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Mick Bettesworth
Age: 54
Occupation:Chartered Surveyor
Number of Cruises: 7
Cruise Line: Regent Seven Seas
Ship: Seven Seas Voyager
Sailing Date: n/a
Itinerary: Western Caribbean
On Sunday the 23rd we drove from Naples to Fort Lauderdale arriving at check-in to find long queues. The link between the laptop check-in computers and the ship was faulty and the signal repeatedly failed, preventing staff from checking passengers in. Although there appeared to be large numbers of RSSC people behind the check-in desks staring at the computers, nobody actually appeared to be able to resolve the problem. Arriving passengers, including ourselves, soon became annoyed at the lack of information, lack of seating, and most of all the lack of anybody willing to explain what was happening! There seemed to be no manual back-up in place in case of just such a crisis. Not what you expect from a 6 star ship! After about an hour of waiting, the link was re-established and we were checked in.
We were able to board at around 3.30 and were greeted in the lobby with smiles and a glass of Champagne. We were shown to our cabin on deck 7, where we found our steward and stewardess waiting to greet us. The cabin (suite 743) was beautiful, decorated in muted shades of taupe, beige, mushroom and cream. The sitting area was furnished with a large settee and 2 armchairs, a table that converted into a dining table and sliding doors led to a balcony. This was furnished with 2 chairs and a table. The sitting area was also furnished with a television and DVD player, a writing desk, bookshelves and a fridge, which, at our choice, was stocked with 2 bottles of premium liquor and soft drinks which were replaced daily. Complimentary Champagne, fruit and flowers awaited our arrival. On the in-board side of the room, there was very comfortable queen sized bed, with bedside tables and a built in dressing table. Adjoining this was a good sized walk-in closet, and an excellent marble bathroom with a separate shower and tub and wash basins. The whole cabin had a very spacious feel. The fitments were high quality and there were quite sophisticated lighting options. The wide range of bathroom requisites were from the very excellent Judith Jackson range. We were so impressed with the soaps that we bought quite a large supply from the spa! Towels and towelling robes were plentiful and replaced frequently. The total size of the suite was about 300 sq ft. If one had a criticism, and it's a minor one, more light was needed in the bathroom.
Seven Seas Voyager, whilst not the prettiest ship from the exterior is beautiful inside. Understated and elegant, there are no jarring colours and the ambiance is restful and sophisticated. The public rooms are intimate and inviting and the restaurants never feel crowded. The overwhelming impression is one of space! With a passenger load of about 650 for this cruise (the ship only takes 700 when full), the ship never seemed crowded, and one doesn't queue for anything. A good example of this was the lido area. This and the sun deck around the pool seemed to cope with the passenger load easily. For most of our cruise the weather was good so we spent quite a lot of our time by the pool. The smiling stewards were always so willing to move sunbeds where you wanted them, provide limitless supplies of towels and even brought round chilled flannels and complimentary soft drinks unbidden, as well as providing a full bar service. We tended to prefer our chairs on the upper promenade deck overlooking the pool area where we could enjoy the breezes, as well as watch what was going on.
The two-deck theatre was very comfortable and well
laid out with excellent sight lines and acoustics. There was an assortment of
bars and lounges which, again, never seemed to be crowded, but were welcoming
and comfortable. The shop served most needs but this was the only area in which
we thought the service questionable and a little supercilious. Maybe they are
run by concessionaries? Not being smokers, we are sensitive to cigarette smoke,
but apart from the cigar room, we were not bothered in any way. All the
restaurants are non-smoking.
When we were aboard in March during the pre-inaugural voyage we were fairly impressed by the food, but over the first season things had improved enormously. There was a choice of four restaurants, two of which, Signatures and Latitudes, required reservations. Luncheon was served in La Verandah and there was a daily grill on deck by the pool. Teak tables and chairs and parasols were available in the sun for those who wished to dine alfresco.
Each morning, breakfast was served in the main
Compass Rose restaurant and La Verandah, however we always breakfasted in our
cabin. Obviously, the room service choice is more limited than the main
restaurants, nevertheless, we found that our breakfasts were beautifully and
accurately presented and always piping hot. The table was set up with white
linen and the contents of the tray were properly laid out, as opposed to other
lines where the tray is just left on the table.
Compass Rose
The main dining room, the Compass Rose, was first class. We were always able to obtain a table for two, without ever being as asked if we wished to join other people, even when the restaurant was at its busiest. (We heartily dislike sharing, and would not book a ship unless we could be guaranteed a table for two). The dinner menu in the Compass Rose consisted of a choice of hors d'oeuvres, soup, fish, pasta, salad, entrée and dessert. Alternatively there was a chef's degustation menu. If you found it impossible to choose…which we often did…the waiters could not have been more accommodating. It was possible to change between the menu options and the choice was wide enough for most palates. The quality of the food and service was world class. We did not have one course, which was anything other than top notch. Portions were nouvelle cuisine size, which, given the complexity and richness of some of some of the dishes, was more than enough for our palates. There was a choice of complementary house wines to accompany the meal, and these were most liberally poured. Being European we find some Californian wines too scented for our taste, and upon request, a good quality French or Italian wine was always available. It seemed that on some evenings, the wine waiters went out of their way to tempt us with ever better wines! Service was punctilious while remaining friendly and polite, you really felt that the dining room personnel cared personally whether you were enjoying your meal. The dress code was published in the daily information sheet but generally and somewhat unusually, we noticed that people dressed up rather than down.
This was the French restaurant run by the Ecole Cordon Bleu de Paris. Having lived in France, I have been lucky enough to have eaten at quite a number of the top-rated restaurants in France and Europe. The meal we had in Signatures ranks up there with the best of them. It is top class French cuisine. We did notice, however, that not all the American guests appreciated either the European flavours and presentation or the portion sizes! We do hope that Radisson do not bow to any pressure to 'Americanise' this restaurant. It is quite simply the best food that we have ever had at sea and it beats the much-vaunted Queens Grill on the QE2 into a poor second. It is always busy and it is worth making a reservation as soon as you have boarded the ship as it books up fast. In order to be fair, each couple is allowed one reservation per 7 days to ensure that everybody gets an opportunity to eat there. The Maitre D' and the waiting staff were particularly charming and helpful and more importantly, informed, and with a degree of warmth not found in France! This was an outstanding culinary experience.
This was the other reservation-required restaurant, which served American cuisine. There was one sitting in which diners were invited to table at 7.30pm. The style of the restaurant was such that the kitchen is open and one can watch the chefs prepare the food. We did not eat here, but will undoubtedly try it on a future voyage.
La Verandah
This was a high quality buffet-style restaurant at breakfast and lunch which became a Mediterranean bistro in the evening. We tended to lunch there on most days and were delighted with the selection, which always included various hot and cold hors d'oeuvres and seafood, with a fish dish, a hot dish of the day and pasta dish – freshly cooked to order. Again waiters carried your tray if required and would go out to the deck barbeque for you if that was your preference. At night, the atmosphere was much more sophisticated, with subdued lighting, full waiter service (you could choose you own hors d'oeuvres if required) and a menu with a wide range of Mediterranean dishes. We ate there on one evening and were delighted. The dress code for this venue was country club casual. From this restaurant double doors opened to an open air after deck, which was set out with high quality teak furniture. One can hardly imagine a more romantic setting for dinner. All the tables both in and outdoors were properly laid with linen napery and good quality glass and silverware. As in every facet of this ship the staff were exemplary.
If one had had a long day ashore or could not be bothered to dress, the full Compass Rose menu was also available served course by course in one's suite. We didn't try this as we were only on a short cruise, however on a longer cruise, this may well be a tempting alternative.
My wife is a professional Theatre Director and we have often been critical of the entertainment aboard previous cruises. The Voyager was like the curate's egg – good in parts. Two full scale 'production shows' were staged during our cruise by the Peter Terhune Company. One, a brave attempt at a more classical programme, opera for the masses, and the second a standard song and dance show. Unfortunately both used pre-recorded 'clic' tracks for the orchestral backing. The singers sing live but somehow the relationship between the band and the singer is lost and the show suffers as a result. Come on Radisson, think of all the excellent unemployed musicians there are simply gasping for a job. There is no substitute for 'live' music. It raises the quality of performance from mundane to sublime! Provide something different, something classy…to match the classiness elsewhere on board. The shows were attended by only about 200 on each evening so maybe there is a lesson for RSSC to learn here. Other ships in the deluxe class have done away with this type of show and introduced high quality cabaret acts. We did not attend the entertainment on the evenings other than the formal show but anecdotal evidence was that many of our fellow passengers were disappointed, so if this suggestion were to be followed, quality would have to improve.
We have been on the Western Caribbean circuit on two previous occasions so we regarded the ship as more of a destination than the ports. We did not go ashore in Progresso as we have visited the stunning ruins at Chichen Itza on a previous cruise. It was quite noticeable that many passengers stayed aboard and enjoyed the facilities of the ship. We spent a morning in Cozumel and we found that the 'hassling' by locals has increased here. There were 5 large cruise ships in port that day so I suppose that it is inevitable that the Mexican charm of the town will be diluted by 5000 or so passengers wandering about. Georgetown Grand Cayman was a charming as ever, but our real favourite was Key West were the ship docked at sunset next to Mallory Square and spent all night and next day in port. Whilst parts of the town are tacky, we like Key West and love wandering about this most un-American town. The weather here, whilst sunny was very windy and chilly. However that did not stop us, and many of our fellow Voyagers having a great time.
We breakfasted in our suite and were ashore by 9am with no hassles. Our luggage was waiting and there were plenty of porters and taxis. Gratuities were included in the cruise fare, so there was none of the last night friendliness from staff who have ignored you during the whole of the cruise only to become your best buddy on the last night of the voyage! With only 650 passengers to process the whole process could not have been easier.
Seven Seas Voyager exceeded our expectations on many levels. The ship is elegant, understated and delivers a cruise that meets even the most demanding passengers' requirements. It is not a 'fun' ship where the 'party animal' reigns supreme and is organised from morning till night. Neither is it 'God's waiting room' where all the passengers are in bed by 9.30! It delivers a highly personalised, top-notch product, which thoroughly deserves the accolades it has received. Sort out the entertainment, and it might just be perfection!
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Virtually every pundit describes Tim Pawlenty as one of the few serious candidates for the GOP presidential nomination. Yet, as he points out in the video clip below, his name recognition among Republicans nationwide is only around 50 percent. Of the half who at least know who he is, most haven't really seen him perform. So, if you are one of those who know who Pawlenty is, but have only seen him in an occasional televised sound bite, this interview with Cristiane Amanpour is a very good introduction.
Be sure to watch until the topic turns to education about seven minutes in. At the moment, education is not a top-tier issue. And yet, virtually everyone recognizes that 1) education is critical to America's long-run competitiveness, and 2) our current system of K-12 education is poor. By rights, this is an issue that Republicans should own, but because the education establishment–teachers and administrators–is Democratic out of self-interest, people don't think of education as a reason to vote Republican. Pawlenty is the only politician I know of in either party who talks about education in a way that is both passionate and persuasive:
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The dollar strengthened against the euro as U.S. employers added more jobs than forecast last month and the unemployment rate dropped to an almost four-year low.
The 17-nation euro fell to a two-week low versus the greenback after a report that the majority of European Central Bank members indicated support for an interest-rate cut if the economy doesn't pick up and Germany's economic outlook was downgraded. Canada's currency rallied to its strongest in a month versus the dollar as the nation's employers added almost six times as many jobs as forecast in November. The Federal Reserve is weighing whether to expand the third round of asset purchases known as quantitative easing, or QE3, this month.
"The euro is not our preferred currency and we like to buy dips in the Australian, New Zealand and Canadian dollar," said Vassili Serebriakov, a currency strategist at BNP Paribas SA in New York. "We still expect the dollar to weaken over time. The Fed is still looking for a sustained improvement in the labor markets and it will take at least six months to see that."
The dollar rose 0.4 percent to $1.2914 per euro at 10:36 a.m. in New York, reaching $1.2877 the highest since Nov. 23. It was little changed at 82.45 per yen after gaining as much as 0.5 percent. The euro fell 0.3 percent to 106.48 yen.
Mexico, Canada
Mexico's peso was the second-best performer against the dollar, after Canada, as the unemployment rate fell to 7.7 percent in the U.S., both nations' largest trading partner.
The gains in the peso were limited after the nation's inflation rate fell for a second month, bolstering projections the central bank won't raise interest rates.
The peso rose 0.2 percent to 12.8477 per U.S. dollar. The currency has strengthened 8.3 percent this year through yesterday, the best performance among 16 major currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
The Canadian dollar rose 0.3 percent to 98.82 cents per U.S. dollar after declining as much as 0.2 percent. It touched the strongest level since Nov. 7.
"If we can close lower on the day here and extend below 98.90, the downside opens up quite a bit more," Shaun Osborne, chief currency strategist at Toronto-Dominion Bank, said in a telephone interview. "We're still probably going to touch 97 or 98 over the course of the next few weeks."
Canadian employment increased 59,300 and lowered the unemployment rate to 7.2 percent from 7.4 percent, the first decline in five months, Statistics Canada said today in Ottawa.
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Bad weather across upstate New York is hurting the annual Red Kettle Campaign.
Snow storms and cold, rainy weather across upstate New York this month are blamed for a slow in donations to the Salvation Army's Red Kettle campaign.
"We are asking the community to make a point to donate to the Red Kettle in this our last week of the holiday campaign," stated Major Donald Hostetler, divisional commander of the Empire State Division of The Salvation Army. The division covers 48 counties including all those in the Finger Lakes region.
In areas hardest hit by bad weather, many Salvation Army corps have been unable to set up Red Kettles in their communities, stated Hostetler. "With this type of weather, the shoppers aren't out either," he stated. "We rely on this money to carry each Salvation Army center through the year in order to help those who need us."
With the donations, Salvation Army officers and volunteers provide toys, warm clothing and holiday food baskets for those in need. All of the money raised stays in the area where it is collected.
In addition to donating in Red Kettles outside businesses, donations can also be made online at www.onlineredkettle.org. Or call 1-800-SAL-ARMY or text the word "GIVE" to 80888 to make a $10 donation to the Red Kettle Campaign. For more information, go to www.salvationarmyusa.org.


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The Department of Ornithology maintains one of the largest collections of bird specimens in the world. The research collections of the Department number nearly one million specimens; these include skins, skeletons, alcoholic preparations, eggs, nests, and tissue samples for molecular biochemical studies. A large number of type specimens and rare or extinct species are also found in its collections. The specimens represent all continents and oceans and nearly 99 percent of all species. The Department has an ornithology library for research use and maintains laboratories for specimen preparation, skeletal and anatomical analyses and dissections, and a modern molecular laboratory for DNA sequencing (the Cullman Molecular Laboratory).
Research interests include higher level phylogenetics of birds, studies of speciation and species status, and the description of patterns of geographic variation. These investigations are based on skin measurements, plumage color analysis, skeletal measurements and analyses, anatomical dissections, and molecular studies. Additional research involves biogeography of remote areas and life history studies of poorly known taxa. Staff members organize expeditions annually to areas throughout the world; recent expeditions include trips to Bolivia, Africa, and Vietnam.
The Department of Ornithology has a combined collection in excess of one million specimens. The majority of our holdings are in the form of skins (flat and round), supplemented by skeletons, fluid-preserved, egg shells and tissue samples.
This database includes records for Ornithology's entire tissue collection, approximately one-third of their skin collection and subsets of their skeleton and fluid collections.
Listing of staff members of the Museum's Department of Ornithology.
The Frank M. Chapman Memorial Fund of the American Museum of Natural History was set up by Ms. Elsie M. B. Naumburg in memory of Dr. Chapman, a long-term Chairman of the Department of Ornithology at the Museum. Grants for research in several aspects of ornithology are supported by the Fund.
The Lewis and Dorothy Cullman Research Facility and the Monell Molecular Laboratory housed in the Department of Ornithology is a state-of-the-art molecular systematics laboratory.


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Did Security Council resolutions authorise the use of force during the Second Gulf War? Did the UN intentionally use vague and indeterminate linguistic patterns as a set of discursive strategies with the overall legislative intent of using deliberate vagueness as a political strategy? Over the last few years, UN resolutions have been repeatedly questioned for the excessive presence of vagueness. In order to overcome the cultural divergences of recipient countries, UN diplomatic texts use vague words quite extensively, which could lead to biased or even strategically-motivated interpretations of resolutions, undermining their legal impact. This book proposes a linguistic analysis of whether the use of strategic vagueness in Security Council resolutions has contributed to the breakout of the Second Gulf War instead of a diplomatic solution to the controversy. The hypothesis is discussed through an analysis of the UN resolutions relating to the war, and reinforced through an analysis of US legislation related to the authorization for war, revealing how the US has interpreted UN legislation, in order to see how vague expressions used in UN resolutions have allowed the US to interpret them as a means to go to war. A second section of the work attempts to understand whether the same patterns have been used in resolutions relating to the Iranian nuclear crisis in 2010, revealing a relationship between the choice of vague linguistic features and the use of intentional vagueness as a political strategy.All definitions used in the Tables of this chapter are retrieved from the Oxford Advanced Learnera#39;s Dictionary, 8th Edition, ... Source: http://www.un.org/Depts/ unmovic/new/documents/resolutions/s-res1284.pdf (Last accessed: January 2013) 62.
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PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A bear that weighs more than 200 pounds is missing, and it's not in hibernation.
The sheriff's office in Washington County, Ore., says the wooden statue of a bear was stolen from a home in Portland during the weekend.
The homeowner bought the 5-foot-tall statue in 1996 for $1,700 and had it displayed in the front yard for many years.
Sheriff's Sgt. Bob Ray says the theft occurred in the overnight hours, and it would have taken at least two people to carry away the bear.
Investigators are confident the public will help them quickly solve the crime. Authorities have yet to receive any tips, but Ray says "you can't hide that bear."


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I've ordered the D'OOGE - LATIN FOR BEGINNERS DVD from the Latinum site. I looked at the FAQ section on the site to see how to approach things, but it doesn't mention where D'ooge fits in. It goes on about the Adler course.
I'm just wondering if anyone else is learning Latin using Latinum, and could give me some advice on how I should approach things.


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Public Health Leaders Call on Government of Senegal to Release Nine Men Imprisoned for Eight Years Based on Their Sexual Orientation
January 12, 2009
Abuja, Nigeria/Geneva, Switzerland -- The Society for AIDS in Africa (SAA) and the International AIDS Society (IAS), the world's leading associations of professionals working in the global and African response to HIV/AIDS, call on the Government of Senegal to immediately release and drop all charges against nine men sentenced each to eight years in prison based solely on their sexual orientation. Among those arrested are men working to provide critical HIV prevention, care and treatment services among men who have sex with men.
The Society for AIDS in Africa, the International AIDS Society and a dozen other leading international and regional institutions partnered over the course of 2008 to organize a ground-breaking International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA), held last month in Dakar, Senegal. At that conference public health leaders, scientists, clinicians, community and political leaders all affirmed their support to meaningfully address HIV among populations of men who have sex with men and other sexual minorities.
At the closing ceremony of ICASA, IAS Executive Director Craig McClure said, "the unique partnership that has driven the HIV response has at its core the people living with HIV and the populations most vulnerable -- women and youth, gay men and other men who have sex with men, sex workers and drug users. The communities most at risk and those living with the disease have shown us that the fight against HIV is a fight for the human rights of all human beings."
Senegalese Government officials, as hosts to this international gathering of 8,000 HIV professionals, also publicly pledged their support to reducing HIV among sexual minorities during their speeches and presentations.
On December 22, 2008, just ten days following the closing ceremony of the ICASA Conference, police officers raided the apartment of an HIV prevention programme leader working with the Senegalese lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community, and arrested him and eight other men. On January 6, 2009, the men appeared in court to respond to charges of "criminal conspiracy and engaging in acts against the order of nature". The men were condemned to eight years in jail. Under Article 3.913 of the Senegalese penal code, homosexual acts are punishable by imprisonment of between one and five years and a fine of 100,000 ($200) to 1,500,000 ($3,000) CFA francs.
SAA and IAS believe criminalizing sexual orientation has never been shown to reduce the transmission of sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS, and is an abuse of basic human rights.
From the perspective of science and sound public health policy, the IAS and SAA believe that all countries around the world must work respectfully with all communities of their population to stem the tide of inequality and to support disease prevention. Evidence shows us that criminalizing and discriminating against any group of individuals only serves to fuel the HIV/AIDS epidemic by denying services and relevant prevention messages.
"The arrest of these men, based purely on their sexual orientation represents a major setback for the Senegalese response to HIV, which is widely viewed as a model in Africa," said Joanna Mangueira, President of the Society for AIDS in Africa.
According to UNAIDS, fewer than one in 20 men who have sex with men around the world has access to HIV prevention, treatment, and care -- and even fewer in low-income settings like Senegal. Compared to the HIV testing rates of 63-85 percent seen among men who have sex with men in Australia, Europe, and North America, rates in this population in much of Africa, Asia, and Eastern Europe are often under 20 percent.
As has been demonstrated in many different countries, reducing the social exclusion of gay and MSM communities through the promotion and protection of their human rights (including sexual rights and the right to health) is not only consistent with, but a prerequisite to, good public health. Once discriminatory policies are abolished and stigma and discrimination are confronted, country-based programs can be put in place to encourage gay men and other men who have sex with men to stay free of HIV-infection, thus supporting national goals of reducing HIV burden.
This article was provided by Society for AIDS in Africa and International AIDS Society.
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In 50 years, drink driving deaths have fallen from 1,640 to 200 per year - but that's still 200 too many.
Thousands of lives have been saved since the Department for Transport (DfT) introduced the maximum legal drink drive limit 50 years ago this weekend (7 October 2017).
The landmark Road Safety Act 1967 made it an offence to drive a vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of over 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood - a limit which remains in place to this day.
This law made an important impact and since 1979, when official statistics first began, the number of drink drive deaths per year has plummeted from 1,640 right down to 200 in 2015 a fall of 88%. We strive to further reduce this number by launching a new THINK! drink-drive campaign at the end of November 2017. THINK!, which reached its own 50th birthday in 2014, has successfully challenged a number of behaviours and attitudes to improve road safety, including drink driving. The iconic campaigns have helped reduce the number of deaths on British roads from 22 per day in the 1960s to the current level of 5.
Roads Minister Jesse Norman said:
This is a remarkable milestone, and I am proud of the work this department has done to reduce the number of deaths from drink driving over the last 50 years.
The change in attitudes to drink driving during this time has been profound, and there is little doubt that the introduction of the drink-drive limit helped to give us what remains one of the safest road networks in the world.
There is still much further to go, but we are making good progress. Our THINK! campaigns should help to reduce the number of drink drive incidents even further.


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I have kept the Z8 garaged since I bought it back in 2000. But recently I have noticed that after waxing the exterior it just does not have that original glass finish feel to the body when I run my hand across it. I normally brush my hand along the drivers side door when I take the car out and when it is not feeling glassy smooth I wash and wax it again. But lately it is not feeling the way it used to. I've tried several products and none of them restored it to the glass-like feeling.
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Older News » Getting organised for schoolLast updated 10:56 AM on 15 September 2011
Children get their work done more easily if they can manage their time and their environment.
Here are five great tips from experts and families to help you and your kids get organised for school.
1. Establish some routines
Set up a few simple routines in your home that make things more efficient. For example, teach your kids that the first thing they do when they come in the door is empty their bag of food and notes or newsletters.
2. Manage time
Talk to your kids regularly about planning how they use time for activities that need doing as well as down time.
A family organiser is a calendar that has a column for each family member to write in what they will be doing throughout the week. When families make use of this simple tool, planning, communication and organisation is easy. They are usually sold alongside regular calendars.
Providing whiteboards, pin boards or chalkboards in children's rooms or in the kitchen can also help the family to remember things and keep notes handy.
3. Five-minute focus
Help get your children into and out of their homework faster. Encourage your child to focus on what homework needs to be done and to make a list of tasks, such as their spelling homework and reading. Each task can be ticked off or crossed out when completed. Seeing things being achieved is rewarding and motivating.
4. Make a home study area
Kids can waste a lot of time looking for things they need to do to finish their homework - a pot of glue can make a huge difference to a household's harmony when a project is due. Try storing the following items at home:
- lots of blank and recycled paper
- pens, pencils, sharpener, glue, staplers, batteries, and a rubber
- a ruler
- a dictionary.
5. Praise good organisation
Praise your child's attempts to improve their organisation. Praise them for getting out of the house on time, taking their lunch box out of their bag, and finishing homework and assignments on time. It may appear to them that they are often criticised, so praising positive behaviour will encourage more of it.


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The Buffalo Zoo will hold a "Zooper Saturday" event this weekend, featuring lions and tigers.
Learn all there is to know about lions and tigers at the Buffalo Zoo from its keeper talks, and enrichment activities at the lion and tiger exhibits from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Plus, there will also be face painters in the TOPS Eco Station from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.
"Zooper Saturday" events are free with regular Buffalo Zoo admission. For more information about the "Zooper Saturday" event, call 716-995-6133 or visit www.buffalozoo.org. The zoo is located at 300 Parkside Ave., Buffalo.


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Anyone here know of a good FTP that has all the RFC's on it? I'm trying to rebuild my Computer Knowledge CD, and I think that those would be good to put on it.
Nevermind...found one....thanks anyways
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The Missouri Legislature passed a law in 2012 overriding local residency requirements for fire departments located in cities with unaccredited or provisionally unaccredited school districts. The Supreme Court ruling upholds that law.
The city of St. Louis requires municipal employees to live within the city, including firefighters.
The St. Louis school district was unaccredited when the Missouri legislature's law passed. It now is provisionally accredited. But St. Louis sued, arguing the state law infringed on the city's authority to set its own work policies. A trial judge ruled last year for the city. The state Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned that ruling.
The St. Louis Fire Department Union, IAFF Local 73, released this statement:
"Today the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in the matter of the City of St Louis, Francis G Slay, et al, vs the State of Missouri, the court upheld the statewide laws with regards to residency requirements for fire department employees and we respect the opinion of the court. This ruling will not impact the excellent services provided by the St Louis Fire Department. The men and women of the St Louis Fire Department remain dedicated to ensuring the safety and security of the citizens of our great City."


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Travel Spain and Portugal and discover their many highlights
Follow an enticing trail of delicious tapas, avant-garde art, architectural triumphs and centuries-old culture on this incredible tour through Spain and Portugal. Travel the scenic route from Madrid to Barcelona, visiting cosmopolitan metropolises, sleepy seaside villages, quaint towns set amid rolling green hills and atmospheric medieval citadels along the way. Admire the masterpieces of Picasso, Dali and Gaudi, experience the passion of flamenco, taste some of the best port in the world and be graced by the style and sophistication of Madrilenos, Lisboetas and Barcelonians – this history- and culture-packed adventure flaunts the very best of Spain and Portugal.
Gaze in awe at the artistic feats of the Spanish masters in Madrid, and experience a different sort of mastery with a fiery flamenco performance in Seville
Get lost in the labyrinthine streets of the Albaicin in Granada, before crossing the river to visit the imposing Moorish fortress of the Alhambra
Unwind in a laidback fishing town in the Algarve, Portugal's scenic south coast. Soak up the sun on a beach and enjoy a cocktail-coloured sunset over the Atlantic Ocean
Lisbon and Porto are two of the most visited cities in Portugal, and for good reason. Explore a medieval fortress in the middle of cosmopolitan Lisbon and sweeten your day with a port tasting in, well, Porto
People from all over the world come to Spain to walk the famous Camino de Santiago. Join pilgrims along the last leg of the journey, as they reach the historic cathedral in Santiago de Compostela
Rub shoulders with the chic in the exciting city of Barcelona. Pulsing with culture, art and an outstanding drinking and dining scene, the city is also home to fascinating architecture; the star of which is Antoni Gaudi's basilica, La Sagrada Familia
Cobblestones are common in Portuguese cities and so in that case you may prefer to bring a backpack instead of rigid wheelie suitcase. It's also important not to exceed the luggage weight and size recommendations. You can find this information in the 'What to Take' section of the trip notes. It will make it easier when walking around metro or train stations with your bag. Sometimes lifts aren't available and you would need to walk up and down some stairs carrying your luggage.
Summer temperatures can be extreme in many of the regions visited (over 40°C), which can be uncomfortable. It's important to use sun protection, wear layers to combat the heat and drink plenty of water. Please also note that not all hotels in Europe would have Air Conditioning system, but only fans. It may be uncomfortable for some in summer heat. Please carefully consider the time of the year you wish to travel and your suitability to that season.
As accommodation on this trip is twin-share, single travellers will share a room with another traveller of the same sex. If you'd prefer not to share, a single room supplement is available at an additional charge. Please ask your travel consultant for more details. Also, hotels in Europe often don't have double beds, but rather two single beds that can be pushed together and rooms in Europe can seem rather small by American or Australian standards.
This itinerary is valid for departures from 01 January 2018 to 31 December 2018. View the itinerary for departures between 01 January 2019 - 31 December 2019
In order for our local operator to be able to buy ferry tickets we need your passport details. Please advise these at least 6 weeks prior to the trip's departure. In addition, to secure Alhambra Palace entrance tickets we are required to provide authorities with full passport details of travellers (name as per passport, expiry date, date of birth, nationality). Without these we may not be able to secure Alhambra Palace entrance tickets for you.
A single supplement is available on this trip with no exceptions.
Our Explore Spain and Portugal trips score an average of 4.62 out of 5 based on 156 reviews in the last year.
Alambrah was incredible and so was Sangrada familia, some of the bigger cities I would visit again in both countries.
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I find Intrepid wonderful as a single female travelling solo, never had a problem and have done 14 tours
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NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. futures rose on upbeat jobs numbers Thursday, though trading remains light ahead of a crucial report from the Labor Department at the end of the week.
After two days in negative territory, the Dow is at risk of posting its first three-day losing streak of the year.
Dow Jones industrial futures rose 33 points to 14,992. S&P futures added 5.2 points to 1,613.20. Nasdaq futures tacked on 7.25 points to 2,945.75.
It's been all about jobs this week.
Payroll provider ADP said Wednesday that U.S. businesses added just 135,000 jobs in May, a rather weak number. Then on Thursday, consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas said that job cuts fell 4.5 percent in April, leaving sentiment fragments about the jobs landscape.
The weekly employment report from the U.S. did not provide much more clarity.
The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits fell 11,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 346,000, according to the Labor Department. While that's down from the previous week, the agency revised the previously reported number to 357,000, up from 354,000.
Trading as been light all week ahead of the most crucial jobs number, the Labor Department's employment report for May.
Economists believe employers added 170,000 jobs last month, after posting a very strong 165,000 additional jobs in April.
Markets will also be paying attention to comparable store sales that will be posted Thursday by retailers.


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Written Arts
For a list of courses offered in the current or coming quarter, please review the Class Schedule (select the quarter you wish to see, hit view, and then choose English Language & Literature from the drop-down menu) or get in touch with one of the Program Contacts listed to the right.
The Written Arts program is part of an interdisciplinary fine arts program at EvCC. The program focuses on study and skill development in writing, in addition to coursework in related disciplines, and offers intensive study in literary art as well as opportunities for applying literary skills to related subject areas. The program is both an intense study of written expression and an exploration of practical applications of those skills.
The Written Arts program at Everett Community College culminates in the Associate in Fine Arts (AFA) degree. Students concentrate in Written Arts while also taking courses in related disciplines. A final project is one of the requirements for the degree, and it is designed to help students seeking employment or transfer to a university. While this degree contains many courses that are transferable to a university, it is not designed primarily as a transfer degree. (Note: The Evergreen State College accepts the AFA degree as a block of 90 transfer credits.)
Students who have a clear intention to transfer to a university for an English, Education, Journalism, Communications or other major should also review the separate guide for the Associate in Arts and Sciences – Option II DTA, which offers a fully transferable block of courses. Please work closely with a program advisor to determine the best plan for you.
Join the Writing Adventure at EvCC
- Take classes with nationally recognized writers
- Learn the ins and outs of publication and magazine production, including the chance to work on the nationally distributed magazine Poetry Northwest
- Participate in the student-run Literature Club
- Sharpen skills that will aid in the development of a professional and personal life far beyond college graduation
- Earn an Associates degree in Fine Arts locally
Career Options
A college degree is not necessarily required to pursue a career in writing. Individuals may write in their spare time, contract for freelance work, or become employed in a small or large enterprise. In some cases, a college degree is necessary if employment is competitive or in a professional organization. Opportunities for writing include roles as novelist/fiction writer, freelance article writer, screen writer, playwright, editor, and publisher.
For further information:
- Writing Club, contact Aaron Barrell
- Possession Sound Writers, contact Kevin Craft


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A: MPEG-4 Part 14 or MP4 is a digital multimedia container format most commonly used to store video and audio, but can also be used to store other data such as subtitles and still images. Like most modern container formats, it allows streaming over the Internet. The only official filename extension for MPEG-4 Part 14 files is .mp4, but many have other extensions, most commonly .m4a and .m4p. M4A (audio only) is often compressed using AAC encoding (lossy), but can also be in Apple Lossless format. M4P is a protected format which employs DRM technology to restrict copying. MPEG-4 Part 14 (formally ISO/IEC 14496-14:2003) is a standard specified as a part of MPEG-4. While the only official filename extension defined by the standard is .mp4, various filename extensions are commonly used to indicate intended content: MPEG-4 files with audio and video generally use the standard .mp4 extension. Audio-only MPEG-4 files generally have a .m4a extension. This is especially true of non-protected content. MPEG-4 files with audio streams encrypted by FairPlay Digital Rights Management as were sold through the iTunes Store use the .m4p extension. iTunes Plus tracks, that the iTunes Store currently sells, are unencrypted and use .m4a accordingly. Audiobook and podcast files, which also contain metadata including chapter markers, images, and hyperlinks, can use the extension .m4a, but more commonly use the .m4b extension. An .m4a audio file cannot "bookmark" (remember the last listening spot), whereas .m4b extension files can. The Apple iPhone uses MPEG-4 audio for its ringtones but uses the .m4r extension rather than the .m4a extension. Raw MPEG-4 Visual bitstreams are named .m4v but this extension is also sometimes used for video in MP4 container format. Mobile phones use 3GP, an implementation of MPEG-4 Part 12 (a.k.a. MPEG-4/JPEG2000 ISO Base Media file format), similar to MP4. It uses .3gp and .3g2 extensions. These files also store non-MPEG-4 data (H.263, AMR, TX3G). M4A stands for MPEG 4 Audio and is a filename extension used to represent audio files. The existence of two different filename extensions, .MP4 and .M4A, for naming audio-only MP4 files has been a source of confusion among users and multimedia playback software. Some file managers, such as Windows Explorer, look up the media type and associated applications of a file based on its filename extension. But since MPEG-4 Part 14 is a container format, MPEG-4 files may contain any number of audio, video, and even subtitle streams, making it impossible to determine the type of streams in an MPEG-4 file based on its filename extension alone. In response, Apple Inc. started using and popularizing the .m4a filename extension, which is used for MP4 containers with audio data in the lossy Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) or its own Apple Lossless (ALAC) formats. Software capable of audio/video playback should recognize files with either .m4a or .mp4 filename extensions, as would be expected, since there are no file format differences between the two. Most software capable of creating MPEG-4 audio will allow the user to choose the filename extension of the created MPEG-4 files.
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A: Audio Interchange File Format (AIFF) is an audio file format standard used for storing sound data for personal computers and other electronic audio devices. The file extension for the standard AIFF format is .aiff or .aif. For the compressed variants it is supposed to be .aifc, but .aiff or .aif are accepted as well by audio applications supporting the format. The format initially created by Apple Computer for storing and transmitting high-quality sampled audio data in 1988 based on Electronic Arts' Interchange File Format (IFF, widely used on Amiga systems) and is most commonly used on Apple Macintosh computer systems. An AIFF file contains the raw audio data, channel information (monophonic orstereophonic), bit depth, sample rate, and application-specific data areas. The application-specific data areas let different applications add informationto the file header that remains there even if the file is opened andprocessed by another application. For example, a file could retaininformation about selected regions of the audio data used for recallingzoom levels not used by other applications. The audio data in most AIFF files is uncompressed pulse-code modulation (PCM). It supports a variety of bit resolutions, sample rates, and channels of audio. This type of AIFF files uses much more disk space than lossy formats like MP3—about 10 MB for one minute of stereo audio at a sample rate of 44.1 kHz and a bit depth of 16 bits. There is also a compressed variant of AIFF known as AIFF-C or AIFC, with various defined compression codecs. In addition to audio data, AIFF can include loop point data and the musical note of a sample, for use by hardware samplers and musical applications. AIFF (Audio Interchange File Format) is one of the two most-used audio file formats used in the Apple Macintosh operating system. The other is Sound Designer II (SDII). Most CD writers can accept AIFF or SDII files interchangeably when writing a Red Book audio CD. AIFF is sometimes referred to as "Apple Interchange File Format."
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BELMAR, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and state Senate President Steve Sweeney's political Facebook status would be "in a relationship" — but maybe trying to work some things out.
Earlier this week, Sweeney had said Christie "prayed" for a hurricane that would bring the state jobs — a remark he quickly apologized for.
Christie, speaking at a news conference Wednesday to mark the start of reconstruction of Belmar's Superstorm Sandy-damaged boardwalk, was asked how he and Sweeney are getting along.
"I never thought I'd be asked what the status of my relationship with the senate president is," Christie quipped. "I love him, but our love is strained," he added as the crowd laughed.
Sweeney, the state's most powerful elected Democrat and a possible contender for his party's nomination for governor, said Christie had no jobs plan before the Oct. 29 storm and reconstruction would provide an economic boost through thousands of new construction jobs.
"His jobs package is a hurricane," Sweeney said during a press conference on Monday, the day before Christie was set to deliver his State of the State message. "I guess he prayed a lot and got lucky because a storm came."
Sweeney immediately apologized for the remark, but maintained that Christie is using the storm's aftermath "to paper over his failure to lead on issues like job creation, economic growth, women's issues, health care and housing."
"Steve and I are fine," Christie said Wednesday, adding that they can still work together even though Sweeney says things that anger Christie, "and vice versa."
Christie also said the fist-bump he and Sweeney shared after Tuesday's State of the State speech had no significance other than that Sweeney is sick and didn't want to infect the governor by clasping hands.
"It's not like our secret handshake," Christie said.
"That might mean the status of our relationship is better than I thought," Christie said, adding that if Sweeney were truly mad at him, he would have shaken his hand in the hope of making the governor ill.
Wayne Parry can be reached at http://twitter.com/WayneParryAC


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Atlantic Coast Conference Academic Honor Roll for the 2013-14 school year features 202 Florida State student-athlete, league officials announced Thursday.
In total, 22 members of the national-champion FSU football team earned this academic honor, including Heisman Trophy winner Jameis Winston and star wide receiver Rashad Greene. Former long snapper Philip Doumar was one of 32 student-athletes in the conference to earn honor roll status for a fifth time.
Winston isn't the only Seminole to capture ACC Player of the Year honors in his sport and then nab a spot on the academic honor roll. FSU women's cross country's Colleen Quigley, baseball's D.J. Stewart and softball's Maddie O'Brien (player) and Lacey Waldrop (pitcher) also accomplished the same feat.
Winston was also one of nine ACC Freshmen of the Year to be recognized academically.
View Complete List of FSU Student-Athletes on 2013-14 ACC Academic Honor Roll


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Radford University is committed to educating students to be prepared for a lifetime of leadership in their communities. That leadership starts with exercising their civic right and responsibility to vote. This page contains voter registration and election information for Highlanders.
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police fired rubber bullets at striking farm workers who set up barricades and threw stones at motorists and security forces on Wednesday in a province whose vineyards are vital to the wine industry. At least 50 demonstrators were arrested, authorities said.
Labor unrest was reported in several areas of Western Cape province, where similar protests last year also turned violent, causing at least two deaths.
Chaotic scenes unfolded in the town of Grabouw, where protesters, some carrying clubs, raced through the streets during clashes with riot police. One man taunted police by pointing a stick at them in the manner of someone lining up a rifle's sights. An injured female demonstrator grimaced as blood flowed down the side of her face.
Dozens of protesters looted a supermarket in Grabouw and dispersed when police arrived and ran into the store, guns drawn, reported Eyewitness News, a South African media outlet.
Footage on eNCA television showed debris in flames on a rock-strewn highway, and the smashed window of a police vehicle. Security forces in helmets patrolled the area. Police Lt. Col. Andre Traut said police had arrested about 50 people across the province, according to the South African Press Association, or SAPA.
The protesters had sought to block roads in a campaign for higher wages and to prevent other farmhands from going to work. They want their daily wages to be more than doubled to 150 South African rand ($17.5), saying they can't survive on current salaries.
Porchia Adams, a spokeswoman for Agri Wes-Cape, a farmers' group, said some workers had been coerced by protesters into staying away from their jobs.
"They said they had been threatened that their houses would be burned down if they went to work, so it was not worth the risk for them," Adams told SAPA. "It is peak season, so we really cannot afford it. We hope this will be resolved soon."
South Africa is a major wine producer. In addition to grape-harvesting, workers involved in the protests work on apple and other fruit farms. Negotiations aimed at averting the strike had failed.
The country's mining industry was also shaken by labor unrest last year. Some of those protests turned violent, culminating in the shooting deaths of several dozen miners by police at a platinum mine.


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Horoscopes for week of June 10, 2004
What greater adventure is there than exploring the enigmas of your unique destiny, Aries? For more hints about the week ahead, listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
One of my readers, Elizabeth Whitsage, told me a story of when she was working at Disneyland selling mouse-eared balloons. Every so often a mother, father, and young son would come up to her, the parents asking in enthusiastic voices "What color do you want?" and the son answering "Pink!" One parent, usually the father, would recoil in horror and say something like, "No, son, don't you want red or blue?" But before the child could reply, Elizabeth would whip a pink balloon out of the bunch and wrap its string around his wrist. Then she'd smile and say to the dad, "That'll be one dollar, please." Keep this story uppermost in mind during the week ahead, Taurus. Make sure that you always get and always give your personal equivalent of the pink balloon.
Where do you want to go in the coming week, Taurus? Who do you want to be? For more clues, tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
From an astrological perspective, last January wasn't an ideal time to make New Year's resolutions. I'd be surprised if you kept any of the promises you made back then. On the other hand, now is a perfect moment to make New Year's-type resolutions. Here are a few free samples to inspire you. 1. "I resolve to seek out conversations that are so intense and interesting that I lose track of time." 2. "While in the throes of road rage, I resolve to howl like a wolf." 3."I resolve to unashamedly pray for cash, enjoy how messy my room is, and sing along loudly with the muzak in public places."
Life will bring you entertaining revelations in the coming week, Gemini. To explore even deeper, dive into your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Jean-Dominique Bauby was a 43-year-old editor when he suffered an unusual stroke. Though his brain remained undamaged, his entire body was paralyzed except for his left eye. Slowly he learned to communicate in code by blinking, and over the next two years he dictated a memoir. Feeling as if he were trapped in a diving bell, but with his imagination as free as a butterfly, he called his book The Diving Bell and the Butterfly. Critics have described it as "inspirational" and "a jewel." Bauby is your role model during this last difficult phase of your yearly cycle, Cancerian. Though you won't suffer from any physical affliction, your psychic turmoil may make you feel imprisoned and inaccessible. And yet I promise you that you can find a way to liberate your mind and convey luminous truths to the people who matter.
Want more clues, Cancerian? Need further insight? I discuss your coming week in greater depth in your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
I don't know if you're the type of person who enjoys trance-dancing half-undressed till 4 a.m. at bacchanalian parties, then prowling the early morning streets barking at the moon and singing songs from Broadway musicals with loony companions until you end up playing strip poker outside an all-night diner as the sun comes up. But if you are that type of person, this will be a perfect week to indulge your inclinations. If you're not, please find an equivalent adventure that you're comfortable with. 'Tis the season to be rowdy.
Need a few more whacks applied to your mental blocks in the coming week, Leo? A few more caresses administered to your growing edge? Cruise on over to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
I propose that you drink a toast to Virgo actress Sophia Loren, who has been in a hundred movies during her long career. To do so may help you take maximum advantage of this phase of your astrological cycle, when your instinct for creating abundance and longevity is at a peak. Are you game? Say this: "May the spirit of Sophia Loren come to me in my dreams and reveal her secret of enduring success." I suggest you also visualize Loren's fortieth birthday, when her husband gave her a custom-made, 14-karat-gold toilet seat. Then drink a toast to yourself, saying: "As compensation for all the times that fate has kicked my ass over the years, may I now receive a reward that's as luxurious as Sophia Loren's magic toilet seat."
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This is a perfect time to translate your recent inner changes into a visible form. If you're an artist, start work on a masterpiece that reflects your fresh insights. If you're a businessperson, dream up novel approaches to making money from doing what you love. If you're a politician, get yourself a new spin doctor. If you're between gigs, experiment with your physical appearance. However you do it, Libra, show the world vivid evidence of how you've transformed.
Want to explore the coming week even further, Libra? Dig deeper? Feel stronger? Consider tuning in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Aeschylus, the seminal playwright of ancient Greece, wrote over ninety plays, but most did not survive the ravages of time. The evidence for his renown has consisted of just seven works. Recently, however, archaeologists have discovered an eighth, "Achilles." It was on a papyrus scroll stuffed inside an Egyptian mummy. This summer, a theater company in Cyprus will stage the play for the first time in over 2,000 years. I urge you Scorpios to be alert for ways this story can serve as a metaphor for your personal quest in the near future. What old but dynamic parts of your life have been all but lost? How can you regain access to them and make them work for you now?
What greater adventure is there than exploring the enigmas of your unique destiny, Scorpio? For more hints about the week ahead, listen to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
Color psychologists say that red stimulates emotional intensity. It can raise the temperature of love and awaken feelings that have been subconscious or dormant. Given the rich potentials for deepening intimacy that are now available, you may therefore want to add more red to your apparel and environment. On the other hand, be aware that red can cloud objectivity and make negotiations more jarring. Since you and your partners will probably want to agree on some common goals, you should include calming blue in the mix. Not too much, though: An excess of blue can cause a chill.
How much do you want to know about your destiny in the coming week, Sagittarius? How far do you dare to go? For more insight into your shimmering, undulating fate, tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope for the coming week. The reading costs $6.
My analysis of the cosmic omens suggests that you have one major assignment this week, Capricorn: to kill germs. I'm referring to both the physical and psychic versions of those tiny invaders. There'll be more of them than usual trying to mess with you. As a public service, I'll remind you of the factors that are most effective in zapping pests of all kinds: hot soapy water, fresh air, sunshine, orgasms, and tears.
No one knows you better than you do, Capricorn. But maybe you'll be inspired to dig up even more self-knowledge in the coming week if you tune in to your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
It's the perfect moment to ask you a question I've been thinking about posing for a long time, so here goes. I'd like to know if you're willing to push hard to get better, improve your attitude, grow your devotion to the truth, fuel your commitment to beauty, refine your emotions, hone your dreams, face your shadow, cure your ignorance, and soften your heart -- even as you pledge to always accept yourself for exactly who you are with all your so-called imperfections, never demeaning the present moment by comparing it to an idealized past or future. Well? Are you?
Hungry for more inspiration, Aquarius? Curious about the unfolding mysteries? For more juicy details about your destiny in the coming week, check out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
"More good has been launched by more people from kitchen tables than any other platform in the land," says populist writer Jim Hightower, quoted in Orion magazine. I hope you take his words to heart, Pisces. Even if your power spot is normally in an office or store or art studio, this week it will be at your kitchen table. Even if you normally like to brainstorm with your allies at restaurants or bars or on long walks, this week you should gather them at your kitchen table. The dreams and schemes you hatch there in the coming days could change the course of history.
Your destiny is a gorgeous mystery, Pisces. Your soul is awakening more every day. The secrets of life are ripening right in front of your eyes. For more clues, consider checking out your Expanded Audio Horoscope. The reading costs $6.
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Derek Jeter only hurried his throw by an instant, and his fifth-inning error was far from a decisive blow.
The captain still blamed himself for the New York Yankees' 2-1 loss to the Los Angeles Angels on Friday night, wasting a stellar start by Bartolo Colon.
Jeter knows better than anybody that New York can't afford any such mistakes when the postseason starts in three weeks.
Pinch-hitter Maicer Izturis drove home pinch-runner Jeremy Moore with a bases-loaded sacrifice fly in the ninth inning, and Los Angeles rallied to send New York to its third straight defeat.
Rookie Jesus Montero hit his third career homer for the AL-leading Yankees, who lost a game on each side of the continent in the past two days. The mini-slump is highly unlikely to affect their postseason hopes, but Jeter doesn't want to see any symptoms of a bigger sickness.
Colon had dominated the Angels until Jeter's throwing error in the fifth inning put two runners on base. Howie Kendrick drove home Peter Bourjos with a tying two-out single to right moments later.
"I could have taken another step, but even without another step, it's a play that needs to be made," said Jeter, who had an eighth-inning single. "You can't give a team extra outs. If I don't throw that ball away and (Colon) gets out of it, it's a different ballgame. I put him in trouble."
New York, which lost an extra-inning game at Baltimore on Thursday, missed a chance to increase its 2½-game lead on the Boston Red Sox, who lost to Tampa Bay 7-2 earlier in the day.
Jered Weaver struck out 11 Yankees during eight innings of three-hit ball, but the Los Angeles ace left without a victory when his teammates couldn't solve Colon, who yielded six hits and an unearned run in seven resilient innings.
"We had our opportunities, but they just played better tonight," Yankees catcher Russell Martin said. "We never really were able to get something together."
Neither were the Angels, until Alberto Callaspo led off the ninth with an infield single off Aaron Laffey (2-2). Vernon Wells singled to left off Luis Ayala, who then hit Bourjos with a pitch.
Izturis' drive to center easily scored Moore for the Angels' 10th win of the season on their final swing.
"We battled it out, and Izzy was able to get that sac fly at the end to win it," Weaver said.
Angels closer Jordan Walden (5-3) pitched the ninth as the Angels stayed 2½ games behind the AL West-leading Texas Rangers, who pounded Oakland 13-4 earlier Friday.
Weaver had his third double-digit strikeout performance of the season, allowing just one runner to reach second base. His teammates' meager run support left him without a win for the sixth time in eight starts.
"It was good to be able to bounce back against a lineup like that," Weaver said. "Those guys can hit a bunch of homers and put some balls in play, so to have a good one like this brought the confidence level back up."
Colon matched Weaver for the Yankees, stranding seven Los Angeles runners along the way, but the 38-year-old is still winless in his last seven starts.
"My sinker was working really, really good," Colon said through a translator. "I feel like I did at the beginning of the season. My command was really good today."
Eight days after Montero's major league debut — and four days after hitting his first two homers in the same game against Baltimore — the prized Venezuelan prospect led off the third inning with a long drive over the bullpens in left field. The prospective catcher is off to an impressive start as a designated hitter, with seven hits in his first six games.
The Yankees played without right fielder Nick Swisher, who felt pain in his throwing arm during Thursday's game in Baltimore. Andruw Jones went 0 for 2 with a walk in place of Swisher, who hopes to return to the lineup this weekend after being examined by doctors.
New York also rested catcher Francisco Cervelli, who acknowledged dizziness after a collision with Baltimore's Nick Markakis on Thursday. Cervelli was in the Yankees' original lineup Friday, but was replaced by Russell Martin a few hours before the first pitch.
NOTES: Former Yankees manager Joe Torre attended the game, speaking with Jeter in the dugout beforehand. Torre kept his residence in Los Angeles after leaving the Dodgers last year. ... CC Sabathia faces Dan Haren in a pitching showdown Saturday. Sabathia is going for his 20th victory for the second straight season, while Haren is looking for his 15th win. ... Reggie Jackson threw out the first pitch. Mr. October played five seasons with the California Angels during the 1980s, making three All-Star teams after leaving New York, where he also spent five seasons. Jackson is a special adviser to the Yankees, but the Hall of Famer wore a red Angels jacket while receiving a big ovation from the Anaheim crowd.


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The following is from our friends at HSLDA. As a service to a sister organization, we are passing this information on to you as we received it.
We have just received word that the U.S. Senate will hold a straight up-or-down vote on Tuesday, December 4, on whether or not the United States should ratify the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). If two-thirds of the senators present vote yes, the United States will ratify this UN treaty.
HSLDA has never opposed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). HSLDA has never opposed the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). But we oppose the CRPD for the simple principle that Americans should make the law for America. It is wrong for the United States to ratify a United Nations treaty that will give up our sovereignty to unelected, unaccountable UN bureaucrats.
We have been told that the pro-CRPD side is waging one of the most aggressive, organized lobbying campaigns ever. The U.S. State Department and Obama administration officials are pressuring individual senators to support the CRPD. It is crucial that senators on our side hear from you, your friends, your family, and from anyone who opposes giving the UN power over our nation, and over our precious children and family members who have disabilities.
Please call your two U.S. senators today, Monday, and Tuesday. You can reach them through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121, or you can find your senators' phone numbers by typing in your ZIP code here.
Senators Lee (UT), Toomey (PA), Paul (KY), and DeMint (SC) are leading the charge to stop the CRPD, so it is not necessary to call them. We are confident that the other 32 Republican senatorswho opposed moving to debate on the CRPD on Monday will also vote against the treaty, but we believe that you should call them anyway to encourage them in the face of strong opposition.
Please give them some or all of this message:
"I urge you to oppose the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. This treaty surrenders U.S. sovereignty to unelected UN bureaucrats and will threaten parental care of children with disabilities. Our nation already has laws to protect disabled Americans. This treaty is unnecessary and will hurt families. If the Senate ratifies this treaty, it would be the first time ever that the U.S. has ratified a treaty that obligates us to recognize economic, social, and cultural entitlements as rights under domestic law."
Then, please forward this email to your friends and family and urge them to also call.Please also post this information on social media to help get the word out to every parent and freedom-loving person in America.
For more information on the dangers of this treaty please visit our CRPD page. There are three full business days left to defeat this treaty and preserve U.S. sovereignty and parental rights. Please keep calling. And please keep praying.
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These past couple of weeks I've been reveling in the recent shift to cooler weather...breaking out my sheepskin slippers, wearing hooded sweatshirts, and sleeping with the windows open. Fall is my favorite for so many reasons, but mostly because it's the beginning of crochet season. I adore spending my days cuddled up on the couch mindlessly stitching gifts for all my loved ones...a hat, scarf, or blanket truly is the ultimate sign of my affection. But, if you're anything like me you hardly ever make time to create anything for yourself. So, here's a little something so quick and easy you could whip up two while watching a movie next weekend (it's even worth trying if you've never picked up a needle and yarn in your life...you won't find a pattern more simple).
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Rnd 1: Ch 3 (counts as first dc), dc in each ch around, join with sl st in top of beg ch - 50 dc
Rnd 2-11: Repeat Rnd 1.
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About Benjamin Butler
Benjamin Butler creates paintings that combine various modes of abstraction and figuration, and which are characterized by simplified forms, solid colors, broad brushstrokes, and motifs of mountains and trees. Since 2001, his works have become increasingly abstract, focusing on rhythmic and geometric forms reminiscent of Frank Stella and Robert Ryman. Butler's paintings intertwine the strategies of Minimalism with painterly romanticism, offering a conversation between and about both. Though trees are the most frequently recurring motif in his works, Butler believes that his true subject is the act of painting. "Sometimes I wonder how many trees I'd have to paint for people to realize that the paintings aren't really about trees at all," he says.
American, b. 1975


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Yep, Blackberry is on the hot seat.
Sure hope that they don't halt the sale of these devices. I love the solution.
Our scars have the power to remind us that our past was real. -- Hannibal Lecter.
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. -- John Wooden
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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Senate subcommittee is investigating whether the deputy inspector general for the Homeland Security department engaged in nepotism and committed other abuses of his authority.
Charles K. Edwards issued a statement on Tuesday denying the claims and insisted that they are "completely without merit."
"I am very disturbed that false allegations have been made against me, but more importantly, I am very concerned that this matter may negatively impact the important oversight work of the Office of Inspector General," Edwards said in a statement from Chennai, India, where he was vacationing with his family.
In a letter sent last week, Sens. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., and Ron Johnson, R-Wis., the chairwoman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security financial and contracting oversight subcommittee, detailed nine allegations against Edwards and asked him for information so that they can investigate.
Among the allegations, the letter said whistleblowers have told the subcommittee that Edwards employed his wife, Madhuri Edwards, in a top job in his office violating nepotism laws, used government vehicles for personal chores and threatened retaliation when he was confronted by staff.
The letter also says whistleblowers accused Edwards of being "susceptible to political pressure" after he allegedly massaged and withheld potentially damaging information from an investigation into the Secret Service scandal involving prostitutes in Cartagena, Columbia.
Edwards said the allegations against him are "not new."
"Many have been the subject of Freedom of Information Act requests, media reports, and Congressional inquiry," he said. "Similar allegations were reviewed and dismissed by various oversight bodies including the Council on Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency."
In their letter, McCaskill and Johnson request that Edwards comply with a series of information requests by July 19.


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The answer: Some of the top names in the business
Samsung/Sybase/Cisco Systems: Samsung provides the hardware, Sybase provides the security, and Cisco provides the networking solutions and enterprise connections.
Juniper/IBM: Juniper provides networking, virtual private network and security systems, and IBM assists with its enterprise clout.
Symantec: The company takes a unique approach to mobile security by compiling a database of ranking apps and assigning score ratings to them on download. It also works on code that would strip apart an app into its various parts to learn its true purpose.
Lookout: The company's technology operates on the edge of mobile security solutions and applications. Lookout originally identified the DroidDream exploit.
Good Technology: Good Technology provides security and management systems for the enterprise and is a BlackBerry rival for mobile management.
Others: MobileIron, NetQin, OK Kernel and Airwatch are worth watching as the market matures.
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Great Woodshops: Living the European Dream
A St. Louis physician spent years assembling the perfect shop.
By Christopher Schwarz
Page: 52-54
From the February 2011 issue #188
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The problem with many "dream shops" is that their visionaries never wake up and get on with building any furniture.
There's nothing inherently wrong with building a hobby shop and having the shop alone being the hobby, but this magazine is about building wooden things inside a shop. So it seems a waste when I visit a shop that never sees a speck of sawdust. For the last few years, I've been following the progress of Dr. Kent Adkins, a young surgical urologist outside St. Louis, who has been methodically planning and constructing an 1,800-square-foot shop attached to his home by a breezeway.
It would be easy to assume that Adkins simply picked the machines and tools with the highest price tags for his shop, but that would be an insult to the years of passionate research Adkins and his friends have put into searching the world for tools that are the best in class and safe as possible.
I've seen Adkins on the floor of the International Woodworking Fair, picking apart the features and details of machines, veneer presses and even hand tools. He traveled twice to the Ligna woodworking show in Germany. I've watched him question sales representatives with the insight of a journalist. And in May 2010, I got to operate his crane.
Video: See the Maka mortiser in action.
Web Site: Download a free video from this shop.
Web Site: Visit the web sites of many of the European manufactures listed in the story.
In Our Store: Mark Duginske's "The New Complete Guide to the Band Saw."
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- What makes your small kitchen so cool:
- I love my kitchen because although it's not very functional, we've managed to make it work. The glass panes make it extremely light and are like a greenhouse for my plants on the windowsill! They've doubled in size since we moved here just over a year ago! I also love the colour combo: red white and grey. Clean and fresh.
- Describe a challenge you've overcome or a smart resource you've found for your kitchen.:
- Our landlord is pretty mean and wouldn't install anything other than the top cupboards (the sink unit is of the standard ugly stainless steel variety that comes with every new apt in France). He also didn't fit the corner cupboard with a door because he placed the cooker hood (which has never worked) too close to it. Anyway, after a lot of thinking and with the help of an Ikea desk (yay for adjustable legs!) and a curtain to hide our ugly plastic shelves, we now have a dainty little kitchen with a 70's vibe! The only thing I hate and can't do anything about is the floor tiles. I can't decide whether they're the colour of wilted roses or old smoked trout. Yuck!
- What's your favorite meal to cook here?:
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