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Vi reiste med en person i rullestol noe hotellet var godt tilrettelagt for. Det var veldig god beliggenhet i forhold til grotten. At det var flere restauranter i tilknyttning til hotellet var også et pluss. Parkeringshuset var trangt
flott utsikt fra rommet, rent dyr frokost og vanskelig tilgjengelighet med bil.
Excellemt value for money nothing
Arrived at 3am. Staff said they did not have our paid reservation and had no rooms. Said we had to leave so they could turn off the lobby lights. At 345am they magicaly said they had a room...
Its very near the sanctuaries, shopping area and restaurants
great friendly environment, great location and view.
Guest areas were full of character The quality of the food was dismal. Numerous people send their's back. They are catering for coach parties and not individuals
Good location at bottom of town and right beside the Grotto area. Clean rooms. Friendly staff. Free internet/pc access. Free wifi. Noisy at night (Room on the street side-Avenue Bernadette Soubirous). No Air-con, not too surprising with it being a 2* hotel.
We had a disastrous journey out to France due to a strike, and missed the first night of our two-night stay. The hotel staff were very helpful and welcoming when we finally arrived 18 hours late, and we were only charged for the one night we actually stayed. The rooms were very comfortable with a pleasant small balcony looking down into the street with some of the mountains visible too and good afternoon sun. The breakfast was very good with plenty of food and a good choice, well worth the extra cost. I am planning to take a pilgrimage to Lourdes next year and would be happy to stay here again. No - I liked everything.
Its proximity from the sanctury and town centre No Wi-fi in the room as advertised on the website.
It was close to the Sanctuary (1/4 mile to entrance) clean, had bar/seating room available, clean, quiet, good value, helpful staff, no complaints at all. the only reason I checked good instead of excellent was it was not fancy but definitely adequate. no
great friendly environment, great location and view.
Was a little worried reading the previous reviews but the staff was very friendly and helpful so no worries on that side. Great location and lots of ample parking. I read somewhere that the there was airconditioning .But the rooms did not have any airconditioning
Its very near the sanctuaries, shopping area and restaurants
Although clean, the rooms were quite bare. We had counted on a double bed, but had twin beds. The lobby looks nice enough, but the rooms are dated and don't really reflect what is in the pictures.
It's location. Some of the staff very helpful
I loved its contemporary design and deco. From the hotel lobby right down to the room. I requested for a room on the highest floor and with a great view and they gave us a great room with a truly beautiful view of the mountains...even from the bathroom! The hotel staff were friendly and helpful and wonderful to chat with.
I loved its contemporary design and deco. From the hotel lobby right down to the room. I requested for a room on the highest floor and with a great view and they gave us a great room with a truly beautiful view of the mountains...even from the bathroom! The hotel staff were friendly and helpful and wonderful to chat with.
Good Location The breakfast was very poor
Very central Breakfast could be better, with some cooked hot food.
It's location. Some of the staff very helpful
Room was spacious and comfortable. Location was perfect. Near to everything.
staff were very friendly and helpful. the view of the city from the hotel is beautiful. hotel has outdoor pool and areas to relax (indoor and outdoor), which oversee the city not much sound proofing, which made it very noisy. the plumbing is very noisy and kept us awake
The staff were very friendly and helpful, nothing was too much trouble for them, all spoke english, and they went out out their way to help us.
The room was serviced regularly and the reception staff were helpful. The continental breakfast is rather basic. They only serve one croissant and a hard bread roll. Some tables were given biscuits some were not. When I asked one of the staff if I could have my croissant toasted because it was such a cold morning I was told that they do not do that, no oven or toaster.
everything no
Location was only plus No way this is a four star hotel, old, run down, no mini bar or fridge that worked
Only the location I like I chose to stay because they are interested in from this dihotel 4 stars and of course hoping to get 4 star service and facilities, it turns out after living there for three nights I was disappointed especially for the bathroom ammenities there's only soap and shampoo there was no shower cap or something any facilities of four star hotel also in the bedroom, may need to be reconsidered to install a four-star hotel with facilities and services in accordance with the standard 4 star hotel
The service provided by all the staff. Rooms are too small but it is fine.
everything no
The receptionist she greeted us with a smile and very curtious and friendly. Very helpful. Even when we told her we were checking out earlier than previous planned. Too loud in the evening and too hot. My mother was not very comfortable for the price she was paying.
Location was only plus No way this is a four star hotel, old, run down, no mini bar or fridge that worked
the location near the sanctuary ,shop and resto The receptionist would change my reserved selection room and I must pay more if I want to take my reserved room.
solitude,proximity to the sanctuary and shops. beddings(sheets & duvee)could be enhanced for greater comfort.
The personal service was fantastic. Staff went out of their way to make our stay comfortable and to make us feel welcome.
Staff was very friendly and accomodating Room was ok considering Lourdes is really not known for their hotels.. Hallway was kinda creepy.
It was like going back in time to a very gracious and elegant time. I really enjoyed the decor , the space, the gardens, I especially loved th breakfast room and the breakfast
location, restaurant
Close to the church, Good rate, Helpful staff, Not enough light in the room, too dark to change.
Its proximity to the Shrine and the helpfulness of the hotel staff. The dustbins were emptied at 6 00am and, being in the heart of the town the noise meant that it was impossible to sleep through it.
Hotel staff very freindly, the rooms were very clean. there was some confusion over breakfast, as to were we was sitting due to them having two different places to eat, but it all worked out in the end
friendly staff,very central
The location The rooms are very small and our bed very hard
the staff were all extremely friendly and very helpfu
location, restaurant
Close to the church, Good rate, Helpful staff, Not enough light in the room, too dark to change.
because my knees were a problem, i found its proximity to the sanctuary very convenient. the claustrophobic toilet (enclosed fr the bath) and the dark room (you cannot open the curtains because you will be seen from the outside). the walls should be painted a light color and the carpet should be changed to wood (even simulated only)
proximity to sites of interest. genral good standard and good value for money. would stay there again
the room faced the front of the hotel so we had a great view. we were booked in to a handicap room which upset us , so they said we would have to wait to see if there was a cancellation later in the day. There was so we then got a standard room. We could not sign up for breakfast/dinner each day, cause it was booked. they said we should have signed up at the time we booked The toilet seat would not stay up, which I reported first day, but it was never fixed. the elevators were very slow, not enough room each time for all to enter.
A nice friendly hotel conveniently located
The coutnesy of staff
Location Everything was old. The bed, bedding. The food was bad.
The Hotel was very well presented and the staff helpful and very polite. The room, although quite large was quite basic for a 4 star hotel.
The coutnesy of staff
Location Everything was old. The bed, bedding. The food was bad.
It was so close to the Grotto. The people at the front desk were very helpful and kind. There were cafes near to eat at. The room was so beautiful and spacious. I did not like the small door on the shower. It made it difficult for the water to stay in the bathtub.
The location and the design of the hotel itself. Nothing.
Stylish and very comfortable. Also had air con, which is a blessing in Lourdes!
The distancxe between the hotel and the grotto room service
While in Lourdes most visitors are pilgrims to the Shrine celebrating the messages received by St. Bernadette from the Holy Mother of Jesus, Mary. This hotel is perfectly located for such a pilgrimage, and allows for maximum immersion in the experience of Lourdes. No.
I absolutely loved this hotel and would stAy again, it is pure luxury within walking distance to the grotto
Just completely Renovated...Decor unique! Position in relation to the Grotto ...the best in Lourdes.... Will always use this Hotel from now on and this was MY 40th time in Lourdes but 1st in this Hotel Shower was part of the Bath and the Bath a little deep for getting in to for the "advanced in years" !!!!!
It is located in a quiet area. The parking was free, and that was great! The hotel staff were friendly and accommodating. There are no shower doors, so one must sit in the tub while taking a shower, otherwise, the water is all over the bathroom floor. Also, the toilet is in a separate room which is good, however, there is no sink in that room to wash your hands after using the toilet...one must go to the room with the tub and sink. In addition, the room with the toilet had a strong urine smell...the floor needed a good cleaning with a disinfectant!


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I am currently working for a food market chain, where I have been employed for over eight years. I worked for the same company while attending both high school and college. There I worked with customers and was trained to work in many areas of the store. I feel this job has given me skills that can translated to this company. There I developed great interpersonal skills from working with the general public and outside vendors. I am also skilled at working under pressure in a fast paced environment as well as a few other important skills that I will bring to your company.
While attending college I worked for the school's housing office. While there, I worked as a Computer Lab Attendant and was promoted to Computer Lab Manger in my senior year. While working as Lab manager I had a staff of 10 people working under my command. I was responsible for scheduling, conduct meetings, ordering supplies and more. Having this job helped me better develop my organization, leadership and communication skills as well as skills related to technology that would come in handy in an office environment.
I am a college graduate, where I earned a Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts with a concentration in Interior Design. My educational background has prepared me to fulfill your expectations for the position I am applying for. While in school I excelled in areas of 2D drafting and 3D rendering in AutoCAD. My favorite part of my interior design projects were assembling design boards that displayed materials, finishes and drawings.
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This article was published 2/3/2014 (1268 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
After a season of battles, hard work and hard-won lessons, the University of Manitoba Bisons women's volleyball team is going out as national champions.
The Bisons staged a stunning upset in Regina on Sunday night, surging past the powerhouse University of British Columbia Thunderbirds in just three sets (25-22, 25-22, 25-20) to claim their seventh CIS championship. It was the first time since 2002 the Bisons have bested the Thunderbirds in a playoff game, and it couldn't have happened in a more dramatic way, as the Thunderbirds came into the match as six-time defending CIS champions.
'I'm speechless, words can't really describe it. I think we just knew that we were gonna win'-- Rachel Cockrell
"I'm speechless, words can't really describe it," said Bisons star hitter Rachel Cockrell, named championship MVP after her spectacular 18-kill performance. "I think we just knew that we were gonna win. Our main focus going into this game was just to stay in the present, not to worry about the past and the future, just to go one play at time... (when we won), we were all so excited, there were more screams than words."
The Bisons didn't drop a single set on their weekend march to the championship title, putting on as dominant a display as longtime coach Ken Bentley can remember. "You couldn't lay out a better script for this championship," Bentley said, as he celebrated with the team in a Regina restaurant. "It happened because we stayed in the moment, stuck to our guns and stayed steady."
Most importantly, he said, the final win happened because the whole Bisons team learned their lesson. They lost the Canada West final to UBC just last weekend, where the home-cookin' T-Birds handled the Herd handily. But the conference silver medal earned them a pass to the national championship, and the Bisons swore that if they got another crack at the top-seeded UBC, they'd be ready.
So they were. This time around, Bentley said, the Bisons imposed their system on the T-Birds, while second-year libero Caleigh Dobie turned in a star passing performance to get the Bisons' big hitters set up for the kill. The squad served well, and Cockrell noted how some timely tips took advantage of the Thunderbirds' perimeter defence. "We felt prepared and settled, we threw our shoulders back and went at it," Bentley said.
Taylor Pischke finished with six kills and six digs for the new champs, Brittany Habing recorded a match-high 28 assists to go along with five blocks and Emily Erickson and Jordana Milne posted six blocks apiece. And as for Cockrell's 18 kills on 34 attempts, well, that speaks for itself.
"Taylor draws people to her, and it opened up chances for Rach," Bentley said. "She's the best back-row hitter in the country, and she demonstrated that today. She really was pretty unstoppable tonight."
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Other Bisons news was not as triumphant, as the U of M men's hockey team dropped the deciding game of the Canada West semifinal against the University of Calgary Dinos, losing 2-1 in an overtime nail-biter. The Bisons battled bravely to stay in the series, as third-year forward Brendan Rowinski tied the game at 1-1 in the closing minutes of the second period, and netminder Joe Caligiuri helped push the Manitobans into bonus-time hockey.
The Bisons had responded from a Game One loss on Friday with a gutsy 3-2 overtime win on Saturday to force a third and final game.


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Skip to comments.Tiahrt to Mayors: Stop Politicizing Fort Hood Deaths
Posted on 11/25/2009 10:00:36 AM PST by neverdem
WASHINGTON—U.S. Congressman Todd Tiahrt (pronounced TEE-hart), R-Kan., released the following statement in response to heinous accusations from Mayor Bloomberg's political organization Mayors Against Illegal Guns. On Monday the Bloomberg organization paid for a full-page advertisement in the Washington Post assigning blame for the Fort Hood massacre, in part, to firearm policy authored by Tiahrt and approved by Congress since 2002.
"The mayors who politicized the tragic deaths of those whose lives were taken along with the dozens who sustained injuries at Fort Hood should immediately issue a public apology to the victims and their families," said Tiahrt. "Their use of soldiers' deaths, their smear campaign against me, and their attempt to deceitfully change public policy disgraces their reputations as public servants. Using the Fort Hood massacre to advance a devious ad campaign dishonors the freedoms our men and women in uniform have paid the ultimate sacrifice to protect. Americans everywhere should be outraged and demand that each of these mayors be held accountable.
"The Tiahrt trace data amendment prevents the release of confidential law enforcement data to the public while making certain it is provided to local, state and federal law enforcement officials for use in criminal investigations. That's why the Fraternal Order of Police, the world's largest organization of sworn law enforcement officers, supports the Tiahrt trace data amendment.
"Contrary to what Mayors Against Illegal Guns have asserted, the Tiahrt amendment does not affect background check outcomes, does not affect who is permitted to own a firearm, and does not restrict law enforcement officials from accessing and effectively using all available firearm data for criminal investigations. Allowing the federal government to maintain a firearm registry of law-abiding American citizens who have passed a background test will do nothing to prevent terrorist attacks. Retaining a federal registry for 45 days or even 45 years will not make us any safer but will expose which citizens own guns and how many they own – something every violent criminal would like to access.
"Unfortunately, many opponents of the Tiahrt language, including Mayor Bloomberg, appear to be more interested in lawsuits against firearm manufacturers than about protecting law enforcement officers, the public, and privacy rights of law-abiding citizens who own firearms."
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What was there to stop him if he was A-okay?
Wouldn't he just have used another method in his lust for Jihad?
It's not like they've used explosives in suicide attacks, or SUV's or Aircraft or ..
Here's MAIG's link to the WaPo ad.
Can anyone transform this pdf ad into a jpg image or facsimile?
Thanks neverdem.
Un leetle problemo, the sonofabitch Hasan was not on any Terror watch list. He was not a "terror suspect".As far as any official knew, he was, and is, a US Citizen and Major in the United States Army. He was also an Islamic extremist jihadii.
But, that said, since when do we deny Constitutional rights on the basis of someone being a "suspect"? Especially a "secret" suspect, on some list that individuals cannot even know they are on, and have no recourse to be removed in the case of mistaken identity or other errors.
When they form a "mayors against terrorist muslims" I will listen to them. This is just hysterics. The Nidal bought the guns legally from a regular gun store no loophole involved. If a major in the US army is not entitled to buy a gun, who is?
The problem with Nidal is his ROP murdering creed. He would have done the same deadly deed with a shovel or an airplane if he had the chance.
Thank you very much. Happy Thanksgiving!
The RNC should sue Bloomburg and force him to remove the R from behind his name.
A Democrat's FIRST inclination for every "crisis" is to pass more laws restricting the freedom of the law-abiding.
(And yes, I know Bloomberg has an (R) behind his name now, but he is a lifelong Democrat who switched just before the last election, proving a.) that Democrats never change, and b.) that there isn't a nickles worth of difference between the parties.)
Best suggestion I've seen in a while. This mayor ain't no 'R', that's for sure.
Hope your day was nice too.
That was then........pretty soon, all of that's gonna change. Those Reps who can't claim solid conservative credentials will be shown the door in '010.
The real reason behind Hasan's success was that the Army and the FBI didn't do their jobs. The Army should have prosecuted Hasan for his anti-US statements under the UCMJ. The federal conviction would have gotten him out of the military and prevented him from purchasing firearms legally.
By the way - had the other military members in the Readiness Center been armed, Hasan would probably have not even tried to murder his fellow soldiers. If he had, he might have gotten one or two before being turned into swiss cheese.
Apparently, none of it. After all, he's all for the NYC show trial.
§ 904. Art. 104. Aiding the enemy
Any person who (1) aids, or attempts to aid, the enemy with arms, ammunition, supplies, money, or other things; or (2) without proper authority, knowingly harbors or protects or gives intelligence to, or communicates or corresponds with or holds any intercourse with the enemy, either directly or indirectly; shall suffer death or such other punishment as a court-martial or military commission may direct.
You could also make a good case for a violation of Article 106, Espionage.
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Ramon Ramirez (ramirra03)
Ramón A. Ramirez
- Bats Right, Throws Right
- Height 6' 0", Weight 170-190 lb.
- Debut August 30, 2008
- Final Game October 4, 2009
- Born September 16, 1982 in Cagua, Venezuela
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Ramon Ramirez was signed by scout Ronquito Garcia for the San Diego Padres in 2000. He spent 2000-2001 with the DSL Padres but was released after posting a 21.60 ERA the second year. After not pitching professionally in 2002, Ramirez was signed by the Cincinnati Reds and sent to the Cagua (VSL) club in 2003. He came stateside in 2004 with the Billings Mustangs. Ramirez was hit with a 50 game steroid suspension in 2006.
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CIVIL rights initiative AfriForum has called on the government to take "vigorous steps" to stop crime in the country.
In a memorandum handed over after a march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria yesterday, the group stated that South Africans lived in fear "because government has walked away from its primary duty to protect its citizens against violence and crime".
The memorandum was handed to Mosa Sejosingoe, head of public liaison in the Presidency, who said: "We will give the information to the Office of the President to let him know about the issues raised."
Celebrities who took part in the march included Steve Hofmeyr, Bobby van Jaarsveld, Karlien van Jaarsveld and television presenter Rozanne McKenzie.
Participants wore black and white – black symbolising that South Africans were in mourning for every victim of violent crime, and white symbolising a peaceful march for peace.
The march was arranged in response to the murder of five-month-old Wiehan Botes and his minder Magrietha de Goede, 66, in Delmas last month.
The group said in the memorandum that the government's efforts to eradicate crime had been negligible.
"It would appear to us that government simply lacks the political will to secure the safety of South Africans and all her people," it said.
"It may be that (President Jacob Zuma finds) it hard to spot the grief, tears and blood from your countrymen from… the safety of (his) armoured cars, or past the shoulders of (his) bodyguards or (over his) high security walls."
AfriForum's head of community affairs, Cornelius Jansen van Rensburg, said: "AfriForum, as an organisation, has the sole aim of defending the civil rights of South Africans and (fighting) the impact of crime, especially violent crime, on the people."
Jansen van Rensburg said that with prominent personalities such as musicians and actors promoting such movements, there would be a greater chance of the government sitting up and listening.
Hofmeyr said: "For 20 years I've toured South Africa.
"I stay with people on farms and I come back and these people are missing. It's that first-hand experience, or at least meeting the people who have that first-hand experience, that makes it important to me."


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I wrote a little bit about the "gotcha" fee business model of consumer banking this week and the beginnings of a successful movement to bring a standard, simplified fee disclosure form to the banking industry.
But while better disclosure is great, it's really just an improvement at the margins. A lot of account holders will never read those disclosures, no matter how simple and easy you make them, and the current fee-based model for retail banking seems to inevitably draw banks into designing fees that are meant to catch customers unaware.
Rather than attempt to make these types of gradual improvements to the way checking accounts work, one Internet startup called Simple is trying to blow up the existing model of consumer banking, using advanced analytics and Web technology to make banking much easier and more intuitive for consumers.
I interviewed Simple CEO Josh Reich on how their new product, which is currently in beta, will work, and what new features it brings to the table for consumers.
1. How is using Simple, your product, different from using the average online banking site?
Two really big things. One is that it's a completely modern new experience. There's a lot of data that banks have about how customers transact, but they don't really use to help the customer. So we really unleash all that data to drive a real-time, really data-rich experience. That makes the search really powerful. A lot of banks have a search functionality today, but people don't use it because it doesn't work. The data that it's searching over isn't very good, it's very slow, and when things are slow, it means that people just don't use them.
We've put a lot of attention into using much more modern Web design techniques to make a far more usable experience. And the reason why we're doing this is that people have a lot of anxieties around their money. They have a lot of questions about their finances, and it's hard to get those answers today.
Now you can turn to a tool like a Quicken or a Mint, but it's quite a lot of work to set it up. But the bank, in reality, already knows all the information that you're otherwise spending time setting up. For example, (for) over 90 percent of (your) transactions, we know where you were located when that transaction occurred. We would (use) fairly accurate geolocation data, and most banks do have that data, but they're not using it.
But by us sort of bubbling that information up, you can do things like, "I want to search for lunches in New York," and that's powerful. We know when a transaction is lunch because we know that it's a restaurant. We know people tend to have lunch between 11 and 3, and we know where New York is. That's a really powerful experience. By making it really easy for people to interact with their data in real time, they'll better understand what's going on with their finances, and they'll be able to improve their financial behavior. So that's the first big thing.
The second big thing is the product itself, in terms of the financial product, is really quite different. What you get from Simple is ... one card and one account, and we decouple the underlying financial products from the virtual account and card.
What that means is that you might be a customer of ours. We may have matched you with a checking style account, an interest-bearing savings account and a line of credit. You swipe your card at the store, and we'll decide in real time the best way to fund that transaction.
Everyone fundamentally wants the same thing. Everyone wants to earn as much interest as possible on money that they have and pay as little interest as possible on the money that they borrow, and to achieve that today requires a lot of work because the banks make most of their money from fees, and those fees arise when customers make mistakes.
But the rules of the game are very easy for computers to follow. So if your paycheck comes in to us, we will automatically, in real time, sweep that paycheck into a high-yield savings account for you. That's a radically different way of interacting with financial products.
2. So, just to be clear, it would go into a high-yield savings account. Well, there's a standard definition for how many transfers you can do out of a savings account in a given period of time. How's it going to handle that?
What we do is, when everyone starts off, they get a really basic, very minimally interest-bearing checking account that's like a NOW account (negotiable order of withdrawal account, a checkable deposit account that pays interest). The rates on NOW accounts aren't great -- then again, the rates on savings accounts aren't great today -- but you'll be getting some interest.
Now, what happens is over time, as you set up your direct deposit, as you set up bill pay, as you start sending money in and spending money out of the product, we learn your financial behaviors. And so the regulation on interest-bearing savings accounts is you can't make more than 6 withdrawals in a 30-day period, and so we identify what the appropriate buffer is, and once we get up to that sixth withdrawal in a month, we'll pull it out so you don't forfeit the interest that you've earned completely over that month, but you may forfeit that last two day's worth of interest.
This is really simple for a computer to do. People are surprisingly predictable on their month-to-month activity, but where we need help from customers, in terms of their behavior, we are asking for that help.
3. Let me ask you a little bit about how the transaction will be handled on the back end. You guys are not a bank, right?
Correct. We are not a bank.
So you're going to be making some partnerships with some financial institutions?
We already have. We're live and up and running right now. I've been using Simple as my only bank for a couple of months now. Our biggest partner right now is a bank out of Delaware called the BanCorp Bank. They are sort of a community bank with about $2.1 billion on their balance sheet. They are a good technology partner for us that really lets us get the business up and running.
So they're basically collaborating with Simple on structuring all these transactions so that they'll work with the system you're setting up?
The way it works is, all of the funds live on their balance sheet. They're fully FDIC insured. We then do some things that are a little bit different from sort of typical bank technology. We work with a third-party transaction gateway, which means instead of transactions flowing directly to a bank, they flow through our gateway, which means we can do this real-time matching technology. And then the bank works on helping us with the settlement and paying interest and FDIC insurance and compliance and all the things that banks are typically quite good at doing.
4. What kinds of fees are going to be associated with using Simple, and what kind of disclosure process is Simple going to use?
On fees, we have a stated rule that we don't profit from fees, so on most day-to-day banking, you're not going to run into fees. No overdraft fees, no late payment fees, no domestic transfer fees, because they don't cost anything, so why would we charge for them? The few circumstances where we do have fees are things like international SWIFT transfers; those are just expensive for us to do, and we just pass that cost on directly. We fully disclose to all of our current customers the rate schedule before they sign up.
The product that's out right now is sort of a core subset of the features. It's the core transactional features. We don't actually support international transfers just yet, so there's no actual spot today where we charge a fee.
5. Does Simple have plans to branch out to mobile devices?
It's not that we have a plan. We actually designed our mobile application before we designed the Web application. I think mobile is critical. We're currently out on iPhone. We're still waiting for the app to go through the App Store process, but that should be out in a couple of weeks. All of our current customers have a beta version of that app.
Mobile is really important. Going back to the two things we're trying to achieve. The first thing is letting people better engage with their finances, and people aren't in front of their computer when they're spending money. What we want to do is we want to close this feedback loop between transacting and sort of seeing the impact of that transaction. So we've invested heavily in real-time processing, and what that means is, you can swipe your card at a store, and within a couple of seconds, you can see that transaction on your phone. You get a push notification.
And this is really important, because people go through this process where they get themselves in a financial hole. Say it's tax time, and they'll spend time, at the end of the quarter or whenever these issues arise, going through historically and retrospectively trying to categorize and understand their finances. By bringing that feedback loop down to a second, people have this practical awareness of what's going on with their money, and that's really powerful.
6. What about customer service. Say somebody is having an issue with their account. Who are they going to contact?
Right now, you call us. We are building out a customer service team right now. These are employees, employed by our company, run out of our headquarters in Portland, Ore.
And it's going to be primarily by phone and over the Web? Because there's not going to be a physical presence?
No physical presence, and so Web and phone.


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So, this sign magically appeared this morning next to our coffee maker. It makes a legitimate point, and besides, with the average work-related caloric intake around here being on the high side, it's certainly salient.
So I opened the coffee maker, to make sure that I was getting my low-in-calories-and-good-for-me-milk, and found the following:
Yup, we're out of skim milk. Now, the question is, are we out of skim milk because of the sign, or did the sign go up because we're out?
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Rare fox cub triplets have been born at Drusillas Park Zoo in East Sussex. Here is one of them with its mother.
They are called fennec foxes and usually live in the Sahara desert in North Africa.
They may look like kittens but these cubs are actually members of the dog family.
And their oversized ears will grow up to 15cm long.
The cubs are rare because in the wild fennec foxes are threatened by hunting and the pet trade.
It's lunch time for the triplets! Zoo manager Sue Woodgate said: "I'm absolutely thrilled with the new arrivals."
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Many of the publisher css files are very poorly coded and I have seen some with literally hundreds of font references. Further, not everyone has the skill or time to mess with the css and wants a quick and easy way of dealing with the file. If you have a standard css override in calibre (ie: a few font-face lines and p and div line) then the formatting of the book is just fine if you delete the original css file. Your example of the MS Word file above in my mind is a perfect example to delete the original css file.
In the end, everyone has their own level of perfectionism when it comes to their ebooks. Some don't care if the the PDF they converted has awkward line breaks with page numbers and author name stuck in them and others want every book to have the best, perfected coding that takes care of every little detail. It would be ideal if epub coding was better standardized.
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All Chinese look the same, some say and the same goes for Americans. How much do we really know about China? Did you know that they don't eat soup they drink it? And not before, but after a meal? That their surname comes before their first name? That their good sense is to be found not in their heads, but their hearts? Or that white is the colour of mourning?
Kai Strittmatter has lived in China for almost ten years and in this fascinating book he lets us in on a few secrets. Introducing us to some telling Chinese symbols-but not all 57,000 of them! He explains in a wealth of charming, amusing anecdotes what they reveal of China and its people.
On the way we meet pensioners who practice the art of street calligraphy, read the Beijing police's hilarious English phrasebook and have the dubious pleasure of sampling trendy 'Western' food, as well as a hundred other surprises.
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Columbus Spending $600,000 To Tackle Foul Drinking Water
Columbus is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to treat its drinking water for a mysterious foul smell and flavor.
The trouble started at the Hoover Reservoir weeks ago. That water supplies Columbus drinking water.
The city says algae has moved into the reservoir, contaminating the water. The city says it's safe, but others say it's just nasty.
"I usually come and get water where I go, but I couldn't even stand the taste of it, even with one sip," said Tyler Smith.
Water workers at the city say they're doing everything can to fix the problem. That includes pouring money into the problem.
The Columbus Department of Public Utilities tells 10TV it is spending $10,000 a day to clean up the problem. That's how much it's costing to add algae gobbling carbon at water treatment plants.
So far, the city says it's spent a $550,000.
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Baku, Azerbaijan, April 7
Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev has today cut the ribbon to officially inaugurate a new administrative building of the Nakhchivan International Airport.
Chairman of the Supreme Majlis of Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic Vasif Talibov and president of Azerbaijan Airlines Jahangir Asgarov told President Aliyev that the new building has 53 offices, as well as conference halls.
They said the new administrative building was constructed as part of a project to remodel the air terminal of the airport.
Once re-modeled, the state-of-the-art air terminal will help improve the airport's passenger transportation services and bring its security to international standards.
The president was told that after re-modeling the air terminal will have a capacity of handling nearly 500 passengers per hour.
The president also viewed new vehicles and equipment purchased as part of the measures to modernize the transport infrastructure and improve security at the Nakhchivan International Airport.
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The American Language and Culture Institute (ALCI) is the intensive English as a second language program at Long Beach City College. Whether you are preparing for college admission, advancing in your career, or just want to improve your English language skills, the ALCI is the right place for you. The ALCI is highly regarded as one of the best intensive English language programs in the Los Angeles area.
In addition to studying English as a second language, the program will orient you to American culture and college culture. Come join students from all over the world as you learn English and make friends for life! Incoming international students may apply for an I-20 to study in the ALCI. No TOEFL score or other English language test is necessary for admission to our program. Upon successful completion of the ALCI program, we will assist you in transitioning to the LBCC credit program, if you so desire.
Our program includes a strong focus on the basic skills needed to be a successful college student. Therefore, students spend many hours a week studying reading, writing and grammar. However, the expert teachers at ALCI realize that it takes more than the basics to be a successful English speaker and college student. Therefore, students will also study and improve their listening, speaking, pronunciation and use of English idioms.
Because gaining familiarity with the college is important for many of our students, the ALCI teachers and staff take special care to guide the students through the institution's administrative processes. Beginning with your application to the program, we are there to help you with any questions or concerns that may arise. Campus tours, placement testing, academic advising and other procedures are included in the program to help students easily navigate the college system.
ALCI teachers are selected very carefully. We hire only experienced, talented and innovative teachers so that students enjoy their learning experience. Students do not sit quietly at their desks taking notes all day. Students are encouraged to participate in the interactive, communicative learning methods that are used in their classroom. We believe that a student who develops a love for learning, a love for the English language and a love of American culture will be a successful student.
Because the ALCI program is a small program, students can expect to have small classes (15 or less students). This assures that students get much individual attention from their teachers and many opportunities to practice their English. Teachers also love the small class sizes because they can easily provide lots of feedback to each student design their lessons to meet the needs of their students.
ALCI boasts an unusually diverse student population. In a class of 10 students, it's not unusual to have 8 different countries represented. Just name a country, and a student from there has probably studied at ALCI. International students from all over the globe (Asia, South America, Africa, etc.) find their way to the American Language & Culture Institute to study English as a second language. Students that attend the ALCI make friends from all over the world and remain friends (especially thanks to Facebook) for years to come. Visit our ALCI facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/lbccalci/
Because we understand that learning goes beyond the classroom and beyond the LBCC campus, the ALCI program presents students with opportunities to participate in local activities (such as picnics in the park, group bike rides, etc.). Other off-campus field trips have included: Knott's Berry farm, UCLA campus tour, Aquarium of the Pacific, Huntington Beach, etc. We usually sponsor 2 field trips per 8-week session and have students vote on their preferred destination.
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Upon successful completion of the American Language & Culture Institute program, an international student should have the language mastery, study skills, knowledge about American culture and the LBCC college culture, and social network to be a successful student at LBCC. The teachers and staff at the ALCI and in the International Student Programs promise to extend themselves, their services and expertise to professionally assist all students along their journey towards meeting their academic, career and language goals.


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Shopping in Rome for chic fashions, vintage clothes, fresh food and gifts
Rome is full of designer boutiques, second hand stores, markets and other options. You won't find too many bargains in the Eternal City, but the quality of goods on offer and of course the setting make browsing in Rome a good way to pass a few hours.
Boutiques: Italy is one of the world's most important countries for fashion and you'll find plenty of places to buy Italian designs in the capital city. For clothes, shoes, accessories and jewellery, one of the best areas of Rome is around the Piazza di Spagna and Via Borgognona. There you'll find the likes of Prada, Valentino, Gucci, Fendi, Missoni and Armani.
Markets: Rome's oldest market, at Campo Dei Fiori is a great place to go for fresh produce, including fish, fruit and vegetables, plus spices, kitchen utensils, tablecloths and toys. Porta Portese market, in the Trastevere quarter, is one of the city's main flea markets. Smaller flea markets include the Mercantino dei Partigiani, in the Piazza dei Partigiani, and an underground flea market held in a multi-storey parking lot between the Piazza del Popolo and the Via Veneto.
Vintage stores: Whether you're looking for '60s miniskirts, '30s suits or '80s jeans, Rome has plenty of places to buy vintage clothes. Via del Governo Vecchio is a good place to look, with several vintage stores located there.
Souvenirs: Rome is full of souvenir stores. One of the many option for buying gifts is the Vatican City, the gift shops there offer all kinds of items including jewellery, Vatican medals, holy communion gifts, baptism gifts, Vatican coins, art, crucifixes, bibles, candles, confirmation gifts and Pope memorabilia. If you buy a rosary, you can even have it blessed by a priest from St Peter's.


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Can Tebow pull the upset against the Patriots?
The Tebow run in Denver over the past 6 weeks has been nothing less than phenomenal. It's been as rich and dramatic a story as any you've ever seen in Hollywood and as much as I am loathe to go against something that seems almost fated, I'm going to say that the Tebow train hits a speed bump this week and loses to the Patriots. New England is just too talented and experienced to let Tebow pull out a late win against them. That being said, however, if Denver wins, I would not be shocked.
How pivotal a week is it for the AFC North?
This weekend (Mon included) will decide the AFC North, that's the level of the importance facing both Pittsburgh and Baltimore this week. Both teams face huge road tests and one of them is going to falter, at least that's my belief. Whichever team isn't up to the test, and signs are pointing towards Pittsburgh with their rash of injuries, will have to settle with the top wild card spot.
Is Chicago done for in the NFC Wild Card race?
Simply put, yep, Chicago is done and will have no chance to make the postseason. Without Cutler or Forte, their top two offensive weapons, the Bears are a sinking ship and won't have enough to pass up Atlanta, Detroit or whichever of the Giants/Cowboys don't win the division. The back to back losses to Kansas City and Denver were the final two nails in their coffin and it's all about next season now.
What is the Game of the Week?
The answer to this one will be found on Monday night in San Francisco. This game is pivotal for both squad as they are trying to secure their positions in the postseason. The 49ers need the win to keep pace with the Saints for that coveted first round bye while the Steelers are still in the hunt for the division. This should be an old fashion low scoring defensive affair that is sure to come down to the wire, one that should make for great viewing drama.
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Cracking Down on the Chaebol
It was news, all right -- news big enough to chase even the North Korean threat off the front pages of Seoul newspapers. On Feb. 22, as millions of Koreans watched on television, police hauled in Chey Tae Won, scion of SK Group, the country's third-largest conglomerate. Prosecutors suspected the 42-year-old businessman of illegally manipulating the shares of SK affiliates in a dizzying series of transactions that cost shareholders $174 million and ultimately gave Chey control of the group's key enterprises. Now, Chey's dealmaking days seem over. He sits in a cramped Seoul jail cell, under arrest for breach of trust and economic crimes and facing five years or more in prison if convicted. Chey's only comment to reporters before being locked up: "I'm sorry."
Americans are obsessing about the possibility of a new Korean war. But in Seoul, the talk is of another conflict: a renewed assault on the privileges and abuses of the chaebol, the giant business groups that still control much of the economy. If the case against the SK boss is any sign, then the nation's prosecutors are ready to pounce. The result could be a final purge of the practices that cheat minority shareholders while they strengthen the secret grip of Korea's business dynasties. But if the prosecutors go on a witch hunt and simply attack the chaebol because they are powerful, the effort could polarize the political classes even further and trigger a backlash against the new government.
That government was installed just three days after Chey's arrest, when President Roh Moo Hyun took the oath of office. A crusading human rights lawyer, Roh won the presidency partly because he made reining in the chaebol a major plank in his electoral platform. Roh pledged to continue the crackdown on corporate crime. "The time when privileges and violations of rules are tolerated must now come to an end," Roh said in his inaugural speech. When his administration is through, he promised, Korea's markets will meet the most rigorous international standards of fairness and transparency.
By most accounts, Roh has plenty of work ahead of him. His predecessor, Kim Dae Jung, enacted reforms that led to the breakup of Daewoo and Hyundai, two of the largest chaebol. But in the end, his administration never eliminated the worst abuses. "Unfortunately, SK is not the exception," says Park Kun Yong, an economic-reform expert at shareholder activist group People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, which triggered the SK probe when it alleged wrongdoing by Chey in January.
The chaebol's manipulations have long meant that foreign investors applied a "Korea discount" to Seoul-traded shares: Investors simply aren't willing to bid up the price of companies that may be secretly controlled by insiders. For example, SK Telecom -- which posted a net profit of $1.3 billion last year, up 36% from 2001 -- trades at 8.8 times its estimated 2003 earnings, compared with 63 times earnings for Japan's NTT DoCoMo. "Korea just doesn't have a quality reputation in terms of corporate governance," says George W. Long, chairman of LIM Advisors Ltd., a Hong Kong asset management firm.
If Roh does unleash an offensive against the chaebol, he will rely heavily on the activists who helped him win the election. People's Solidarity, for example, is busy digging out cases of alleged abuse by some of the bluest of Korea's blue-chips. The activist group says top executives of Samsung Group arranged a bond issue in February, 1999, that included warrants allowing holders to buy shares in Samsung's software affiliate at one-eighth market value. Nearly two-thirds of those bonds ended up in the hands of four children of Samsung Group Chairman Lee Kun Hee. People's Solidarity has also accused LG Group of carrying out various share transactions that effectively transferred some $160 million in profits from affiliated companies to the family of LG Group Chairman Koo Bon Moo. Samsung and LG both deny any impropriety in these transactions.
Don't expect the chaebol to accept new restrictions without a fight. Jang Ha Sung, a Korea University economist who started the country's shareholder-rights movement in 1997, points out that Korea's deep-pocketed chaebol chieftains have often defeated reform efforts, such as a plan to restrict cross-shareholdings among affiliated companies. "Unless a credible corporate-governance system is put in place, family-run chaebol can always roll back reforms and revert to their old practices," says Jang.
These days, the biggest chaebol are keeping a low profile as the SK scandal grabs the headlines. But newspapers with known sympathies to the conglomerates are already running editorials attacking prosecutors for acting hastily. These scribes warn that a rash of high-profile cases could spook investors and hurt the economy. Roh "shouldn't pursue a full-court press against the chaebol under the name of re-form," says the conservative daily Chosun Ilbo.
The SK case highlights the practice of prominent business families who use tiny stakes to win enormous power inside companies. Why go to such trouble? Because, technically, the chaebol are just loose groupings of companies. To win real control over these conglomerates, insiders have to construct a web of shareholdings. And sometimes they skirt the law to do it.
After Kim Dae Jung's early reform push, though, SK Group seemed to heed the call for reform. In 1998, SK Telecom, one of Asia's most profitable mobile-telephone operators, became the first Korean company to let minority shareowners appoint directors. And last year, SK Telecom agreed to change voting rules at its annual meetings to give small stakeholders a greater voice.
Still, prosecutors say Chey kept looking for ways to cement his control of SK companies. In March, 2002, SK C&C -- an unlisted software-development and computer-services firm that Chey controls -- bought a big interest in Seoul's Sheraton Walker Hill hotel from Chey. In return, the software company gave Chey its 5.1% stake in oil refinery SK Corp. in a deal that prosecutors say vastly overvalued Chey's hotel shares. The transaction made Chey SK Corp.'s largest shareholder and, after adding in stakes held by other SK affiliates he controls, gave him management control over the company. Even better -- for Chey, at least -- the deal allowed him to control SK Telecom, then 26.8% owned by the refinery. "He tried to rule the whole group with small shareholdings," says Lee In Kyu, a senior prosecutor at the Seoul Prosecutors' Office. Then, to pay his $18 million tax bill from the hotel-share swap, Chey forced the group's troubled trading house, SK Global, to buy his remaining stake in the hotel at an inflated price, prosecutors say. Chey's attorney declined to comment.
There's more. Prosecutors claim Chey and his top executives also arranged to buy out J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.'s stake in SK Securities Co., the group's brokerage arm. No problem there, but the government charges that Chey dipped into the pockets of affiliates to get the $93 million he needed to seal the deal. SK Group spokesman Lim Su Kil says the deal with J.P. Morgan was arranged to guarantee survival of the brokerage. But, he adds, "In the future, we will try to make our governance transparent," says Lim.
Roh rode into office on a wave of reformist sentiment. The SK case and others in the works will test his commitment to a true transformation of the markets. If Roh sticks to his calling as a crusader, Chey may soon have company in that cell of his.
By Moon Ihlwan in Seoul, with Mark L. Clifford in Hong Kong
— With assistance by Mark L Clifford


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Originally from South Africa, Mark holds a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He earned his bachelor's degree, summa cum laude, from Harvard University.
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I done a lot for my ex, more than he done for me. But he some things for me. Well he came home late from work and I was upset an he didn't speak to me for about 30 min after he got home. I asked him if it was going to be awkward like this if I moved in and he was busy on fb. So I said OK, or ignore me and walked outside. He took it as I broke up. We talked briefly after I went home but the next day he wouldn't reply to my text. I called him about a week later and told him I was sorry and wanted to work things out. Still no reply. Is he rebounding or is he done with me? He later blocked me on fb after I deleted him.
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I never thought he was an ass, a jerk at times yes but he always made me happy. He may have been over me before we broke up. He never thought I cared about him and that was a problem for him. My guy friends would send me texts saying "hun" or "sweetie". And he would see my texts. I told my guy friends to stop and I stopped contacting most back. But he thought that I had another guy on the side I was talking to. Which may be why he kept that girl on the side.
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You guys are playing games, rather than practicing honest, open healthy communication. If you don't learn how to express yourself honestly and loving, your relationships will never grow.


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A Life Without Limits was a series of two Beauty and the Beast conventions held in different locations across a 2 year period.
A Life Without Limits I was held in 2007 in Culver City, CA. It was organized by the Carousels & Caverns fan club and it's full title was: "Perchance To Dream: A Life Without Limits." The archived convention website can be found here. The convention also set up a MySpace page here. A charity zine was also published. Convention reports can be found here.[1] Copies of the program guide are here, here and here.
A Life Without Limits II was held in 2008 in The Meadowlands, New Jersey. It was subtitled "A Renaissance Fantasy". The convention also published a charity zine under the same name: A Life Without Limits (Beauty and the Beast con zine). Convention flyers are archived here and here. A convention report can be found here. More photos, memories and convention reports are archived here.[2] The convention website is also archived here.


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Revised bill would allow convenience stores and supermarkets to sell cold medicine.
WASHINGTON--Before the new year, Congress may pass legislation requiring cold remedies that can be used to make methamphetamine to be placed behind store counters, reported the Associated Press.
Lawmakers hope that federal restrictions will stem a meth trade that has hit rural America particularly hard, according to the AP.
A number of states have already moved to curb the sale of cold pills containing pseudoephedrine, the ingredient used to cook meth in makeshift labs. The federal law would prevent meth makers from moving to states with weaker laws.
Stores would be required to keep medicines like Sudafed and Nyquil behind the counter and consumers would be limited to 3.6 grams, or about 120 pills, per day and 9 grams, or about 300 pills, a month. Purchasers would also need to show a photo ID and sign a logbook, according to AP.
Those limits target meth dealers who buy or steal large quantities of the drugs to extract the pseudoephedrine.
The measure is a compromise reached after months of haggling over the 30-day limit. Sens. Jim Talent and Dianne Feinstein, who pushed the legislation in the Senate, insisted the limit was needed to curb the meth epidemic, AP reported.
"The heart of this legislation is a strong standard for keeping pseudoephedrine products out of the hands of meth cooks," Feinstein told AP.
The bill is weaker than one passed by the Senate in September that would have required cold remedies to be sold from the pharmacy counter. That would have prevented many stores without pharmacies, such as convenience stores and some supermarkets, from carrying the pills.
"We're pleased to see the current compromise," Tim Hammonds, president and CEO of the Food Marketing Institute, which represents grocery stores and other retailers, told the AP. "It addresses a serious law enforcement concern, but in a way that balances the need for consumer access to safe and effective products."
Hammonds said in the report he was disappointed the federal bill would not pre-empt more restrictive laws in states like Oklahoma and Iowa, where cold remedies are sold from behind pharmacy counters. At least 37 states have enacted laws to restrict the sale of cold medications to starve meth manufacturers of their key ingredient.
Many retailers-- including Kmart, Walgreens, Target, Wal-Mart--have already adopted guidelines to limit customer access to cold products or to limit their sales.
Some drug makers have changed the ingredients in cold pills to take out pseudoephedrine and replace it with another substance, phenylephrine, that cannot be used to make meth. A new product called Sudafed PE is already on store shelves, though the old Sudafed is still available, AP reported.
The measure would provide nearly $100 million a year for five years to train state and local law enforcement to nab meth offenders and would expand funding to prosecute dealers and clean up environmentally toxic meth labs.
Talent called the measure "the toughest anti-meth bill ever considered by Congress." He predicted that it would help reduce the number of clandestine labs where the illegal drug is made with common items like household cleaners and coffee filters, AP reported.


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Another great one!: Caribbean Princess Cruise Review by Hardy95
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Another great one!
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Houston
The entertainment has been good. Always enjoyed the comedians! Singers and dancers do a great job and the poolside live music has always been great.
The food on board was great! This was one of the best times, with desserts exceeding out expectations. If you can't decided what appetizer or dessert to get, they'll bring you both. Wished we'd gotten a second round of the lobster & shrimp meal...so divine.
As always, the service all around was great.
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Cabin review: A232
We've only ever stayed in the stateroom cabins, so we're used to the size. I like the closet layout a little better here than we have on other cruises because there's plenty of space for hanging things. We liked the location on Aloha (Deck 12) because it was away from things enough, but could walk up a few floors to the dining rooms and pool and fitness center.
Port and Shore Excursions
We chose to take a chance by finding someone to take us to the ruins. One of the crew members who took us from the ship to Belize City, recommended going to Altun Ha and to touch base with IRWIN at the city center. So we found it within a few minutes, asked for Irwin and we started talking to him about going to Altun Ha. At first it looked like the cost was going to be over $100 each, but then he passed us on to another tour member to finish making plans so Irwin could talk with some others. We were told we could get a city & ruin tour for $50 each and just with the 2 of us. We agreed and were then taken to LEON who would be our guide for the next few hours.
LEON gave us some good history and info on the city as we casually drove through on our way out to the ruins (Altun Ha). We knew the drive would be an hour, but it felt longer because at times the road conditions were so bad Leon had to drive slower. For this being the only way to this well known ruin, it blows my mind that they wouldn't take better care of the roads. Tons of pot holes.
We saw a lot of interesting things on our drive to and from...lots of homes on stilts, men on the site carving and sanding their woodwork. Men hacking away at weeds with their machetes, fruit stands on the side. Such a different way of life out here.
Once we arrived to the ruins, Leon made sure we got inside ok. He did not come in with us because only certain tour guides are allowed, and they are not certified. We were disappointed with that (but then I guess that's why it was less expensive). The area was amazing! It was hard to be surrounded by these ruins and not know the history. A few times we were able to listen in on tour groups that came through. Altun Ha was a pretty spectacular place!
They had plenty of natives outside the park selling all native stuff, much of which is carved and finished by them or family members. I enjoy looking at it all, then going back and choosing. They want you to pick up and touch the items, as you'd be more likely to buy it. They also have natives there selling food items: pop, coconuts, sugar cane, dried banana's and sweet potato (snack). We picked up a snack and drinks because it was a pretty warm and humid day.
I picked up a beautiful wood bowl that was carved and finished by a Belizean husband and wife.
For not having booked anything, we had a great experience. The only negative is the time spent getting to the island and back, as they ships anchor about 15 minutes away.
Beach Break
After the snorkeling, the Tour took us to a private area of the beach where there were plenty of chairs and some fun water toys to play with and not too crowded.
Catamaran tour
Booked a Catamaran Snorkeling Trip (Fury Tours). Fury Catamaran tours did a great job at keeping all passengers comfortable and happy. After the snorkeling, they offered plenty of drinks (we're not drinkers, so we enjoyed some cold punch) and cranked up some good beach music.
Booked a Catamaran Snorkeling Trip (Fury Tours). This included about 45 minutes snorkeling, after which they offered plenty of drinks (we don't drink, so we had some good punch) and
The waters were clear and pristine, so you could see so well. There was nice coral reef and some fish. .
A great start to our cruise!
Beach Day
Initially about 20-25 of us got in a school bus converted into an excursion vehicle (turquoise in color with fish all over it. It is not air conditioned, but then again we knew that. Jorge gave us a nice history of the island as we drove to the area we'd be snorkeling at. Once inside, we were offered a nice non-alcoholic drink then we followed Jorge out to the beach area. We were on Fantasy Island (there's a sign to prove it) and the beach time was at a beautiful beach resort.
Up to now, all was smooth, but things got a little strange. We were to fill out waivers (which in my mind should have been done on the bus) and for the next 15 minutes or so we did that and were hangin around waiting for instruction from Jorge. I need to mention that he's by himself on this part of the leg. It felt like the next 45 minutes was wasted as Jorge seemed to be disorganized, not knowing what time and order things were happening. Not too impressed by this. He took about 15-20 minutes basically giving a private lesson to a new snorkeler. He shouldn't be taking this time to do this now. Some of us decided to take advantage of the beautiful water and get wet.
We had been told the current was pretty strong and waters were a little rough, but they took us out to a spot not far from the beach where we were. They grouped us by snorkeling experience, with each group going with a guide.
The water was a little rough, but the coral reef and fish made it all worth it. They told us we had about an hour in the water. The clarity of the water was fairly good. The coral reef was amazing and we saw some great schools of fish. I had forgotten about the fact that this was a "shipwreck snorkeling tour" until I got back on the boat when I started feeling sea sick from all the rocking waves (i lasted about 30 minutes or so). It didn't make sense to me that we'd be taken on this "shipwreck" tour and not get to see it, but the last 5-10 minutes they brought all the remaining snorkelers right by the boat where there was a shipwreck, but from what everyone said, you could only see the outline of it. It was too far down or visibility wasn't too great. Even those that dove down didn't get too close.
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No. Not really.
I just wanted to give everyone who has ever said that they don't have time to cook at home the fastest and easiest 'recipe' on the planet.
I made this when I was at my parent's house the other day and I wanted something fast and easy with the ingredients that were available.
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It's official. President Obama has named former Sen. Chuck Hagel as his nominee for secretary of Defense. Hence, we may be in store for the worst Defense secretary nomination fight since George H.W. Bush's failed appointment of Sen. John Tower more than 20 years ago.
The interesting question is, why?
Why pass over more qualified candidates who would sail through confirmation, including Michele Flournoy — who'd be the first female Defense secretary?
The most ridiculous answer is among the mainstream media's favorites: bipartisanship. According to Politico, the choice "appeals to Obama's bipartisan spirit."
What is particularly bizarre about this talking point is that it often appears in articles that go on about how tough and grueling the nomination battle will be, thanks to strong Republican opposition.
So which is it? Is it a bridge across the partisan divide? Or is it an "in-your-face" nomination (South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham's words) aimed at eliciting a fight with Republicans?
At least from the perspective of nearly everyone on the right, it's the latter. Whether it's payback for the scuttled non-nomination of Susan Rice to be secretary of State or whether it's simply of a piece with Obama's efforts to divide and conquer the GOP that were on display throughout the "fiscal cliff" negotiations, the consensus in much of conservative Washington is that Obama is making this nomination at least in part out of spite.
Indeed, that's one major reason Hagel has so many unlikely friends these days. Hagel — never overburdened with too heavy a reputation for insight, knowledge or humility — is loathed, with ample justification, by many foreign-policy hawks, Israel supporters and neocons (those are overlapping but hardly synonymous groups, by the way). He is arguably the most prominent opponent of sanctions on bad actors in the Middle East. He's heaped scorn on those who'd take a hard line with Iran.
And Hagel's views on Israel are, to be generous, hard to reconcile with those of the man who successfully campaigned for president just a couple of months ago as a staunch friend of that country. Even if Hagel's gaffe about the perfidious influence of the domestic "Jewish lobby" was accidental, his coolness to Israel is hard to dispute. For instance, when Palestinian suicide bombers were tearing the country apart in 2002, Hagel insisted in an op-ed article that this was the time for Israel to "take steps to show its commitment to peace."
For some, the thinking seems to be that if the Hagel nomination is a thumb in the eye of the neocon crowd, it must be worth it. David Greenberg writes in The New Republic that many "liberals are bending over backward to praise Hagel, in effect saying they would prefer an archconservative male mediocrity to a liberal female rising star." Why? Because punishing Hagel's enemies is worth a potentially lousy Defense secretary.
The Defense Department faces imminent cuts, Chinese and Russian nationalism are ascendant, the Middle East is becoming even more destabilized and theocratic, and we're still at war in Afghanistan — but Hagel's chief qualification is that he'll be a great conversation starter? Wow.
The coming nomination fight will undoubtedly focus on the strength of the case against Hagel. But the real indictment of Obama's pick is the weakness of the case for Hagel — and the pettiness of the pick in the first place.
Jonah Goldberg is the author of the new book "The Tyranny of Clichés."