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Disney Dream not such a Dream for Adults without Children: Disney Dream Cruise Review by BearInStPete
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Disney Dream not such a Dream for Adults without Children
Destination: Bahamas
Embarkation: Port Canaveral (Orlando)
Our Cruise-Line pedigree is a fairly diverse background of approximately 85+ days at sea (HAL, RCL, Celebrity, Princess and NCL), most recently 10 days on the HAL's Noordam More during December 2012. At this point in our lives we tend to gravitate toward understated elegance, higher-end (foodie) dining opportunities, polished service, comfort, entertainment inclusive of multiple live music, vocal performances, and adult enrichment topics and well-traveled fellow passengers who make interesting new acquaintances. I am a value conscious travel-consumer and always look for a good value perspective in booking my vacations. The value perspective is what directly impacts my "Value for Money" and "Rates" categories in this review.
Gimmicky (others may find them absolute musts -- and that's OK) ship features like flow-riders, rock climbing walls, ice-skating rinks, overly large atriums, and other large venues (think conference centers) with limited accessibility that dilute the passenger space ratios (Gross Registered Tonnage (GRT) divided by the number of revenue passengers at double occupancy = PSR) are not appealing to us. For example, the Disney Dream is approximately 130,000 GRT with a double occupancy revenue passenger count of 2,500, (3,700 with children on our cruise) passengers calculates to a PSR of 35.1, our most recent cruise on HAL's Noordam calculates to a PSR of 42.8 (82,318 GRT / 1,924 Pax), from there, you have to start reconciling out space occupied by amenities that add nothing to your personal value proposition (not always quantifiable) -- in our case the vast children's centers on the Dream or any Disney ship, so if your following the math, the PSR available for use by Adults traveling with no children becomes quite lop-sided. What this means in real terms on the Dream is a large beautiful ship with a large amount of public spaces devoted to children traveling with their families (yes -- I said it that way for a reason) and children exclusive areas (Vibe, Edge, Oceaneerclub, and Oceanneerlab on the Dream) including an absolutely gorgeous atrium/lobby/grand foyer that serves primarily as a backdrop for character meet n' greets and kids' activities. Whereas the Noordam, with the exception of a few conference rooms, has the majority of its public spaces oriented towards adults (yes even including a casino) with a small portion devoted to children. The entertainment on both vessels follows a similar path as well.
Just a bit more perspective on value from the dollar and cents perspective. Our Disney Dream Cruise was a four Day Bahamas cruise with an out-island visit in mid-January (it did extend over the MLK Holiday). Realizing that not everyone has access to all rates available on a cruise, and keeping in mind that November-January Caribbean non-Holiday cruise rates are highly competitive, we paid for a four day cruise to the Bahamas on the Dream for what we could have cruised for 7 days on Holland, Princess, or Celebrity in a similar sized cabin on an Eastern or Western Caribbean cruise. Anyone who has priced Disney cruises knows the per-diem rates are generally at the higher end of the scale. I tried to do some due-diligence on the CC forums to understand how Disney warrants the higher per-diem costs for an empty-nester couple traveling without family or children, with a similar cruise pedigree and I got some feedback, but none that really hit the nail squarely on the head in a helpful way for myself. But I'll wrap up with that value proposition later.
Now for some of the more subjective comparisons of the Dream and this will be presented from a standpoint of a cruiser with 34+ days with recent HAL experience on Signature and Vista Class vessels (Noordam, Westerdam, Zuiderdam, and Eurodam). First of all, HAL and Disney are more alike than they are different, and that speaks well of both lines, so the following chief areas of commentaries are nuances for the most part of differences and not vast divides. But I do need to digress and provide an observation of the reviews between the lines presented by CC members. Having now experienced Disney (obviously not a large sample), and reading many a review on CC, and chatting with several fellow passengers on the Dream, many Disney cruisers are either first time cruisers or if they are repeat cruisers they often have little or no experience with other lines (read into this they may have drank too much Disney kool-aid i.e. their reviews are perky and cheerful and blissfully ignorant). Most HAL passengers are 70+% repeat passengers and usually have a good amount of experience with other lines as well. Lastly, many Disney passengers are fiercely loyal to Disney - and it's generally well deserved. Anyone who has enjoyed their parks and resorts knows they are about quality and striving to provide that in their Food, beverage, lodging, and entertainment experience for ALL guests. This does not fortunately translate fully for Disney Cruise Line passengers similarly situated to myself. Their ships are gorgeous, whimsically designed like an art-deco liner from times gone by and technologically modern with lots of Disney kitch and hidden Mickeys -- not unlike the Resort Hotels at Walt Disney World. If you are a ship buff you won't be disappointed.
Dining is too big a category of your cruise experience not to comment on and I'm happy to report Disney cruise food is good in all venues, if you like Disney food, you will likely enjoy HAL food and vice versa. There are a few holes. Cabanas (Lido) buffet seems to have more limited hours than HAL's lido; little is generally available after 8:30 PM, whereas on HAL cookies, deserts, hand-dipped and soft-serve ice cream (with all the toppings including waffle/sugar cones) are available through the late snack time of midnight or so. On HAL at 11:00pm a late snack (really a meal, but not a robust midnight buffet), with a selection of cold vegetable and pasta salads with meats, hot entrees (2-3-often ethnic), and side items. Disney offers soft-serve ice cream, no toppings, pizza (good variety) through 12:30. HAL has Pizza and pasta stations on most ships until 12:30 am. Both have 24 hour complimentary room service with a reasonable amount of hot and cold items and deserts.
Disney MDR food is very comparable to HAL, presentation on similar dishes if often very similar! Disney has the edge on number of MDRs (3) and offers some show and Disney magic (we found Animator's Pallet to be too noisy and intrusive and left for the refuge of Palo) to punctuate the presentation, but their service staff lacks the polish and refinement of the Indonesian and Philippine service staff on HAL, often becoming evident in lapses of communication (more international on Disney with less command of English), in style of serving, replacement of eating instruments, and removal of dirty items between courses (often leaving sanitary wipes and sweetener packets on the table throughout the meal). Table settings are more pedestrian on Disney, nice china, but not Rosenthal, stainless dinner ware, no chilled butter, no fresh flowers on the table (or anywhere on the ship!) -- and often having to ask for sweeteners and drink refills. If you are accustomed to fine dining in the resorts at Walt Disney World the service level in the MDRs will be a bit of a disappointment -- but not bad.
Up-charge restaurants -- I can't comment on Remy as the value proposition seemed way off to us, Palo I found quite comparable to the Pinnacle Grill in food quality, presentation and service, Palo is a higher-end version of Canaletto of HAL vs. Pacific Northwest cuisine of Pinnacle. Palo does get a slight edge over HAL in that you are welcome to order as many entrees within reason -- HAL limits you to one and has an additional charge ($10 if I recall) for another. HAL generally has the edge on the serving size on entrees, in the Pinnacle only the truly glutinous would need more than one entree. Long and short you will have a stellar experience in either.
I personally got a lot of misinformation from CC members on the cabin sizes and amenities. I think this is due to two things, Disney I believe decreased their average cabin size on the Dream and Fantasy class vs the Magic and Wonder causing some to say Disney cabins are larger (that may be so in comparison to some Princess, RCL, and Celebrity ships). I had a category 05D Deck 6 Verandah on the Dream, these are slightly smaller than the VH-VA deluxe verandahs on HAL signature and vista ships in terms of actual interior space (I invite you to check me on this using the stated SFs on the respective websites!) Verandah sizes are similar. Depending upon your perspective, the bathroom configuration on Disney may be a bonus -- you get two compartments, one with a sink and toilet, one with sink and tub/shower, but the net space between HAL and Disney is virtually the same. HAL you get a slightly larger tub/shower combo, more counter space and a medicine cabinet instead of shelves, and bulk dispensers of Elemis shampoo, conditioner, and shower gel. One annoying aspect of Disney is only one electrical outlet is present in the ceiling (yes you heard it right, as my partner said who looks for an outlet in the ceiling when plugging in their toothbrush or razor?) of the Dream shower compartment only. Disney does not automatically provide you with robes for your use, ice, a luggage mat for your bed, or deliver luggage within your stateroom, nor are wine glasses or cocktail glasses provided. A chiller/refrigerator is present, but there are no mini-bar items available. Disney mattresses are comfortable but NOT a HAL Mariners Dream Bed! Disney does have two useable electrical outlets in the cabin, one by the desk and one by the nightstand (us CPAP users can appreciate this)! Disney does provide you with an on-ship cellular type phone -- sort of cool, but somewhat difficult to use, especially for texting. In my opinion net-net a draw between HAL and Disney on cabins and amenities.
Out Islands
I viewed Castaway Cay and Half Moon Key a draw from the childless Adult perspective. I felt a little marginalized by the fact that as a childless adult I was relegated to the back 1/3 of the island on Castaway Cay -- having to walk through the kids and character shoot stations to get there after walking the length of the pier -- but it was pretty (trams are readily available). Docking vs tendering was no biggie for me -- you have to do more walking on Castaway vs. Full moon to get to the first available beach. There was no live music on Castaway that I found. From a child's perspective it's Castaway all the way with the activities available to them and a water slide.
Here is where I diverge from what many had to say on Entertainment on Disney vs HAL. Keep in mind I am not speaking to strictly youth facilities -- Disney has that hands down. I'm speaking about actual entertainment options for adults. The Walt Disney Theater was my single biggest disappointment from an adult who enjoys Disney and has seen their Broadway shows and virtually all the park shows from Walt Disney World. It is a great space, but the seating is tight from a width and pitch (front to back) I was horribly uncomfortable sitting on the "orchestra/floor" level seats, they had what looked like almost a church kneel rail (but solid and no place for toes) immediately behind the seat in front of you -- between the narrow pitch and space taken up by the kneel rail there is inadequate space for adult male feet and legs without feeling cramped and no-one could walk in front of you without you getting up to allow them to pass. Seating pitch in the HAL show lounges generally allowed a bar server or person to pass in front and plenty of unobstructed room for your feet.
The subjects of the production shows is pretty limited to Disney characters and video scenes, no intricate dance moves here, but some choreography, some theatrical oration and only snippets of quality vocal performance, no live music was part of the production shows! (many, but not all, HAL shows are accompanied by live music). The shows are geared toward Families (that definition includes a lot of kids!) the cadence of the shows is paced to keep a 6 year old embraced that has ADD -- so that means no costumed scene of Ursula from Little Mermaid belting our Poor Unfortunate Souls in its entirety -- just a short snippet of Ursula pirouetting through a refrain of it punctuated by juvenile jokes between snippets into the next Segway. On our four-day cruise there was a Family oriented magic show, due to the lack of seating comfort and a conflict with a Palo reservation we skipped it -- it was the only non-Disney show presented in the Walt Disney show theater during our cruise. If you are looking for live Dance music, jazz, string quartet, comedian or a sing-along all night piano bar it's not going to happen on the Dream (cast members did tell us that the piano bar does exist on the Magic and Wonder). The Dream has a venue that acts as a disco and cabaret (not consistently available for dancing though), and an adult magic show was performed there along with karaoke, there is a District Lounge that has an occasional vocalist or pianist, where performances are only about 30 minutes on, 30 minute break, and repeat till midnight nothing consistent or long enough to build a crowd. There is a sports bar (687), Skyline martini bar (very elegant I might add), and a champagne bar called PINK (actually beautiful but highly under-utilized and likely will fall victim to a future dry-dock remodel). The areas with the adult venues are known as the "District" and are adults only from 9 pm till close (essentially at midnight - but pretty dead earlier), and are relegated to a small area of the ship. Disney does have a phenomenal state-of-the art movie theater -- likely the largest at sea -- that was showing Brave and Wreck-It Ralph in Dolby 3D and Lincoln, additionally the Funnel Vision Theater showed older Disney movies as well. The large inside theater would allow adults to fill some of their time for the lack of evening entertainment options but would not be what an average adult cruiser would do to fill their evening out on a Cruise vacation.
The Pirates in the Caribbean fireworks show was a fun little pirate skit performed on deck with Disney magic culminating in a compact fireworks show at sea, dance party and a pirate feast on the buffet -- nothing like what you see in the theme parks in terms of size, but currently exclusive to Disney and it was palatable to an adult without being too Disney kool-aid-ish.
In Conclusion;
Rolling back around to my original question that was never fully answered in the Disney Cruise Line information or by my fellow CC members -- is Disney a good value proposition for a childless adult couple not cruising with family with children who enjoy, but are not enamored (keep in mind we do like Disney as a whole) with all the Disney Kitch -- my answer will have to be NO! I paid a premium cruise faire to subsidize vast portions of the ship devoted to youth activities and entertainment and ended up feeling segregated to small little islands of child-free zones, as the areas with Children where overwhelming, under foot, noisy and crowded. The Disney immersion is much more intense frankly than the parks at Walt Disney World and confining on a ship with limited reasonable opportunities to escape it. There was no premium I could attribute to Cabins or Dining, and I was personally disadvantaged from the lack of adult entertainment options. Even the pre-PA announcement chime of "When You Wish Upon a Star" gets old after the first day! There was one thing that we did enjoy on the Dream, but it was a gimmick, and that was the Aqua Duck -- that was a lot of fun to ride -- but not enough to overcome the many other short-comings from our perspective. If you have kids, and their ultimate enjoyment is paramount to a high quality cruise vacation -- Disney is likely not going to disappoint you, otherwise there are better options for your cruise! Less
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Overall location was quite good, mid-ship, conveniently near the mid-ship stairwell vestibule. The cabin was quiet at most times as no public spaces were adjacent to it (including above and below) except for the vestibule. Only issue, suspect this is par for the course on a ship with a lot of children - the thumpty-thump-thump of running children is apparent from early-on (7 am) until 10 pm each evening.
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Efficient supply chains through flexible horizontal collaboration
Recently, a trend towards horizontal collaboration in the supply chain has been gaining ground. Collaborative supply chains promise to improve sustainability and reduce transportation costs at the same time. This paper examines the possibility of collaboration and its implementation through a description of the current situation and a case study of three large companies in Belgium who have expressed their willingness to collaborate. As collaboration assumes a long-term relationship that needs to be built, this paper investigates the advantages of moving beyond mere bundling of logistics streams and assumes that partners are willing to explore further optimization opportunities that arise from collaboration. Most notably, this paper evaluates the effects of increased flexible with respect to delivery dates, as well as allowing large orders to be split into several deliveries. The case study developed in this paper shows that a decrease in distribution costs of 25.83% can be achieved. Distributing these gains to the partners by using the recommended Shapley value, the individual gains range from 19.01% to 37.56%. By adopting a flexible attitude with respect to delivery dates and order splitting, the partners in the coalition can further increase their individual gains, as well as the total coalition gain. Interestingly, the Shapley value is found to encourage companies to relinquish a rigid attitude with respect to delivery dates and order splitting, by allocating a larger share of the gains to flexible companies.
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And that's precisely the idea at the Noire [2] - where guests are asked to leave their mobiles, watches and any traces of light behind to enter a totally dark room and eat their meal. Diners at the restaurant are completely unaware of nearby patrons or the food being served according to an article in Gulf News [3]. Similar concepts have been played out before in New York, London and Toronto.
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International Encyclopedia of Civil Society
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- Anael LabigneAffiliated withCentre for Social Investment, Universitaet Heidelberg
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The international NGO Aide à Toute Détresse Quart-Monde (ATD Quart-Monde or ATD Fourth World, in English) mobilizes poor families and communities in housing estates, slums, and isolated towns, researches issues of poverty with the participation of those affected, and informs public opinion. It does this with help from the members of its international Volunteer Corps.
Brief History
In 1956, Father Joseph Wresinski (1917–1988), the son of a poor immigrant family, was assigned by his bishop to be a chaplain to 250 families placed in an emergency housing camp in Noisy-le-Grand, near Paris, France. In 1957, Wresinski and the families of the camp founded an association, which was later to become ATD Quart-Monde. Wresinski chose the term "Quart-Monde," or "Fourth World," to represent all people needing help, not only those in the so-call ...
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Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has snubbed his Brisbane electorate by cancelling a six-week booking at the House of Power debate in front of 550 locals.
Instead, his staff suggest Victoria and western Sydney are more important.
Mr Rudd had been booked by brisbanetimes.com.au, Fairfax Radio 4BC and Nine News to debate the LNP's Bill Glasson at the Brisbane Powerhouse tonight.
Dr Glasson and Mr Rudd were due to face-off at the Powerhouse at 6.30pm. Channel 10's The Project has now advised the Prime Minister would be live on its program at that time.
Mr Rudd's last-minute scratching will not stop the show, with Labor Senator Claire Moore stepping in to face Dr Glasson.
brisbanetimes.com.au editor Simon Holt said it would be unfair to deny Dr Glasson the opportunity to speak directly to the people.
More than 1000 people from Brisbane electorates have taken tickets to the event focusing on key southeast Queensland seats.
Mr Rudd's LNP rival for Griffith Dr Glasson, an ophthalmologist who has run the Australian Medical Association, labelled Mr Rudd's decision as rude.
"For him to pull out at this late stage, I think is an insult to the people of Griffith," Dr Glasson said.
"It send a very poor message to the people of Griffith and again reinforces the message that Kevin is never here, when the people of Griffith need him.
"It's Kevin 747, or whatever jet he is on."
Mr Glasson said he understood Mr Rudd, as Prime Minister, had an exacting schedule.
"If he had notified you weeks ahead, because he has a busy schedule, then so be it," he said.
"But to pull out at this late minute is an insult to the people of Griffith and it is just disappointing for me, but also for many of the electors of Griffith."
On Thursday, Mr Rudd told reporters in Torquay, Victoria that he had "other priorities."
Mr Rudd pointed out that even though he was the member for Griffith he was also the Prime Minister.
He said he had previously debated Dr Glasson and that Opposition Leader Tony Abbott had not done any local debates.
The Liberal Party has proposed a second people's forum in Sydney's Rooty Hill during the campaign - following the forum in Brisbane on Wednesday.
''Fine, I'm happy to do that in Rooty Hill or wherever,'' Mr Rudd said on Thursday.
Mr Rudd's no show comes a day after Labor's campaign headquarters issued a media release lambasting Mr Abbott for failing to show up at a community forum in his electorate and 16 other Coalition candidates for not participating in other local debates.
''Do the Coalition believe in allowing Australians to reap the benefits of an open, accountable democracy before an election? Or are they now taking their cues from Stalinist Russia?'' the Labor release said.
Mr Rudd's campaign team says he has been in Brisbane for two days - to prepare for Wednesday night's leader's debate with Opposition Leader Tony Abbott - and needed to campaign in other seats around Australia.
Mr Rudd was in Geelong, Victoria this morning.
His cancellation on the morning of the debate raises ongoing questions about the ability of his campaign team to juggle his local and national commitments.
The House of Power debate includes candidates from the seats of Griffith held by Mr Rudd; Lilley held by former Treasurer Wayne Swan; Brisbane held by LNP's Teresa Gambaro; Oxley held by Labor's Bernie Ripoll; Rankin held by Labor; and Moreton held by Labor's Graham Perrett.
It also includes representatives of the Greens, Katter's Australian Party, and Family First.


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June Environmental Updates: Invasive Plant Removal, Stream Monitoring, Sustinability Workshops and More
Thanks for Making the Environmental Leadership Institute a Major Success!
On Saturday, May 7, environmental experts and 30 local leaders attended the first ever Braddock District Environmental Leadership Institute. The Leadership Institute was another extension of Supervisor Cook's ongoing Community Engagement Initiative. The overarching goal of this Institute is to have participants take the information they learned back into Braddock communities to help transform them into "Livable Neighborhoods." Special thanks to all the citizens who came out to participate, the great County staff who were able to teach, and our corporate sponsor Verizon.
Invasive Plant Removal
Invasive species are, generally, non-native species that cause
ecological or economic harm. Because of the ease in which invasives
establish in new territory, these plants make terrible neighbors.
They out-compete native species for the same resources, eventually reducing or eliminating the populations of native species. Some invasive species have more complicated effects which have ramifications higher up the food chain, resulting in fewer native birds and wildlife. The third main effect of invasive species is that they have the ability to alter natural functions of communities and ecosystems.
There are well over 300 invasive plant species that have been reported in our area. To learn more or to report seeing invasives on public land go to the following website:http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/parks/resources/IMA/whatareinvasives.htm
In June, you can sign up on Wednesdays to assist with removal of invasives from Lake Accotink and Americana Park and on Saturday, June 25 from the Pohick Stream Valley Park.
Calendar of Environmental Events in the Month of June
Saturday, June 11, Artistic Rain Barrel Benefit Auction: 5 to 7
Location: Green Spring Gardens, 4603 Green Spring Rd, Alexandria, VA
25 beautiful rain barrels decorated by local artists will be auctioned off at a reception to benefit the Northern Virginia Rain Barrel Program. They will be displayed at Green Spring the week before the auction.
Saturday, June 11, 2011, Stream Monitoring Workshop at Accotink Creek: 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.
Location: Lake Accotink Park
Help the Friends of the Accotink monitor their favorite stream at the popular Lake Accotink Park. To RSVP, please contact their volunteer coordinator.
Sunday, June 12, Butterfly Gardening Workshop: 2 p.m.
Location: Hidden Oaks Nature Center, Annadale
Enjoy a presentation by Dr. Dexter Hinckley where you will learn techniques for attracting these garden jewels and area butterfly gardens you can visit.
Workshops Available from George Mason's Sustainability Institute
The George Mason University Sustainability Institute (MSI) provides
sustainability-oriented education and skills development for Mason and
its surrounding communities. June and July's Schedule include the
following classes:
1) Energy Efficiency at Home: Learn how to save 20 percent or more on energy bills with a very modest investment! The class will cover energy audits; plan reviews, and energy modeling to help homeowners reduce energy use in their homes. The workshop attendees will leave this course with a list of companies offering energy-auditing services and an energy reduction resource list for future reference.
Workshop 1: Wednesday, July 13, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Workshop 2: Saturday, August 6, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
2) Water Conservation Workshop: The water conservation workshop will cover topics on water conservation options for both inside and outside of your home or business. Indoor water conservation will focus on options to help save water in the kitchen, bathroom, and laundry room, while the outdoor component will cover landscaping and watering options to do the same.
Workshop 1: Saturday, June 25, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Workshop 2: Wednesday, June 29, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
3) Waste Minimization Workshop: Packaging accounts for 64 million tons by weight, or 33 percent of all our garbage. Recycling helps, but reducing and reusing is even better! So come and learn how waste reduction techniques like smart purchasing decisions, reducing, reusing, and recycling waste can help save natural resources, energy, disposal space and cost and minimize pollution risks.
Workshop 1: Wednesday, July 6, 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Workshop 2: Saturday, July 16, 10:00 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Location: Green Acres, 4401 Sideburn Road, Room 113 - Fee: $15
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Export officials refuse to recognize new customer fee
Export officials have refused to recognize the first month's billing of a new, $3-per-customer fee that the Franklin Township Municipal Sanitary Authority has added.
Last week, borough officials voted to not pass along the new fee to borough ratepayers for the April billing period, and they said they don't have enough time to incorporate the new fee until the June billing period.
"We were notified (by FTMSA) there were no projected increases," Councilman John Nagoda said. "They missed the boat here."
The sewage authority levied the equipment fee to help raise money for future replacement and repair projects.
The fee took effect April 1, after the authority's five-member board approved it in March. Authority manager Jim Brucker presented the idea in the fall as a way to avoid accumulating debt for repair and replacement projects during the next 20 years.
All of the communities served by the authority were notified by letter of the increase, Brucker said. He laughed when told that Export said they weren't notified.
"Every other community is aware and remitted it," Brucker said. "We've been doing it for two months. Everywhere else, everything is fine."
The authority serves about 10,000 customers in Murrysville, Delmont, Export, Monroeville, Penn Township, Plum and Salem.
Each community has a different sewage rate, based on size and services. After the increase, they range from $32.27 per month in Murrysville and Penn Township to about $41 per month in Delmont.
Brucker estimates that the fee will generate about $16 million during the next 20 years.
Unlike other communities, Export administers its own sewage bills. Sewage secretary Marlene Mahinske sends handwritten bills on pre-printed postcards to local FTMSA customers each month. Customers remit payment to the borough, and Mahinske forwards the authority's fees.
Mahinske said she didn't have ample time to order new postcards that include the rate increase.
"We had no warning," Mahinske said. "We can't absorb this increase."
Solicitor Wes Long suggested the borough withhold the April increase, a sum Mahinske estimated to be about $1,500. But that won't last for long.
Beginning June 1, customer bills will include the $3 increase, borough officials agreed. Long said officials did receive notice of the possibility of a fee implementation, but not of its passage.
Nagoda cited the authority's fall 2012 audit report, which stated that a rate increase would not be necessary in 2013.
"They need to be held accountable," Nagoda said. "It's not right."
This criticism is the latest salvo in a battle between the borough and the authority. Borough officials regularly criticize how the authority handles its money, including the implementation of an egg-shaped sewage digester. The project, which was designed to enable the authority to process more waste, was completed in 2004 but took several years to begin using.
Daveen Rae Kurutz is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-856-7400, ext. 8627, or firstname.lastname@example.com.


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14 May 2014
Norman Foster and artist, Hiroshi Sugimoto were presented with the inaugural Isamu Noguchi Award by Motohide Yoshikawa, Ambassador of Japan to the United Nations, at the Noguchi Museum's annual Spring Benefit in New York last night. The award has been established by the Noguchi Museum to recognise individuals that share Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi's commitment to innovation, global consciousness and Japanese/American exchange.
Noguchi Museum Director Jenny Dixon:
"The Isamu Noguchi Award serves to establish a dialogue with Noguchi's profound legacy of innovation. We are honored to celebrate Lord Norman Foster and Hiroshi Sugimoto, whose exemplary work we believe demonstrates principles similar to those that inspired Noguchi."
Notes to editors:
- The Noguchi Museum was founded and designed by internationally renowned, Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) for the display of what he considered to be representative examples of his life's work. Opened in 1985, the Museum is housed in a converted industrial building, connected to a building and interior garden of Noguchi's design. Today, the Noguchi Museum – chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum – manages the world's largest and most extensive collection of Noguchi's sculptures, architectural models, stage designs, drawings, furniture, and lamps, in addition to his complete archives.
- Website of the Noguchi Museum, New York: http://www.noguchi.org/
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TEMPLE — Cramps in both calves couldn't cramp the style of Temple sophomore guard Logan Hicks.
Neither could Copperas Cove in a must-win District 8-5A game for the Wildcats.
With Temple desperate for its first district win, Hicks made three 3-point shots in a 2-minute span in the fourth quarter to push him team ahead and Marquese Whitfield blocked Montre Williams' 3-point attempt in the final seconds as the Wildcats earned a dramatic 56-53 victory Tuesday night at Wildcat Gym.
Hicks poured in a career-best 26 points as Temple (7-11) stopped its six-game losing streak and moved back into the 8-5A playoff hunt at 1-3. Juniors Whitfield and Jordan Lee scored 11 apiece to help the Wildcats seize their first district win for first-year coach Marty Garcia.
"It feels good, but it's just one win," said Hicks, whose 3-point flurry helped propel Temple from a 42-35 deficit to a 49-46 advantage. "Coach always says it's what you do the next day, so we've got to come to work tomorrow."
Said Garcia: "I'm very grateful for the win. Our players made plays happen. It's gratifying for the sole fact that I know what we demand daily from them. It's gratifying to see them upbeat and excited."
Hicks' explosion countered the 25-point performance of Cove 6-6 junior Rashard Odomes. No other player scored more than eight for the Bulldawgs (11-10, 2-2), who beat reigning 8-5A champion Killeen Ellison last Friday.
"(Temple) got more loose balls than we got. It was one of those deals where they were hungry for their first win," Cove coach Billy White said. "(Hicks) hit some big shots for them. Temple played well and got after it."
In a topsy-turvy game of runs, Hicks notched a 3-point play and made a jump shot from inside the free throw line to give Temple a 16-8 lead through one quarter.
The left-handed Odomes displayed his full arsenal in the second quarter, dunking on back-to-back trips and making a 3 as the Bulldawgs caught the Wildcats for a 27-27 halftime deadlock.
Temple went more than 5 minutes without a field goal before Hicks' driving banker made it 29-27. But Odomes struck for two three-point plays and Williams closed the third with a three-point play, putting Cove up 38-35 entering the fourth.
The Bulldawgs surged to a 42-35 lead with 5½ minutes remaining, at which point Temple had scored only eight points in 14½ minutes. Fortunately for the Wildcats, Hicks rescued them.
He made an NBA-range 3-pointer from the right wing, and after Lee's three-point play Hicks hit a 3 from the right corner for a 46-44 game. Whitfield's driving bucket tied it, then Hicks drained an off-balance, 25-foot 3 from the right wing, giving Temple the lead for good at 49-46 with 3:03 left.
"I feel like I can make any shot," said Hicks, adding that he "just had to play through" his cramping calves. "I was always taught to shoot with confidence."
Added Garcia: "Logan puts in his time in the gym. He definitely works at his craft. He really put us on his back and carried us. When we needed a big basket, he delivered."
Whitfield's inside basket made it 55-51 with 57 seconds left, then Cove had its final possession trailing 56-53 with 14.8 remaining. Temple's defense swarmed Odomes and he passed to the left wing to Williams, whose attempt at a tying 3 was deflected off-target by a leaping Whitfield to preserve the comeback win.
Temple plays at Killeen on Friday, while Cove hosts Harker Heights.


text: LONDON, ENGLAND – Daniel Sturridge, the rising Liverpool and England starlet and Team Hyundai ambassador recently took delivery of his New Generation Santa Fe. Sturridge, who became a Team Hyundai Ambassador earlier in 2012 supporting Hyundai's activity around UEFA EURO 2012, will be driving a 2.2-litre CRDi Santa Fe 4WD Premium autoc.The model is equipped with a host of standard kit 8-inch alloy rims, daytime running lights, bluetooth with voice recognition, multi-function steering wheel, touch screen satnav and reversing parking camera. 'SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART'Sturridge is no stranger to the Santa Fe, as his parents have driven one since 2004: "The Santa Fe is a great vehicle. I think my parents' one has now done nearly 160 000km and it hasn't missed a beat. My mum used to drive me to all my games in it when I was younger so it has a special place in my heart. "The New Generation Santa Fe has certainly improved on all the qualities of the old model - space, practicality - but it now looks and feels so much more modern and premium. I am really looking forward to spending some time behind the wheel." Team Hyundai consists of five of Europe's top players:Iker Casillas - Real Madrid and Spain), Lukas Podolski and Arsenal Germany, Giuseppe Rossi - Fiorentina and Italy, Karim Benzema - Real Madrid and France and Daniel Sturridge - Liverpool and England.


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Punk rockers Unknown Mortal Orchestra have remixed Sky Ferreira's "Everything Is Embarrassing." The high fashion bubblegum poptone gets a slight re-imagining through the band's chunky basslines and breakbeat drums that turn your headphones into blown out $3 speakers. Not groundbreaking stuff, but still pretty. Listen below:
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Saudi student returns to court next week
A Saudi Arabian university student will be back in Kamloops provincial court next week to face serious assault charges stemming from a fight that left his friend in a coma with severe brain trauma.
Yousef Mohammed Almotairi has been charged with one count each of assault with a weapon and aggravated assault.
Court documents allege the 26-year-old assaulted his friend, Abdulaziz Alhedaib, with a pool cue.
According to police, the assault took place at Cactus Jack's nightclub just after 1 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3.
Mounties have said Alhedaib, 28, punched Almotairi, who struck back with a pool cue.
RCMP Staff Sgt. Grant Learned said the pool cue went through the victim's eye and penetrated his brain, causing severe trauma.
Almotairi was released the following day after a bail hearing with a justice of the peace. He was ordered to surrender his passport and required to stay in B.C.
Alhedaib remains in critical condition at Royal Inland Hospital. Learned said the man's family is travelling from Saudi Arabia to visit him.
Almotairi is slated to appear in Kamloops provincial court on Tuesday, Nov. 13.


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Brad Borevitz created this tool, simply named State of the Union, to visualize keywords from US presidential State of the Union addresses from 1790 to 2006. Every address is included; for each one common words are displayed with the size showing how many times they were used in the speech and the height on the graph showing the word's significance as compared to other speeches. A fascinating look at both the politics and tone of the moment—clicking on the timeline even pulls up all that period's US history entries from Wikipedia.
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There have been some technical difficulties getting the Legislative Council calculators running, so apologies to those who are hanging out to start playing with them.
However, I have my own Access version of the calculators and have been playing around with how the preferences work out, and there are some interesting patterns.
East Metropolitan Region - There are a certain three Liberals and two Labor members to be elected. But will the Greens hang on to their spot? If there is any slippage in the Green vote then it will be harder for the Greens to win the last position, with Labor more likely to win the seat. If the Liberals get significantly beyond the third quota, then Liberal and Family First preferences will help the Greens. But if there is very little Liberal surplus, then the Christian Democrats and the Shooters and Fishers will help Labor reach a quota before the Greens. It seems unlikely that all the little parties can combine with enough Liberal surplus to win the last spot for a minor party other than the Greens.
If the Liberal Party poll significantly above three quotas (42.9%) then any surplus would flow through to the minor right-wing parties and push them into first place during the distribution of preferences. However, the only way one of the minor parties could beat Labor or the Greens to the final seat is if the combined support for Labor plus the Greens falls below three quotas. However, in 2008 the two parties polled 52.7% together, so it would take a massive drop in support to see the race for the final seat as being anything other than between Labor and the Greens.
North Metropolitan Region - Some odd preference deals mean that it is very difficult for the fourth Liberal, Peter Katsambanis, to win a seat. The better the Liberals poll beyond three quotas, the more likely that Katsambanis will be ahead of the remaining right-wing party that has harvested other minor party preferences. At that point the minor parties would be knocked out, and the way the preferences are structured, that would elect the Greens' Cameron Poustie, producing a result of three Liberal, two Labor one Green.
However, if the combined minor right-wing party vote is greater than Katsambanis's partial quota, then Katsambanis will be excluded and his preferences elect one of the right wing parties to the final spot.
The above scenarios do assume that the combined vote for Labor plus the Greens will drop below three quotas, a drop of 3.2% on 2008 results. If the combined Labor-Green vote stays above three quotas, then the Green's Cameron Poustie will win the last spot on Labor preferences.
South Metropolitan Region - Very simlar to East Metropolitan, the Liberals set for three seats, Labor two, and Labor and the Greens battling for the final seat. The Greens do not do as well on preferences in 2013, losing the Family First preferences they received in 2008. Again, as in East Metropolitan, Labor plus the Greens polled more than 52% in 2008, so it would take a massive drop in support for the race for the sixth seat to be anything other than Labor versus the Greens.
Mining and Pastoral Region - In 2008, Labor plus the Greens only just polled three quotas. If there is any drop in the combined support for Labor and the Greens, then it is highly likely that the Greens will lose their seat. Labor polled 34.1% in 2008, 2.39 quotas and it would be unlikely the party would fall short of the second quota. The most likely scenario looks like being two Labor plus four conservative members, though the balance of these between Liberal, National and one of the smaller right wing parties is very dependent on your initial assumption of first preferences.
South West Region - The question in this region is can the Green's Giz Watson win back the seat the Greens used to hold. The reason the Greens lost the seat in 2008 is because the combined Labor and Green vote fell short of a third quota. Labor polled 2.31 quotas (33.1%) in 2008 and the Greens 0.6 quotas (8.6%). Even if the Greens take votes from Labor, the problem for the Greens is that they need Labor's preferences to reach a third 'left' quota.
However, the Greens may have an unlikely benefactor in the Shooters and Fishers Party. The region is likely to elect two Liberal and two Labor MLCs on the first count. In 2008 the Liberals had 2.76 quotas and the Nationals 0.75, and both reached a quota before the Greens. However, in 2013, the Shooters and Fishers party have crossed the ideological divide with their preferences ticket. They give preferences to the first National, then Watson, then the third Liberal.
If the first National Colin Holt is elected before the third Liberal, there may be enough Shooters and Fishers preferences to elect Watson before the Liberal. The better the Nationals do compared to the Liberals, the better the chances that Shooters and Fishers preferences will elect Watson.
But the worse the combined Green and Labor vote is, the harder it is for Watson to be elected, even with a boost from the Shooters and Fishers.
Agricultural Region - This region is very difficult to model as the results depend very much on your initial choice of first preferences. There are so many minor party groups with preferences floating around that one of the smaller parties could get up.
That party could be the Shooters and Fishers. If the party polls well enough to be ahead of groups like Family First and the Australian Christians, then the decision of the Greens to put the lead Shooters and Fishers candidate Rick Mazza ahead of the second Labor, Liberal and National candidates could be critical. This region is the one most likely to throw up surprises.


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Transfer news: Bertrand Traore returning to Vitesse Arnhem on loan from Chelsea
By Gerrit van Leeuwen
Last Updated: 08/07/14 4:25pm
Vitesse Arnhem have confirmed that Bertrand Traore will return to them next season on loan from Chelsea.
The 18-year-old Burkina Faso international joined Chelsea in 2013, but was not able to officially put pen-to-paper until January 1 this year, and within 24 hours he had joined Vitesse.
He played more than a dozen games for Vitesse and will return to the Gelredome for next season.
Technical manager Mo Alllach told the Vitesse website: 'We are delighted Bertrand will join us again. He knows our way of working and our kind of style, also he impressed us with his personality."
The Traore deal is just the latest deal between Vitesse and Chelsea, who have an ongoing relationship over players, with Brazilian defender Wallace also heading to the club for next season.
Patrick van Aanholt, Lucas Piazon and Christian Atsu all spent last season on loan at Vitesse, but they will not be heading back.
The two clubs have also announced that they will be playing a friendly in Holland on July 30.


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Valencia, Spain (AFP) Sept 24, 2012
Firefighters battled a forest fire whipped up by strong winds in the Spanish region of Valencia on Monday, forcing the evacuation of about 2,000 people, officials said.
The blaze broke out Sunday afternoon and spread quickly, threatening villages about 50 kilometres (30 miles) inland of the eastern city Valencia, which lies on the Mediterranean coast.
About 2,000 people have been evacuated from villages in the area since it broke out Sunday afternoon and several roads were cut off, Valencia officials said.
Some 500 firefighters on the ground, backed by 27 aircraft, were attempting to get the fire under control, they said.
"We are trying to protect areas of housing," said senior Valencia region government policymaker Serafin Castellano.
"Right now our biggest enemy is the weather, a lot of wind," he told COPE radio.
Dramatic images in the Spanish media showed flames lighting up the night sky and illuminating clouds of smoke that billowed along hillsides just behind houses.
Enrique Silvestre, mayor of one of the evacuated villages, Chulilla, said the situation was "very difficult".
"The wind is not helping at all and the night was terrible," the mayor told Cadena SER radio.
Spain is at particularly high risk of fires this summer after suffering its driest winter in 70 years.
Flames destroyed more than 184,000 hectares (454,000 acres) of land between January 1 and September 16, the largest amount in a decade, according to agriculture ministry figures.
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Paul Crowley wrote: > "Lee Olsen" <[email protected]> wrote in message > news:[email protected] > > >> That process will obviously grind up nearly > >> everything it encounters. > > > > Wrong, or there wouldn't be fossils other than your ground up flint > > points found on the ocean bottoms. To grind up a hand axe by such a > > process would take a longer period of time than hominids have been on > > this planet. > > Hand axes were produced by grinding, > and at an economical rate by hominids. > Put them on a pebble beach and they'd > be ground (and broken) to dust within a > few years (or even months). Where is your evidence that the whale and the other five examples I gave (as opposed to your zero examples) were deposited on a pebble beach? All beaches now have pebbles on them according to you? Are you really that ignorant? > > > <snip rest of UFO argument> > > Who do you think you are fooling? > Like all who pretend to PA expertise, > you are a total waste of space -- and > thoroughly dishonest. You cannot > deal with the simplest questions. This is a science forum, it clearly states that in the title. If science is so stressful for you to deal with, why aren't you over at the UFO forum? There, all you have to do is think something exists and poof, it magically becomes real and proven evidence for an argument. Unlike your circular arguments here, where you keep repeating yourself, I have presented data that at least some axes older than 100 k years occur on raised beaches and certainly didn't get turned to dust in that amount of time, let alone in a few months. If however, they existed in the billions in these once sea-level areas, then a seaside pattern should exist. In your upsidedown world, if there is no such pattern, then that becomes evidence that such a pattern exists. Why don't you go rent the Glomar Explorer and prove me wrong? Pretty simple thing for you to do, even with your UFO thinking. > > Here's another chance: The reason you are forced to ask nonsensical questions is because you do not have any evidence of your own, it all exists in your imagination. I can't refute your negative evidence because that is not how science works. The burden is on you to produce the counter evidence and you have not produced anything so far but wild imagination, lip-service, and circular arguments. <snip>
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US corn stocks were below expectations in December and 2013/14 carryout will be smaller than expected, the US Department of Agriculture said on Friday, causing corn futures prices to jump as much as 5 per cent.
The USDA forecast 1.631 billion bushels of corn will remain on hand when the new US crop is ready for harvest by late summer, roughly double the drought-affected level of a year ago but down from 1.792 billion projected in December.
The corn stocks-to-use ratio for 2013/14 tightened to 12.4 per cent from 13.7 per cent forecast a month ago, suggesting corn was underpriced ahead of the report. That caught many traders leaning the wrong way after the market set contract lows just one day earlier.
"The big buffer, the big cushion that we had is not as big as we had previously thought," said Don Roose, analyst at US Commodities.
Chicago corn futures closed up almost 5 per cent, advancing 2 per cent on the week. Soybeans pared gains to rise about 0.6 per cent and wheat was down almost 3 per cent at new contract lows as traders focused on rising US and world stockpiles.
"No doubt about it, the numbers were a shocker on the corn, they were bearish on the wheat, but I'm not sure they were 20 cents bearish," said Charlie Sernatinger, analyst at ED&F Man Capital.
Soft red winter wheat seeding drops sharply
USDA also showed that recent falling prices caused farmers to turn away from wheat plantings in the US Midwest.
Total winter wheat seeded area for 2014 was down 3 per cent from a year ago at 41.9 million acres, with seedings of hard red winter wheat up and soft red winter wheat down sharply.
China has raised the ire of US exporters by rejecting many cargoes of US corn. On Friday, USDA raised China's 2013/14 corn crop by 6 million tonnes to 217 million, and knocked 2 million tonnes off projected imports to 5 million.
USDA's battery of reports carried few surprises for soybeans, where the bottom line - projected 2013/14 US ending stocks - was unchanged, but Brazil's crop was raised again.
Quarterly corn stocks are often one of the most market moving data points from USDA, although Friday's figure was not as much of an outlier as some. As of December 1, after the first quarter of the marketing year, the United States had 10.426 billion bushels of corn on hand, below market expectations averaging 10.790 billion but within the range of guesses.
USDA said the figure suggests corn usage in the Sep-Nov quarter of 4.32 billion bushels, up 15.5 per cent on the year, as sharply lower prices drew out export and feed demand.
Market caught 'leaning the wrong way'
In its first crop forecasts in two months, USDA pegged the 2013 US corn crop at 13.925 billion bushels, still a record high but below the average trade guess of 14.066 billion bushels. That confounded the corn market's recent expectation that big crops, generally, only get bigger.
Corn yields of 158.8 bushels per acre were down from 160.4 estimated in November and also lower than the trade forecast.
"The whisper going in here was the USDA could come up with a 163-164 (bushel per acre corn yield). The fact that it went down was particularly surprising to a lot of the traders ... you definitely caught the market leaning the wrong way," said Jim Gerlach of A/C Trading.
Lance Honig, chief of the crops branch for USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service, said crop scouts didn't pick up common themes to explain the small drop in yields.
"It just turned out those yields were just a little bit lower than what they had expected," Honig said.
Soybean production at a record high 3.289 billion bushels, was up 1 per cent from November but close to the average guess of 3.279 billion. Yields were left unchanged from November at 43.3 bushels per acre but harvested acreage was higher.
As debate rages about the fate of the ethanol industry given a possible cut to the Renewable Fuels Standard mandate for 2014, USDA raised its forecast of corn-for-ethanol usage by 50 million bushels, to 5 billion bushels, reflecting continued strong weekly production.


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nothing suits me...and I guess for this reason my boyfriend is loosing interest in me...
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Well, try and be yourself! Everyone has their own unique style, you just have to find it. For fair skin bright colors or prints will work perfectly for you. Are you sure it's the way you dress he's losing interest in? Like when my boyfriend and I went trough a rough patch he told me I wasn't as affectionate as I used to be and just not as lovey towards him. I hadn't even noticed! I just got used to us together and it became a routine. So see if there is anything like that :)
Here are some sites that I like to shop at, floral prints and bright colors are a hit this year :)
*Forever 21
*Macy's (the clearance section in juniors has proven really well here! I don't spend more than 20.00 on a top. Sometimes I'll splurge and get something more on the pricey side if I feel it can be mixed and matched.)
*H&M (They sadly don't have an online store :( so it depends where you live.)
*Old Navy
*Target (Some of their summer dresses are darling!)
Here is the splurge site haha, I RARELY get anything from here. The only time I do is if I need a dress for an important event. link the clothing is expensive by most of the jewelry is pretty well priced!


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The city will kick off the final phase of an Emmons Avenue beautification project in the spring, capping off a 10-year rehabilitation of Sheepshead Bay's waterfront, Assemblyman Steven Cymbrowitz announced at a press conference today.
Cymbrowitz was joined by Parks Department Brooklyn Commissioner Kevin Jeffrey, Community Board 15 Chairperson Theresa Scavo, 46th District Leader Mike Geller, Bay Improvement Group President Steve Barrison and Parks Department's Brooklyn Chief of Staff Martin Maher on Emmons Avenue and Sheepshead Bay Road this afternoon, celebrating the conclusion of a design study that will kick off the construction.
"If you look [at Emmons Avenue west of Ocean Avenue] the area is quite different than the rest of Emmons Avenue. There are several trees, some sidewalk, but that's about it," Cymbrowitz said. With construction expected to begin in the spring of 2013, the western portion of the strip will match the east, an area he says is "a lot more relaxing. It's a terrific area to just sit."
This latest phase of the project, affecting the water side of Emmons Avenue from Ocean Avenue to East 14th Street, will see improvements including:
- repaired sidewalks
- covered trash bins
- new trees, with granite block pavement in enlarged tree pits
- new curb cuts
- fresh paint on the Bay's railing
- blue concrete and matching artistic design elements previously installed near the piers, from Ocean Avenue to East 27th Street
- 1964 World's Fair-style benches
The project will cost $460,000, with all funding provided by a 2008 MultiModal allocation by Cymbrowitz; MultiModal funding may only be used for transportation-related projects.
"Parks benefit from allocations from elected officials, and I have to say it … you've been an absolute stalwart in this concept of developing street-scape which is so important as we fight for better access for our open spaces," Jeffrey told Cymbrowitz. "We hope the action that you've taken here will set the precedent for our other elected to start to take a look at the issue of connectivity between our open spaces."
The project will make the area safer for pedestrians, joggers and senior neighbors, as well as draw more visitors to the neighborhood, Cymbrowitz noted.
"This project not only removes dangerous sidewalk conditions for our seniors, but also makes Emmons Avenue from Ocean Avenue to the end of the Bay more inviting to the public," Cymbrowitz said.
When construction is finished, the Emmons Avenue street-scape will have seen a complete overhaul over the last decade. Repairs began in 2003, when the city installed new antique-style lights along Emmons Avenue and Shore Boulevard. In 2006, the city completed a similar renovation to the current one, from Ocean Avenue to East 27th Street, adding new benches, sidewalk designs, tree pits and more.
Both the 2003 and 2006 projects were funded by Cymbrowitz.
"People forget, before the time of Steve Cymbrowitz, there were vacant lots … people moving out, no business coming in. Look how wonderful this street has become," said Geller. "It is a talking point for all of Brooklyn."
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'It would make my life, my whole thing, round up perfectly for me,' he reveals after admitting that he has approached drummer Bill Ward for the band's reunion.
Ozzy Osbourne has hinted he'll retire after recording one more Black Sabbath album. The rocker has revealed he's in talks with drummer Bill Ward about the possibility of another reunion - and he's hoping to get Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler on board for a get together.
He says, "We're talking and that's a good sign. We're not at war with each other... I was speaking to Bill Ward last night. I've got to speak to the other two." And he has plans to record one final album with his old bandmates.
He tells the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, "I'm trying to get things done right... I would love to do a killer Black Sabbath album. It would make my life, my whole thing, round up perfectly for me."


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In Tijuana, an honest cop struggles to survive in a country where the drug cartels own everybody. Meanwhile in San Diego, a society wife faces ruin when her millionaire husband is arrested as a suspected drug trafficker. And in Ohio, a conservative judge who is being groomed to sort out this complex scenario discovers his own daughter is a drug addict.
Watching Traffic, it's a while before you realise you're watching a movie made in America. We open on a car parked in the desert, suffused with sun-bleached light. Inside, two Spanish men talk in their native tongue about dreams. Then a plane lands overhead and the movement starts in the form of constant running, camera slung loose over a shoulder, which doesn't let up for two and a half hours. Welcome to Steven Soderbergh's 'run and gun' movie.
Not much in Traffic's screenplay is entirely new— painstakingly researched and full of inside detail, certainly, but we have been here before (especially if you caught the original Channel 4 mini-series, Traffik, upon which Stephen Gaghan based his script). What elevates this company — drug dealers, corrupt cops, informants etc. — to a new plane is Soderbergh's storytelling skills. Just as his imaginative framing of a seduction reinvigorated the traditional love scene in 1998's Out Of Sight, Soderbergh works similar wonders with his largest canvas yet: two countries, three distinct storylines, well over 100 speaking parts. But what we are dealing with here is economy: Soderbergh's signature cutting, always to the chase, establishes a breathless rhythm which is more real than real. It's like a documentary with all the boring bits taken out.
Soderbergh describes Traffic as his $49 million Dogme movie, and certainly the hand-held style pushes the post-Blair Witch boundaries of mainstream moviemaking, but with the multiple storylines and delicately poised moral ambiguity, Traffic is closest in feel to a feature-length episode of NYPD Blue — indeed, it's no coincidence that Gaghan won an Emmy for his work on the revolutionary cop show. And the fact that Soderbergh, as his own cameraman and cinematographer, has employed natural light, doesn't make Traffic any less visually da ring. Pre- and post-production processes achieve a distinctive look for all three storylines: steely blues for the Beltway-bound Douglas; burnt yellows for the oppression of Del Tore's Mexico; bright colours and deep shade for the crumbling cocktail society of Zeta-Jones.
As for the cast themselves, newlyweds Douglas and Zeta-Jones are just fine in a uniformly excellent ensemble, Douglas especially finding real pain and pathos in an unshowy role; however, the ace in the pack here is Del Toro's Tijuana lawman, an honest guy caught in an impossible situation. Mumbling mostly in Spanish, Del Toro turns in a performance of such effortless and classic cool that they should spin him off into his own TV show.
If Gaghan's ambitious script is not perfect — there is a little hectoring at times, and some of the allegiance shifts in this treacherous world are not entirely convincing and sometimes hard to follow — Soderbergh's electrifying pace always keeps this huge project firmly on the rails, always moving, always running.
Given a great script and cast, Steven Soderbergh is unsurpassed as a storyteller. In possession of both elements here, Soderbergh as clear as he is brave turns in work of the very highest order


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Syfy Announces New SHARKNADO Video Game and book
Following the successful launch of Sharknado branded merchandise, Syfy and The Asylum today announced two new brand extensions of the global social media and pop culture sensation.
Sharknado 2: The Second One premieres on Syfy Wednesday, July 30 at 9PM (ET/PT).
Syfy and The Asylum have partnered with Three Rivers Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House, Inc., on the trade paperback original HOW TO SURVIVE A SHARKNADO AND OTHER UNNATURAL DISASTERS: Fight Back When Monsters and Mother Nature Attack.
On sale now, HOW TO SURVIVE A SHARKNADO AND OTHER UNNATURAL DISASTERS is the first and only comprehensive guide to surviving the dangers of a post-apocalyptic world where Mother Nature is angry and monsters are hungry. Inside this life-saving reference book, readers will find vital information on everything from firenados and swamp volcanoes to arachnoquakes and piranhacondas.
HOW TO SURVIVE A SHARKNADO AND OTHER UNNATURAL DISASTERS provides easy-to-follow tips on how to study, avoid, and survive the very worst of Mother Nature, including tactics for fighting back against land and sea beasts, instructions on "How to Wield a Chainsaw Like a Boss," and useful recipes for getting through the apocalypse (such as the Four Horsemen cocktail). From humor writer Andrew Shaffer with contributions from Sharknado survivors Fin Shepard and April Wexler-like the S.S.A.T. (Shepard Survival Assessment Test)-HOW TO SURVIVE A SHARKNADO AND OTHER UNNATURAL DISASTERS is the essential book to have in the event of disaster, calamity, or flying shark attack.


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SPEED limits in all or parts of Kendal could be slashed after town councillors agreed to consider a 'Twenty's Plenty' campaign.
A Task Group was set up to look into the idea of working with Cumbria County Council to reduce the speed limit in the town to 20mph.
Coun Giles Archibald said that in other areas, Twenty's Plenty had reduced the number of accidents as well as noise and pollution levels.


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About the Book
Revealing a previously hidden dimension of the Mayan sacred calendar mysteriously resonant with the orbit of planet Uranus, this book presents readers with an opportunity to become conscious participants in a newly emerging planetary mythology aided by an astrologically-determined birthright sourced in the Tzolkin, one of the world's most enigmatic and revered spiritual artifacts.
The book is richly illustrated with artworks created by the author and his wife as fulfillment of their own mythological birthrights.
The book is meant to introduce readers to the much more extensive resources available on the author's Lightning Path website at www.lightningpath.net.
Features & Details
- Category Religion & Spirituality
5×8 in, 13×20 cm
80 Pages
- Publish Date Apr 19, 2012
- Tags harmonic convergence, lunation cycle, Mayan calendar, moon, chakras, spirituality, astrology, mythology, 2012
About the Creator
In the late sixties, as a young undergraduate at the University of Calgary, I viewed the very first images of Earth sent back from space. Uplifted and inspired by the primordial majesty and beauty of what I witnessed in those seminal images, I suddenly conceived of myself as an "Earth person," someone with an identity far more expansive and inclusive than anything offered by my culture of birth. Instinctively, I seized the moment and began a life-long quest that has engendered in me, a fulfilling sense of mystic participation in the dawn of a new era for humanity. As part of my own contribution to the emergence of that era, I have formulated a synthesis of astrology, yoga and mythology that simultaneously fosters individual human sovereignty and collective co-creativity. I call it The Lightning Path and my books are inspired by my ongoing inner and outer explorations of it.
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Holland America's Kids Program
Holland America provides a wide variety of exciting youth- and teen- friendly activities and facilities for guests ages 3 to 17. With supervised fun for younger guests, the entire family can have the cruise vacation of their dreams.
Safe and Managed Supervision
You can feel at ease knowing that your child's on board experience is safe and well-managed. All Club HAL® activities are supervised by permanent, full-time staff, and are designed to be kid friendly and age appropriate. Youth Staff hold degrees in education, childhood development, recreation, leisure studies or related fields.
Programs Available
- Club HAL® - Kids*: Children, ages 3-7, can participate in such activities as story telling, arts and crafts, pizza making, ice-cream sundae parties, pirate treasure hunts or a farewell pizza party. Children in the Kid's age group must be toilet trained. Children in pull-ups or diapers are not allowed in the youth facilities, due to mandates from US Public Health. Exceptions to this rule cannot be made.
- Club HAL® - Tweens*: Tweens, ages 8-12 might have karaoke disco parties, hold Xbox and Wii tournaments, participate in the award-winning National Park Service Jr. Ranger Program on Alaska cruises, compete in on-deck sports events and scavenger hunts, or simply play Ping-Pong with a friend.
- The Loft and The Oasis*: Teens, ages 13-17 will especially enjoy the teen disco, karaoke sessions, video games, and team contests, as well as fitness, dance, and tech classes. When there are more than 100 children on board, a HAL Talent Show is offered. (The Oasis is not available on all Vista-class ships)
Daily Programs
Times vary based on age group, number of children on board and staffing:
Kids and Tweens
- Sea Days: 9:00am – 11:30am, 1:00pm – 4:00pm and 7:00am – 10:00pm
- Port Days: 8:00am – 4:00pm and 7:00pm – 10:00pm
- Sea Days: 10:00am – 12:00pm, 2:00pm – 6:00pm and 8:00am – 12:00am
- Port Days: 8:00am – 8:00pm (non-hosted) and 8:00pm – 12:00am
Club HAL® After Hours is available on all ships (except the ms Prinsendam) from 10:00pm – 12:00am for children 3 years of age or older. To be eligible, children must be pre-registered with parental consent form and be fully toilet trained. The fee is $5 per child, per hour. Parents must pick up their children on time or a late fee is charged. For babysitting outside of the hours offered in Club HAL, guests may check at the Front Office to schedule this service provided by staff on a voluntary basis only.
Kids & Teens Culinary Arts Center Program
HAL Kids Culinary Workshops now offer children a unique and fun learning experience. Kids will learn basic cooking techniques, kitchen safety, new ingredients and how to follow recipe instructions. Aside from the fun involved, cooking encourages kids to think about numbers and measuring, cleanliness, safety, and time management. All the workshops are hands-on where questions are encouraged and having fun is a must!
HAL Kids Culinary Workshops are geared toward two age groups; ages 3-7 and ages 8 and up. Teenagers 15 and up may participate in the adult classes.
- The menus range from simple to teen gourmet
- Class size may be limited.
- Demonstration-style and hands-on classes are offered.
- Each student receives copies of the recipes prepared in class
- All classes are complimentary and last approximately one hour
Holland America Line is dedicated to making your family's cruise vacation memorable and happy for each member of your family. Holland America serves a wide variety of kid-pleasing food, including special sandwiches, tacos, hamburgers, hot dogs and pizza. Baby food, high chairs and booster seats may be requested in advance of boarding. Baby-sitting services for children 3 years of age and older are available for a small surcharge (sea days only). Special kid-friendly birthday parties can also be arranged with advance notice.
Special Needs
HAL Youth Programs recognize that some children may have special needs. Special needs children are invited to attend activities based on their chronological age. HAL Youth Programs have many staff trained to work with special needs children. Guests should make HAL aware of this when booking their reservation.
Important Notes
A limited number of high chairs, booster seats and cribs are available at no charge. These must be reserved in advance at the time of booking. An international children's menu is offered at dinner and includes a variety of appetizers, salads and soups, and standard items such as hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza and chicken, plus chef's specials like beef tacos, grilled cheese, fish and chips or spaghetti.
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Addressing China's growing water shortages and associated social and environmental consequences
China has experienced a wide-scale and rapid transformation from an agricultural based economy to the manufacturing workshop of the world. The associated relocation of the population from relatively low density rural areas to very high density urban areas is having a significant impact on the quantity and quality of water available as inputs into the production and consumption process, as well as the ability of the water system to absorb and neutralize the waste byproducts deposited into it. Water shortages are most severe in the north of the country, where surface water diversion is excessive and groundwater is being depleted. In addition, the quality of water is deteriorating because of pollution, thereby aggravating existing water shortages. The biggest challenge ahead will be for national and local governments to craft policies and rules within China's complex cultural and legal administrative system that provide incentives for users to increase efficiency of water use, and for polluters to clean up the water they use and return clean water to stream flows. Using a standard public economics framework, water requirements for public goods-such as ecosystem needs-should be set aside first, before allocating property rights in water (to enable water markets to functionand generate efficient allocation signals). Even then, water markets will have to be regulated to ensure public goods, such as public health, are not compromised. Until water markets are implemented, staying the course on increasing water and wastewater prices administratively and encouraging water conservation are necessary to reduce the wasting of current scarce water resources, as well as the new water supplies to be provided in the future.
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- World Bank, 2002. "Agenda for Water Sector Strategy for North China : Summary Report," World Bank Other Operational Studies 15418, The World Bank.
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