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Loved our week aboard the Epic!: Norwegian Epic Cruise Review by nennioz
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Loved our week aboard the Epic!
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Miami
Cabins: I had read a lot of complaints/concerns about the cabin lay-out before boarding the ship (no bathroom, splashy sink, too narrow, short beds, etc.) so I knew exactly what to expect. However, for us, being a young couple who aren't shy, the lack of bathroom was a non-issue and the narrowness of the cabin really wasn't a huge problem. My main concern with the cabin was the splashy sink because it was shallow and almost impossible not to splash water while using. We also didn't like how the cabin steward didn't make a towel animal every night. In fact, we asked around and they are only required to make 3 towel animals over the week (which is probably not a big More problem for other people, but we have come to expect random towel creatures after dinner). The other concern with the cabin was the TV and its limited channels. They had basic news channels, ESPN, Nick, and a "favorite TV show" channel with a hodgepodge of TV shows played randomly but NO first run movies for free (you had to pay). Last cruise we went on (Carnival Dream) we caught up on like 3 or 4 movies just out of the theaters. Anyway, we really loved our curved walls and modern lighting, laminate paneling and big balcony. The room was cozy and cave-like and perfect for sleeping. I'm short so I had no problem with the curved bed but my boyfriend did express that his feet were hanging off the end at night. Overall, we liked the 'new-wave' cabins for a change.
Food: The food was overall great on this ship. We ate all breakfasts, most lunches, and 1 dinner at the garden cafe and the quality was always good. Breakfast was my favorite with omelet stations, french toast, cereal, fruit, etc. etc. and the buffet stations were set up so well that it never felt packed, you never had to wait in a line for long or at all, and you could always find a table. This ship had the best flow to a buffet than any other ship. However, for lunch and dinner the selection was adequate but not extraordinary. There was your typical pizza, burgers, fries, and a good pasta station but not a big selection of indian or asian food and no mexican. We usually made a sandwich or salad and saved room for dinner.
We ate one lunch at O-Sheehan's which had a fun menu and atmosphere. However, we were immediately turned off by the server who seemed angry and annoyed, with no introduction saying,"What do you want?" two minutes after we sat down. The food was good (burger for him reuben for me) but we didn't go back because the service was that unpleasant.
We ate one dinner at the Manhattan Room. We loved how the dining room was at the back of the ship with the ocean behind us. The live music during dinner was really cool for a main dining room and the food was adequate. The service was slow and the servers weren't all that friendly. The menu selection wasn't great either. 3 changing items and then a fixed 5 or 6. We liked the Manhattan Room but it didn't impress us enough to go back another night.
As far as specialty restaurants go, we ate at Moderno, Cagney's, La Cucina, and the sushi bar, Wasabi. Our favorite was Moderno. Fun concept, excellent service (the best service we had was here thanks to Luca? our waitress), and the food was soooo delicious. I just wish I didn't get full so fast so I could have eaten MORE. This place was the best value at $18/person.
La Cucina was yummy too. The restaurant was so pretty and romantic at the front of the ship. The service and food were both good. This place was definitely worth the $10/person.
Cagney's was also delicious. We had the 10 oz filet and a bunch of sides with the sampler dessert. The filet was very thick and cooked an appropriate medium. The service here was good but there was some confusion with our appetizer and the place was packed when we went (probably why the servers got a little mixed up). Definitely recommend trying this restaurant.
The last night we went to the sushi bar last minute because we weren't eager to go back to the main dining room. We ordered 2 dynamite, 1 rock n roll, and a shrimp tempura roll. They were all delicious and came with miso soup. The sushi bar is worth giving a try as it was very fresh and didn't require a reservation.
We also ate at Cirque dreams and dinner. The food was ok, not as terrible as another review said, but not great either. I thought the steak was better than the chicken but the potato they included was barely edible (hard). Dessert was yummy though. And the show more than made up for the average food.
Entertainment: This ship had some of the best entertainment we've seen, ever. Blue Man Group was awesome, hilarious, and unique. Very cool show, nothing like it that I've seen. Legends in Concert was good and the impersonators were believable. Second City was funny but not great (maybe cause we saw the PG show). There was a comedy magician who was ok, typical cruise ship entertainment. We saw the newlywed game show up on Spice H20 and it was cool to watch a game show up on the deck. Cirque Dreams and Dinner was FANTASTIC. We had the premium seats and these guys were RIGHT THERE doing amazing and impossible things. Never seen anything like it, probably never will again. I would definitely recommend the premium seats over the regular ones. Its worth it. We also went to see Howl at the Moon dueling pianos which I loved... these guys were very talented and funny and they got the audience going. The Bliss Club was also impressive... never seen a cruise club this packed. It was like a Miami beach club with the same energy and excitement from the crowd.
Pools, deck, and slides: The slides were awesome. All day people were going up and down, kids going on the slides over and over, waiting in line forever for the tube slide. We went on all 3 slides but liked the green windy one the best. It was scary being pitch black for 13 seconds. The tube slide was cool in theory but the line was a pain and then I got stuck going around the circle and had to push myself around for awhile to get out of it. They gave my bf the kid sized tube so he flew out of it on the way down. There was a kiddie splash area below the slides too which looked like a lot of fun, very cute with starfish and crabs and mushrooms with water sprinkling from them. The pools themselves were small and the water burned my bfs eyes. I never even went in the pools. Spice H20 also had a tiny pool by the movie screen... but I never really saw anyone go in it, it was that tiny. Sports deck was cool, didn't climb any rock walls or rappel or anything but it looked fun.
Gym: We loved the gym. It was huge with tons of equipment and ocean views. Weights, machines, you name it they had it. We went to the gym 3 times and never had trouble getting an elliptical or anything.
Overall we loved this ship but wish the pools were bigger and some of the service was better. Another thing i wish they would do is give you something or allow you access to what you reserved beforehand. I had to remember all the restaurants and shows and times for everything I reserved in advance and I got confused once or twice. They should allow you to access this on the interactive TV or give you a print-out in your stateroom.
Another great part of this trip was how EASY getting on and off the ship was. They let people on and off at the front and back of the ship to relieve congestion and it worked. We go on within 20 minutes and it took like 15 minutes to get off (we did the easy walk-off and carried our own bags off at 7:30 am). Really nice!
And another thing, we never experienced an issue cause I reserved EVERYTHING beforehand, but if you don't make reservations expect to have trouble getting into shows. The restaurants have screens around the ship that show which have availability and at what time so those are easier to squeeze into than the entertainment venues. Less
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Cabin review: BF8199 Balcony
If you're going to get a cabin on deck 8, ours was a good choice. We didn't have a view obstructed by life boats like the ones to our left and we had a covered balcony (unlike some others). We were nervous about being toward the back of the ship but it wasn't loud and it wasn't rocky. In fact, we were close enough to the elevators and right below a bunch of the restaurants... so our room really worked out!Read All Balcony (BF) Reviews >>
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Committee Meeting
Annual Public Hearing
Commission Agenda Items
Commission Agenda Item No. 4
Presenter: Ted Hollingsworth
Definition of Existing Easement–Harris County
Pipeline Corridor at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
August 30, 2012
I. Executive Summary: Surveys associated with a request from Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron) to expand an existing pipeline corridor at San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site (San Jacinto) revealed that a 10" pipeline installed in 1969 lies partially outside the easement granted in 1969.
II. Discussion: San Jacinto, located 20 miles east of downtown Houston, consists of just over 1,000 acres, centered on the campsites and primary field of battle where a volunteer Texan army defeated a numerically superior Mexican army to wrest independence from Mexico on April 21, 1836.
Today San Jacinto is located in the heart of the petrochemical refining complexes of Baytown, Deer Park, Pasadena and La Porte. As a result, numerous pipelines located in several corridors have crossed the site for many decades. Staff has worked diligently over the years to confine these corridors to small areas and minimize impacts to resources, operations and aesthetics.
Chevron approached TPWD in 2011 with a plan to add two (2) pipelines to its existing corridor through the park. Knowing that a reach of the existing corridor was confined to the State Highway right-of-way (ROW), and that the ROW had never been surveyed, Chevron and their consultants worked closely with TPWD staff to locate the existing corridor and San Jacinto boundaries. In so doing, it was discovered that a 10" pipeline installed in 1969 wanders out of the ROW and into the park. Staff proposes to issue an easement covering the existing pipeline. Chevron has agreed to pay easement fees from the current TPWD rate schedule and to seek a Surface Use Agreement from TPWD any time future operations require work within the easement in the park.
III. Recommendation: The staff recommends the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission adopt the following motion:
"The Commission adopts the Resolution attached as Exhibit A."
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Commission Agenda Item No. 4
Exhibit A
A Resolution by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission Regarding the Definition of an Easement Covering Approximately One Acre of Real Property in Harris County for an existing Hydrocarbon Transmission Pipeline Crossing the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site
Whereas, Chevron holds easements for an existing pipeline right-of-way corridor that crosses San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site (San Jacinto) in Harris County; and,
Whereas, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) owns and operates San Jacinto for a variety of conservation and recreation values, including preservation of the battleground where General Sam Houston defeated General Santa Anna on April 21, 1836 to establish the independence of Texas; and,
Whereas, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP (Chevron) installed a 10" diameter pipeline in and adjacent to San Jacinto in 1969 which is still in service; and,
Whereas, during the course of survey work in 2011 it was discovered that the 10" pipeline installed in 1969 does leave the existing pipeline right-of-way corridor and enter San Jacinto, and that the corridor should be re-defined to include the existing pipeline; and,
Whereas, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission (the Commission) finds that as required by Parks and Wildlife Code, Chapter 26, notices of today's hearing of this matter were published at least once a week for three consecutive weeks in newspapers of general circulation which are published at least six days a week in the communities nearest to the WMA in which such newspapers are published (the Houston Chronicle in Harris County), with the last day of publication being not less than one week or more than two weeks before the date of today's hearing; and,
Whereas, staff of TPWD have worked with Chevron to locate the 1969 pipeline and define an easement that will accommodate the pipeline and minimize encumbrance of TPWD lands; and,
Whereas, Chevron has agreed to compensate TPWD for the Easement and to secure a surface use agreement from TPWD anytime work is done at San Jacinto inside or outside the easement; and,
Whereas, the Commission finds, in accordance with Parks and Wildlife Code, Chapter 26, that (1) there is no feasible and prudent alternative to the use or taking of such land (Easement); (2) the program or project that requires the use or taking of land (Easement) includes all reasonable planning to minimize harm to the land (Easement); and,
Whereas, the Commission finds, in accordance with Section 13.009 of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Code that defining the Easement subject to conditions that will minimize the overall impacts of the Easement on San Jacinto is in the best interest of TPWD; and,
Now, therefore, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission authorizes the Executive Director to take all necessary steps to negotiate terms and conditions under which an Easement may be defined, and to grant the defined Easement to Chevron Phillips Chemical Company LP for the purposes and subject to the conditions described herein and in the motion approving in this Resolution.
Adopted and approved this 30th day of August, 2012.
T. Dan Friedkin, Chairman
Margaret Martin, Member
Ralph H. Duggins, Vice-Chairman
S. Reed Morian, Member
Antonio Falcon, M.D., Member
Dick Scott, Member
Karen J. Hixon, Member
Bill Jones, Member
Dan Allen Hughes, Jr., Member
Commission Agenda Item No. 4
Exhibit B
Location Map Showing the Location of San Jacinto Battleground in Harris County
Commission Agenda Item No. 4
Exhibit C
Vicinity Map Showing San Jacinto Battleground, 20 Miles East of Houston
Commission Agenda Item No. 4
Exhibit D
Site Map Showing Location of Pipeline Requiring Easement Definition

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"TreasureHunt" is an interactive Android application with a main social component that aims to bring a new way for people to spend their time together.
It is based on the idea of having a master of the game that initializes a session by placing items on a map, creating "the playground". These items can not be seen by the rest of the players. Instead, the teams are guided by speech indications given based on the current orientation and the distance to the clue. The current orientation is being constantly computed by functions that collect data from sensors and compare it to the absolute position set by the creator of the game.
Once a player is around the requested spot, he unlocks the hint placed in that area: what this step involves is automatically starting the phone's camera and using an AR module that shows the clue on the phone's screen when it is in the camera's view range. The picture that overlays can contain a new object to find, a person to recognize or anything that can be hidden by a picture. In order to get the treasure, you will have to answer a question associated to the treasure by the creator of the game.
"TreasureHunt" is very easy to use since it does not require going to the spot where you want to hide your treasure. Therefore, you can create games for locations far from where you are and you can challenge people around the world.
Placing a treasure on a map is also very easy: just tap wherever you want to hide the treasure! In order to find the treasure, "the playground" will be marked on the map and the player will receive real time feedback with directions in order to be guided.
The application offers you a set of images that you can use as a treasure, but it also allows you to upload your own image, as you can navigate through your gallery.
The images that come along with the application are in the folder named "TreasureHunt". Enjoy!
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I have been asked to do netbook reviews. This is hard for me as I am computer illiterate, but I know what I like as far as service and looks are concerned. I am now using a desktop, the only drawback is that I cannot take it with me when I travel.
I would like to have a laptop for travel, but would need a very large screen as my eyesight is very poor. That would be rather extravagant, wasting money on a computer just to use when I travel.


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Jill is annoyed at Fedex. First, they delivered her package to the wrong house. Normally, this is a minor error and an opportunity to visit with your neighbors, but Fedex didn't deliver it to just any house. They opened the gate and put her package inside the fenced-in yard where two evidently bored puppies were hanging out.
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Fabulous Family Cruise: Allure of the Seas Cruise Review by 2910car
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Fabulous Family Cruise
Destination: Eastern Caribbean
Embarkation: Fort Lauderdale (Port Everglades)
Embarkation and Debarkation were the easiest we have ever had on any cruise, and we have been on many. Our oceanview balcony cabins were perfect as were our room stewards. We ate in the MDR every night and the food was very good. The waitress was wonderful with the six children aged 5-10. One couple ate at Giovannis and another at the Asian (don't remember the name) and enjoyed some childless dining.
The kids ice skated, boogie boarded, loved the kiddie hot tub and "swirl pool". They ate tons of ice cream and pizza. They did karaoke and danced at night and loved the aqua show and the ice show. They also loved seeing a 3D movie of Madagascar before it was in the theaters.
They did not care for "Chicago" and even the adults thought it was a little boring. It was long with More no costume changes and just seemed tired. Blue Planet was great.
In Nassau we did the Atlantis aquarium and dig (don't waste your money - there are better aquariums elsewhere and it was outside and very hot) In St Thomas we had a great day at Magens Bay Beach. In St Martin everyone did there own thing. My daughter's family went on an all day beach and snorkel trip that they loved. (Bring alot of sunscreen - they came back a little burnt.) We took the other children on the water taxi which they enjoyed and bought some souvenirs.
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Comcast (s CMCSA) took the beta tag off its Xfinity TV service yesterday, making the online video service available to all of its pay TV subscribers, regardless of their ISP. Take that one step further, with Comcast offering Xfinity TV as a paid service to consumers that don't already live in its service area, and you mark the beginning of the end for pay TV being tied to the physical cable plant.
So far, Xfinity has been offered to Comcast's existing subscribers in what looks like a defensive maneuver to keep them from cutting the cord. With average cable subscriptions edging above $70 (and anecdotal evidence suggesting that many subscribers pay well north of $100), companies like Comcast have rolled out TV Everywhere services as a way to give more value to customers, by allowing them to watch cable content online.
Comcast now boasts more than 150,000 videos from 90 different content partners, but the real key to Xfinity TV is the content available only to Comcast customers. The whole idea behind TV Everywhere is that subscribers will also get access to online content in addition to what they pay for through linear cable programming.
While that service was once offered only to customers that paid for cable and high-speed Internet, Comcast is now making Xfinity TV online available to pay TV subscribers even if they use another ISP for broadband. That still limits the potential number of TV subscribers to those that live in residential areas that Comcast has infrastructure and provides service to. So what if Xfinity TV weren't tied to Comcast's physical cable plant at all?
With access to a wealth of streaming content already, Comcast could offer up an over-the-top video service in markets that it doesn't already serve, and it could do so without building out the costly network infrastructure or getting the franchise agreements usually required. Comcast could finally become bigger than its actual network footprint, and it could add users as opposed to watching them defect to competitive IPTV, satellite (and increasingly) online offerings.
Since it wouldn't be paying for network infrastructure, it could (again, theoretically) undercut those local competitors with a cheaper online offering and still provide much of the content that is important to its viewers on-demand. Like Netflix, (s NFLX), it would essentially compete against other cable providers, using their own data networks to do so. Not just that, but if and when its merger with NBC Universal (s GE) goes through, it would be able to include that content as well.
Comcast has downplayed this point in its communications to the FCC seeking approval of the merger, saying that online video today isn't truly competitive to cable TV, nor will it be anytime soon. In defending the deal, Comcast says that its properties, combined with NBCU and its stake in Hulu, make up only a small portion of online video viewing and ad revenue.
But at the same time, Comcast is building an online video powerhouse that could totally change the paradigm of how content is consumed and delivered. With 150,000 titles and access to content from various premium cable networks, Comcast could beat out Netflix, Hulu or any other online video service, if only it weren't tied to the physical cable plant.
Granted, not everyone would be on board with such a plan. A Comcast spokesperson confirms that the rights negotiated with content partners for Xfinity TV tie the availability of online access to a physical pay TV subscription. And some cable networks — like HBO, for example — have been extremely hesitant to make content available online except as part of a TV Everywhere offering.
But in tomorrow's all-IP, all on-demand world, should it really matter if a pay TV subscriber is connected to the local Comcast headend or if he gets his content delivered over-the-top through another ISP? In that brave new world, it shouldn't matter to the content owner how his content is delivered, merely that it's bought and paid for.
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Diasporian News of Wednesday, 4 June 2014
Source: Myjoyonline.com
We wish to congratulate all Ghanaians who share in the ideals of the June 4 uprising and the entire membership of the NDC.
On this 35th anniversary of that defining day in the history of our country, we call on all Ghanaians to recollect the positive restlessness that drove them to wrestle the country from the claws of national decadence.
The AFRC-P/NDC tradition, through a tortuous journey, has continued to prove unequalled in its stewardship to Ghana.
But the spirit of treachery exhibited through destructive propaganda continues to bog our country down and slow its pace. Multiparty liberalisation has certainly struggled under such conditions to help Ghana realise the pace it needs. Groups and individuals under various guises continue to enjoy time and space to slow our country's forward match.
This occasion provides all patriots of probity and accountability to resolve to assist our leaders to stay energised and focused on transforming our country for the better. We must remain true vanguards of these ideals through thick and thin, for country and for party.
We cannot do so without unity and common purpose behind President John Mahama, his appointees and our party's leaders. We have a duty to support them succeed as the NDC remains the only viable alternative.
We salute all of you patriots of mother Ghana, Akatamansonians, across Ghana and the world.
Happy reflective June 4 to you all!
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B.o.B, 'Play the Guitar' Feat. Andre 3000 – Song Review
Everyone get your air guitars ready and check out B.o.B's bumping new track 'Play the Guitar,' which features a rare appearance from OutKast member Andre 3000. This fantastic single will appear on the Atlanta rapper's second LP 'Strange Clouds,' which is scheduled to hit stores in March.
Produced by Salaam Remi, the song samples Bo Diddley's eponymous 1955 tune and boasts a vocal lift from T.I.'s line on Drake's hit single, 'Fancy.' The track is more radio-friendly than B.o.B's previous hard-edge songs like 'Strange Clouds' and 'Epic.'
On 'Play the Guitar,' Bobby Ray mostly brags about being at the top of the rap game. "'Cause I'm a star / So when I hit the bar, it's like Cheers / Everybody knows who you are / Who would've thought I would've took it this far?" he raps.
Meanwhile, Three Stacks sounds like a PSA ad with his inspiring lyrics for the young'uns growing up in the 'hood. "I encourage any child to pick up some instrument / 'Cause if you're mad at your dad or mum, you can grab it and strum / Eat your cabbage and corn, by the time you're done / You will finally realize that they meant you no harm / They was trying to save your crazy a— from what's to come," he spits.
Overall, 'Play the Guitar' is a head-nodding, guitar-plucking jam that should put B.o.B back on the pop charts once again. We can see everyone strumming their air guitars to this joint. Bravo!
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On the radio the other day, they had people call in with the answer to "Without my phone, I couldn't " I didn't think I had too many answers for that.
It's a cell phone, not the center of my soul. It's for phone calls and occasional text messages. It knows all the phone numbers I care about and it means I don't have to wear a watch. It even knows what day it is (which I rarely do) and the date.
The more I thought about it though, I do rely on this little piece of equipment for a lot more than that. It knows all the phone numbers because I took the time to put my 100-plus contacts in it.
Thank goodness the SIM card that holds that info travels from phone to phone when one becomes obsolete (or gets dropped in the toilet). It took forever to get all those names and numbers in there.
I used to know everybody's phone number by heart, but not now when everybody has their own. I could tell you their house phone number, but not the individual cell phone numbers of everyone in the house. And half the people don't even have a house phone anymore, so I'm really out of luck.
Since I did take the time to put all those numbers in there, now my phone can tell me who's calling. Then I can decide to answer or not. If my phone doesn't know who's calling, then it's definitely "not." Let them leave a message.
I use my phone to pay a majority of our bills. No more spending Saturday afternoons after payday writing out checks and licking envelopes.
My phone texts me when a deposit is made to our account and gives me the balance. I scroll down to whichever of our creditors is the lucky winner who gets paid this week and with a couple of pokes on the buttons, the bill is paid. Then I can go back and check the balance again. Nice doing business with ya.
My husband uses his phone the most for taking pictures. I forgot to charge mine once and used his and was shocked to see all the photos of his favorite photogenic stars -- the dogs.
I recently learned how to take the photos off our phones and turn them into real frame-able photos. Well, I learned with the help of a couple of teenagers and some more techno gadgets at the store.
There are a lot of things my phone can do that I really ought to be taking advantage of. I do use the alarm clock on weekdays, but I should also be using the calculator, calendar and address book.
If people's addresses were stored on my phone with their phone numbers, we wouldn't have to do the annual two-week search for my address book so we can send out Christmas cards.
Evidently my phone, or at least other people's phones, can do a whole lot more than that. The radio show callers came up with a ton of stuff they were using their phones for.
I knew about the flashlight mode and being able to play games, but I've never heard of Skype or FaceTime. I knew you could check the weather, go to Google and check your email, but had no idea you could go to YouTube, the Yellow Pages or eBay. People can also listen to music, use gift cards, order apps (whatever they are) and even listen to the radio.
I'm sure there are a million more things this little dynamo can do, but I'm happy to remain technologically illiterate and promise to be more careful about not dropping it in the toilet.
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
U.S. Among Minority Of Countries To Apply Death Penalty
Developments in the worldwide use of the death penalty in 2013 confirmed that its application is confined to a small minority of countries. Although only nine countries have continuously executed in each of the past five years – Bangladesh, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, USA and Yemen – and there has been a consistent trend away from the death penalty, some severe setbacks have to be acknowledged. The resumption of executions in Indonesia, Kuwait, Nigeria and Viet Nam, as well as a marked increase in reported executions in Iran and Iraq, were recorded during the year.
Amnesty International recorded executions in 22 countries. The number of confirmed executions was 778, an increase of 14% over the 2012 figure of 682 in 21 countries. The figure of 778 excludes the thousands of executions carried out in China, which accounts for more executions than the rest of the world combined. Apart from China, almost 80% of all known executions were recorded in only three countries: Iran, Iraq and Saudi Arabia.
Despite the setbacks, progress towards abolition was recorded in all regions of the world. Although the USA remained the only country in the Americas to carry out executions in 2013, with the state of Texas alone accounting for 41% of all executions in the region, the number of executions carried out in the US continued to decrease. Maryland became the 18th abolitionist US state in May. For the first time since Amnesty International began keeping records there were no prisoners on death row in Grenada, Guatemala and Saint Lucia after all remaining prisoners had their death sentences commuted.
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- Michael J. Mand said...
Please don't get me started on this again. I have been opposed to the death penalty since the moment I could think for myself. The reasons against it are numerous.
1. It has never been proven to be a universal deterrent.
2. It is costly.
3. It has never been applied fairly. Money will always get you off.
4. You can't correct a mistake. And there have been numerous proven errors.
5. It is immoral. (I guess this reason is arguable.)
6. It could be counter-productive. Other countries that have no capital punishment might be reluctant to extradite suspects if they thought the suspect might be put to death if convicted.
7. On a practical note, the person executed might have been able to supply valuable information about other suspects. (Timothy McVeigh comes to mind.)
The only reason in support of capital punishment is to administer a small dose of revenge. And, from what I understand, those immediately affected by the "capital" crime, get only momentary satisfaction from the execution. Their pain goes on.
- April 19, 2014 at 8:08 AM
- Jeff Tone said...
Number four is the ultimate reason: the inevitability that a mistake will be made and someone will lose his or her life for the crime of another. There indeed have been enough people exonerated to prove this. That's what the Innocence Project is all about. http://www.innocenceproject.org/
- April 19, 2014 at 8:25 AM


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How To Become Werewolf in Skyrim
You already know by now that you can contract diseases in Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. One of these diseases is Lycanthropy, which makes you a werewolf. You can contract this disease by following a certain quest line.
There are several benefits for contracting Lycanthropy, but at the end of the day, it comes down to your playstyle. In human form, you have increases health. While in transmuted form (Werewolf), your speed and physical strength increases.
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Werewolf effect is only temporary, you ultimately revert back to human form, but you can prolong this effect. Being a Werewolf, you can also avoid the Rested buff from sleeping.
How To Contract Lycanthropy – Become A Werewolf
Most devoted members among the Companions of Whiterun are Werewolves. Follow their questline to become a Companion yourself until you reach The Silver Hand Quest.
During this quest, you will take part in a secret ritual, where you will drink another Werewolf's blood and turn into a Werewolf yourself. You will be given a choice to commit yourself and quest will not advance if you don't commit.
Don't worry, you can become Werewolf here and cure the disease later by following another questline.
How To Cure Lycanthropy – Cure Werewolf
Take the quest from Aela to white-out the Silverhand, complete it and after that, speak to Kodlak Whitemane. He will tell you how The Companions were cursed by witches and give you Blood's Honor quest, which will lead you to cure Lycanthropy.
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Let me introduce myself. My name is Mark Sisson. I'm 63 years young. I live and work in Malibu, California. In a past life I was a professional marathoner and triathlete. Now my life goal is to help 100 million people get healthy. I started this blog in 2006 to empower people to take full responsibility for their own health and enjoyment of life by investigating, discussing, and critically rethinking everything we've assumed to be true about health and wellness...Tell Me More
It's official: we're closing up shop. They found The Bread. They still haven't found the flying saucer from Area 51, or the second shooter on the grassy knoll, but they found The Bread.
A crack team of European archaeologists has finally uncovered the evidence that Eades, Cordain, DeVany, Nikoley, I, and a ton of other bloggers have been pooling our incomes together to suppress for years. That supplement and book stuff I sell? It's actually a (undeclared) non-profit operation devoted to buttressing the final meager thread supporting this whole Primal/paleo thing. And it was working, too, despite our recent setbacks. See, we've been taking a lot of hits as of late:
The flurry surrounding the China Study. Boy, we really lost that round, huh?
The emergence of a hyper intelligent, intellectually rigorous, banana-obsessed, fruitarian hominid splinter species with a powerful online presence, before which I find myself cowering.
The piddling sales of both my books and Robb Wolf's book.
The complete and utter failure of numerous community efforts, like the Ancestral Health Symposium, Paleohacks, or the inaugural NYC Barefoot Run. Not to mention the poor showing of the MDA community during this year's 30-Day Challenge. Talk about ghost towns!
Vegetarians winning the heart disease wars, yet again. (I didn't say what they won, did I?)
But through all this and all that, we could still rely on that single thread to support and maintain the veil of delusion surrounding our movement. Just as long as they didn't find out that our ancestors were using stone grinders 30,000 years ago to process wild roots, rhizomes, corms, and the occasional seed into Bisquik, we could go on in blissful ignorance. Well, they did find the evidence. Our best efforts were for naught. And now we "fans of the so-called Paleolithic diet", who, I'm told, "[frown] on carbohydrate-laden foods like bread and cereal, and… eat only lean meat, vegetables, and fruit," must grapple with our world crashing down around us. I don't know about you, but I'm headed down to the local IHOP for endless pancakes. I don't have to hide anymore. I'm free.
Seriously, though: are people really surprised by this finding? Think about what you know about humans for a second. Humans will sample, experiment with, and nibble on just about anything remotely palatable or edible in their environment. Little kids put all sorts of stuff in their mouths. Adults go crazy for the latest ethnic food fad. We are curious, orally-fixated creatures, especially when it comes to new types of food. How do you think we got here? You think those early Fertile Crescent farmers woke up on January 1st, 10,000 BC, dropped the spear, and picked up the shovel, ushering in the perfectly organized amber waves of grain?
Up close, history is messy and random. The further you are from it, the neater it looks. When most people think of the World Wars, it's all big events. Momentous, sweeping occasions. Great men. Countries falling, balances shifting. Stuff you can put on a syllabus and teach in half a semester. The big picture. But there are millions upon millions of individual lives and experiences for which we must also account. A father's only son going off to war, lovers parting ways, an orphaned child trying to make it in a Jewish ghetto – these are the nitty gritty details that accompany the sweeping narratives, and indeed make them real. We just don't hear about them all that often.
This Paleolithic "bread" business is the same to me. (By the way, I love how the popular news headlines reference bread when the word "bread" isn't used a single time in the actual study.) It's the nitty gritty. It doesn't shake the core of my beliefs, or whatever nonsense your vegan friend who sent you the link is probably anticipating (hoping); it merely paints a stronger, more vivid, more complete picture of our ancestors' meandering, exploratory journey toward where we find ourselves today. I love that it came out. It's fascinating to get an intimate vision of Grok's daily life.
As for the "vegetal matter" in question, there's nothing really surprising or groundbreaking to discuss. Of the nine varieties of "starch grain" (the term "grain" having as much to do with grass feed here as it does in the word migraine) discovered on the grinding equipment, seven were roots or rhizomes. If you're anything like me, you already eat a fair amount of root material: carrots, radishes, cassava, turmeric, turnips, parsnips, to name a few. Rhizomes aren't quite as common in the modern diet, but they include things like groundnut and cattail (which was the most prevalent starch residue found on the sites in question, actually). And, since both roots and rhizomes, by definition, "self-defend" by embedding themselves in the ground, chemical antinutrients really aren't necessary. There were remains of a seed, too, and that of a "caryopsis," which is another word for a grain. The grain hailed from Brachypodium ramosum, a fairly common grass variety that doesn't seem to have any nutritional data available online. I'll keep looking, though. So, while I suppose we can't rule out that our ancestors were playing with small amounts of grain that may have harbored lectins or gluten-ish compounds, we do know that they were a minor player in our overall dietary regimen. Remember: this cereal agriculture stuff had to get started somewhere, sometime.
Of course, as Melissa points out, the evidence, based on bone isotope data, points pretty clearly to animal protein taking precedent in early man's diet.
What are your thoughts? Does this "discovery" dissuade you from avoiding grains? Or, more likely, have friends and family been eagerly forwarding you various permutations of the paper with "Aha!" in the subject line?
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171 Comments on "The Cattail's Outta the Bag"
Woohoo! I knew it! Now I can go back to eating bagels and Froot Loops every day, and still be adhering to my "paleo" diet!
Mark, how do you explain the proven health-success of Roman Meal foods and similar foods?
What do you mean health success? From comparative studies? What did they compare it with?
I'm guessing the bread they made didn't taste so great given how much they left to fossilize. I have no doubt they TRIED to make bread, but they probably ate one bite and realized meat was tastier. Just sayin'
So true.
This one surely agrees! My and my hubby have leaner bodies, leaner kids, happier guts, better bowels, better health and better SEX to prove it!!
Bread? Great from teff and almond meal which we've done successfully. But from GLUTEN LADEN grains? Hell no.
Hi Malika, or anyone else who knows. Pardon my ignorance but what is teff? This teff and almond meal bread sounds interesting.
Thanks 🙂
Ahh… I found it on Wikipedia. It says that Teff has gluten though, and its some form of grass. So I think I'll pass on that one. My husband is allergic to most of that stuff. But at least I learnt something new today 🙂
And yes, Mark, to answer your question, a skeptical friend of mine did send me this article yesterday. 🙂
The addict will always find a way to justify their addiction…
I agree completely with this statement about addicts. We as a society are so addicted to grains and sugars.
I'm the Jesster. 🙂
This study isn't ground breaking to me. I find it natural that our early ancestors would explore various plants, starch and all, in their diets. It's not like they could go to Fitday and plug it in like we can. And even if they did eat some grain, so what? It wouldn't fundamentally change what we think because it would have been such a minimal amount. Added to that, it wasn't no where nearly as processed.
Grok would have also had to harvest the grain, beat the seeds out of it, grind it, fetch wood, build a stove out of something, before he could eat it. I am sure the calorie expenditure made up for the benefit of a high calorie food. For me, I could go to the supermarket and fill my cart with thousands of calories without batting and eyelash?
(read whilst gnawing on porkchop & brussel sprouts)
bread – schmead, whatever…
Thanks for yet *another* fun article!
ok, I love the comment when you skim the mouse over the rocks 🙂
Love it! Nice catch Peggy!
Awesome! I didn't even notice that 🙂
Whether our cave friends ate grains or not, this lifestyle works for me, so I plan to continue. 🙂
I am with that, You have to be almost completely ignorant not to know about foraging for tubers. There was a great book I read in High School ('78) called Parapsychology or some such that detailed a study proving that plants had measurable responses to painful stimuli, and even had responses to pain inflicted on nearby plants and animals.
Wish I could find that again and use it to hand out to ALF types when they are handing out their literature 🙂
I don't think you have to go back 10,000 years for the PB argument. my fathers family were/are farmers and they were all in terrific shape. they ate mostly meat and potatoes, vegetables etc. He hates pasta and rice because that's what they ate when they were "poor". even 100 years ago, people knew what to eat. common sense, the more processing the bigger your gut.
I think it's mostly a matter of convenience. Preparing grains properly takes a ton of time and effort, too much for most (like me). I'd rather just skip them and make things even easier. I think that's how most folks who read this blog feel. If you've got kids to take care of and a job to keep up with, soaking and fermenting every day isn't really in the cards, especially when you can serve up a sweet potato and a slab of meat and call it a day (and not miss out on any nutrition).
I will admit, I have it quite good. I have a job and six children, but my dear wife is the chief soaker/sprouter and she is the one that keeps our grains so nicely prepared for the family. You are 100% right though – if you're not willing or don't have the time, just avoid them altogether.
Even freshly ground, sourdough spelt bread is addictive to me. I think that for a lot of us, we've been eating so much, so highly hybridized, so improperly prepared, grain for so long, that we just can't tolerate grains of any kind in moderation. I have great hopes that when we finish GAPS, we'll be able to tolerate properly bred, properly ground, properly prepared, properly risen grains occasionally, w/o addiction, bloating, and all the rest. Very occasionally.
It's enough to make me want to put on those 15 pounds I just lost and cover up those newly defined abs!
Hilarious how they make the leap from 'small amounts of plant roots ground up to form a 'flour" to 'Caveman ate Bread'!
You've got to love it, obviously the week for everyone's world to come crashing down around them.
Cavegirl – the non-bread-eating variety!
This small amount of "grain" intake will never lead up to the 300 grams of carbs that a "normal" human consumes today due to the high grain recommendation.
Back in the day, we had to work hard for our food. If we found something that was food and was edible then we ate it. Animals were not always abundant. It's a little different in todays world…
Saw the headlines and half expected fossilized remains of a half finished baguette. Read the story and shrugged.
What I don't understand is the animus toward Paleo/Primal. I suppose "movement" is the right term. I stumbled upon it and it simply works for me. I'll have to get used to the fact that many ingrained (rimshot) interests from farms to pharma have much to lose and will seek to discredit it whenever possible.
This one has a a little zing at Paleo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101018/india_nm/india522760
Anyway, glad you brought this up.
you know what, It really doen't matter to much to me at the moment. I stopped eating grain (all processed and whole), processed sugar and lots of starchy vegatables and lost over 40 pounds in about 4 months and feel and look great. To me that is all that matters.
My world won't end just because some ancient man eat ground cattail root and grass seed.
You…mean…it's all …a shame? Who would have thunk us poor idiots could have picked up a tool and ground some seeds? Might have to stop on the way home from work. I saw our cattails on the side of the high way have opened. Might have some garlic cattail bread with dinner tonight?
I had a friend send me that article. I just asked how many 30,000 year old spearheads have they found?
Good one!
Aren't we talking evolution here? 10,000 years or 30,000 years – – – they are effectively the same thing on the evolutionary scale. Both are about 1% of the 2 million years we evolved.
LOL the IHOP line was priceless! 🙂
roots – tubers – a grass seed or two. . Doesn't make it "bread" – or pizza – or hobnob biscuits. I'm sure quite a lot of carbs were eaten, in various guises and ways. But I'm sure most food was meat or veg based.
Also – how else would they get the roots etc for dyes – without they first ground them down to extract the colours more easily?
We process bauxite to make aluminium – doesn't automatically mean we eat it.
Mmmmm…fresh, hot, buttered aluminium bread…
I've been waiting to hear your take on this mark. Personally doesn't effect me at all. Even if grok ate grains. They were minimally processed compared to today's breads and pastas. It still doesn't rule out the fact that people feel, look and perform better without today's processed junk. I still indulge in quinoa every now and again. But lean meats, veggies fruits and healthy fats is the way to go
Where's the bread?! And since when are cattails and various plant matter and one type of seed grains?! Even if the researchers found a loaf of petrified Wonder Bread, it wouldn't change anything for me. I am soaring on Primal and don't plan on changing a thing.
but we all know Wonder Bread would never petrify. That crap stays "fresh" forever.
Good point there, chima.
Maybe they're talking about the tails of actual cats, rather than the cattail plant!
Mmmmmm… Cats….
That? Was so funny I just spit out my lunch because I was laughing so hard. Oh, btw..I do love cats and own two of them…but still! 🙂
There we go! You might be Primal if you named your cat Sparemeal…
Classic! Mind if I use that line!
ho-hum. I'm reasonably certain than human beings will do whatever necessary not to starve – including grain consumption. High starch foods are simply portable sustainance and you'd have to be a complete moron to abstain from it when starving is the alternative – and we know from written history that it's been used as a "staple" throughout times of famine. why would we think the these events would be limited to written history? seems fairly straight forward to me that evidence of even much-earlier grain consumption will be found and it will indicate this exact same thing.
Humans try stuff. A peek at the old Japanese version of Iron Chef should be ample evidence that we haven't stopped eating weird stuff to see what it's like.
I think this is just another symptom of the ever-growing antipathy toward personal responsibility. Paleo/Primal points out that there are consequences for eating grains and dairy, eat them at your own risk. Trying to justify a crappy lifestyle choice by implying that cavemen ate "bread" is still just justification.
Because whenever I hear "BREAD" I think of ground root matter. Did they find any evidence that this stuff was cooked? How do we know it wasn't used in soup?
I thought this study and accompanying articles were really cool! Finding tools from ancient people is fascinating.
Muahaha. Love this post. Go have fun with the pancakes.
Whatever they say, my body tells me the truth. It doesn't like bread or potatoes or rice. I don't want to sink down on my bed to sleep just because I ate. And don't get me started on my skin….
I second…my body doesn't like the rice, potatoes, wheat; and it tells me so by bloating me up.
I'll stick with the initial plan thank you very much.
Thank you! It sounds like my inbox wasn't the only one receiving this from a dear ole' relative, excited to prove to us we were all wrong and a heart attack was only moments away.
Sounds like you are a bit over-defensive on this one. Nervous about something?
I think they used the tools to crack open the seeds after toasting so they could ferment the mash.
Beer before Bread I say.
Which reminds me there is a hockey game on tonight Go! 20% Go!
I will echo what everybody else has cited: friends, acquaintances, relatives, etc. were eager to send this to me ASAP due to my "diet". Is it just me, or do people make a lot more effort to try and disprove the PB every chance they get than actually making the same effort to investigate it?
My thoughts exactly! I mean we don't email them EVERY single antigrain article that comes out, right?
We're all just here getting lean, having 6 packs year round… Eating practically gourmet everyday, having fun cooking and eating bacon. Getting of BP and cholesterol meds…Why don't they just leave us alone and go eat some mulit-grain bark, I mean bread?
"The emergence of a hyper intelligent, intellectually rigorous, banana-obsessed, fruitarian hominid splinter species with a powerful online presence, before which I find myself cowering."
it's that kind of writing that caught me hook, line & sinker! almost made coffee & heavy cream come out my nose when I read it :p
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It seems that these "breads" are made of seasonal foods. While CW wants us to eat 5 servings everyday all year around.
You know with 8 hormones controlling our blood sugar levels there is only one that lowers blood sugar. The other seven raise it. I don't think any carbohydrate was meant to be a staple food in our diet.
There are stone age cultures today that grind up roots and tubers and make cakes out of the "grain"…. that doesnt make them any less hunter gatherers.
I honestly don't care what our ancestors ate! Seriously, if they found a petrified loaf of Rainbow Bread burried in a crack somewhere I would still be eating paleo. Why? Because I don't eat to be a caveman, I eat to be healthy and the science stands behind avoiding grains, legumes, and sugar!
Mike, Mike, using sensible logic like this just reveals your selfish focus on your own personal health.
Where's your sense of civic loyalty to all those grain farmers out there, I ask you? And how can you expect the mortuary industry to maintain profit levels if you insist on _living_ year after year? Tsk tsk.
LOLOLOL… you sarcastic primals are really having fun with this one!!!
oh mark, you're funny.
We always knew your nefarious house-of-cards conspiracy to suppress the truth with all these implausible success stories would unravel some day, Mark. 😀
in regard to humans wanting to try to eat almost everything: a Chinese friend said to my partner once, "When you see a new animal or insect, don't you wonder how it would taste?"
Tom said, "Uh, no."
that just cracked me up. Thanks for the laugh today.
LOL, I will now! 🙂
The research isn't all that exciting to me – but I love the mis-information that the reporter spouts about Paleolithic Diets. Lean meats, anyone? BAH!!!
Same here and SO true… why do they keep digging? I think they are literally possessed with the evil spirit of grains that drives them!
The wording of the Reuters article is curious. Half of the text was dedicated to crazy caveman dieters, rather than the science.
Also I found it funny that the researchers attempted to make the same bread and disliked it, showing to me clearly this would not be a preferred food.
I dont know if you notice how they define the Paleo diet in the link you posted as eating only "LEAN meat, vegetables and fruits" hahaha, I love the word "LEAN".
My friends who followed my advice aboutg dropping bread and cereal think it's one of the best advice I ever gave.
I just wish that I had follow my own advice.
Bread eaters can say all they want, but they will still have a "bread-body". Like wise, pasta eaters will still have a "pasta-body".
@McGrok said it perfectly.
Besides, the 'grains' that our ancestors ate, was treated/processed completely different than how it is now.
so nope, this is not even a bump in the road for me.


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During the day, Mr. Misko worked at Mesta, a manufacturer of steel mill equipment and machinery along the Monongahela River. After his first job, he'd spend a few hours helping out at a gas station to earn extra cash, said daughter Juliann McDermott of Monroeville.
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The family had been learning more recently about Mr. Misko's World War II service as his health declined. Growing up, the children said, he didn't talk much about the war.
"He was very proud of it," McDermott said. "He did talk a lot about it in the end. We didn't realize until he was ill how much it meant to him."
Mr. Misko was a corporal in the 13th Engineer Battalion. He received the Asiatic Pacific Theater Ribbon, Bronze Star, Phillippine Liberation Ribbon, Good Conduct Ribbon and Victory Medal.
After the war, he and his wife, Rose, worked hard to provide for their children. She worked as an operating room technician at a local hospital.
Mr. Misko was active in Good Shepherd Roman Catholic Church in Braddock, said the Rev. Thomas Burke, former pastor.
"Him and his wife were daily Mass people," said Burke, who knew the Miskos for four years.
Mr. Misko volunteered to count the church's weekly collections, and he worked during Tuesday evening bingo. Burke said he wishes more parishioners were like Mr. Misko.
"He was very, very devout in his Catholic faith," Burke said. "He always wanted me to come and visit him" in the hospital.
While Mr. Misko was the quiet type, daughter Theresa Ballas of North Carolina recalled a softer man.
"When we left and we moved away, we saw a different side of him," Ballas said. "He was very kind-hearted."
McDermott recalled a time when she was having difficulty in college and she reached out to her father. An ice cream date in Oakland helped her get back on track, she said.
In addition to his wife of 66 years, two sons and two daughters, survivors include a third daughter, Mary Jo Woods of Wilkins; a brother, Robert "Bob" Misko of Erie; 11 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by siblings Elizabeth Haberle, Martha Andrascik, Anna Newton, William Misko, Irene Misko and Margaret Ondrey.
Visitation will be from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday in Schleifer Funeral Chapel, formerly the Ronald V. Lucas Funeral Home Inc., in North Braddock. Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Good Shepherd church. Burial with military honors will be in All Saints Catholic Cemetery, Braddock Hills.
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Maguiresbridge suckler farmer, Stephen Maguire, who farms at Congo, Maguiresbridge, recently hosted a farm walk for members of Fermanagh Grassland Club.
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Stephen farms 46 hectares divided in two blocks, with 25 hectares of owned ground and a further 21 hectares of rented land, about one milk from the main farm. He stocks this with 51 spring calving suckler cows with a further 12 in-calf heifers. The cows are Simmental and Limousin cross mated with A.I. Simmental sires and a Charolais stock bull. His stocking rate is 1.6 livestock units per hectare or 1676kg liveweight per hectare.
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This seems to happen every time I have sex lately and not just with him. I tend to get a rash and everything on my neck and then swollen glands. I got tested, my doctor said I have oral herpes so maybe that has something to do with it. I don't know really... I will go to the doctor, I just hate always going because every time I do the doctor kinda looks at me like I'm stupid or a whore or something.
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The Reefer Terminal, the container and reefer terminal based in Savona Vado Ligure, last 22nd March received 2 new ship to shore gantry cranes.
The arrival of new 2 cranes is part of the investments plan of Reefer Terminal/GF Group together the improving of the draft to 14,5 m. which allows to attract in Vado Ligure also the main ocean carrier services operating between Asia and Mediterranean/North Europe.
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Labour's Revenue spokesman David Clark has scored an own goal with his attack on Inland Revenue staff turnover rates, mixing up call centre rates with those for the overall organisation, Revenue Minister Peter Dunne said today.
Dr Clark claimed that Inland Revenue had staff turnover rates of between 24 and 34 percent in the main centres, with the highest in the department's Wellington headquarters.
"Wrong. Wrong. Wrong – the overall Inland Revenue staff turnover rate for 2011-12 was 12 percent – not 34 percent! The average across all government departments for the year was 11.4 percent.
"That is a perfectly normal turnover rate," Mr Dunne said.
"Whether Dr Clark was being deliberately misleading or just screwed up, I don't know, but he needs to get his facts straight before he goes out with sensationalist press releases.
"There is actually no excuse for him getting this particular one wrong, because it was his Parliamentary Question and he asked specifically about call centre staff and I gave him the answer."
"Higher turnover rates in call centres are normal. That is what happens in call centres. They typically have much higher turnover than the organisations they are in as a whole.
"They tend to be staffed by students who are not intent on staying long term, and have exams and the like and who would often come and go within a year. They are staffed by people who are looking for other jobs. That is the nature of the work," Mr Dunne said.
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Question: What was the turnover of IRD staff, whose job description includes working in call centres, in the last calendar year, broken down by region?
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