gorgeous art nouveau details, such as the sweeping wroughtiron balustrade on the central staircase, are the hallmark of the Tulip House Boutique Hotel Sleep 14. Built in 1903, it was renovated in 2008 to provide 24 spacious apartments and four penthouses. Breakfast is served in the downstairs coffee house, the well-known Café Tulip (00 421 2 3217 1819; tuliphouse.sk; Štúrova 10; from £170).
Arcadia Hotel 15 is housed in a beautiful 13th-century listed building, located in the heart of the Old Town. The stained-glass ceiling in the reception atrium sets a grand tone for generously sized rooms bedecked in red-and-gold or blue-and-gold colour schemes and turn-of-thecentury furnishings (00421-2- 59490500; arcadia-hotel.sk; Františkánska 3; from £230).
How to go
Ryanair flies to Bratislava from Stansted, Luton and Liverpool (from £35; ryanair.com). Bus 61 goes to the centre, and a taxi costs £8. Alternatively, fly into Vienna and take a taxi to Bratislava with Personal Express (£42; 1 hour; personalexpress.sk).
Getting Around
The historic centre is compact and easily navigated on foot. Otherwise, there's a tram and bus system run by Dopravný Prodnik Bratislava. Buy tickets from newsstands and validate them onboard (60p; dpd.sk). Should you need one, taxis are cheap.


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Curious Case of the Lost Lemurs
2, 2003
By Weldon Berger
you guys really have lemurs at home?"
The father of a little girl whom my just-turned-seven-year-old
daughter has befriended at our neighborhood park approached
me with that question a few days ago when I arrived to fetch
my kid, who had managed to convince this guy - all on her
own, with no CIA or credulous media outlets to back her up
- that she had adopted two of Zaboomafoo's unemployed siblings
and kept them in her bedroom in our Honolulu condo.
"I wasn't sure at first," he said, "but she seemed to know
so much about them ..." The incident went a long way toward
clarifying for me why so many people were sucked in by the
administration's repeated misrepresentations regarding the
threats posed by Iraq's nuclear weapons and al Qaeda connections.
They didn't exist, but the administration seemed to know
so much about them.
Where the analogy falters is that the guy believed me when
I told him we didn't have any lemurs. His head didn't begin
spinning about, Linda Blair-like, in an effort to avoid hearing
or seeing anything that might interfere with his existing
understanding of the lemur situation.
He didn't point out that the Honolulu Zoo, just a few short
blocks from the park, had lemurs, very active lemurs who might
easily have leapt the moat into my daughter's arms to be smuggled
out beneath her trench coat.
He didn't suggest that perhaps there in fact are
lemurs in my daughter's bedroom but I just haven't found them
Tthose are the sorts of gymnastics, though, in the face
of evidence that is about to become indisputable, that Bush
partisans engage in with regard to the suggestion that the
administration made claims about Iraq that it knew in at least
one case to be untrue and in others, to be wildly exaggerated.
When an as-yet-unnamed former U.S. ambassador - my guess
is it'll turn out to be Joseph
C. Wilson, IV - traveled to Niger in March of 2002 to
investigate claims that Iraq was attempting to purchase up
to 500 tons of uranium from the African country, he did so
on behalf of the CIA, which acted at the request of Dick Cheney.
When President Bush referred in his 2003 State of the Union
address to intelligence indicating that Iraq had attempted
to acquire large quantities of uranium from an African country,
he was referring to the Iraq-Niger connection that had been
discredited nine months earlier as a result of the investigation
undertaken by the CIA at the request of the vice president.
When Condoleeza Rice said recently that "maybe someone knew
down in the bowels of the agency - but no one in our circles
knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might
be a forgery," "it" was the Niger-Iraq connection that the
investigation undertaken by the CIA at the request of the
vice president's office had discredited early last year, and
"our circles" were the intelligence mavens in the White House,
the National Security Council and the vice president's office.
It's possible, I suppose, that the administration is telling
the truth, and that they're not dishonest but only hopelessly
That would go a long way toward explaining why there was
no plan in place to secure the nuclear materials we knew
existed: the tons of uranium and radioactive isotopes under
IAEA seal at Tuwaitha, the former nuclear research facility
near Baghdad.
It could explain why the scientist who recently turned over
pieces of a uranium enrichment centrifuge that had lain buried
in his garden for twelve years had to resort to hanging around
the Palestine Hotel and begging journalists to put him in
touch with former UN weapons inspector David Albright because
he couldn't get any U.S. military officials to pay attention
to him.
And it could explain why the military kicked in the man's
door and arrested him several days after he turned
over the gear and its accompanying documents to the military.
(He was released a short time later with an apology.)
The evidence, though, strongly suggests that the administration
is hopelessly incompetent and dishonest.
And that's why, until some clever soul invents an unbreakable
rhetorical neck brace, we're screwed. Half the public is so
engrossed in practicing the mechanics of cranial rotation
that the obvious is invisible.
The press is either similarly involved or too polite to
mention the obvious.
Congress - including, sadly, much of the loyal opposition
- has its collective head buried so far up its collective
nether region that it hasn't even gotten to the Exorcist
portion of the program yet.
We're about to be subjected to a $300 million advertising
blitz aimed at persuading voters that learning to spin their
heads around like tops is not only normal, but the only patriotic
thing to do.
We're lucky, though, in one sense: imagine what the administration
could do were they as persuasive as a seven-year-old.
Weldon Berger is a freelance writer lving in Hawaii, which
as far from Washington, D.C., as it is possible to get while
still remaining in the U.S. He can be reached by email at:


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TORONTO – Four of Canada's most recognized Olympians and Sochi 2014 Olympic hopefuls are competing for international bragging rights at the 21st annual ESPY Awards. Vancouver 2010 Olympic gold medallist and 2009 Stanley Cup Champion, Sidney Crosby; Turin 2006 Olympian and 2004 Stanley Cup Champion, Martin St. Louis; Sochi 2014 hopeful, two-time World Junior Champion and the 2009 NHL first-overall draft pick, John Tavares; and Sochi 2014 hopeful, 2013 FIS World Championship silver medallist and two-time Winter X Games slopestyle champion, Mark McMorris.
Canada's three hockey stars will face off against one another in the "Best NHL Player" category, while snowboarder McMorris will compete for the "Best Male Action Sports Athlete" – a category that has never been won by a Canadian. Winners will be decided by online fan voting, which will conclude on July 17, 2013 at 9pm (ET).
"This is a fantastic group of Canadian athletes who are representing our country at the ESPY Awards," said Christopher Overholt, the Canadian Olympic Committee CEO. "It's conceivable to think that, come award night, two Canadian athletes will be standing up on stage victorious; we could even make history! If Canada really gets behind Mark he could potentially be the first Canadian ever to win in his category."
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AUSTRALIA will conduct the world's first continent-wide environmental discovery survey, following Environment Minister Peter Garrett's launch of a $10 million scientific program near Coffs Harbour.
The program, which will take three years to complete, aims to identify hundreds of native species and will be used to help set national targets to halt the extinction of plants and animals.
It is part of Australia's response to the UN's International Year of Biodiversity, which was launched last month in an effort to draw attention to the rapid decline in global rates of biodiversity.
''Bush Blitz'' is co-sponsored by miner BHP, which is chipping in $4 million, and several international environment groups.
Mr Garrett is battling calls to resign after the deaths of four people working in the government's $2.45 billion household insulation program.
The opposition criticised him for attending the launch yesterday rather than a meeting of electricians and industry representatives to discuss safety concerns related to the rebate scheme.
The meeting discussed whether over time a suspension on foil insulation should be lifted. The government implemented a ban when an audit found that up to 1000 ceilings across Australia could be live with electricity because of dodgy installations.
Mr Garrett said he had personally convened the ''technical'' meeting to brief his department, and he would be briefed on the results. A Masters Electricians Australia spokesman said the group had not expected the minister to be there.
Last week, Mr Garrett announced there would be safety checks of 48,000 homes with foil insulation, at a cost of up to $19 million, because of the problems. A government hotline has taken 5500 calls in six days.
The government is also facing a lawsuit from Queenslander Colin Brierley, 63, claiming negligence, for an electric shock he received from the installation of foil insulation under the scheme, which left him in an induced coma.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said Mr Garrett was inhabiting a different moral universe and was out of touch with ordinary Australians, because he visited a national park instead of attending a meeting about the safety of households.
Mr Garrett said yesterday the Bush Blitz launch, which was planned two weeks ago, was an important announcement with important partners and it was his ministerial responsibility to attend.
Four days of initial research on the Darkwood site near Coffs Harbour, a new part of the New England National Park never surveyed before, has already discovered three new types of spiders.
With YUKO NARUSHIMAThe Age travelled courtesy of Parks Australia.


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Using a ranking system that rivals only the College Board's in terms of accuracy, The Princeton Review declared the lame line's own Bryn Mawr College as the 4th Best Campus Food in America last summer. We're really happy for them since they're so cool about valuing student input, buying local, and churning out delicious food day after day. But in the interest of making the lame line less sucktacular this year, we ventured deep inside Bryn Mawr Dining Services to expose four things holding them back from the gold medal.
>>>Warm Plates
Dishes are taken directly from the steamy washing machine to the dining hall, which is fine if it's UK Dinner, Fried Friday or one of the zillion other themed meals Dining Services dreams up when your food is already hot. It's a different story on Sundae Sunday when your ice cream is melting all over the place, or when your brie gets all melty during the French Peasant's lunch. Quel bummer.
>>>Disorganized Spices
A freshmen dining hall worker tipped us off she was recently ordered to alphabetize the spices in the dining hall. Closer inspection showed no discernable organization, not even by geographical origin or respective culinary tradition.
>>>Unlimited Juice Bar
No one will say anything if you bring an empty SunnyD jug to fill with mixers for later. This one is just asking kids to experiment with circus water.
>>>Vegan Barbecue Ribs
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A group of Esher High School students ran through the streets in their pyjamas as part of a fundraising effort for Sport Relief.
Maddie St John and friends ran just over 5km around Esher in under 30 minutes while all wearing onesies and other bed attire.
Starting on Esher Green, the group ran down Esher High Street to Cafe Rouge and up to More Lane before finishing where they started.
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By Dwayne Bremer
Jul 3, 2014, 19:27
Travis Childers
With most of Mississippi caught up in the hoopla of the Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel Republican primary, Democratic candidate Travis Childers has quietly stayed out of the conversation.
Now that the Republican and Democratic primaries are over, Childers is making his case why voters should choose him on Nov. 4.
Childers easily won the Democratic nod on June 3, and he said Monday that his campaign is moving forward towards November with a "positive" message.
"The thing with me is, I am a problem-solver and not a problem- maker," Childers said in an exclusive interview with the Sea Coast Echo. "I am a pro-business Democrat who believes in doing the right thing for Mississippi and our country."
Childers, 56, served as the Prentiss County chancery clerk for 16 years before being appointed to the U.S. House of Representatives to replace then Rep. Roger Wicker, who was appointed senator after Trent Lott stepped down in 2007.
In 2008, Childers won the Congressional seat and served another two years before losing in 2010.
He said that his experience in local government and in Congress has prepared him for the senate.
"I can't tell you how many times I sat across the table from someone I disagreed with or did not even like," Childers said. "I always tried to be fair and reasonable and solve the problem."
Known as a Blue Dog Democrat, Childers opposed the Affordable Care Act and sided with former U.S. Rep. Gene Taylor on many of Taylor's insurance reform actions.
Although he voted against the Affordable Care Act, he said that he would rather amend it instead of repealing it.
"It is the law of the land now," he said. "I am very much in favor of healthcare reform and I think we can do a better job. I would be willing to improve on the current law and move on."
In addition to pressing federal issues, Childers said he has always tried to put Mississippi first.
"If you look at Mississippi, we have four distinct areas, all of which have specific strengths," he said. "I want to promote business to come to our state. I want to continue to help our education and community college systems. It all starts with education. I will continue to work for Mississippi because nobody is going to ride in on a white horse and solve everything."
Childers vowed not to get involved in partisan politics and said he is running on his record and ability to be an independent thinker.
"I am a Democrat," he said. "But I have supported Republican and Independent ideas before. So much talk is about partisan politics and that only gets Mississippi families caught up in the middle. I have always said it is not about being on the right or left, it is about what is right and wrong."
Childers will take on Cochran on Nov. 4, barring any reversal of the Republican runoff.
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Frozen Embryos...babies in waiting. This article tells who will ultimately decide their fate. Very interesting, relevant article.
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Good Morning
Until 1974, children had 'the right' to choose which parent they lived with at age 14. Since the Family Law Act came into effect in 1975, there has been no hard and fast rule.
The Family Court now looks at a number of factors in deciding with which parent a child shall live.
There is a presumption that it is in the interests of a child to spend as much time as possible with both parents. That is called a "rebuttable presumption" in that it is a starting point, but many factors are considered before the Court will make such an Order.
The wishes of the child are important. Equally important are the reasons for the Child stating those wishes, and also considerations such as the Child's age, maturity and level of understanding. There is little point asking a 4 year old, no matter how bright the parents may think the child is. At the other end of the scale, the Court generally looks dimly on a Parent who demands a 16 year old be told by the Court with whom they shall live.
There is no magical age. The 8 year old should normally be asked, however the Court is not bound by what they say. It is a factor to be weighed-up. A 14-15 year old will normally have their wishes granted, so long as they are expressed to be for the appropriate reasons.
One case allowed 2 children (8 and 10 years old - sister & brother) to decide that they wanted to stop living with one parent and start living with the other because the other parent provided proper accommodation, took them to school, put shoes on their feet, and fed them as one would expect to feed children that age. Very basic needs which were not being met adequately by the first parent. At the other end of the scale, a 16 year old child with a significant mental impairment will be asked, however if the Court is not convinced that their wishes are actually in their best interests, other factors will take priority.
The Court specifically looks at the attitude of each parent towards the task of parenting, whether the parents are able to provide adequately for the child and whether a parent will actively promote the relationship between the Child and the other parent. The Court prefers not to separate Children where possible. Violence, drug and alcohol abuse are also considered.
I hope this is of assistance.
You should contact your closest family relationship centre. This is a free service provided by the Federal Government. Their website is
You can find your closest one on there.
The web-site also have alot of useful information and links to assist you.
Before going to court you must obtain a certificate from a family dispute resolution practitioner. You get this through the free service provided at the family relationship centres.
If you need to go to court then you can will need to file an application in the Family Court or the Federal Magistrates Court
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We're coveting the bold and the beautiful: the finest of jewellery.
We're coveting the bold and the beautiful: the finest of jewellery.
There is a certain confidence that comes with being well adorned, and the art of jewellery and watch design has captivated us for decades. These industry greats continue to convert buyers to collectors.
In Monaco's Only Watch Auction, watch manufacturers bring out their best in hopes of fetching the highest prices—for a good cause.
Within the archives of the Paris-based jewellery house Van Cleef & Arpels, there is 100 years' worth of gouache drawings, photos of finished pieces, and snapshots of elite patrons—from the Duchess of Windsor to Princess Grace of Monaco—draped in elaborate gowns and wearing some of the heaviest pieces of haute joaillerie ever created.


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MOSCOW: Russia is to commission at least two reactors a year beginning in 2010 as part of a massive effort to expand its nuclear energy sector.
Sergei Kiriyenko, head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency, said on Wednesday that the program would start with the construction next year of a new nuclear power plant with four reactors near St Petersburg - next to the existing nuclear plant in Sosnovy Bor.
Nuclear power now accounts for about 17 per cent of Russia's electricity generation, and the Kremlin has set a target to raise its share to one-quarter by 2030. Mr Kiriyenko said recently that Russia would have to build a total of 40 new reactors to fulfil the goal.
According to the World Nuclear Association 16 countries, not including Iran, now have proposals to build 107 new civil reactors. The majority are in Asia. Russia's announcement came as the British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, faced cabinet-level opposition over his plans for a new generation of nuclear power stations following Treasury predictions of "eye-wateringly large" costs.
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Wed. March 7, 2012 | Basil Spyridakos
NEW PORT RICHEY — Trust isn't easily earned with Gulf coach Rick Hohenthaner.
His sensational sophomore duo, pitcher Madison Morlan and catcher Nikki Sedivey, have performed well enough this season to try something different — a decision that nearly backfired on the Buccaneers after Tuesday's first inning against Class 5A, District 8 rival Fivay. But Gulf recovered for a 7-2 victory.
"I was a little hesitant because tonight was the first night I allowed my catcher and my pitcher to call their own game," Hohenthaner said. "It was something we discussed last night because they're a nice tandem and they work well together.
"I wasn't worried, but I had a little bit of anxiety in the beginning."
Morlan allowed two earned runs to start the game but quickly recovered, throwing six shutout innings.
Jena McElderry got Fivay on the board with a two-RBI single in the first. The Falcons (6-3, 4-2) struggled to get runners in scoring position the rest of the night.
"I had to get into my zone and buckle down," Morlan said, who finished with 11 strikeouts while improving to 4-1. "I trust my defense a lot."
Morlan settled down after a tough first inning and let her frustration out while batting in the bottom of the second. With runners in scoring position, Morlan ripped a two-RBI single to centerfield, tying the game.
"I think that really pumped everybody up," Morlan said. "It pumped me up to pitch better on the mound."
The Buccaneers (7-3, 5-1) ran away with it in the fourth inning with Rachel Gardner's RBI single followed by Amber Maxey's two-RBI double to leftfield. Sedivey crossed home plate in the sixth off an error.
Every starter was able to safely reach base for Gulf, which outhit Fivay 11-7.


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Arthritis & Rheumatism, Volume 63,
November 2011 Abstract Supplement
Abstracts of the American College of
Rheumatology/Association of Rheumatology Health Professionals
Annual Scientific Meeting
Chicago, Illinois November 4-9, 2011.
Biologics use in SLE in 23 Centers - Data from the International Registry for Biologics In SLE (IRBIS).
van Vollenhoven1, R.F., Jacobsen2, Søren, Wallace3, Daniel, Hanly4, John G., Petri5, Michelle, Isenberg6, David A., Bernatsky7, Sasha
Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
Hospital de Cruces, Bizkaia, Spain
Hospital Virgen del Rocío, Sevilla, Spain
Hospital Miguel Servet, Zaragoza, Spain
Hospital San Cecilio, Granada, Spain
Hospital Son Dureta, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
Hospital Carlos Haya, Málaga, Spain
Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
Univ of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
Rigshospitalet - 4242, Copenhagen, Denmark
Careggi Hospital- Florence, Florence, Italy
University of Szeged, Szeged, Hungary
University of Padova, Padova, Italy
University of Debrecen Medical and Health Sciences Center, Debrecen, Hungary
Rheumatology Unit, Catholic University, Roma, Italy
Escola Paulista de Medicina - Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Cedars-Sinai/UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Dalhousie University and Capital Health, Halifax, NS
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
University College London, London WC1E 6JF, United Kingdom
McGill UHC/RVH, Montreal, QC
Hanyang University Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases, Seoul, South Korea
Hospital Clínic, Barcelona, Spain
Only one biologic agent has been approved for use in SLE, but some are used off-label in various settings. In order to obtain information systematically regarding this, members of the SLICC group initiated the International Registry for Biologics in SLE (IRBIS). The objective of this study was to analyse the use of biologics in SLE, and assess results achieved with the most commonly used off-label biologic, rituximab (RTX).
IRBIS investigators were asked to provide retrospective data on all patients treated with a biologic for SLE at their center. Standardized case report forms were used to collect demographic, disease-specific and treatment data at the time of biologic initiation and at yearly follow-up. Data from the first 23 reporting centers are presented.
359 patients were treated off-label with RTX, and additional groups of patients were exposed to belimumab (n=44, trial-extension), epratuzumab (n=21, trial-extension), abatacept (n=4), etanercept (n=3) and adalimumab (n=1). For the RTX treated group, age (mean±SD) was 41.3±13.3 and 91% were female. The majority (76 %) were Caucasian, and smaller proportions were Southeast Asian, Asian/Indian, African-American, Latino, Afro-Caribbean or other (each <10%). Disease duration when RTX was initiated was 9.2±7.8 years. SLEDAI at start was 11.3±7.6, SLICC-damage index 1.4±1.5 and glucocorticoid dosage 17.0±15.2 mg. At baseline, concomitant glucocorticoids were used in 91% of the patients compared to 75% at follow-up. Previous treatments (n=300) include cyclophosphamide (n=144), mycophenolate mofetil (n=117), azathioprine (n=114), methotrexate (n=56) and other immunosuppressives (ISs, n=76). Most patients (78%) had been treated with one or two different ISs prior to RTX, 20% had been treated with three ISs and the remaining 2% with four or five ISs. Two different dosing regimens for RTX were used: 375 mg/m2 × 4 (52%) and 1000 mg × 2 (48%). Concomitant cyclophosphamide was used in 39% of patients. The major organ manifestations leading to RTX treatment were lupus nephritis (LN, 48%), hematological (21%), musculoskeletal (9%), skin disease (9%), CNS (4%) and other (9%). Disease-control (n=84%) and disease-control plus steroid-sparing (16%) were given as reasons for choosing a biologic. At 1-year follow-up (n=123, 1 year ±3.5 months) both SLEDAI and GC dose had decreased to 4.2±3.5 (n=106) and 7.9±7.0 mg (n=89), respectively (paired samples, p<0.0001 for both comparisons). Exclusion of patients started on additional immunosuppressives (n=24) did not change SLEDAI or GC dose significantly. SLEDAI at baseline was higher in LN than in non-LN patients but similar at follow-up. Overall, 1000 mg × 2 was used more often but both dosing regimens appeared equally effective in LN.
Rituximab was the off-label biologic used most commonly in this multi-center international lupus cohort and was used for LN as well as for a range of other SLE manifestations. At one-year follow-up both lupus activity and concomitant glucocorticoid dosage had decreased even when no other immunosuppressive treatments had been introduced. The two RTX dosing regimes appeared equally effective for LN treatment.
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van Vollenhoven, R.F., Jacobsen, Søren, Wallace, Daniel, Hanly, John G., Petri, Michelle, Isenberg, David A., et al; Biologics use in SLE in 23 Centers - Data from the International Registry for Biologics In SLE (IRBIS). [abstract]. Arthritis Rheum 2011;63 Suppl 10 :609


text: Small car sales have slowed, in part because gas prices are relatively low. AAA said the average price for gas fell in March for the first time in a decade, down 14 cents to $3.64 a gallon. Sales of Toyota's Prius hybrid dropped 23 percent in March.But pickup trucks made up for that. GM, Ford and Chrysler sold a total of 154,722 full-size pickups, up 14 percent from a year ago. It's the third straight month that pickup sales have outpaced overall industry sales. Pickup truck sales should keep increasing through this year and at least into early next year, said Jeff Schuster, senior vice president of forecasting for LMC Automotive, a Detroit-area forecasting firm. Small businesses and the housing industry are recovering from the recession after a long lag. Oil production in the U.S. is higher than it's been in two decades. And automakers are offering big discounts on trucks. GM, for one, is trying to clear out older models before the debut of its 2014 pickups later this spring. Car buying site Edmunds.com estimates that GM offered $5,800 in discounts on the Chevrolet Silverado in March, compared with $4,010 for its chief rival, Ford's F-150. "I think the pickup truck battle is starting to heat up at the same time demand heats up," Schuster said. On Tuesday, Edmunds.com raised its forecast for full-year U.S. sales to 15.5 million from 15.0 million. That's much healthier than the 10.4 million sold during the economic downturn in 2009, although still below the 17 million recorded in 2005. The industry sold 14.5 million cars and trucks last year. Conditions look so good that some analysts think automakers will have to increase production and hire more workers to keep up. Automakers have added 125,800 jobs since February of 2010. That's a nearly 20 percent increase in industry employment, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.


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I tell you that My Wild Affair is a show you can watch with your children, you'll probably think I've gone too Hollywood.
If I point out that the show is on PBS (7 p.m., Ch. 7), you might change your mind. It's a new reality series about a baby elephant and his human foster mother.
Elsewhere on TV ...
Big Brother (7 p.m., CBS/Ch. 2): The Power of Veto competition is held.
So You Think You Can Dance (7 p.m., Fox/Ch. 13): The top 18 dancers perform; two are eliminated.
Motive (9 p.m., ABC/Ch. 4): An attacker who left a man unconscious after a sexual encounter.


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Federal bill includes aid for district
By Katie Zerr –
A bipartisan push by South Dakota's Congressional Delegation will mean the Mobridge-Pollock School District will be receiving Impact Aid funding from the federal government.
Language hammered out between agencies allowed Impact Aid to districts that consolidated to be added to the Omnibus Appropriations Bill passed by the Senate 72 to 26 on Friday, Jan. 14. The House passed the bill Wednesday with an overwhelming 359-67, bipartisan majority.
Max Schochenmaier of Capital Sense Consulting in Pierre, who worked with the staff of Senators Tim Johnson and John Thune and Representative Kristi Noem to get the language for consolidated districts in the bill, said all that is needed now is the president's signature and the bill will be law.
The language including the consolidated districts, has been pushed by Senator Johnson since 2007, but not been included in recent legislation.
"Due to appropriations protocol, this is the first year that we have been able to include it in the Appropriations Bill," said Schochenmaier. "I am pleased that the Department of Education supported the language in this law."
In order for the language to be included, it had to pass out of a number of committees, including the Departments of Education, Health and Labor. Schochenmaier said the language includes retroactive payments to districts that consolidated since 2006 and is a permenant part of the law.
"Now they need to hammer out the details to get the retroactive payments from 2010 through 2014 to those districts," she said.
Both Senators Johnson and Thune worked hard to get the language included on the bill, said Schochenmaier. When Noem came on board, she supported it in the House, helped to keep the language included in the Appropriations Bill.
Schochenmaier said John Forkenbock of the National Associations of Federally Impacted Schools has been diligent in getting important information to those working on this. She said support came from the staffs of the state's delegation including Jordan Stoick, Noem's Chief of Staff, and Jane Lucas, Carrie Johnson, and Andrew Christenson in the senator's offices.
What does it mean for Mobridge-Pollock School District? According to Schochenmaier, it means $82,526 per year for the district's general fund.
Superintendent Tim Frederick said it means the district will not have to wonder whether the funding would be distributed to the districts.
"We never knew when we would receive it (impact aid,)" he said. "Now we can build our budgets knowing that will be there. Before this legislation it was hit or miss."
The funding is not restrictive, meaning it can be spent in capital outlay or through the general fund. It could be used for salaries, equipment, repairs to the track or paying for the new activities bus.
The retroactive payment will come in a one-time lump sum, but it is unknown when that payment will happen. Frederick said hopefully it would happen yet this year.
"With what is going on in Washington it was great that all of the Congressional Delegation were on board with this," said Frederick.
What is Impact Aid?
Impact aid is given to school districts across the United States that have within their boundaries parcels of land that are owned by the federal government or that have been removed from the local tax rolls by the federal government. That may include reservation land or in the cast of Mobridge-Pollock School District land taken for the expansion of the Oahe Reservoir. Since 1950, Congress has provided financial assistance to these local school districts through the Impact Aid Program. Payments for federal property assist local school districts that have lost a portion of their local tax base because of federal ownership of property. To be eligible, a school district must demonstrate that the federal government has acquired, since 1938, real property with an assessed valuation of at least 10 percent of all real property in the district at the time of acquisition.


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Xstrata's board has less than a fortnight to decide whether to accept a revised $US36 billion takeover offer from Glencore after the British Takeover Panel set a deadline of September 24.
There are growing expectations
Glencore has raised its offer by 9 per cent to 3.05-for-1, surprising many observers who had thought it would let the deal get voted down and return later with a lower offer.
Societe Generale analyst Alain William said the softened terms, which will see Xstrata boss Mick Davis lead the combined company for six months before being replaced by Glencore chief Ivan Glasenberg, had "mostly" addressed the initial misgivings of the target's board.
"That the deal remains a scheme of arrangement and not a takeover structure means that a typical 30 to 40 per cent premium will not be required by Xstrata's board," Mr William said.
Under the new proposal, the deal could still be voted down by as little as 16.4 per cent of the register, given Glencore will not be able to vote its 34 per cent stake in the Anglo-Swiss miner.
Qatar Holding, which owns more than 12 per cent of Xstrata, has yet to say whether it supports the revised deal.
Glencore has given the Xstrata board the option to amend the deal to a takeover rather than a scheme of arrangement, which would lower the acceptance threshold. The Xstrata board has said it will consult its shareholders before responding to Glencore's offer.
HSBC analyst Andrew Keen said he had considered the deal a "straight takeover" with a low premium, and noted management arrangements were always transitory.
Mr Davis, who has built up Xstrata over the past 10 years, has a strong following in the market and a reputation for running second-tier assets well, but one local fund manager noted some of his success had probably been based on good timing and market insight from Glencore.
The investor noted the company's purchase of MIM proved very successful, but Xstrata also had made some strategic blunders such as its purchase of 14.2 per cent of troubled South African producer Lonmin for $US786 million just before the onset of the global financial crisis.
Mr Keen said a switch to a non-recommendation by the Xstrata board would need to argue the difference in executive structure was worth at least £1 billion ($1.55 billion) to Xstrata's shareholders, excluding Glencore.
The Australian Financial Review