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Afternoon audio analysis 08.04.2016
A summary of the situation on the market this week.
Marcin Lipka, Cinkciarz.pl analyst
This audio analysis is not a recommendation within the meaning of Regulation of the Minister of Finance of 19 October 2005. It has been prepared for information purposes only and should not serve as a basis for making any investment decisions. Neither the author nor the publisher can be held liable for investment decisions made on the basis of information contained in this commentary. Copying or duplicating this report without the written permission from Cinkciarz.pl Sp. z o.o is prohibited.
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The NekNomination video that will make you think twice
By now almost everyone has either seen, or taken part in the NekNomination craze that has swept social media channels over the past week. The idea being, that if you receive a 'nomination', you have 24 hours to down a drink on camera before nominating 2 more people. This process of nominations means that the video spread like wildfire with people creating videos of themselves drinking underwater, or having a drink right before doing a bungee jump. One of the more extreme versions was of someone mixing their drink with urine before downing it.
One South African has taken it upon himself to show the world just how powerful social media can be if it is used for good. Brent Lindeque, from Johannesburg, South Africa, was recently nominated and decided to not only highlight some of the major issues facing a vast majority of the population of South Africa, but also prove that there was much more that could be done if the power of social media was properly utilized. He decided that for his Neknomination, he would do something good.
In an email to The Imperic, Lindeque said: "My biggest point was that people need to be more responsible with what they share online as it is there forever… whether you like it or not. My words then became actions after I got nominated. I decided to change the game as that would mean that I could be proud of my online contribution as well as hopefully create a new way to do good things. Change one thing… change everything."
This video goes to show, that one small act can be spread very quickly via social media, and at the time of publishing, the video was at 27,000 views. Let's hope that more people can follow on from this.
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LAS VEGAS – While regulators and the retirement industry fight over lifetime income illustrations, the federal government's Thrift Investment Board says its participants' savings rates shot up after it redesigned its account statements to emphasize monthly income projections.
"We just made it very clear and plain," said Greg Long, executive director of the largest defined contribution plan in the world.
The change, most significantly, involved prominently displaying an account holder's projected monthly income in large type so that the "mailmen, senators and everyone in between" who's in the plan can't miss it.
Long, speaking Tuesday at the Health and Benefits Leadership Conference and Expo, said the change helped drive up savings in dramatic fashion.
His remarks came during a presentation on the looming retirement crisis and its implications for employers.
Also helpful, Long said, was a decision by the plan to offer participants the opportunity to commit to a partial annuity, allowing them to leave some of their savings in place.
Both ideas have been slow to win over skeptics in the private sector, with concerns about new government mandates and fiduciary obligations.
The U.S. Department of Labor – acting on the notion that managing finances in order to provide income for life is a tremendously difficult but important task – has been working on regulations that would require the inclusion of lifetime income illustrations on plan account statements. Resistance, however, has been fierce from the retirement industry.
There are almost 660,000 employer-sponsored defined contribution plans covered by the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Of these, about 500,000 are participant-directed, meaning participants are responsible for directing the investment of their own retirement assets.
Under the DOL's contemplated proposal, statements would show the balance of a participant's retirement account, as well as a projected account balance at retirement.
Regulations aside, Catherine Golladay, vice president of participant services at Charles Schwab, told the audience her company has transformed its call-center operations so the conversations its employees have with participants take on a consultative focus.
The idea is to have a deeper dialogue about participants' "whole financial life," she said.
It's not a script, not a transaction, not a phone call, but a relationship, she said.
The results, according to Golladay, have been positive, with average call lengths rising from 4 ½ minutes to 9 ½ minutes and high satisfaction rates. Best of all, she said, the comments from participants reflect a sense that they were dealing with someone who was caring, didn't rush things and made matters easy to understand.
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Melbourne has stumbled backwards into more gloom, blowing several weeks of AFL improvement with a terrible performance against Gold Coast.
The Sun's 10-goal win on Sunday at the MCG, the first time they have won in Victoria, means renewed pressure on Demons coach Mark Neeld.
But new Melbourne interim chief executive Peter Jackson has backed Neeld, saying the coach needs time to prove himself after a tumultuous 18 months off the field for the club.
And Neeld himself remains defiant.
"There's a future there for the footy club, absolutely no question," he said.
"Everyone knows in the 18 months since we've been here, you jot down some of the things that have happened at the footy club, it's been a life experience for all of us.
"We're still here, we're up for it - absolutely up for it."
But Neeld also conceded after the 16.18 (114) to 7.12 (54) loss that his young side became uncompetitive as Gold Coast kicked five goals to none in the first term.
"We'd made some ground over the last three or four weeks in a number of areas of our game," he said.
"We thought we'd made some progress - a couple of steps back today.
"We weren't competitive in the game for long enough.
Before the game, Jackson said a string of off-field problems had made it impossible to judge how well the second-year senior coach was performing.
Since Neeld took over. the Demons' beloved president Jim Stynes has died and the club has been the subject of a drawn out AFL investigation into tanking allegations.
Jackson's predecessor Cameron Schwab lost his job last month and Melbourne were also drawn into the AFL's supplements crisis.
Also on Sunday, Jackson revealed the club was facing a financial hit of more than $1.5 million this year.
"I've been very clear already - I think everybody in the club needs a chance with some 'clean air'," Jackson told 3AW.
"What the club has been through, just in the last 20 months ... I defy anybody to be able to withstand all of that.
"I just want to try and give some people some direction if I can and some space to show what they have.
"That applies as equally to the head coach ... (as) anybody."
Neeld said there is too much of a gap between the best and worst of his young team.
"It's a bit of a rollercoaster, you go up and down," he said.
"But clearly at the moment, the bit on the way down is probably just a bit low."
Also on Sunday, Adelaide thrashed Greater Western Sydney by 135 points.
Tom Lynch kicked 10 goals as the Crows won 29.13 (187) to 7.10 (52).
Geelong, Richmond, West Coast, Hawthorn and Fremantle are the other round-seven winners.
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Yoshi's San Francisco has announced newly-added shows fro March, April and June 2013, featuring Jeff Bradshaw, The Family Stone, DJ Afrika Bambaata, The Tubes feat. Fee Waybill, Dawn Richard, Freddie Jackson, Boca Do Rio, Marcus Johnson, Portland Cello Project Play Beck, Brubeck & Bach, Pharoah Sanders, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks and Catherine Russell. More details below.
For more information on these shows, click the links below or go to yoshis.com/sanfrancisco. Yoshi's San Francisco Live Music & Restaurant is located at 1330 Fillmore Street in San Francisco, Calif. For tickets and more info, call 415.655.5600 or visit yoshis.com/sanfrancisco. For dinner reservations, go to yoshis.com/sanfrancisco/restaurant.
Hidden Beach Recording's soul/jazz trombonist
Tue, Mar 5, 8pm
This Philly born soul/jazz innovator has changed the way people view the trombone. Hidden Beach Recording Artist Jeff Bradshaw has shared the stage and recorded with artists like: Michael Jackson, Earth Wind & Fire, Jay Z, Mary J Blige, Patti LaBelle, Jill Scott, and Tyler Perry, just to name a few. His warm, tantalizing sound and smooth yet gripping performances are what people like most about this Sexy Philly Soul/Jazz Man! He has just released his sophomore CD Bone Appetit (Hidden Beach/2012), which features Raheem Devaughn, Maysa, Kindred The Family Soul, Marsha Ambrosious, Natalie The Floecist Stewart, Coko (of SWV), and PJ Morton. Bone Appetit made its debut three times in the Top 20 and twice in the Top 10 on the BILLBOARD CONTEMPORARY JAZZ CHARTS, and also earned a NAACP IMAGE AWARD NOMINATION FOR "BEST JAZZ ALBUM." This Trombonist/Vocalist/Producer/Writer is on his way to making history with The Trombone. World take notice, and prepare for a Soulful Jazzy Entree known as Bone Appetit. Read more here.THE FAMILY STONE
Wed, Mar 6, 8pm
$26 adv, $30 door
Original founding members, Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees, and R&B Pioneer Award Winners -- Jerry Martini, Cynthia Robinson and Greg Errico -- the first inter-racial / inter-gender band in Rock & Roll history bring you the hits of Sly & The Family Stone. Featuring the powerful voices of Alex Davisand Trina Johnson, they bring you the message of peace, love, and social consciousness through musical harmony, with some of the funkiest players of all time. Players like Nate Wingfield on the guitar and Musical Director Blaise Sison on bass add the proper pocket to the raw Family Stone sound. The Family Stone continues giving you the musical experience that has brought them in front of over half a million people through Europe and the US, spreading the roots of funk that is The Family Stone. Read more here.DJ AFRIKA BAMBAATA
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Fri, Mar 8, 10:30pm in the club
$24 adv, $28 door
Afrika Bambaataa was an important rap-music pioneer who became a forgotten elder statesman as rap evolved. Bambaataa, who took his name (which means "affectionate leader") from a movie about Zulu warriors, quit the notorious Black Spades street gang in the mid-1970s and formed Zulu Nation, a music-oriented "youth organization." Among the members who became minor rap luminaries were DJs Red Alert, Jazzy Jay, and Whiz Kid, as well as Afrika Islam, who went on to work with Ice-T. Read more here.THE TUBES feat. Fee Waybill
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Thu, Mar 14, 8pm
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From humble beginnings in Phoenix, Arizona, to the streets of San Francisco, THE TUBES were catapulted into Rock and Roll's limelight in the mid 1970s and made there most memorable mark on Rock history throughout the '70s and '80s with such classic rock staples as "White Punks On Dope," "What Do You Want From Life," "Mondo Bondage," "Don't Touch Me There," "Sushi Girl," "Talk To Ya Later" and their Number 1 Billboard hit "She's A Beauty." No matter how memorable THE TUBES' recordings were, the lifeline of the band has always been their live performance. From the exuberant and imaginative to the outrageous, THE TUBES continue to perform for hordes of fans throughout the world. The current line up of THE TUBES (still retaining four original members) consists of the enigmatic and unforgettable vocalist Fee Waybill, the elusive guitarist Roger Steen, the solid bass playing of Rick Anderson, the legendary Prairie Prince on drums, and keyboardist extraordinaire David Medd. THE TUBES didn't invent the idea of Rock & Roll as theater, but they have certainly thrived on the concept. Few bands have had a more entertaining and over-the-top live show than THE TUBES. Read more here.
Lead singer of Danity Kane tours solo album Goldenheart
Wed, Mar 20, 8pm
$20 adv, $24 door
Singer/Songwriter Dawn Richard is a founding member of the Bad Boy Records multi-platinum selling group Danity Kane. Born and raised in New Orleans, Richard grew up with music constantly surrounding her. Her father, a musician and choir director was one of the members of RCA Records' R&B group,Chocolate Milk. Attending the University of New Orleans on a full scholarship, Richard's first claim to fame was as a opening act for Anthony Hamilton. Five years later, the songstress auditioned for Making The Band, Season 3. After making the group, Richard wrote several records for Danity Kane's second platinum album Welcome to the Dollhouse and eventually wrote for other Bad Boy recording acts including Day26 and Diddy himself. In 2010, Richard joined Diddy to form the critically acclaimed group, Dirty Money. Richard wrote on five records for the Last Train To Paris album that has sold over 500,000 copies since its 2011 debut. On March 27, 2012, Richard released her Armor On EP which debuted at the #1 spot on iTunes R&B/Soul Charts. The EP landed on the Billboard charts at the #4 spot on the Heatseeker Charts, #15 on the Independent Charts and #28 on the R&B/Hip-Hop Charts.
Coming off the heels of her critically acclaimed #1 EP, Armor On, singer/songwriter, Dawn Richard released her debut LP, Goldenheart. The 16-track LP marks the solo debut from the New Age R&B singer, introducing fans and newcomers alike to the first of a three-part series of love, loss and redemption. The album was released worldwide on January 15, 2013, with the help of Altavoz Distribution. The album features production from longtime collaborator and GRAMMY-nominated producer Andrew "Druski" Scott (Trinitee 5:7, Michelle Williams, Letoya Luckett), The Fisticuffs (Miguel, Jhene Aiko) and Deonte(Will.I.Am, Chris Brown, Lloyd). Read more here.
GRAMMY Nominated, American Music Award winning vocalist
Thu-Fri, Mar 21-22, 8 & 10pm $25-$42
Thu 8pm $35, 10pm $25
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For You (Entertainment One Music/2010) embodies all of the qualities that have made Freddie Jackson one of contemporary R&B's most beloved icons. In a recording career that spans more than a quarter-century, the New York-bred vocalist has set a much-emulated standard for sophisticated, romantic balladry, spotlighting a smoothly expressive voice that's one of the most recognizable in popular music. Although he's already produced a large and influential body of music, For You makes it clear that Jackson is currently creating some of his most compelling music to date. The new album maintains the artist's established style, while simultaneously expanding into exciting new musical territory. On such heart-touching new tunes as "I Don't Wanna Go," "Slow Dance," "Incognito" and "A Dozen Roses," Jackson's singular voice combines with heartfelt lyrics and distinctive grooves to make music that carries the timeless appeal of his best work. Read more here.BOCA DO RIO
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Tue, Mar 26, 8pm
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Boca do Rio is música orgânica. Live music inspired by the thousands of musicians and the music lovers that have gone before us and laid the rhythmic foundations of samba, baião, samba-reggae, the dances for the orishas, and all that gives homage to the beats. It is the African diaspora alive through rhythms and pulses - it is the commonality that binds humans to the air we breathe, the food from which we nourish, the water we imbibe, and the love through which we flourish. Boca do Rio exists to share and celebrate music and everything that it brings to our lives through the cross-pollination of the Americas. It's the water that flows from mountains to oceans, from inside to out. It's the earth beneath our feet, the soil beneath the concrete, the minerals from the stars that grace each of our cells. The San Francisco band Boca do Rio takes its name from the Portuguese "mouth of the river" - the place where myriad streams and sources converge into one powerful, flowing, physical energy. Read more here.
Renowned jazz keyboardist, composer and producer
6pm $16, 8pm $24
Marcus Johnson is a renowned jazz pianist, who incorporates the rhythms of soul, rock, hip hop, and R&B. With the commercial and Billboard chart success of his NAACP Image Award nominated CD Poetically Justified (Three Keys Music/2009) (#4) in his rearview and having been included among the ranks of contemporary jazz greats such as Wynton Marsalis, Christian McBride, and Vanessa Williams for that nomination, Marcus Johnson released his 12th CD titled, This Is How I Rock (Three Keys Music/2010). This album boldly signifies an evolution: Johnson's deliberate crossing into the pop/rock genre with a jazz spin, inspired by some of pop music's most celebrated songs, songs that remained a significant influence in the life of the award-winning keyboardist, composer and producer and motivated his desire to pay tribute to some of the greatest pop hits. Prior to the release of his current offering, Marcus Johnson released Poetically Justified making it his 11th solo jazz record and is considered to be his most unique and multifaceted album to date. In 2008, Johnson introduced the jazz world to the groundbreaking Billboard Top 15 Contemporary Jazz FLO series - FLO: Chill (#7), FLO: Romance (#7) and FLO: Standards (#2). Read more here.
Selections from the Beck Hansen Song Reader featuring Laura Gibson.
"This indie orchestra gives classical music a jolt of energy," ~Spin Magazine
$21 adv, $25 door
Since the group's inception in late 2007, the Portland Cello Project (or, PCP, as their fans affectionately call them), has wowed audiences all over the country with extravagant performances, everywhere from Prairie Home Companion, to that punk rock club in the part of town your grandma warns you not to go to after dark. The group has built a reputation mixing genres and blurring musical lines and perceptions wherever they go. No two shows are alike, with a repertoire now numbering over 800 pieces of music you wouldn't normally hear coming out of a cello. The Cello Project's stage setup ranges from the very simple (4-6 cellos), to the all out epic (which has included 12 cellos playing with full choirs, winds, horns, and numerous percussion players). Read more here.
Legendary tenor jazz saxophonist & 1960s Coltrane collaborator
Thu-Sat, Apr 4-6, 8 & 10pm $21-$32
Thu 8pm $25, 10pm $21
Fri-Sat 8pm $32, 10pm $25
Pharoah Sanders possesses one of the most distinctive tenor saxophone sounds in jazz. Harmonically rich and heavy with overtones, Sanders' sound can be as raw and abrasive as it is possible for a saxophonist to produce, and although he made his name with expressionistic, nearly anarchic free jazz inJohn Coltrane's late ensembles of the mid-'60s, Sanders' later music is guided by more graceful concerns. Pharoah Sanders (his given name, Ferrell Sanders) formed his first group in 1963, with pianist John Hicks (with whom he would continue to play off-and-on into the '90s), bassist Wilbur Ware, and drummer Billy Higgins. His first record as a leader was in 1964 for the ESP label. The group played an engagement at New York's Village Gate, where John Coltrane heard him and by 1965, Sanders was playing regularly with the Coltrane group. Strength was a necessity in that band, and as Coltrane realized, Sanders had it in abundance. Read more here.
Renowned double-bassist/composer, known for his customized five-string bass and virtually reinventing the way the instrument is played
Tue, Apr 30, 8pm
"Double bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons was destined to create music that spans genres and borders: He was born in France to a family with roots in the Catalonia region of Spain, and he's fluent in French, Spanish and English. Classical, jazz and flamenco represent equal parts of his musical DNA, and his technique reflects the delicate arco stylings of concert halls, the deep groove of jazz and the raw vitality of flamenco." ~NPR Read more here.
DAN HICKS and The Hot Licks
"Dan Hicks is fly, sly, wily and dry!" ~Tom Waits
Sun, Jun 2, 6 & 8pm
6pm $18, 8pm $25
Beginning as a drummer in the seminal '60s San Francisco rock band The Charlatans and continuing with the unique and legendary Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Dan Hicks is widely acknowledged as one of the central defining figures in American roots music. Hicks has earned a reputation as a true original with his signature eclecticism and humor. He continues to carve his own way through a number of genres from proto-psychedelia to western swing and jazz; from Tin Pan Alley to country blues, while always cultivating his own unique sound. The original Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks recorded five groundbreaking and Billboard-charting records for the Columbia, Blue Thumb and Warner Bros. labels. They toured worldwide and Dan appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine three times.
Sun, Jun 23, Doors 8pm; Show 8:30pm
$18 adv, $22 door
GRAMMY Award-winning vocalist Catherine Russell is a native New Yorker, and a graduate of American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Ms. Russell has toured the world, performing and recording with David Bowie, Cyndi Lauper, Paul Simon, Steely Dan, Jackson Browne, Michael Feinstein, and Rosanne Cash. Since the 2006 release of her debut album, Cat, on Harmonia Mundi's World Village label, Catherine has been making new fans and friends. Three acclaimed and chart topping albums have followed, including her latest release - Strictly Romancin', awarded Prix du Jazz Vocal 2012 (Vocal Album of The Year) by the Jazz Academy in France. Catherine has been a guest on The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS-TV and Fresh Air with Terry Gross on NPR. Will Friedwald writing in The Wall Street Journal, calls Catherine Russell "one of the outstanding singers of our time." Read more here.


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Before cyclone hit, Burmese delta was stripped of defenses
Michael Casey The Associated Press via IHT
When Cyclone Nargis struck Myanmar, it pushed a wall of water through the Irrawaddy Delta, a low-lying, densely populated area that had been stripped of its protective trees.
The delta had lost most of its mangrove forests along the coast to shrimp farms and rice paddies over the past decade. That removed what scientists say is one of nature's best defenses against violent storms.
… Jeff NcNeely, chief scientist for the International Union for Conservation of Nature, said the cyclone's devastation was "an expensive lesson, but it has been one taught repeatedly."
"If you look at the path of the one that hit Myanmar, it hit exactly where it was going to do the most damage, and it's doing the most damage because much of the protective vegetation was cleared," he said. "You just wonder why governments don't get on this.
(9 May 2008)
Related from Wall Street Journal: Forest Clearing May Have Worsened Toll.
UN Says 1.5 Million People "Severely Affected" By Myanmar Cyclone
Louis Charbonneau, Reuters via PlanetArk
The United Nations estimated 1.5 million people have been "severely affected" by the cyclone that swept through Myanmar, with the United States expressing outrage on Thursday at delays in allowing in aid.
In Myanmar, desperate survivors cried out for food, water and other supplies nearly a week after 100,000 people were feared killed by Cyclone Nargis as it swept across the farms and villages of the low-lying Irrawaddy delta region.
(9 May 2008)
Germany Warns Of Economic Risks From Species Loss
Nations must act to slow extinction rates, German Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Thursday, arguing the loss of species threatened food supplies for billions of people.
Just 10 days before the start of a UN summit on biodiversity in the western city of Bonn, Gabriel told the German parliament that both industrialised and developing countries had to step up their efforts.
"When we talk about biodiversity, we are talking about an instruction manual for the planet," Gabriel said. "There are a huge number of examples to show this is about the survival of billions of people."
Gabriel, due to open the Bonn summit, pointed to marine life as an example.
"If we don't do anything, there won't be any more commercial fishing by 2050. Imagine what that means for the world's food supplies," Gabriel said, noting several billion people rely on protein from fish to survive.
UN experts say human activity, including the emission of greenhouse gases, threatens to cause the worst spate of extinctions on earth since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Some experts say three species disappear every hour.
(9 May 2008)
For the Love of Trees (audio, video)
Peak Moment via Global Public Media
Though born and raised elsewhere, Jerry Becker is now a de facto indigenous member of Oregon's Elk River watershed. The credo he lives by is Respect.
He and his family have lived lightly "long before it was cool." An ecoforester, Jerry manages the woods sensitively with an eye to its wholeness. For the past thirty years he has worked with Friends of Elk River to protect wilderness regions in the watershed.
In the last decade he formed the Elk River Land Trust, working with private landowners to protect agricultural and forest lands from development. Ripples of his gentle respectfulness permeate an entire watershed. (www.foer.org, www.erlt.org.) Episode 105.
(13 April 2008)
Conservationists make most of real estate crisis
Haya El Nasser, USA Today
Plummeting real estate values and demand for new housing are hammering developers but helping conservationists, enabling land trusts to buy thousands of acres that were slated for development and preserve them as open space.
Land prices are dropping and there is more land for sale when developers halt plans to build.
"You can call it a green lining in the cloud of real estate distress across the country," says Will Rogers, president of the Trust for Public Land. "Some properties that were headed for development can now be purchased for conservation."
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We have been seeing a bit of news this week regarding Android 3.2 Honeycomb for the Motorola Xoom as well as hints of new features. Tuesday 3.2 Honeycomb started rolling out to Xoom Wi-Fi owners but all the Verizon 3G Xoom owners are sitting around waiting for news.
At least we got an update but sadly today Motorola tweeted that the Motorola Xoom on Verizon 3G will get the 3.2 update in the "coming weeks". Not the best news considering most thought they'd come at the same time, but its better than nothing right. For now we will just have to wait, and those with a Wi-Fi Xoom can download the update right here.
We will keep you posted on Xoom update news as it should be coming soon hopefully. The Asus Transformer has the same fate and they should see the 3.2 Honeycomb update soon as well. While we are mentioning the Transformer don't forget we have a Tabletpalooza Giveaway going on and you could win your very own Asus Transformer.
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Flossing your teeth while driving.
Trapping, killing, skinning, gutting, and cooking rats that root around your garbage bins, making any man lose an erection in 10 seconds.
Burping both your ABCs and your first introduction to his parents.
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But Texas-style gigantism doesn't end there. A modest house in the Riyadh scheme of things—"where normal people live," as an Urban Development official put it—measures 5,000 square feet (460 square meters), roughly five times the size of a middle-class home in Western Europe and palatial even by Texas standards. Far larger residences are by no means unusual. "I'd like to show you my new house," a mid-level government bureaucrat told me one day in Riyadh. "The construction is almost finished." When we arrived, I mistook it for an apartment complex; it covered more than 25,000 square feet (2,300 square meters), spread across half a dozen buildings lined from ceiling to floor in imported rose marble.
The Saudis claim that they need the space—in part because up to four generations customarily inhabit the same home, and because of the sky-high fertility rate. The kingdom's estimated population has ballooned from 6.2 million in 1970 to 24 million in 2003, one of the steepest increases on Earth. The average Saudi woman bears more than six children.
They are born to a society forged in the austere universe of the desert, governed by a single family and grown overnight into a network of awkward 21st-century cities. It's a society that can seem mute from a distance—across the gulf of ignorance and caricature that envelops Western views of the kingdom—or at best speaks only in the official voice of an autocratic state.
Closer up, I found, Saudi Arabia is a babel of contentious opinion, even in its most remote desert encampments.
The wilderness reserve of Uruq Bani Maarid lies 320 miles (510 kilometers) south of Riyadh, in the shelter of towering dunes that mark the western perimeter of the Rub al Khali, the Empty Quarter, the enormous desert the Bedouin know simply as the Sands. But it's not empty for the Yam tribesmen who live there. Since time immemorial they have crossed the Sands' 225,000-square-mile (583,000-square-kilometer) desert in search of water and forage for their camels and sheep.
Zafer al-Fahd was raised in one of the black Yam tents that was pitched near a ranger post the week I traveled to the Empty Quarter. At 27 he had never experienced the contradictions of Ramadan in urban Saudi Arabia and said that he had no desire to. "The Sands are enough for any man," he told me.
It was just past dawn. As Zafer built a fire in the entrance to the tent to stave off the morning chill and make breakfast, teenage boys hammered out a drum rhythm in brass mortars, grinding down coffee beans.
"My heart is at rest in the Sands," he continued. "I know how to read the desert winds when I graze my animals. I know how to find my way through the dunes at night by keeping al-Jedi before me: That one, the 'goat star,'" he said, pointing into the northern sky.
There are no reliable statistics on how many Bedouin are fully nomadic today. (Saudis acknowledge that their country's mirage-like census is a demographer's Empty Quarter.) A half-century ago, the best guess was that 30 percent of the population, about two million people, lived the desert wanderer's life. In the estimate of Saudi ethnologist Ali al-Ambar, the figure has dropped to roughly 600,000.
A far greater number have become what al-Ambar refers to as "semi-nomads" herding their flocks on the outer economic orbit of mushrooming cities, or "urbanized" Bedouin who work city jobs but retain ancestral tribal customs. Taken together, these three communities still make up more than half Saudi Arabia's total population and a large share of its self-image. Despite the kingdom's precipitous urbanization, the free-ranging spirit of Bedouin culture remains at the core of traditional Saudi identity.
Slowly, other men drifted into the tent where I sat with Zafer. They gathered in halaqah, small conversational groups, relaxing on pillows around the tent's margins. The talk was of hunting and camel-raising, and, when I brought the subject up, the essential values of the Bedouin.
"What matters most to us are your ancestors, who they were," one man said. "Without a tribe, a person is suspect."
The elder seated next to him took immediate issue. "No, I don't agree. The important thing is what you yourself do in this world, not who your grandparents were. It is you who must choose between good and evil."
I heard echoes of that conversation everywhere I went in the kingdom, traveling through 11 of its 13 provinces over a four-month period from Ramadan to the hajj. The echoes spoke of a peculiarly Saudi version of democracy with its roots in the desert, an incessant and open-ended debate that resounds throughout the larger society.
"The first thing any Saudi does when he builds a new home, even in a big city," al-Ambar had said to me, "is to put a tent in the garden, or a figurative version of it in the house."
Those figurative tents were of a piece architecturally: large rooms lined with chairs and sofas; the institution they serve is the majlis, a social gathering for the purpose of conversation and counsel. A majlis may also amount to an official audience, especially if its host is powerful.
His Royal Highness Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz al-Saud, Crown Prince, Regent, First Deputy Prime Minister and Commander of Saudi Arabia's National Guard, is distinctly powerful. He is effectively the acting monarch, in place of his ailing half brother King Fahd, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 1995. One morning I attended his weekly majlis with Majed al-Jarralah, 30, and Riyadh bin Salmah, 25, Saudi friends who were my companions on the journey across their kingdom.
With al Qaeda thought to be preparing new attacks, security was heavy at the entrance to the crown prince's wing at National Guard headquarters. Yet inside, notwithstanding the splendor of a majlis hall that measured well over a thousand square feet (90 square meters) and was furnished in the style of a Louis XIV salon, the casual pattern borrowed from the desert was unmistakable.
We watched an elderly man, with the leathery weathered skin of a desert herdsman, as he approached Abdullah. They shook hands, and the herdsman sat down next to his nation's ruler to discuss a problem man-to-man, patting the crown prince on the arm from time to time to emphasize key points.
"He may be asking permission to graze his sheep on royal land," one bystander whispered in my ear as we discreetly tried to eavesdrop. "Some people just drop in to say hello," Riyadh added. "Or even to ask his opinion on their marriage problems."


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Officials of the Holbrook Unified School District are continuing their efforts to ensure the safety of stu-dents while they are in their care.
Superintendent Dr. Robbie Koerperich advised the governing board Tuesday evening of staff efforts in this are.
"Park and Hulet Schools have recently had a doorbell installed for better security. Visitors must ring a bell to obtain entrance into the school. The bell acquires the attention of office personnel, who determine if the visitor should be allowed in or not," said Koerperich.
"Our concern is how to secure the students, yet keep the school accessible for parents with as minimal adjustment as possible. The doorbell for the two schools is a great start," the superintendent continued.
"There is also required participation for students, faculty and staff in each of our safety drills. This in-cludes monthly fire drills, lockdowns, hit-the-deck, and shelter-in-place drills," said Koerperich. "In each school safety committee meeting is discussed staging plans for emergency situations for both onsite and off-site staging, what if situations, and to go over a list of what to do and where to release kids.
"The district has a flow chart in place of what to do for each level of concern, and each school has a stag-ing chart in place so each person at that school knows what to do. These are emergency plans and procedures that are already in place.
"We have discussed with public safety officials what to do when there is an active shooter on a school campus, and have also completed a walk-through and walk-around each of the school sites with Police Chief Mark Jackson," said Koerperich, who also noted that evaluating what was discussed with the chief in order to incorporate his input is another step in making the schools more secure.
During the call to the public, Bennett Chatter expressed his concern about security for Indian Wells Ele-mentary School, and encouraged the school board and all responsible for such action to consider a new school safety plan for that location.
Koerperich said there will continue to be changes to the schools' safety plans, because the state is working on safety policy now.
The board approved the emergency plan as is from last year.
In other action Feb. 12, the board:
* Approved a district calendar change for a day off from April 22 to May 10 for all in-town schools and to May 13 for IWES due to a conflict with Arizona Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) testing week.
* Approved district calendar changes for the 2013-14 school year, moving the district professional devel-opment day to Aug. 30 to coincide with county professional development day, moving parent/teacher confer-ences to Oct. 10, moving fall break to Oct. 14-18 and moving a snow day from Feb. 18 to Feb.14.
* Approved the Holbrook High School Swing Thing's use of four Suburbans and insurance coverage to travel to Disneyland in Los Angeles, Calif., during spring break, March 25-29. The group qualified to per-form there and will fund the cost of the trip.
* Approved Northland Pioneer College courses for credit toward graduation at HHS. Students must have an agreement with HHS in order for NPC classes to count. A three-credit NPC class equates to a half-credit of the 22 credits needed for graduation.
* Approved the same usage fees and usage policy schedule in the yearly review of community use of school facilities.
* Approved the same emergency or EBC policy for the district as last year's as part of the yearly review.
* Approved the annual review of retirement policies. This includes the district's return to work program and the administrative procedure for post retirement employment option (PREO) that deal with early retire-ment benefits for certified and support staff members.
* Approved the retirement of Garry McDowell, effective Feb. 14, and his return to work as the district's business manager through Educational Services Incorporated, effective Feb. 15.
* Approved the Navajo Preschool, Title I Math Supplemental, and Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) programs already approved through the Arizona Department of Education.
* Approved out of state travel for Special Education Director Connie Gover to attend the 68th annual Na-tional Association for Supervision Curriculum Development Conference scheduled March 15-18 in Chicago, Ill. Conference fees, airfare, meals and other expenses will be paid through the Northern Arizona University Native American Principal Intern Program. Gover also requested two days of professional leave to attend this conference.
* Approved a Safe and Supportive Schools Grant assistant for the remainder of the 2012-13 school year and for the 2013-14 school year. The assistant will help Safe Schools facilitator Donna Campbell fulfill cleri-cal and informational responsibilities, freeing her to perform more counseling duties and to better assist at-risk students.
* Approved placing the Safe and Supportive Grant assistant position at Grade 3 on the support staff hourly pay rate placement schedule.
* Approved support staff hiring of Zane Morris as a bus driver; Annie Bahe, bus driver; Patricia Moore, Hulet daycare substitute; Scott Baker, Holbrook Junior High School game official; Erick Yellowhair, IWES special needs aide; Claude Bakurza, HHS head softball coach; Scott Baker, HHS assistant baseball coach; Alex Baker, HHS assistant baseball coach; Kendall Bakurza, HHS assistant baseball coach; Brandon O'Dell, HHS track assistant; and Maxine Tsosie, IWES cafeteria.
* Approved support staff resignations of Marcellino Montoya as substitute custodian; Louise Taylor, sub-stitute bus driver; and Garry McDowell, business manager.
* Approved the certified employment hiring of Yvonne Allan, Leida Hatch and Ted Pate as substitute teachers.
* Approved the resignation of Cary Simpson as the HHS head girls soccer coach.
* Approved the retirement of John Wehrman as an HHS math teacher.
* Approved extra duty for Brady Pond as HHS game help; Dee Dunaway, Park mentor; Deb Koerperich, Park mentor; Lance Phaturos, HHS professional development presenter; Charles Haussman, HHS profes-sional development presenter; Debbie Font, HJHS tutoring; Will Voelkerding, HJHS tutoring and mentor; Tim Gurcyzski, HJHS tutoring and mentor; Beth Plumb, HJHS tutoring; Ryan Rivera, HJHS tutoring and mentor; LouAnn McLaws, HJHS tutoring; Joy Burroughs, HJHS tutoring; Brian McMahon, HJHS tutoring; Virginia White, HJHS tutoring; and Doug Radzanowski, HJHS tutoring, mentor and HHS game help.
Cathy Luke, HJHS tutoring; Greg Ethridge, HJHS mentor; John McDaniel, HJHS mentor; Kathi Bloomfield, HJHS mentor; Luis Alvarez, IWES mentor; Sandy Carlisle, Hulet mentor; Marlena Day, IWES mentor; Ann Gardner, District Year 3 mentor; Faith Caffey, HHS mentor; Delmar Johnson, HHS assistant softball coach; Don Tyler, HHS assistant softball coach; Lelia Demuth, HHS track assistant; Dave Wright, HHS track assistant; Jody Good, HHS head track coach; and Ginny Novell, HHS website facilitator.
* Approved volunteers Kymberly Hull as an accompanist; Jose Lerma, HHS spirit line; Sandra Oberriter, HHS spirit line; and Jennifer Edwards, chaperone.
* Approved gifts and donations to the Autism Speaks Foundation silent auction from Connie Gover, a dream catcher and earrings; Nichole Lozano, bows, bracelets, and necklace with bracelet; Tate's Auto Center, four oil changes; Navajo County Fair Board, a family fair pass; El Rancho, a $25 gift certificate; Esmeralda Aguilera and Lucia Garcia, two eyebrow waxes; Veronica Morales, a $30 gift certificate; Hensley's Mini Mart, a $20 gift certificate; Redgie Justman, a $20 shellac gel polish; Teri Tafoya, a scarf and a family movie night basket; and Leo Maestas, earrings.
* Approved a $300 donation to Hulet School from Chalcedony Lodge No. 6, F&AM.
* Approved professional leave for: Charles Haussman to attend a Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology (NAVIT) directors meeting held Jan. 9 in Taylor at a cost of the use of a district vehicle; Daniel Orton and Jody Good, Coordinated School Health Conference held Jan. 31 and Feb. 1 in Tucson, $608 plus use of a district vehicle; Brady Pond and Alex Baker, Arizona Baseball Coaches Clinic held Jan. 18 and 19 in Phoenix, $282.49 plus use of a district vehicle; and Cindy Percy, Mental Health First Aid held Jan. 19 and 26 in Phoenix, use of a district vehicle.
Stacy Nowell, Austism Spectrum Disorders Level II held Feb. 7 in Phoenix, $179 plus a district vehicle; Garry McDowell, Arizona Association of School Business Officials Vendor/Buyer/Compliance Conference held on Jan. 29 and 30 in Mesa, $562 plus use of a district vehicle; Sarah Meeks and Kyle Gardner, Arizona Music Educators Association Conference held Jan. 31-Feb. 2 in Mesa, $772 plus use of a district vehicle; and Erin Cuniffe, The Most Powerful Solution to Eliminating Disruptive Behavior in Phoenix on Feb. 22, $252 plus use of a district vehicle.
Karalyn Reidhead, Amanda Remos, Jennifer Ceccarelli, Jujlia Fairbanks and Melody Myers, Early Child-hood Autism Project held Jan. 23-25 in Phoenix, $2,500 plus use of a district vehicle; Del Novell, golf coaches meeting held Jan. 24 in Prescott, use of a district vehicle; Cary Simpson, Avoiding Pre-Determination Trap of SPED held Jan. 25 in Phoenix, $170 plus use of a district vehicle; and Connie Gover, Karalyn Reidhead, Carey Kester, Stephanie Bridegam and Karen Estridge, Assistive Technology Training on Feb. 13 and 14 in Phoenix, $1,281.72 plus a district vehicle.
Donna Campbell, Lance Phaturos, Dan Nielson, Paul Demuth, Cindy Percy, Cheryl Carlson, JoAnn DeWitt, Dan Mitchell and Justin Madden, Safe and Supportive Schools Training on March 6 in Flagstaff, use of district vehicles; Cindy Percy, Counselor Luncheon held Feb. 8 in Tempe, use of a district vehicle; Robbie Koerperich, Arizona Section 504 Conference on Feb. 21 in Flagstaff, $195 plus use of a school vehicle; and Charles Haussman, Prescott, NAVIT/Arizona Department of Education Career and Technical Education local directors meeting held Feb. 6 in Prescott, $309 plus use of a district vehicle.
Garry McDowell, Trust Risk held Feb. 6 and 7 in Glendale, $190 plus use of a district vehicle; Charles Haussman, NAVIT local directors meeting held Feb. 6 and 7 in Prescott, $312.75 plus use of a district vehi-cle; Jeri McKinnon and Connie McPherson, Hiring the Best held Feb. 12 in Gilbert, $724 plus use of a district vehicle; Charles Haussman, Dale Larson, Adrian Tubbs and Jim Mendell, Safety Training for the Class-room held Feb. 9 in Peoria, $696 plus use of a district vehicle; Sunny Obren, Certification for New Meal Pat-tern on Feb. 22 in Tucson, $235.83 plus use of a district vehicle; and Ann Gardner, New Emergency Response Plan Guidance on Feb. 28 in Flagstaff, $11 and use of a district vehicle.
* Approved expense and revolving fund vouchers totaling $556,298.50, and payroll and expense vouchers totaling $1,124,621.51.
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DESPITE recently starring in a McDonald's advert, Tamara Ecclestone clearly doesn't eat any junk food.
Tamara Ecclestone clearly isn't a fast food fan
The stinking rich socialite, 27, hit London town in a skin-tight mini dress, which would show off even the tiniest of food sins.
She stole the show at the Imitate Modern gallery for a private view of snapper Tyler Shields's Beyond The Gate show.
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Enterprise mesh's benefit is clear: pervasive connectivity throughout the organization. Unbound by the constraints of copper or fiber, wireless mesh enables enterprises to deliver ubiquitous access and services to parts of their facilities that previously were untouchable by their wired architectures, while managing it as a subset of their overall wireless architecture.
As technologies such as voice over wireless LAN and better handheld devices make their way into enterprises, pervasive wireless coverage, including previously ignored areas such as stairwells and break rooms, will become more business-critical.
Wireless mesh systems also let a network team quickly react to changing business demands with reusable resources. For example, meshed access points can be quickly deployed to provide network access in temporary office space or during special events such as trade shows, and just as easily pulled back when the extra capacity is no longer needed.
So why isn't every corporate net meshed up? Roadblocks remain. First, some WLAN vendors treat enterprise mesh as a premium feature, requiring additional licensing and fees. Second, many vendors limit mesh to specific access point models within their lineups. Typical mesh deployments require a dual-radio access point, with one radio serving clients and the other acting as a wireless backhaul. This is a particularly critical detail in 802.11n deployments, where new wireless devices might be forced onto the same radio frequency as older 802.11b/g clients.
Some vendors, notably Motorola and startup Aerohive Networks, offer a dynamic approach focused on wireless network resiliency and connectivity options. Access points from these vendors automatically provision a mesh network in the event of wired switch failure, delivering data through another access point to maintain the connection, without requiring administrator intervention. Aerohive and Motorola access points have this adaptive capability built in--thus making it a standard feature. Both companies are betting that a no-cost wireless mesh option will give them a competitive advantage, as well as drive greater adoption of the technology.
Wireless mesh systems are no longer the sole domain of wireless ISPs and municipal Wi-Fi projects, but are now in reach of the enterprise. Mesh will extend enterprise wireless LANs to areas previously unreachable and can build resiliency and failover into the corporate wireless network.
Almost all the wireless vendors, including Aruba, Cisco, Meru, and Motorola, have built some level of enterprise mesh into their WLAN offerings, as have startups such as Aerohive. Enterprise mesh is well on its way to being a standard option available on enterprise WLAN solutions--for a price.
Enterprise mesh is an excellent addition for any wireless engineer's toolbox. By extending the WLAN beyond the reach of Ethernet cabling, as well as building resiliency and flexibility into 802.11 solutions, mesh opens the door to truly pervasive wireless coverage in the enterprise and offers the flexibility to adapt to changing business environments.


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Spotlight: John Stamatis
Published August 16, 2010
After six years as a property executive and nine years as a brand executive at Pepsi, John Stamatis recently decided to transition into the consulting business by joining Team Epic. The newly created agency, which resulted from Velocity Sports & Entertainment's union with Vivid Marketing, specializes in strategy and campaign development, experiential marketing, digital marketing, and measurement/analytics. As the agency's first executive hire, Stamatis is charged with helping find new clients and develop strategies that meet their business objectives. He recently spoke with staff writer Tripp Mickle.
Age: 44
New title: Vice president, director of account services, Team Epic
Previous job: Vice president, marketing and partnerships, Alliance of Action Sports
First job in sports: Internship at Western Kentucky University athletic department
College education: B.A. in English, Columbia University, 1988; M.S. in sports management, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993
Resides: Ridgefield, Conn.
Grew up: Bayside, Queens, N.Y.
Executive most admired: Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane
Favorite vacation spot: Watch Hill, R.I.
Brand most admired: Mountain Dew
Last two books read: "Outliers," by Malcolm Gladwell, and "Yankee for Life," by Bobby Murcer
Favorite Movie: "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
Favorite Band: Bee Gees, "Saturday Night Fever"
What responsibilities will you have in this role
that you haven't had in previous jobs?
To help lead Team Epic's new positioning in the marketplace and to help lead our clients into the convergence of online and offline experiences in sports, lifestyle and brand marketing. It's not just one core offering any more. We're trying to be responsible to the needs of clients in the future. It's more than just consulting. It's more than just digital. It's more than just experiential marketing. It's all of those things.
What's the biggest change for you in this job?
Pitching business will be somewhat new. However, having sat across the table from Dale Jr. pitching him on why Mountain Dew and Amp [would work for him] in his post-Budweiser era or pitching from a property perspective on why Target should carry NBA merchandise or pitching Toyota to continue with the Dew Tour, I've done a lot of pitching.
You've tried every area of the sports business.
What differentiates the brand, property and agency sides of the business?
It was always about brands for me. I'm not just a property guy or an agency guy or a brand guy. From the client side, it's nice to hold the keys and having buying power, targeting investments that meet your goals. That's exciting. Building the property portfolio with partner solutions in mind was always exciting. Now being able to be on the cutting edge on the agency side, helping or enabling brands to sift through their choices and make wise, strategic investments will be equally exciting and brings it full circle.


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Miami (Fla.) Archbishop Carroll standout Leroy Clark grew up watching the hometown Hurricanes, but he will be playing his college ball at Purdue.
Clark pledged to the Boilermakers two weeks ago and caught up with Rivals.com about his decision.
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So you're wondering about how to become a paramedic in the state of New York. GREAT!!!! This post should give you the needed information to obtain your goal.
We'll start with what you're wondering about the most: the paramedic's salary in New York. Cause I know you are dying to know. The specific salary stats come from: NYC.gov. This information may be subject to change due to bargaining agreements, experience qualifications, and many other factors. You are welcome to ask for more.
Starting Salary: $37,346
After 1 Year: $41,139
After 2 Years: $42,818
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3. Possess a current state-specific driver's license
The certification levels within the EMS (Emergency Medical Service) that you must pass through to become a certified paramedic include (and the curriculum needed to obtain these certifications):
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- Refresher Course Curriculum
- Basic EMT Practical Skills Exam Sheets (As of 8/1/2006)
3. EMT – Intermediate (this step has recently been made optional; you can now train from EMT-B to EMT-Paramedic)
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- AEMT-CC Refresher Course Curriculum
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If you've missed Amanda Bynes' mental breakdown playing out on Twitter over the last year or so, then you're luckier than we are. The actress has gone from normal celebrity nutso to throwing a bong out the window crazy in a very short time, all in full public display for her 2.7 million followers.
And then yesterday she shifted the target of her normally insult-laden tweets away from her fellow celebrities and pointed one squarely at President Obama and the first lady Michelle Obama.
"Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are ugly!" she wrote.
And you guys went nuts.
Like lemmings falling off a cliff, stories began appearing everywhere: USAToday, The Hill, CNN, New York Daily News, HuffPost, LAT, Politico, Daily Caller, Wonkette. The list goes on and on and on…
Guys, this is what Bynes does. She calls famous people ugly on Twitter. Why? Because she is currently very insane. You roll your eyes, you move on. That's what you do. It's not news—at least it won't be if you all stop writing about it.


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Starting next month, the Defense Department will begin withholding 15 percent of the money paid to the company, formerly led by Vice President Dick Cheney, on a multibillion-dollar contract to provide such services as food, housing, laundry, and mail to American forces in Iraq.
Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall said the company disagreed with the decision and hoped to persuade the Pentagon not to withhold the funds. If the Defense Department does withhold the money, Halliburton will in turn withhold 15 percent of its payments to its subcontractors, Hall said.
The withholding won't affect Halliburton's bottom line, Hall said. Company executives told Wall Street analysts last week the company was taking in about $1 billion a month from its operations in Iraq. The company has set aside $141 million to settle the overcharging allegations and has repaid about $36 million.
Halliburton and its military services subsidiary, KBR, face a criminal investigation into alleged misdeeds in government work in Iraq and Kuwait. In this case, Pentagon auditors accuse KBR of overestimating the number of troops to be served meals, thus reaping millions in overcharges.
Halliburton has said any mistakes in estimating the number of troops came from having to operate in a war zone where the numbers changed unpredictably.
A letter from Pentagon comptroller Dov Zakheim to Army contracting officials, dated last month and released yesterday, cited the "possibility of substantial overcharges" on KBR's meal contract.
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I'm in the beginning stages of planning a trip for Summer 2014.
Scotland and/or England are on the top of my list to consider.
We have 14 days total, including travel time from the Eastern US. Married couple, late 50's, pretty active. We like walking/hiking, love ruins and historical sites, museums and countrysides and expansive views. Big cities are fun for a few days, especially the ones that are full of history (hello London!) We prefer to stay in apartments or b&bs. We like to stay in a place a minimum of 2 nights but prefer 3. We are fine with driving on the wrong side of the road, did it in Ireland for 2 weeks a few years ago. Train travel is cool too. It sounds like I'm writing a singles ad!
So, my question.....is it possible to "do" both England and Scotland in that amount of time (I'm guessing no), or should I focus on one or the other?
If one, heck, how do I decide which? I keep going back and forth.
For a little more info, when we did Ireland we spent the same amount of time, 14 days, flew into Dublin, toured around the Southern coast, flew out of Shannon. The best times we had were when we were roaming around old castles and walking in the Aran Isles. But we loved it all.
I love researching vacations, it's part of the fun of going, but I'm going a little crazy trying to decide which one this time around. I know, pick one and do the other some other time, but honestly, money is a factor, air fare has gotten to be a big deal. Traveling off season is not an option until we are retired.
Argh. I wish I had started European travel in my 20's instead of 50's.
Thanks for listening. I'd love to hear some opinions.
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14 days is not a great deal of time, and if you want to spend time walking/hiking, it eats up more time than car touring. I would stick to Scotland or England, not both.
You may want to take a look at my trip reports, one from last summer starting in Lyme Regis, and another from a few years ago on Scotland; click on my name to find them.
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I can't make up my mind which to recommend. London is my very favorite European city, so I might recommend 5-7 days there. Maybe take a day trip by train to a couple of nearby places (Canterbury, Dover, possibilities). Then pick up a car at Heathrow and head west toward the Welsh border. Lots of castles and ruins to climb around. Plenty of hiking opportunities.
However, I can't dismiss Scotland. Edinburgh is a great city.
Maybe a few days there with a day trip by train to Glascow. Then off to the countryside by car. I loved Mull with a trip to Iona and/or Staffa. Also lots to see and do in the Loch Ness area.
Either of these options gives you car and train travel.
You could see a bit of both by flying into London and out of Glasgow or Edinburgh. Take the night sleeper train between--saves a day for sightseeing and combines travel with a night's lodging. However, I think in 14 days, I would concentrate or one or the other.
Just my opinion!
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Too much of a fish+barrel+shotgun list of wants ("walking/hiking, love ruins and historical sites, museums and countrysides and expansive views") - you'd be hard pressed to set up a trip to the UK without checking each box on that list. Start narrowing. Hit the bookstores (if such places still exist) or a fine travel website like . . . Fodors.com for itinerary hints for both England and Scotland as single destinations (that is, not England AND Scotland) for more ideas.
And if you're considering London, you need at least 5 nights there to get any kind of feel for the place. The city is the size of NYC and the historical center of the world for hundreds of years.
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I might look at Scotland and Northern England for your 14 days, that brings in Newcastle, Hadrian's wall as well as Edinburgh, maybe Stirling and some of the Isles, I like Orkney rather than Mull and you can read my notes on Orkney by following my name.
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Yes, unfortunately you will have to choose to take the maximum out of your vacation. Both England and Scotland have many historical sites but Scotland has even more specific ones and cultural difference is bigger.
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You really can;t cover both in 14 days. You could take a stab at Scotland - or do parts, but not all, of England.
Or you could do highlights of both - with the idea of coming back to see more later.
In any case - in 14 days I would do no more than 4 hotels (cities) with possible day trips from a center. You might do London, Cotswolds, York and Edinburgh for a quick taste of history and cities and also some walks.
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You can see a small part of Scotland and a small part of England in that amount of time . . . Whether you can 'do' either country depends mostly on what you mean by 'do'.
Can you 'do' California, Oregon and Washington in 14 days - no. But you could visit a small handful of sites in that amount of time.
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Lots to see and difficult choices to make. We are big fans of Scotland and have taken 3 separate trips for 4/8/7 nights. See if these reports and photos are any help.
I would highly recommend heading to the Highlands and Skye in particular if possible. Very memorable.
A good walking site here:
Obviously there are plenty of wonderful things in England as well.
Good luck with your planning.
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There is no wrong answer.
I took a wonderful two week trip to Scotland in August. This is my trip report:
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Thanks so much for your input. I guess I needed to be told what I already knew. You were very patient with someone asking a pretty silly question. If only I had a Tardis......
So, I'm going to focus on England this time around, and hope I appreciate all of your comments.
I went to the library and checked out Fodors Great Britain book yesterday. Unfortunately it's from 2006 but it will get me started.
I think I will initially plan 4 locations we can work out of, as nytraveler suggested. If I split my time equally that would allow 3 nights in each location, deducting 2 days to fly in and out. Maybe I'll be able to pad the 2 weeks up with a couple extra days, but for now I'll stick with this time restriction.
Now to pick the locations!
I will probably be back to pick your brains some more.
Thank you again.
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PS. I'm reading all the trip reports this weekend. I'm afraid to read the Scotland ones, I don't want to waver from my decision. Making it once was hard enough.
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Well, if you're going to London then you do NOT split time equally. You give more time to it and then run around the rest of England that you're trying to visit.
--"I went to the library and checked out Fodors Great Britain book yesterday. Unfortunately it's from 2006 but it will get me started."
That's not a problem. Much of England has survived the past 7.5 years.
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Cpelk--because you think "a few days" in a big city are fun (and I concur with that), I'd follow your original plan but perhaps add one more nite in London. You'll leave wanting to come back, but that's O.K.
Second BigRuss on the Fodor's, however--they don't get terribly dated, but also don't rely on it for lodging. Do read the suggested itineraries, but take them as suggestions and not as "must do's." Almost all of England has plenty of things fitting your interests.
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If London stays in your mix you really don't want to divide the time equally. London is vast (largest city in Western Europe) w/ sooooooooo many wonderful things to see/do.
Of course you won't see more than a fraction in a typical visit - but 3 days is woefully inadequate to even touch on 5 or 6 major sites. Just getting acclimated/comfortable on the tube and such takes a bit of time. If you have 12 days 'on the ground' (and remember at least one full day might be a jet lagged fog) I'd stay 6 or 7 days in London and 5 or 6 days in two other locations. Or at minimum - 5 full days in London and then maybe 3 locations for the other 7 days.
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When I travel I always ask myself the question "will I ever come back"? If yes, then you can pick one country and walk your heart out. Do the other when you take your next trip. If no, then I'd see both and pick the places that sound most interesting. We took a 3 week trip to Ireland and the Uk 4 years ago. We rented a car in Dublin and traveled to the south then left the car in Belfast. Took the ferry to Glasgow then up to Edinburgh for a few days then train to London and Wales and ferry back to Dublin. We were able to spend lots of time sightseeing and having a great time..
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Yes, I know that England has survived the last 7.5 years and hopefully will survive into next summer. Time will tell.
London sounds great. In Italy I couldn't get enough of Rome. We had 5 nights there at the end of our 2 week trip. I'll have to do some serious research on what we want to do in London before we decide where else to go. I guess I was thinking of Ireland. We had 3 nights in Dublin, enjoyed the city, but were more then ready to move on. Perhaps we should plan on London for the end of the trip? Jump on a train to get out of town as soon as we arrive?
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Dublin is nothing compared to London. I've usually had my fill of Dublin after about 2 days. London -- I've been there countless times (probably 50+) from a couple of days to two weeks at a time and I still haven't seen/done everything I want.
Like comparing New York City to Santa Fe NM, both are nice but one has hundreds more things to see/do.
Whether to do London at the front or at the end - pros and cons to each. I do like to be IN London before flying home just for convenience. But it is also good to start out in London so you are recovering from the jet-lag car-less and on public transportation instead of behind the wheel of a car.
One good option is to hit London first, then head north somewhere (Yorkshire, or the Lake District etc) and then finish up back down south in maybe the Cotswolds or Bath which are both easy commutes to Heathrow.
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And that wasn't a slam on Santa Fe
But Dublin and London are simply apples and oranges . . .
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Another suggestion: Put London at the end of your trip. Upon arrival at Heathrow take the train to Bath (2 hours) and spend 2-3 nights in Bath. Then pick up the car and explore the Cotswolds for 3 nights. From there go to Oxford and drop the car. After 2 nights in Oxford, take the train to London for 4-5 nights.
Of course, one could spend a month with this itinerary, but assume you will be back.
There are several experts on this forum who can help with where to stay in the Cotswolds.
Happy planning!
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Um, London and Dublin are not comparable. Not close. Good gosh.
(Thinking every Irish or English without love for the other would plotz at that equivalency - Flanneruk would pop a vein).
London is one of the great cities of the world (as is Rome). Dublin is the largest city in Ireland. In terms of size, Dublin is equivalent to Naples. But it has less for tourists than smaller cities like Prague, Budapest, Edinburgh, Krakow, . . .
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To be honest, London is not a place that you can really miss out on. Other English cities have some great sights too, but London is the heart of the country and world renowned.
The nature of Scotland is also something that is fantastic to see and hard to leave out! I think it's possible to do both, just plan a careful route starting in London and working your way North (Or visa versa)
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>>Upon arrival at Heathrow take the train to Bath (2 hours) and spend 2-3 nights in Bath<<
Fine, except there is no train from LHR to Bath. It is either in to London then turn around and head all the way back west to Bath - or bus to Reading, transfer from bus to train station, and train to Bath. Much easier to just hop on the express coach at LHR and get off in central Bath.
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If you stick to trains you could get yourself one of those passes and use the cities you want to visit as a base.
From London you get make day trips to Canterbury, Norwich, Winchester or maybe even Ely, Cambridge or Lincoln.
Based in York you can visit the town itself and Durham and from Edinburgh you can easily visit Stirling, the Fife coast and places like Dunbar, Dunfermline and North Berwick (Tantallon Castle).
Dalmeny is a nice little jaunt, see the Forth rail bridge from below.
Not saying you do all this in a fortnight but the options are there.
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In an analysis by Kathryn Jean Lopez of the National Review Online, she argues that the Associated Press coverage of the Church's sexual abuse scandal is about more than "protect[ing] children and bring[ing] justice to pedophile priests."
Lopez's piece begins by referring to an April 18 article run in the Washington Post which takes its information from a PBS interview with Cardinal Levada, head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. The AP article, however, "simplifies and caricatures the Church — teachings, governance, and people — and ignores a key element of the scandals that has to be acknowledged," she writes.
By using terms such as, "mea culpa" and "giant pep rally" to describe an expected papal apology at the conclusion of the Year for Priests next month, says Lopez, the AP is being coy, derogatory, and condescending. "The scandal, in the AP book, is about 'protect[ing] children and bring[ing] justice to pedophile priests.' But it's about more than that."
While Lopez acknowledges that abuse did take place involving priests, "there's a related scandal involving dissent on sexual morality in the Church."
She goes on to explain that an accurate portrait "of what has happened in the Catholic Church in the last few decades cannot ignore the impact the so-called sexual revolution has had on the Church, which was far from immune from the chaos, despite warnings and guidance. But you won't read about that in the mainstream media, because the mainstream media would be happy to foment dissent on sexual morality in the Church."
Citing former Mayor of New York Ed Koch, who recently wrote that "continuing attacks by the media on the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Benedict XVI have become manifestations of anti-Catholicism," Lopez notes that one of the most important things to know about a scandal affecting the Church is that it always involves a Catholic not being faithful in his or her actions. She urges the Church, both clerics and laity, to remain true to the Church's teachings. "Fidelity is the answer. Surrender is not," she says.
The Catholic Church, as Cardinal Levada pointed out, has taken steps to keep "sick, pathological priests preying on children and teenagers." And as Lopez notes, "The Catholic Church is protecting children today. The Catholic Church is also, as she has long done, providing opportunities for children and literally saving children's lives."
However, since "for much of the media, this isn't just about protecting children from pedophiles," Catholics and the Church must not give in to the culture but rather, they must remain steadfast and full of courage in defending Catholic moral principles, Lopez asserts.