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What Happens When You Miss The Ship?: Norwegian Pearl Cruise Review by rainman013
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What Happens When You Miss The Ship?
Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: Miami
Sunday, February 3, 2008:
Okay, I know that one of the basic recommendation to any cruiser is that you travel the day BEFORE your cruise. I knew this, but on my three previous cruises, I traveled the day of and never had a problem. I threw common sense to the wind and let the gambler in me take control. Dumb me. If you are planning a land trip, to say Mexico, and your plane is delayed, well Mexico ain't goin anywhere...you can get there later or maybe manana. But a cruise ship is a different story. You don't get there on time and the old cliches kicks in More "your ship has sailed" and you're "SOL".
I figured that even if good old American Airlines flight 1048, departing at 8:35 AM from Chicago O'Hare to Miami was three hours late, I would still catch the Pearl, unfortunately it was four hours late. American Airlines, why did you wait four hours to roll out a replacement jet, when you realized you couldn't fix the "circuit problem" in the jet engine on the left wing? If you had rolled out the replacement jet after say two hours, then DW and I, the nice family of three from Rockford, the young couple from Wisconsin and the family of five from Indiana, would have all caught the Pearl. Instead American, after you insisted that there were no other flights available (except for the young couple from Wisconsin, who somehow got on another flight, without their luggage) the rest of us finally arrived in Miami about 45 minutes after the Pearl sailed. Yes American, you did provide those of us who missed the ship overnight accommodation in Miami and reservations the next day on the flight to Cozumel, to meet up with the Pearl on Tuesday, but what kind of hotels are you affiliated with in Miami?
DW and I were assigned to the airport Comfort Inn, a dismal place with a depressing restaurant. Yes they gave us food vouchers, and although the food was okay, you had to order it at the cash register and then they brought it to your table. The hotel seemed to be filled with laborers and construction workers who were staying there. I'm not a snob, I like laborers and construction workers, but jeez, what a depressing start to our much anticipated vacation. I was supposed to be in a romance suite on the Pearl, instead I watched the Super Bowl in the restaurant, one of the few who was even paying attention, while the rest of the people ate in complete indifference, like it was just another game....strange vibe.
I know, it's my own fault....you always travel the day BEFORE the cruise, dummy! Sorry I didn't make the meet and greet Francisco.
Monday, February 4, 2008:
Me and DW decide we are going to turn lemons into lemonade, darn it! We are catching the 12:50 plane from Miami to Cozumel and all is going to be great, we decide. We have breakfast at the unComfortable Inn and board the Shuttle back to the hellhole called Miami International Airport for the Cozumel flight. If you never flew out of MIA, you are lucky...if you are planning to, don't do it! Revise your plans. Go via Fort Lauderdale instead. Long lines, long waits, chaos, unfriendly and unprofessional staff. has to be the worst major airport in America (more on this later). DW and I wait in a long line, to check our bags for the international flight to Cozumel. The American ticket agent asks for our tickets. We explain to her that American has booked us because the flight was late and we missed the ship and blah blah blah. Unfriendly ticket agent says there is a problem and disappears. Me and DW are sweating because if we don't get on this flight there will be no Pearl, no vacation, no fun and we will have to head back to cold, snowy Chicago. After ten long minutes, she finally comes back and says problem straightened out and give us our boarding passes. Phew, close call.
We have a couple of hours to spare and we go to the gate. There we meet the family of three from Rockford: A very nice couple and their twenty-something son, who are also trying to catch up with the Pearl. What do you know? The family of five from Indiana was also there. When boarding time came, we had to board a bus that took us out on the tarmac to board the Cozumel plane. On the bus we met some more people flying to Cozumel after missing the Pearl: A young couple from New York who were supposed to get married on the Pearl and an older couple from New York. We found out their American Airlines flight out of Kennedy had a much worse problem than our O'Hare flight the day before: Their flight caught fire while in the air! They had to make an emergency landing in Baltimore, and they also missed the sailing of the Pearl.
The bus drives a long way out to a remote part of the airport and stops in front of a small propeller plane, not a jet, a propeller plane. We all are saying this just cant be our plane, but it is. I think it holds about 30 or so. DW and I are sitting in row 4 and the stewardess announces she needs two volunteers to move from the front of the plane to the back of the plane because (get this) they needed to balance the plane! American Scarelines are you kidding me? You are making us risk our lives because it's 2008 and you're to cheap to update your fleet and your still flying propeller planes and we have to fly over water and now we have to sit in certain seats to balance the plane? HELP!
Okay, we are tough, we are gonna make this trip a memorable adventure. Me and DW decide we will be heroes and volunteer our services as "balancers" and move to the back of the plane. Besides, I figure, on this plane the back row gets off first and when we get to Cozumel, we will need hotel and food vouchers from American Scarelines, and we want to be the first team to get to the gate agent and make our arrangements and hey how the heck did we end up on the "Amazing Race" anyway?
The flight to Cozumel takes about two hours, on a jet it would probably take half the time. It was a little bumpy, but not too bad. We start to descend and below is a sea of beautiful turquoise blue. After landing, DW and I are first off the plane. We walk down the stairs onto the tarmac and are instructed to follow the American Airlines agent into the terminal and into the customs line. I ask her about hotel vouchers and she tells me to talk to her after we clear customs. She is not sure why we need vouchers and is unaware of our airline-caused delays. The Cozumel airport is small, new and clean. The luggage comes out and customs is a breeze. We walk to the American Airlines counter and there is nobody there manning it. In fact, all the ticket counters are dead...not to many flights going on at this airport at this time of day. Soon after we are joined in line by the other teams trying to catch the Pearl: Team Rockford, Team Indiana and the two teams from New York. We soon learn that the only American Airlines employee at the airport is the agent who escorted us off the flight and she is busy with a "problem" on the flight leaving for Houston and will be with us in about 20-30 minutes. This doesn't sit well with us gringos who don't like waiting.
Finally the agent arrives at the desk and wonderful Hispanic lady from one of the New York teams, the one that is getting married aboard the Pearl, takes over on behalf of all of us. She speaks Spanish and is able to better communicate with the agent. American Airlines really comes through for us this time. They book us at the beautiful Casa Mexicana Hotel, directly across the street from the dock where the Pearl will be tying up in the morning. They give us a dinner allowance and are sending to vans to pick us up and take us to the hotel. Things are really looking up!
We arrive at the hotel and it's really nice, new and beautifully designed with outdoor decks and atriums. Nice room with balcony and from our balcony I can see the dock, currently occupied by the Carnival Freedom. We order room service of delicious Mexican food. Hotel service is wonderful. We are happy. DW and I decide to do a little shopping. We look in several of the shops, heading down to the square and back, picking up several souvenirs and gifts along the way. It's dark now and the Carnival Freedom looks beautiful, all lit up. We meet up with Team Rockford and decide to go have a drink at Carlos and Charlie's. Bill, the patriarch of Team Rockford generously pick up the tab for all of us for those giant yard long slushy drinks while we sit and chat and watch people do the limbo with the waiters pouring long streams of booze in the participants mouths as they go under the pole. After the limbo, the five of us hit the dance floor....we have a blast! DW is impressed that I actually danced...I am too. We leave the bar and head back to the hotel next door. The Carnival Freedom is gone....set sail, nowhere in sight. Tomorrow we will finally catch up with the Pearl. Tuesday, February 5, 2008:
I wake up early, maybe about 6 or 6:30 and go out on the balcony. I look out by the dock and there she is...we finally caught up with her! The beautiful Norwegian Pearl is backing into her slip in the dock across the street. We get a call from our new friends from Rockford and decide to meet downstairs and walk over to the ship together. We arrive at the dock, present our passports and a porter takes our bags on a large cart. as we are walking down the pier I am looking up at the ship, trying to locate our aft cabin balcony and I trip over something, recovering my balance before I fall, but making a total fool of myself...oh well. I am happy, we are here.
At the door to the ship we are met by an NCL agent who has us on a list of over 30 people who have missed the ship. He tells us to leave our luggage and follow him to the reception desk where we check in, arrange our onboard accounts and get our cruise cards. DW and I walk to our beautiful aft cabin 10666 where waiting for us is a bottle of wine, bottle of champaign and basket of fruit. NCL thank-you! You are treating us right. We originally booked a mini-suite but were upsold into the romance suite, affording us certain "VIP" privileges. We give the concierge Carlos a call. He comes by our room and is vary helpful setting up dinner reservations for us for our remaining three nights. DW and I go to the Blue Lagoon for breakfast as it's either that or the buffet. We enjoy a delicious breakfast and are relieved to finally be on the ship. From the window we see a sea turtle swimming in the turquoise water several decks below. It is an awesome sight.
We relax and unpack and then explore the ship. We decide to walk back into town and do a little more shopping. We have been in Cozumel about 24 hours by now and are glad to get back to the ship and relax. We sit out on the balcony enjoying the view of the dock and our Casa Mexicana Hotel. Soon the ship sets sail. I am enjoying watching the sun going down from our aft balcony and snap several pictures. DW is at the makeup table getting ready for our dinner at Cagney's.
Cagney's is delicious. I have the New York strip and DW has the lamb chops. We are exhausted but decide to go see the Second City Show in the main theater. We both think it's really good. We laugh, but we are tired. Two days of trying to catch up with the Pearl has finally taken its toll on us. I play a little roulette in the casino, the cool one where you put your money in the slot and make your bets on the touch screen. I lose about ten bucks and decide to go back to the cabin and watch the Super Tuesday coverage on CNN. Glad to be on the Pearl.
Wednesday, February 6, 2008:
We get up early. DW and I go to breakfast at Summer Palace...it's okay, nothing special. DW's pancakes tastes like McDonald's pancakes...no big deal. Ship is still sailing, about 90 minutes from Grand Cayman. DW goes back to the cabin and I check out the casino. The casino is completely empty. I see an attendant in the corner behind a desk and ask her if I can play the machines. She says I can for another hour. I have the whole place to myself. I go back to my roulette machine and start hitting some numbers. I leave ahead $75 for the morning which puts me up $65 for the trip...not bad. I'm happy.
We arrive in Grand Cayman and DW and I use our VIP priority boarding privilege to get the first tender to the island. DW wants to take a tour out to Stingray City. I'm okay with it, although personally I'm not that interested it getting in the water and petting the beautiful, strange sea creatures. We pay $40 per person and board a bus for a local tour operator, not the one sanctioned by NCL. The tour crew seems a little motley but friendly. We board a small boat that has a couple of cracked windows and start heading quite a long distance out to sea. I start to wonder if we shouldn't have booked the official NCL sanctioned excursion instead. I enjoy the boat ride through the beautiful water and after about a half hour we finally arrive at the sandbar called Stingray City. Several tour boats are out there and our guide sets up everyone with snorkel masks and directs everyone into the water....except me. I stay on the boat and snap pics of DW playing with the Stingrays. As I said, playing with them was not my cup of tea, but I enjoyed watching DW have fun and snapped a lot of great pictures. On the way back, our boat stopped to pick up a diver who was collecting Conch shells. I think he just wanted the Conch inside and gave one of the beautiful empty shells to DW...nice souvenir.
We decide to go back to the ship for a late lunch...we are starving. We dine up at the buffet looking out at the Carnival Freedom and the Costa ship...I noticed that they were identical designs. I go back to my roulette machine and give back $30 of profit and am now up $35 for the trip. We relax in the cabin but decide that we ate lunch top late and will have to cancel our 6:00 reservations at LaCucina. Even our "VIP" status couldn't get us a later reservation there, so we have a later dinner at Indigo. DW doesn't care much for her lobster ravioli but loves her Greek salad and trifle desert. My sirloin stake is okay but nothing like the Cagney's steak. The Moulton chocolate cake is amazing. After dinner we go to the South Beach Rave dance review. We especially love the dancer I call "rubberwoman"....man, she is flexible. We go back to the room and watch movies on the movie channels. Thursday, February 7, 2008
A day at Sea. We use our "VIP" status to have breakfast at Cagney's. It is good but not memorable. We have to try the broiled grapefruit with sugarcane and rum after seeing on a sample menu several weeks ago...good but not as goods as it sounds. We explore the pool area and walk around the jogging track a couple of times. I suddenly remember the promenade deck 7 and we walk all the way around the ship. This deck is the best kept secret on the ship. Quiet, no hustle and bustle and a great place to walk or lounge, although the few lounge chairs provided were taken. We go to the Bliss Lounge and I order a BBC, which is a Bailey's banana cream drink that I read about on the CC boards and had to try. mmmmmm. DW goes to Spa and I go back to my roulette machine and proceed to give up my profit and then some more. I think I'm down now about $60 for the trip. I go back to the cabin and sit out on the balcony and read. Already we are getting disembarkation instructions for our arrival in Miami in the morning. Heck, we just got on the ship.
We go to dinner at LeBistro. We are enjoying the quiet ambiance of the room. We start with the french onion soup and it's disappointing. DW sends it back for the mushroom soup and is much happier. The goat cheese and caramelized onion tart is delicious. We both like our entrees, the chicken dish for DW and the duck for me. I loved the creme brulee for desert, DW told me later that the sweetness of it bothered her stomach. We decide to go see the Rootberry show in the main theater. Rootberry is two juggler guys that do some pretty good juggling stuff and try to be funny at the same time. It was amusing, but a bit on the lame side...DW liked it better then me, but it was fun. We went back to the room and started packing while watching political stuff on CNN. I sat out on the deck and enjoyed the warm air and stars. Our journey is coming to a quick end.
Friday, February 8, 2008
I wake up at 5 AM, its still dark. Ship is pulling into Port of Miami. We go up to the buffet for early breakfast. Carlos the concierge had sent us disembarkation instructions for VIP priority disembarkation. We are instructed to meet him at the Stardust Theater at 6:45. Even though our flight to O'Hare isn't until 2:30, we decide to go as early to possibly try to get an earlier flight to O'Hare. Carlos leads us off the ship at about 7 and we really are the first to walk off. We breeze through customs and hop in a cab to Miami International....the dreaded Miami International.
We stand in another long line till we get to the ticket agent. She tells us there are plenty of seats on the 11:15 flight, but claims she has to put us on standby and can't simply change the reservations to confirmed seats. I offer to pay the $25 fee for confirmed seats but she waves off my suggestion assuring us we won't have a problem. We go through a very long, undermanned security line (what's going on TSA? You have eight security stations and only two are open?) but we have plenty of time, even for the 11:15 flight.
We proceed to gate E33 for AA Flight 703, where we encountered the rudest, most foul gate agents in the history of air travel. Both Hispanic ladies, one with mid-length dark blond hair and the other with short black hair. I went up to the blonde one to ask a question about our status and she snarled at me that she was too busy and to come back later. I came back later and she would only tell me we were on a list and snapped at me to go sit down. I was dumbfounded. If I argued with her or protested her rudeness, was she going to purposely move me down the list and keep me off the flight? Would she call the cops on me and have me dragged away to the Dade County jail? My wife tried to talk to the dark haired one and got the same snappy treatment. All we want to do was ask a couple of questions, you horrible b----. If you hate the traveling public that much, maybe you better think about a career change. As soon as I wrap up this review, I will be notifying AA about your rudeness. You were even stupid enough to give a hard time to another AA employee who was trying to get on the flight and even a stewardess on the very flight itself. She must have hated me too...we got on the flight but she put us in row 44 of the completely full 767 jumbo jet, the very last row between the two bathrooms. Worst seats on the plane, but we got home safe and we had a fantastic time, in spite of the setbacks
Final Thoughts:
NCL: Thanks for everything. It's not your fault that the ship had to sail without us. Once we caught up with the ship you treated us great and provided us with everything you promised and more. We will defiantly cruse with you in the future. The NCL staff was friendly, helpful and efficient.
Miami International Airport: Miami, If you want to be a world-class city you have to have a world-class airport...and you don't. Your airport is pure chaos and disorganization and way too small for the throngs. Your employees are the rudest in the USA. Not a good thing for a city dependant on tourism. I will cruise out of south Florida again but I will fly into the far superior Fort Lauderdale Airport in the future.
American Airlines: Mixed reviews for you AA, mostly on the negative side. When you knew your jet needed major repair, why did you wait four hours to roll a replacement plane, causing people to miss important connections? Why do you make it so difficult and costly to change a reservation? When I tried to get on the 6:30 flight out of Chicago, after I realized I made a mistake booking the 8:45, you made changing my reservation cost-prohibitive, while at the same time you lost a bundle paying for two days of hotel and food and an extra flight. If you changed my reservation you would have saved hundreds of dollars on us. What's with the propeller planes? Time to update your fleet AA. Any plane where people have to move to balance it, doesn't sound worthy of the worlds biggest airline. Much of your personnel in Miami needs an attitude adjustment, or better yet, a ticket to the unemployment line...these people and their surly, argumentative attitudes should not be serving the traveling public and are a black eye to your airline.
On the plus side, one of your gate agents at O'Hare was very helpful during the four hour delay(another was rude and not helpful). Your agent in Cozumel was efficient and nice, although maybe you can hire an assistant for her. You put us up in a great hotel in Cozumel. The stewardesses on all three flights were friendly and good.
Final Tip: LEAVE THE DAY BEFORE THE CRUISE!!! Less
Published 02/11/08
Cabin review: 10666
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Enter the revolving doors and all you can see are high, imposing ceilings,
commanding dark art deco-style marble walls, angled corridors and minimalist
modern art hung to perfection – all of which combines to give a distinct air of
financial clout.
It's like being transported into the 1920s Fritz Lang film, Metropolis, where
the favoured live above ground and the less favoured below. But this is no film
set. It's the main lobby of the building that used to house the Daily Express
and now plays home to Goldman Sachs in London's Fleet Street.
An immense feeling of power and influence spreads across the impressive
entrance hall and continues up to the spacious top floor breakout room
overlooking the River Thames where I meet one of the investment bank's managing
directors, Christopher Wales.
The words influence, power and financial clout are not used lightly. During
more than a quarter of a century, Wales has achieved what many in the
profession, in both the public and private sectors, would hope to accomplish in
a lifetime.
From a doctorate in medieval history and a PhD thesis entitled The knight in
12th Century Lincolnshire, a 16-year stint at Andersen, then six years on the
influential council of economic advisers, to becoming one of the most senior
members of the oldest global investment bank is no mean feat. But, even more
importantly, Wales is one of the most connected people in business and politics
– on first-name terms with the prime minister and the chancellor.
'I keep in touch with Gordon and spoke to him a few days ago,' says Wales,
not wanting to dwell too much on the fact he is one of Brown's closest
confidants. 'He did say to me that I should let him know when things were going
wrong, but then he added that was everyday,' he laughs.
Wales is a staunch Labour supporter and joined the party in the late
seventies because 'he couldn't believe we'd elected Margaret Thatcher'.
During the early eighties he worked alongside the former shadow Treasury
spokesman, a young Tony Blair (the pair 'did two or three finance bills
together'), managing to establish himself among the senior ranks of the party as
an authority on the economy and taxation – a role that would alert the future
chancellor to his expertise.
'I became known within the party and over the next few years worked with
several senior party people including (former Labour leader) John Smith. I was
then asked to do some forensic work on particular tax issues and when I came
back to London, after a stint in Stockholm for Andersen in 1994, I was asked by
Gordon Brown to look into various tax issues.'
Wales' proximity to the top ranks sparked Brown to ask him to join the
six-strong council of economic advisers where he became his principal adviser on
taxation policy. Wales's expertise then led to one of the most important pieces
of work he carried out under Blair and one of the biggest revenue earners –
around £5.2bn – Brown's budgetary coffers have ever experienced.
'In 1997 the government was looking for some help to put together and design
a windfall tax on utilities. It was designed to recognise the fact that those
companies had, to a large extent, been privatised to up their value. Really, it
was an attempt to recapture some of the lost revenues to the Inland Revenue, but
the key thing was to find a methodology to the rationale for it and we found a
very good way of doing this. Gordon was very pleased with it.' '
Wales contentedly cites this as a key piece of work, but says his biggest
achievement has been 'preventing certain things from happening', although he
refuses to be drawn on what these 'never-before-seen' tax proposals might be.
'One of the delights of the job is that things that get out into the public
domain are, by and large, things that you are keen to see through. Occasionally
you get policy proposals that are not appropriate, so preventing some of these
things happening to business can give you great satisfaction.'
Despite the stereotype of taxation experts as penny-pinching villains, Wales
is regarded as a good cop and during his time on the committee, ensured that
everyone got a fair deal, not just the tax regulator. 'From the things that did
happen, a number of areas on the structural simplification agenda of taxation
were very dear to my heart. I've always felt that within the UK system there
were a number of quite significant features that forced businesses down a
particular torturous tax route – so why not make it easier for them?'
This is a field he has determinedly ploughed during his 26-year career and,
in a sense, sums up Wales' mission to ensure a simple, but fair taxation system
that allows UK businesses to compete effectively and profitably in a global
marketplace. The culmination of this mission, he says, was the creation and
launch of the Oxford University centre for business taxation (see box) on 4
November this year.
Based at the Saïd Business school and backed by £5m-worth of funding from the
influential Hundred Group of Finance Directors, the centre has been set the goal
of using academic weight, alongside HM Revenue & Customs and business
expertise and assistance, to achieve a more competitive tax system for British
'If you look at what's happening in the world economy, globalisation is of
tremendous importance and has a huge influence on tax systems beyond just a
European level. We have to have the right tax structures to deal with global
issues and that involves looking at the fundamentals of the tax system.
'There's no obvious right answer, but unless you are prepared to stand back
and look at each system as a whole, then the risk is that you do bits in salami
slices and you never get to the right answer for the whole thing.'
Wales is passionate about tax and ensuring the UK gets a competitive and
even-handed fiscal system. And he says there is still much more the government
can do.
'We need a more straightforward form of business taxation. A lot of the work
I was commissioned for between 2002 and 2003 was to move towards the idea of a
single source framework of business taxation that takes away the arbitrary
distinctions between one kind of income and another.
'If you look at some of the tax systems around the world there are far fewer
divisions in business income and far fewer distortions in sources of income
taxed. It would make it much easier for UK companies to operate and compete
effectively if they didn't have to go through all the necessary steps to ensure
they remain tax efficient.'
But Wales has some concerns when it comes to the subject of the newly merged
HMRC and the way in which he believes tax policy has been left by the wayside.
'The area I'm most nervous about is how HMRC handles the policy side. If it
had been left to me, then I would rather have seen policy teams left as they
were. The situation it has moved to now is fundamentally unsatisfactory and it
doesn't really have anybody who has a good overview of tax policy as a whole.
'Also, if you look at the Treasury today, does it really make sense to have
one person looking at business taxation and another person responsible for the
international side? Surely there ought to be someone who looks over the top of
all that and who has the right economic and tax-related credentials to develop a
system that makes sense not just for the UK, but for the international context?
'By dividing the teams in the way they have – so all the policy makers are
nearly all in the Treasury – you destroy that kind of continuity.'
Wales has some strong opinions on the future of UK taxation, which he will
inevitably share with his peers at Goldman Sachs, the Oxford tax research centre
and even the chancellor.
As I leave our interview and once again reach the minimalist lobby, the
receptionist tells me there has been a power cut across the ground floor. Wales
may be one of the most powerful business people around, but there are some
things that even he can't control.
CV2004 Managing director, financing group, Goldman Sachs International2003-04
Visiting fellow, faculty of law at Cambridge University2003-05 Member, council
of economic advisers at Treasury; principal adviser to the chancellor of the
exchequer on taxation policy1998-03 Led EU code of conduct group on business
taxation on behalf of paymaster general Dawn Primarolo1990-97 Partner, Arthur
Andersen1979-90 Arthur Andersen, London and Stockholm1982 Qualified as a
chartered accountant
Last month's launch of the £5m Hundred Group of FDs-funded Oxford University
centre for business taxation marked the culmination of years of careful
consideration and 12 months' hard work for Christopher Wales.
Conceived during a conversation with Jon Symonds, CFO of AstraZeneca and
until recently Hundred Group chairman, Wales was confident that his vision for a
centre to help British business become more competitive globally could become a
firm reality.
Symonds invited him to talk to the Hundred Group where the plans were well
received. Wales pitched the idea to Cambridge University and the London School
of Economics before a decision was made to base the centre at Oxford. The Saïd
Business school's existing focus on finance, corporate governance and regulation
made it a perfect fit.
But the centre has its detractors. Richard Murphy, senior adviser at the Tax
Justice Network, criticised the centrefor focusing too narrowly on tax issues
for the FTSE100.
'Business taxation only makes sense within a broader range of fiscal issues,
so the whole range of taxes and the interaction between them have to be
considered,' he says.
But despite its opponents, a majority of tax, business and government
representatives believe the centre is a step in the right direction in order for
academia, UK plc and Whitehall to collaborate and debate the best way to improve
the UK's taxation system, so that British businesses can prosper on the world
Christopher Wales' CV
- 2004 Managing director, financing group, Goldman Sachs International
- 2003-04 Visiting fellow, faculty of law at Cambridge University
- 2003-05 Member, council of economic advisers at Treasury; principal adviser
to the chancellor of the exchequer on taxation policy
- 1998-03 Led EU code of conduct group on business taxation on behalf of
paymaster general Dawn Primarolo
- 1990-97 Partner, Arthur Andersen
- 1979-90 Arthur Andersen, London and Stockholm
- 1982 Qualified as a chartered accountant
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M.S. Guru's Emu-Raising Ponzi Scheme
In India, thousands of citizens were duped out of an estimated $50 million after authorities uncovered a massive Ponzi scheme that promised steady returns supposedly generated not from stocks, not from options … but from raising emus.
Guru operated Susi Emu Farms ("Susi Farms"), which promised potential investors a weekly return of $120 in exchange for a $3,000 investment that supposedly purchased a baby emu. Susi Emu Farms took on the obligation of raising the emu, and investors were told that the returns were possible because of the alleged value in emu meat and oil. The dependable returns, as well as the use of advertising featuring popular Indian film stars, caused the scheme to spread like wildfire. In total, authorities estimated that Susi Farms took in more than $100 million from at least 8,000 investors.
However, the truth was that neither the meat nor the oil from emus was valuable. When incoming investor funds were not enough to sustain the growing obligations to existing investors, the scheme collapsed and Susi Emu Farm executives fled town.
In an unusual turn, when it was revealed that at least 100,000 emus were abandoned and left to starve, the Indian government was forced to step in and purchase $200,000 in emergency rations to feed the emus.
M.S. Guru was arrested by Indian authorities 2012 and charged with conspiracy and cheating after the scheme unraveled.


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So there was Robert Gibbs on the White House lawn, defending to Mika Brzezinski the letter from the Obama administration saying it favored a compassionate release of the Lockerbie bomber over a prisoner transfer. Oh, wait. That wasn't the White House press secretary—it was Chuck Todd. Sorry about that. But when you view the video I think you might forgive my error. Todd certainly came across like a paid administration flack . . .
In the course of his conversation with Mika on today's Morning Joe, Todd labelled "outlandish" the depiction by the Sunday Times of London of the US position as "double-talk." As Mika continued to press the case, suggesting the US could simply have expressed its implacable opposition to any form of release, Todd complained that it was "easy to back-seat drive" the Obama admin's handling of the matter. Perhaps most laughably, Todd defended the Obama admin's "delicate" diplomacy by claiming "any administration" would have done the same and raising the what-if of another country trying to tell our government what to do. You mean, like Pres. Obama's moves to close Gitmo and take other measures weakening US national security because other countries have complained about them?
Mark Halperin also went all Johnny Cochran for Pres. Obama, claiming the White House's defense of the letter is "pretty compelling."
Boos for Halperin and Todd; kudos for Mika.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: I have to say just personally it seems strange this confetti celebration of him walking off the plane, and it just felt like on this side of the pond, the reaction [by the Obama admin] seemed--it's just my characterization--a little muted.
MARK HALPERIN: Let's get the whole letter and see, but I think the White House's position is pretty compelling.
BRZEZINSKI: My understanding from this letter--and we'll get it, we'll look at it--is that the United States preferred compassionate release as opposed to a prison transfer. And that indicates that they preferred one type of release versus another, instead of [claps hands hard in emphasis] just keeping this guy in prison.
CHUCK TODD: . . . Let's take a step back here. Imagine another foreign government was telling our Justice Department what to do. So the fact is, I think this was a very delicate diplomatic dance that this administration, and any administration, would have been doing, which was to do this stuff as best you can, back channel, you do this. And then you say, OK, we don't want him released, but if you release him, don't send him back to Libya. So again, I think this is a--the way the story was written was pretty outlandish.
BRZEZINSKI: We'll get the letter. But doesn't it seem to you that perhaps there could have been a letter that says: do not release this guy? We prefer nothing. He stays where he is, and we condemn him getting anything he wants.
TODD: It seems to be in there. But then I'll say this. Let me play devil's advocate. If that is what you wanted, and he gets released anyway, then do you not want every effort made that he's not sent back to Libya. You've got to sit there and play through all the scenarios of what could have happened. It's easy to back-seat drive this.
BRZEZINSKI: . . . The bottom line is, this is important because 200 hundred American families were destroyed by this.
TODD: Mika, what's more important is if the British government will release all of the correspondence that BP had, because that's something they are apparently refusing to do.
Let's summarize The Todd Defense:
- We didn't dare express a strong opinion to the Brits. Imagine another country telling us what to do!
- The Times of London take, calling the US position "double-talk," was outlandish.
- "Any administration" would have done what the Obama admin did. Does Todd really think George W. Bush wouldn't have taken a tougher position?
- Don't "back-seat drive" the administration. Leave Barack Alone YouTube to follow.
- Let's change the topic to BP.


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Alaska militia leader sentenced to nearly 26 years
ANCHORAGE — A boyish-looking young man with a soft voice who spewed anti-government rhetoric and amassed weapons in a plot to kill federal law enforcement officials will spend nearly 26 years in a federal prison.
Schaeffer Cox was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court on nine felony counts, including conspiracy and possessing illegal weapons. The 28-year-old is the third and last member of the Alaska Peacemakers Militia to be sentenced after authorities used an informant to infiltrate the group.
Cox came off at times as arrogant during his trial last spring, but he spoke with a very different demeanor during the two-hour sentencing hearing.
"I put myself here, with my own words," he said, choking back tears. "And I feel horrible about that."
Federal prosecutors portrayed Cox as a dangerous militia leader who helped stockpile a huge cache of illegal weapons while plotting a strategy to one day kill judges, state troopers and other government officials.
Cox got the attention of the FBI in late 2009 because of speeches in Montana that claimed the Fairbanks militia had 3,500 members and was armed with mines and other military weapons. But the group only had about a dozen members and, as Judge Robert Bryan noted, never trained for military duty.
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IAEA head visits Finnish nuclear cave
Yukiya Amano, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, will on Thursday visit the world's first permanent storage facility for nuclear waste on Finland's west coast.
Finland's ambitious project to bury nuclear waste in a facility meant to last 100,000 years has recently attracted a great amount of international interest.
The disposal cave is being built near the Okliluoto power plant by Posiva, a company jointly owned by energy utilities Teollisuuden Voima (TVO) and Fortum. On Thursday, the repository will welcome the head of the UN atomic agency, Yukiya Amano.
"This is a great opportunity for TVO to show what significant projects are in progress here," says TVO's Communications Manager Lauri Inna. "Finland is a world leader in permanent disposal of spent nuclear fuel. Energy solutions are contemplated in many countries, and Olkiluoto offers one solution how to take care of this."
Amano is in Finland on a three-day visit that began on Wednesday. He is discussing nuclear security and the situation in Iran with the Finnish political leadership.


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A week after the original fixture was postponed more than 24 hours before kick-off due to a frozen, snow-covered pitch, Old Grovians have named a 22-man squad to travel to Halifax on Saturday in SSE Yorkshire Division Four.
Ovenden Park has already been a profitable hunting ground this season as Grovians enjoyed an emphatic 61-12 win in the Yorkshire Silver Trophy and, after scoring 64 points against them in the opening league meeting, they'll be looking to complete a clean sweep as they continue to press their claims for promotion.
Old Grovians include dynamic flanker Brad Williams and experienced fly half Anthony Cadman for the first time in 2013.
Utility back Joel Bradley and wingers Ricky Hopkinson and Ben Magee also return to the squad.
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Harlem Globetrotters trust fans to write the rules for game at Olivet
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The Original Harlem Globetrotters 2013 "You Write the Rules" Tour
is coming to Olivet, Thursday, April 18, 7 p.m. Did you know that the fans have the opportunity to vote for the rules they want implemented when the team plays at McHie Arena?
Thousands of votes have already been cast during this tour, and the rules that the fans choose are a surprise each night. You can vote online
What is the most outrageous rule of all so far? According to the Globetrotters, it is "2 Ball Basketball." Playing with two basketballs at the same time is unheard of, but the players can't get enough of this.
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Last October the driver was slapped with a £110 ticket in Kingston Hill for parking on the pavement.
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WHALER: William Dallas - Stewart Island New Zealand
Looking for any info on the origins of this early NZ settler; he was born circa 1810 and was buried Riverton, NZ 1875. Had been resident on Stewart Island at The Neck with his Maori wife, Motoitoi and children. Was employed variously as whaler, ships carpenter, boat builder.
Hello karrienz,
I know that William was in Riverton (which was then known as Jacob's River) earlier than 1845 as that was when he, Captain John Howell, Lewis Acker and Paddy Gilroy built and sailed the schooner AMAZON to Tahiti. They returned into Wellington (then known as Port Nicholson) in 1846. William went as the ship's carpenter. The Amazon was totally wrecked at Bluff in 1852 without loss of life
Paddy Gilroy was quite a 'character' a whaling captain who settled in Bluff after hazarding the Southern Ocean in the decrepit CHANCE crewed by Yankee deserters, Maori friends and European sailors of questionable reputation.
Lewis Acker was from America and whaling around the bottom of New Zealand as early as the 1830s.
The first recorded whaler recorded in and around New Zealand was Captain Ebor Bunker in 1892 (Ebor was an American who played quite a considerable part in the early history of the colony Australia and after leaving the sea settled down at Liverpool, near Sydney, where he died in 1836)
By 1845 there were over 100 whaling stations in New Zealand so it may be very hard to find exactly how or when Wlliam Dallas arrived.
Being natural seamen, the Maori frequently joined the crews of whale ships and the local tribes soon proved themselves to be successful, astute providers supplying the whalers with vegetables, fish and pork. Generally, relationships between whalers and Maori were good. Occasionally, whalers established close, long-standing relationships of convenience with tribes through inter-marriage.
I cannot find Williamm's marriage to Motoitoi at this time so it may have been a common-law marriage.
He was married to a Margaret which may have been Motoitoi's 'english name' - she died in March 1895 aged 82, (1813) 32 years after Wiliam and they are buried together
Burial details of Margaret Dallas
Henry Hirst arrived in New Zealand in the 1850s. Amongst many other things, Henry laid the foundation stone of the Riverton Town Hall and became a member of the Bluff Harbour Board. In 1860, he married Margaret, a daughter of (the then late) William Dallas of Riverton and had two sons and six daughters.
Henry died 14th Dec 1911 aged 73
Margaret (nee Dallas) died 26th Dec 1914
Margaret's burial data
In November 1862 William applied to buy 100 acres of rural land at Clutha
In December 1864 William narrowly escaped drowning at Riverton. He had gone on board the schooner KATE
In July 1868 the 3rd Annual Ploughing Match of the Molyneux Agricultural & Pastoral Society was held in a paddock on the farm of William Dallas. Molyneux was the early name of Clutha
In August 1889 William's oldest son married the eldest daughter (possibly Agnes 1870-1938)) of George Hay Gilroy of Clutha (not known if he was related to Paddy Gilroy) - George Hay Gilroy was born near Edinburgh in 1840, arrived in Bluff on the NEW GREAT BRITAIN in August 1863, started a blacksmith business at Bluff, married Agnes McNiven in Milton, Otago in December 1866 and had 1 son and 5 daughters
William died on the 12th July 1873 at his residence at South Riverton. He was 63 (1810)
His burial details
should read: The first recorded whaler recorded in and around New Zealand was Captain Ebor Bunker in 1792
Hi Ngaire - thank you for providing such a splendid reply to my wee note about William Dallas. It's been a while since I took a good look at his family papers I've gotten together over the past 15 years. I've seen the wonderful website My Ancestor's Story and hope to collaborate with Juanita sometime on the full 'story' of William - she's here in CHCH.
Motoitoi was 'married' to William by Bishop Selwyn in 1844 when he sailed down to Stewart Island whilst making his way around the country encouraging the missionaries and 'godless' folk he came across to marry and babtise the children.
Margaret Anderson was a widow when she married William, and he was Step-father to her daughter Caroline. Mr Hirst and Margaret Dallas; well, they had a huge family and by all accounts eventually in time distanced themselves away from the Dallas' families. Jane married John Lee, a bootmaker not boat maker (this caused no end of trouble for another Lee family and several local Riverton geneologists and there was a final decision made about this point several years ago, in all seriousness, because it caused no end of ansgt between the two families...long story...
Anyway John and Jane had several children; George was my Gt Grandfather and his descendants are spread out around the South Island. I've met a few, which has been nice. I've a lovely photo of Jane as a girl and also William and Margaret. They were both elderly when it was taken and he looks a little careworn to say the least - hard life in those days. Margaret was AKA Granny Dallas and by all accounts was very active into her old age with accounts in P/Past of her embroidered tray cloths at the local shows in Otautau and visits from her daughters etc - I love that site!
I was interested to see your comment about a farm in Clutha...but I think possibly this was another William Dallas as he appears in P/Past in 1880 and 1883. There's never been any mention of a farm but i'll check it out as it may be another close relative in the Dallas family. I have to go now and put a comment on the www.maori.org.nz forum board where I see there are still folk going on about the John Lee/Jane Dallas marriage all linked up with the wrong Lee family. It was sorted 10 years ago!
Hi Shazjlee - so glad you could find something about your family here; looking at your family names it would appear that my gt grandfather George Lee (bn 1870) is elder brother to your gt grandfather (or gt gt grandfather depending on how old you are) Francis Matthew Lee (bn 1865). I've not researched much into the land grants etc...I know that this (mid 1860 -70's) generation of the family were all named in several land grant lists etc (originally William Dallas and his children were on Stewart Island but then moved to Colac Bay nr Riverton in the 1850's) and I think the original records are held in public records here in CHCH, Maori Land Court, 79 Peterborough St re being descendants of Motoitoi you may already know which block of land your Anti held - the public library lists Motoitoi's Whakapapa in detail - I photocopied it several years ago - the staff can help you find the registers. Also in the central library are the Reverend Wohlers BMD registers he kept on Ruapuke Island where many of the Maori and Pakeha settlers in the Stewart Island and Riverton areas married and were babtised etc - As mentioned in my post above, William Dallas was married to Margaret Anderson many years after Motoitoi died. I found the marriage of Margarets daughter, Caroline in Williams house, in Wohlers registers and there's just a lot of interesting notes about the people of that time that Wohlers made. I've only had a look at them once so far:
Ngai Tahu Collection Ruapuke Registers 929.3 WOH
There's a lot of information in Southland newspapers and books about Henry Hirst and his family. I don't have much on your side of the family; Francis Lee's first wife was Annie Seaborn Shave - they had 3 children, Annie, Frank and George. Elizabeth Hirst was the 2nd wife and she had Stanley Albert and his two brothers, Reginald and Aubrey I have these names from an old 'tree' my mother got hold of about 25 years ago; the actual birthdates etc should be on the archives NZ on- line website for BMD's. Such a boon now - saves so much time from looking up microfiche for hours.
I've been lately interested in William Dallas and John Lee and where they lived and where they came from - not an easy task with such scanty info from way back when. Motoitoi was of the Katimamoe people and there's probably some other maori/pakeha linked to her or her tribe that you may find on www.maori.org.nz. I was interested that you have William 'M' Dallas - that's the first time I've seen his name with that initial...someone mentioned on a forum a William 'Edward' Dallas but I thought that might have been another person.
The best place to get in touch for general info on the Dallas and Lee families of Riverton would be The Early Settlers Museum in Riverton they have stuff they'll photocopy and send for a small fee. (I was there 10 years ago so they may have more newer items now in the files) The paperspast website is very interesting to look for info on the family. Your Stanley Albert and his family may be mentioned in some of the early newspapers. I've found my grandfather, bn 1900 - his mention in the Otautau paper when he was only 5! lol wee baby.
Anyway my dear, you live in CHCH and so do I...I'll message you my phone number and perhaps we can chat about some more family stuff a little easier. Look forward to hearing from you sometime. Karen
Hi Karen
I am trying to find information on the ancestry of John Lees Wife Sarah nee Temo/ Timu /Timo.
She too was of Maori ancestry and I am told of Ngati Kahungunu and Ngai Tahu.
Their daughter Maria Lee married John Baird, and her obituary states her father was Andrew Lee But not not sure this is correct.
Sarah and John( Andrew?) were married in 1844 by Bishop Selwyn and are on the Ruapuke register.
I was looking for info on Sarahs whakapapa.
I found this register from the Ngai Tahi book which lists Motoitoi, but not Sarah Lee nee Timo
Hi Thanks for getting in touch - John Lee who married Sarah Temo/Timo - not in my family history - take a look at www.maori.org and put 'William Dallas' into the search box - should get two links after schrolling down results page:
1] Aston,Ashton,Lee,Williamson, - great info for you about Sarah and John - not a lot about Sarah's origins and the posts are old
now - in this post from
Posted: 05/02/2008 - states about Sarah Timo but in the 2nd link
2]Timu, - they post [2nd from bottom] the following which is not correct:
Posted: 04/02/2008 -
John (Jacka)LEE = Sarah Timu
b England b abt 1810 Ruapuke Is
their children are;
John William LEE =(1)Mary Ann Bates (2)Jane Dallas- note: John William Lee was their son bn North Island; but didn't marry these ladies - another John Lee [bootmaker as mentioned in my post above on this site] - there was terrible confusion for many years about these two John Lee's. I'm not sure where you find 'A picture of Sarah is on the wall at Ngai Tahu in Christchurch I believe it is in the Whakapapa unit ' that Muz mentions - after the earthquakes I hardly know how to drive around town anymore! but you could find that out on the web - how amazing if there is a portrait of Sarah :)
any way good luck with your search. ps Ngai Tahu Collection Ruapuke Registers 929.3 WOH are in the library at Christchurch - births deaths marriages by Rev Wohlers - google him very interesting. Sarah and Johns children may have been christrned or married by him.
oops just seen your original journal post and you've seen them already! just a note though - John James Burrows Baird was his father Andrew Baird and the clerk wrote the wrong name on the obit?
Hi, I am a descendant of Sarah Timu, I am trying to trace her parentage. Any help would be much appreciated. We have had many different stories of where she originally came from and I would like to be able to confirm which is true.
Thanks Pip
Hi Pip thanks for your query but as mentioned in my previous posts above Sarah Timu was not part of my family history - refer to post above 2015-11-17 - I'm sorry I can't help further. regards Karen


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1. Re: BPM 11g- Terminate process instanceRavi Jegga Feb 23, 2013 4:25 PM (in response to user588394)Hi Raj
1. Terminate means you want to End that Process no matter where it is at any instance of time. Say if I have BPM Process with 10 SwimLanes it can be at any of the Lanes with any User. I am taking simple Example with Human Tasks, but you can apply for other component like Timer servces etc.
2. I hope you are aware of 2 things specially for Human Tasks: Action named "Withdraw" and a role named "Process Owner". For any human task, under Actions menu you should See a Withdraw option. You can code your application to capture this output using XOR gateway and if outcome is "WITHDRAW" directly end the process and go to End Node. If you have many places like this, there is easy way instead of running wires eveywhere. Create a simple throw even that goes to End Node. And after each human task check outcome if Withdraw, that that error, which will end the process. I hope you got the point.
b) The reason I mentioned Process Owner is, generally I do NOT give Withdraw control to each User who can work on any Task. If accidentally that User do this action, thats it. The process ENDS and you can never retriive it back. So under .TASK file, I preven Withdraw action to Asssignee and Instead give this action only to OWNER (Process Owner). Process owner is like admin who can pretty much see any tasks and I would give him all the permissions like these Withdraw, Reassing, Suspend etc etc. This gives more controlled power to your application. Anyhow, in bpm workspace, login as process owner and search for any Task aged for long time and jus Withdraw it.
You can do all the above using APIs also as far as you have Withdraw action going to the End Node.
If your requirement is something else, ignore above notes. But still you can think along the above lines, if all you want is to Kill a Running Process anytime.
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2. Re: BPM 11g- Terminate process instanceDan Atwood Feb 23, 2013 11:14 PM (in response to user588394)Hi Raj,
As you know, in Oracle BPM 10g Message Wait with an Interrupt feature let us send a notification to a specific work item instance in the process either from another process or using the API. Once notified, we could abort the instance in the process it was interrupted from by setting the "action" predefined variable to ABORT.
In Oracle BPM 11g the equivalent is to add an Event Subprocess in your process. The steps to getting this functionality working in 11g are similar to what you did in 10g. Here's a high level summary of what you'll need to do:
1. Create a correlation in the process.
2. Initiate the correlation.
3. Add an event subprocess in the process.
4. Make sure that the event subprocess's start event is a Message Start Event and check its "Interrupting Event" checkbox.
5. Set the Message Start Event to use the correlation.
Hope this helps get you going,
3. Re: BPM 11g- Terminate process instanceuser588394 Feb 25, 2013 1:02 PM (in response to Dan Atwood)Hi Dan,
I get your point on the 'event subprocess' i.e initiate the correlation and use the correlation and "interrupting" checkbox.
But what do I write in the Event subproces to move the instance to end. Are you implying that event subprocess will only have message start event going straight to message end event and this will move the instance to end.
So if my process instance was waiting in a timer, that timer would automatically get aborted as part of the message start event-->message end event transition defined in the event subprocess.
4. Re: BPM 11g- Terminate process instanceDan Atwood Feb 25, 2013 1:37 PM (in response to user588394)Yes.


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Vancouver schools go digital with education
The big yellow schoolhouse at the intersection of St. George Street and East 43rd Avenue is a study in contrasts. Known as "The Barn" by students and staff at the adjacent John Oliver Secondary School, the 1920s building is a symbol of how many of us live with our feet in the doorways of both new technologies and traditional systems.
The Barn is the oldest building on the property, but aside from the library, it's the only Wi-Fi–enabled spot at the school. In classrooms where students use laptops or tablet devices to do their schoolwork, the walls are decorated with decidedly analogue paper collages about digital citizenship.
At the heart of John Oliver's extensive digital programming is Zhi Su, the school's director of technology and head of its digital-immersion and digital-literacy programs. Su told the Georgia Straight he joined the school as its technology-department head in 2005, when "nobody else wanted to do it".
"I was the geekiest guy on staff," he joked in a John Oliver classroom.
Su's digital programs serve two distinct cohorts. Students whose reading skills fall below grade level participate in the digital-literacy program, where they build literacy and personal-planning skills using iPads. Gifted students in John Oliver's mini school are armed with MacBook Pros in the accelerated digital-immersion program.
These programs offer a glimpse of the digital evolution at work in Vancouver public schools, independent of recent gains Apple has made in the textbook market since it unveiled iBooks 2 in January. That launch announced partnerships with heavyweight textbook publishers Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson, securing Apple's key role in the e-textbook market as digital education scales up.
"It's still early, but I think the days of having old textbooks with out-of-date information are gone," Su said. "It's realistic to think that in five years' time, every student will be a digital-immersion student."
As soon as the Vancouver School Board sets up a Wi-Fi network across John Oliver, which will be soon—John Oliver and King George Secondary in the West End will be Vancouver's first wireless schools before such networks are installed across the district—it will be ready for full digital educational programming.
"That's where the discussion becomes more interesting: who's going to provide devices?" Su said. "How are we going to leverage them?"
So far, students' families purchase the iPads and MacBooks used in Su's programs. The iPads were offered at a discount rate through Apple, and John Oliver is able to support pay-by-month programs for some families. Still, providing discount or subsidized devices for students is "not sustainable" in the long term, Su noted.
Funding is a concern shared by Audrey Van Alstyne, the district principal of learning technologies at the VSB.
"It's really tough for me in this district, because U-Hill [University Hill school near UBC] has no trouble paying for their own technology…on the East Side, the kids do have cellphones and stuff, but I just don't want to widen the gap," she said by phone.
To broaden access to digital devices, Van Alstyne has introduced iPad and laptop carts to schools so teachers can share between their classes. Van Alstyne continues to work with parent advisory councils and private donors to secure more funding for technology, which, alongside other resources for education, is lacking in B.C.
Both Van Alstyne and Su are recipients of the Apple Distinguished Educator award for their leadership in Apple-focused educational technologies. They aren't required to maintain an exclusive affiliation with Apple products, but Apple, they say, is the most practical brand for educational purposes.
"People say 'Are you Apple-only?' I say 'Absolutely not.' But at this time, for 30 students, the Apple is the best device," Van Alstyne said. "My son has an Android at home. He loves it, but he's a great problem solver." For an educator to troubleshoot and provide tech support for many different devices in a classroom isn't realistic, especially when the technology is intended to be secondary to the learning that it facilitates, she added.
For Su, it's a matter of practicality. "Apple actually caters to education, whereas the other platforms don't," he said.
Not all educators agree that Apple is the best way forward in digital education. Aaron Mueller manages the e-library and teaches senior English classes at the Vancouver Learning Network, the city's online distance-education school.
Without using Apple textbooks or making it mandatory for his students to equip themselves with uniformly branded digital devices, Mueller has developed his own online learning materials for students using tools like Project Gutenberg, YouTube, EPUB, WordPress, online library databases, and materials licensed under Creative Commons.
His efforts are guided by a desire to make the most of limited resources and create an inclusive digital-learning environment for students who use a variety of devices, not just Apple products. Mueller embraces the Open Educational Resources movement, which takes its cues from open-source philosophies around creating online materials to liberally share, remix, and reuse.
He's wary of Apple's creeping monopoly on the digital-textbook market, just as he has reservations about letting corporations take the lead in any education system.
"There is so much potential here," Mueller said, in the John Oliver library, of recent local progress in digital learning. "But we have to get the independent voice out there, so that the corporate interests don't usurp the momentum."
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david morrison
Mar 30, 2012 at 8:28am
too bad for the kids. they will now be exposed to pulsed microwave radiation of the same frequency as a microwave oven for the entire school day and throughout their school life. this will have devastating consequences for their health and reproductive capabilities. we will look back at this time if any of us are left and wonder what we were thinking. the few who will be left are the telecom executives who have had their homes and cars retrofitted to protect them from ambient radiation from cell towers and wi fi. www.wirelesswatchblog.org
Slashdot's similar story
Apr 2, 2012 at 4:40pm
Slashdot, a geek website full of technical insiders, has an "Ask Slashdot" story just posted asking why more schools aren't more-thoroughly connected.
Some +5 Insightful comments there on why it is not necessary (from a geek/nerd point of view!) to have intensely online-connected classroom environments.
<a href="http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/04/02/1941235/ask-slashdot-why-arent-s... Slashdot: Why Aren't Schools Connected?
@david morrison
Apr 2, 2012 at 4:56pm
they will now be exposed to pulsed microwave radiation of the same frequency as a microwave oven for the entire school day and throughout their school life.
They already are exposed to microwaves day in and day out. At very low levels.
Wifi might be similar to, say, being outside during the daytime exposed to EMF aka daylight, vs a microwave oven, which might be similar to looking into a laser. Hope you see the difference (and pardon pun).
Do you really think a) none of them have Wifi at home? b) Wifi from neighbours' routers, laptops, mobile phones somehow doesn't reach next door or across the street?
Finally, your link seems an utter hoax / fraud:
"Electromagnetic fields and radiation damage DNA and enhance cell death rates and therefore they are a Ubiquitous Universal Genotoxic Carcinogen that enhances the rates of Cancer, Cardiac, Reproductive and Neurological disease and mortality in human populations.
A search for the UUGC terms seems to find nothing but that same author indicating possible self-referential publications.
Also, since humans have been exposed to EMF, life expectancy has gone UP (radio has been around for a hundred years). Light is EMF too, ya know.
No light, no vitamin D, too much light, skin cancer...
@david morrison, part 2
Apr 2, 2012 at 5:04pm
the few who will be left are the telecom executives who have had their homes and cars retrofitted to protect them from ambient radiation from cell towers and wi fi.
Now, that's just utter bullshit.
Do you honestly believe that?
Do you think they make their kids go to school in tinfoil hats (& suits)?
Do you think telecom execs' houses do not have Wifi in them?!?
Do you think telecom execs leave their cancerous phones in the trunks whilst they drive about in their shielded cars?
That they themselves don't use mobile phones?
I'm not sure if you're extremely gullible, plain ol' stupid, or... make a living selling copper cat 5 (networking) and twisted pair (phone) cables.
Maybe it's you that need some education: critical thinking skills, media literacy, then, perhaps, some radio physics.
david morrison
Apr 3, 2012 at 7:55pm
i see that the telecom shills are out in full force. you don't know the science. you are complete idiots comparing sunlight to pulsed microwave radiation. it just shows your ignorance. the schools should not be exposing kids to a Class 2 B carcinogen which is what WHO has classified it. do your homework.
Telcom Shill
Apr 3, 2012 at 10:46pm
There are many, many things I worry about. PCHs in my local water supply, proper kitchen hygiene, car accidents, bathtubs, stairs. All of these confer a real risk of death or permanent injury. People actually died in bathtubs last year. Many were injured. Happily, no-one died from WiFi radiation last year, nor will anyone die from WiFi radiation in any year to come. There simply isn't enough energy in radiated WiFi to have a biological effect. If you are truly concerned, then I would recommend staying out of the near field pattern (where you can get hot spots) at the antenna, which for WiFi would be about two feet. Make it three, just to be safe...
Lawrence Boxall
Apr 5, 2012 at 12:47pm
Wouldn't mind hearing from people about the issues dealt with in this article. Is there a danger to education because of Apple controlling the textbook market with it's iPad? Do we need need to promote the use of creative commons to ensure that education remains focused on cognitive excellence rather than the imposition of a corporate-friendly worldview. These are the issues raised by the article and I'd dearly love to hear more from my community on these issues.


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Thousands of residents visited polling stations across the district yesterday to have their say on Hertfordshire's first police and crime commissioner.
In total 17,435 people cast a vote in the district's 71 polling stations.
The figure represents 16.4% of the district's population, the third highest turnout in the county.
Stevenage had the highest turnout in Hertfordshire with 20.1%.
The overall turnout for the county was 14.5%.
Counting starts at 11am this morning and the first round of results are expected at about 2pm this afternoon.
Voters had the choice between four candidates from different political parties.
Sherma Batson ran on behalf of the Labour Party.
The Conservatives put David Lloyd forward as their candidate.
Christopher Townsend stood for the Liberal Democrats.
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WACO — Cole Edmiston's eyes widened at the sheer magnitude of his green and gold surroundings.
While the hot June sun beat down on his forehead, the former Gatesville quarterback stood on edge of the north end zone as images of completing passes with tens of thousands of Baylor faithful cheering him on danced in his head.
"I'm just kind of soaking it all in, this is crazy to actually think you're going to play football for this school, ... it's kind of surreal," Edmiston said.
Edmiston, who has a preferred walk-on opportunity with the Baylor football team next season, is hoping to open more eyes Saturday — especially that of Art Briles and his future Bears coaches — when he's one of 17 area athletes playing in the fifth annual FCA Super Centex Victory Bowl at Baylor's Floyd Casey Stadium.
"It's a lot bigger than Gatesville," laughed Edmiston, who will try to maintain the Red team's perfect (4-0) record.
And with the building of new Baylor Stadium set to be completed and open for the 2014 season coupled with an expected redshirt season his first year on campus, Edmiston knows this could be his first and only opportunity to play on the 63-year-old Waco landmark.
But for some like former Belton quarterback Peter Shelburne, who had hoped to pursue a walk-on opportunity at Rice, the Victory Bowl will mark the end of his football career after financial issues forced him to reconsider his options and attend the University of Texas as a student instead.
"This is going to be it," Shelburne said. "It's going to be a really good experience to play with some of the people we played against in our district every year. It's going to be fun to go out with one last game and make memories out here."
Both Edmiston and Shelburne are two of four quarterbacks on the Red team roster, while ex-Florence quarterback Kaleb Hardy, who's signed with Incarnate Word, will take snaps for the Blue team.
"It's going to be awesome, and a lot softer," Hardy said of playing on the Floyd Casey turf as opposed to the hard and dry field at Florence's Stampede Stadium.
"I'm not used to playing in a stadium like this, (laughs) so it's going to be pretty cool. I'm just trying to figure where the shot clock is. I'm going to enjoy every moment of it."
The Central Texas-based District 8-5A has 14 representatives across both teams, including Shelburne's former Tigers teammate Kyle Battle, who will play football at the Naval Academy, is joining him on the Red team, along with Copperas Cove's Billy Hatten (West Virginia Weslyean), Darius McClinton and Les Sakaria (Quincy University); Ellison's Isiah Cowan (West Texas A&M) and Hunter Teegardin (UMHB); and Shoemaker linemen Josh King and Terrance Valentine. Also on the Red team were Gatesville kicker Sebastian Corrales and receiver Tyler Jaynes.
"It feels great just to have the honor to play in this bowl game and be selected, because not a lot of people get to do this," Cowan said. "It's a gift, not a lot of people have the gift to play football, and we're very fortunate to play in this game."
Joining Hardy on the Blue team will be former Buffaloes receiver Jimmy Struble, with former 22-2A rival Salado lineman Billy Golding and Killeen's Elika Sailiata blocking and ex-Roos defensive back Marcus Hodges (Hardin Simmons) on defense.
Struble, like Jaynes, is just looking to soak in the opportunity for one last hoorah with longtime friends and quarterbacks Hardy and Edmiston, respectively.
"We just get to have fun one more time," said Struble, who will run track at Lamar University.
Gatesville head coach Kyle Cooper is head coach of the Red team while Harker Heights head coach Mike Mullins will be one of his assistants.


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nice. is it top of the google search results?Hello, found your forum through accident called google.
Yes but its last on the front page if you type Manchester United forum you will find Unitedlounge.com at bottom of the first page that how I found this place. But if you type Manchester United forums (with an additonal s) it will not bring Unitedlounge.com at front page. No sure how many pages of restult you will have to go through to find it if typed forums insteed of forum. Probably a reason why not more peoples are finding this fine forum here.nice. is it top of the google search results?Hello, found your forum through accident called google.
Didn't know that but I generally only search for word "forum" or "forums" web forums/message boards to join.top 3 if you search manchester united message board, but I don't think a lot of people look for that
Your words are appreciated David...thanks.I'm not sure if this will be of help, but if I'm truthful it was by simply by google. I try not to develop banter with more than a single forum of any team because then it gets far less personal, so it's good to look at options.
Sometimes we do get suggestions come along, for the Royals Rendezvous forum has cordial relations with lots of teams now (especially Championship tier and down!) - but I always check out in detail every possibility, as to both how you might accept genuine opposition fans on a site, and the rules - we're not Victorian but we like just a bit of language decency!
[pen]This site seemed way over and above anything else I've seen for Manchester United ...[/pen]
daib0 (David)
Well its nice to see you here Raymond
and well done Jad ..keep spreading the word
nice one mate..googled 'man utd forum' and there you were - Page 1!
best looking site out of all the results so I signed up!
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New Alice In Wonderland Stills Online
And Tim Burton gets (concept) arty
Tim Burton is currently up to his eyeballs in post-production on Alice In Wonderland, magicking his vision of Lewis Caroll's fairytale into cinematic life using some very big computers. Judging by this new swathe of dispatches from Wonderland, it's all coming along nicely, especially if you like dormice with a tiny, ever-so-slightly pathological glint in their eyes.
These new stills show the Dormouse (voiced by Barbara Windsor) in action, along with the dandified White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), scarfaced Knave of Hearts (Crispin Glover) and Helena Bonham Carter's Red Queen inspecting her frog escort.
The last two characters also appear in Burton's wonderfully loopy concept art - is it us or does the Knave of Hearts look a little like an eyepatched Quentin Tarantino? - with a harried looking White Rabbit presumably en route to luring Alice back to Wonderland.
{Alice In Wonderland - Concept Art 2}
Last but not least, this featurette gives of glimpse of how the CG-ified creatures will look on screen. Clue: fairly awesome.
For more than that, though, you'll have to wait until March 5 when Alice In Wonderland is released in the UK.


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Dell XPS 10 Windows RT tablet unveiled with monster battery lasting 20 hours
0. phoneArena posted on 30 Aug 2012, 04:41
Dell has just also officially jumped on the Windows RT bandwagon with a brand new tablet - the Dell XPS 10 is a slate coming with a keyboard dock and promising…
This is a discussion for a news. To read the whole news, click here
1. amehtab (Posts: 8; Member since: 15 Aug 2012)
This is Something New ... lets see how it stands vs Surface
2. apocalypsebc (Posts: 148; Member since: 07 Dec 2010)
Or Samsung and other companies!
3. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
Apart from their XPS line-up, everything is trash.
4. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 4328; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
Really??? Alienware is thrash????
6. Berzerk000 (Posts: 4275; Member since: 26 Jun 2011)
If you want to be portable, yes... Alienware laptops are over an inch thick. And their desktops are pretty space consuming also, not very moving friendly.
8. Bluesky02 (Posts: 1439; Member since: 05 Dec 2011)
I am dell owner of 15R and 17R series, they are trash. I sent the 15R nearly 5times to Dell Repair Center. The 17R fail twice on me. So yes, everything is trash apart from the XPS-line up. Alienware can't be describe as notebook but rather a mini-pc, it is so beefy and heavy with its alien design.
7. thebest (Posts: 231; Member since: 08 Jul 2012)
lolzzz.........a tablet, dell and windows version of the razr maxx
9. Nathan_ingx (Posts: 4328; Member since: 07 Mar 2012)
So what if you had 2 of 'em?
It also means one thing, you don't use things well, lol.
And why have 2 if you say it's not good? One bad machine not enough? Want to make sure it's bad? Haha.
Alienware, is a machine for gamers, not for businessmen...ask any gamer and they'll sacrifice the bulkiness for the hardware!
And who's going to move a desktop? Wouldn't it beat the purpose of being a desktop?


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Home > Conferences > Conference Details
Intelligence and Security Informatics (ISI) research is an interdisciplinary research field involving academic researchers in information technologies, computer science, public policy, bioinformatics, and social and behavior studies as well as local, state, and federal law enforcement and intelligence experts, and information technology industry consultants and practitioners to support counterterrorism and homeland security missions of anticipation, interdiction, prevention, preparedness and response to terrorist acts. The annual IEEE International ISI Conference series was started in 2003. In 2013, the main conference themes are: Big Data, Emergent Threats and Decision-Making in Security Informatics. ISI 2013 will be organized in three main streams focusing on: Big Data in Security Informatics, Emergent Threats, Decision-Making in Security Informatics.
04 Jun - 07 Jun 2013
Grand Hyatt Seattle
721 Pine Street
Seattle, WA, USA
Antonio Sanfilippo
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
902 Battelle Boulevard
P.O. Box 999, MSIN K7-22
Richland WA USA WA
+1 509 375 2677
Please see the conference Web site for full details.
Abstract submission deadline: 15 Feb 2013
Final submission deadline: 15 Apr 2013
Notification of acceptance date: 18 Mar 2013


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"It's an interesting fight and I think either Stann knocks him out or Bisping wins the decision. I know (Bisping) is good and talented and he has faced some good guys but every time he has faced a top ten guy he has lost. Like with the Chael Sonnen fight he did awesome and a lot of people thought he could have won but he didn't find the way to win. And I am not knocking him – I think he's a great fighter, I really do – but I question his mentality against top guys when the pressure is on. Which is pretty much what everyone says about him. He has had chances to fight for the title twice now and he doesn't come through when the pressure is on."
In a recent interview with FightersOnly, Chris Weidman breaks down UFC 152's co-main event between Michael Bisping and Brian Stann. But is Bisping really a choke artist?


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McCarter Theatre Presents 9th Annual Youth Ink! Festival of Plays, Playwrights & Playwriting, 5/31
New Jersey high school students from West-Windsor Plainsboro High School South, South Hunterdon Regional High School, and Neptune High School, along with their teachers, will gather at McCarter Theatre Center for the 9th Annual Youth Ink! Festival of Plays, Playwrights, and Playwriting on today, May 31. The 2011-2012 Youth Ink! Program is sponsored by Verizon Foundation.
The Youth Ink! Program, conducted across the state for more than 100 high school students annually, aims to expose students to playwriting as a form of artistic express and to empower them as young playwrights. Through the residencies, students are introduced to the basic elements of playwriting through play-reading, scene writing, play-going, and guided discussions.
The Youth Ink! Festival is a culmination of the year-long residency, and will bring together every student and educator who participated in a residency or workshop during this school year in the same place at the same time for a day-long playwrights' party. The celebration will include a number of special guest artists in the form of professional playwrights and creators of theater who will celebrate the work of the playwright and provide additional out-of-the-residency-box educational opportunities in the form of workshops and continue the conversation on the craft of playwriting in an open forum. This year's special guests, among others, will include McCarter's artistic director/resident playwright Emily Mann and Tony Award nominated book writer David Thompson. These two acclaimed writers will be on the panel, Playwrights in Conversation, moderated by McCarter's Director of Education, Christopher T. Parks.
Youth Ink! participant plays selected by members of McCarter's Education and Artistic staff for professional readings during the day are For You I Sing by Aini Sun, West Windsor Plainsboro High School South; The Art of Mattering by Allison Nugent, Neptune High School; and, At The Edge by Julia Maier, South Hunterdon Regional High School. Additionally, students from their respective high schools will give readings of How to Remember by Kyle Bogdan, South Hunterdon Regional High School; The Minute Differences by Gujri Singh, West Windsor Plainsboro High School South; The Game of Love by Brandon Cornett, Neptune High School. Later that evening at 7:00 p.m., the McCarter selected plays by Ms. Sun, Ms. Nugent, and Ms. Maier will be given an additional reading for family, friends, and funders in the Berlind Rehearsal Room.
According to Shamsuddin Abdul-Hamid, who participated in the 2010 Youth Ink! program while a student at Arts High School in Newark, "Having a short play performed in the Youth Ink! Festival is still the highlight of my high school experience. It allowed me to share my unique background with people whose values and love for their craft complemented mine." Mr. Abdul-Hamid is currently studying acting at Rutgers Mason Gross School of the Arts.
The Youth Ink! Festival is co-produced by Paula T. Alekson, McCarter's Director of High School Programs, and Jim Murtha, Education Program Manager. Ms. Alekson also serves as the festival's artistic director. To reserve a seat for the 7:00 pm readings, please call (609) 258-8288 or email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Education programs are made possible by: The Bernstein Family Foundation; Mary Owen Borden Foundation; Dow Jones Foundation; Inc.; The William Randolph Hearst Foundation; The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey; Investors Savings Bank Charitable Foundation; Janssen, L.P.; The J. Seward Johnson Sr. 1963 Charitable Trust; Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies; The Josephine Peiser Charitable Foundation, Inc; The McGraw Hill Companies; NRG Energy; Novo Nordisk Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Princeton Financial Systems and State Street Foundation, Inc.; PSEG; Tyco International; Verizon Foundation; and Wells Fargo.