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- Beats Pill+ speaker
- 1.5m Lightning to USB-A charging cable
- Quick Start Guide
- Warranty Card
- Weight (kg): 0.745
- Height (mm): 63
- Length of Cable (m): 0.21
- Type of Jack: Lightning to USB-A charging cable
The Beats Pill+ speaker has up to 12 hours of battery life to stay charged on the go. Get a quick charge in 3 hours with the Lightning cable and even charge your phone or external music device with extra power from your Beats Pill+. The LED fuel gauge lets you know how much battery is left.
The no-nonsense interface gets you to your music fast. Play, pause, skip tracks, and control your phone calls with a touch of the multifunction "b" button. The enhanced speaker phone lets you make and receive calls with clarity.
The stereo active 2-way crossover system creates an optimized sound field for dynamic range and clarity across all genres of music. Tweeter and woofer separation uses the same acoustic mechanics found in professional recording studios around the world.
Download the Beats Pill+ app* to unlock features that put you and your friends at the center of your music like never before. Bring a second speaker into the mix for even fuller sound or sound in stereo. *Available only on the iPhone 5s or later, iPad Pro, iPad Air (all models), iPad mini 2 or later, and select Android devices.
Grab a friend and control the music from two Bluetooth® sources.
Add a second Beats Pill+ into the mix and simultaneously play from both speakers for a sound that's twice as full.
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Pill's lightweight and portable design lets you bring the music wherever you go. Despite its compact size, the Pill produces powerful sound with soaring highs and deep bass to fill up any room.


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Anti-Money Laundering for Insurance Professionals
- Course Delivery: On Demand
- Credit Hours: 2
- Credit Type: General
Money laundering plays a fundamental role in facilitating the ambitions of the drug trafficker, the terrorist, the organized criminal, the insider dealer, and the tax evader, as well as the many others who need to avoid the kind of attention from the authorities that sudden wealth from illegal activities brings. By engaging in this type of activity, criminals hope that their proceeds will be beyond the reach of asset forfeiture laws. Financial institutions such as insurance companies are at the forefront of the battle against the money launderers. Under current legislation, insurance companies are responsible for policing their financial dealings and reporting any suspicious transactions. This course will dwell upon the new regulatory environment of the insurance industry vis a vis money laundering, specifically the USA Patriot Act 2001. The course aims to highlight the key aspects of the USA Patriot Act namely, the Suspicious Activities Report (SAR) and the Know Your Customer provision (KYC).
Course Objectives
Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to:
- Understand the scope and effect of Money Laundering.
- Understand the Process and Methodology of Money Laundering.
- Understand the impact of money laundering on the Operations and responsibilities of Financial Institutions.
- Understand the regulatory environment vs. Money Laundering for the securities industry.
Regulatory Information
Anti-Money Laundering for Insurance Professionals - Oklahoma Insurance Department
- Name:
- Oklahoma Insurance Department
- Phone:
- 405-521-2828
- Fax:
- 405-521-6652
- Website URL:
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- Email Address:
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- 3625 NW 56th street,Suite 100
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- Oklahoma City
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After years of bringing other people's scripts to life, Rashida Jones is finally putting words in her own mouth.
36-year-old Jones - daughter of music giant Quincy Jones and actress Peggy Lipton - has enjoyed a thriving acting career in the past five years, most prominently on television with a supporting stint on "The Office" and a starring role on "Parks and Recreation," as well as a diverse array of film roles ranging from "I Love You, Man" to "The Social Network." But now Jones the actress shares the spotlight with Jones the screenwriter.
"Celeste and Jesse Forever" marks her first foray in co-writing a film – with longtime friend and fellow performer Will McCormack ("Brothers & Sisters") – as well as starring in it. In the film Jones and Andy Samberg play a seemingly devoted, loving couple who have difficulty disconnecting from their otherwise failing marriage. The film features both an accomplished, thoughtful screenplay and a moving and funny central performance from Jones, who sat down with PopcornBiz to discuss branching out of her comfort zone and taking an increasingly creative hand in her burgeoning career.
How long have you been wanting to write a movie?
Kind of forever. I didn't realize that until I found this little thing that I wrote in the third grade where they said what do you want to do when you get older, and I said that I wanted to write movies for Hollywood. I must've buried that somewhere, but I guess for a long time.
Being a part of the creative community through your upbringing and having, probably, some doors open for you, was it more of a struggle to figure which of those potential roads you wanted to take?
Yeah. I do feel like the thing that allowed me potential was that I definitely had great schooling. I had incredibly loving parents. I wanted for nothing growing up, but in coming back to Hollywood, I wish that the doors were wide open, but they're really not. I mean, weirdly, Hollywood is a meritocracy – only because people get fired if money is not made or things aren't successful. So nobody gave me anything. Like, I WISH that I had gotten a couple of breaks! I didn't really ask for them anyway, but I pounded the pavement. I moved to New York after school and I ran around and auditioned and that didn't work out. I got one part in a year and I moved back to L.A. and I started doing commercials, and then finally got a TV show.
But making the choice was difficult, mainly because how can you make a decision about what the hell to do with your life at 21? It seems utterly ridiculous. But I did an independent film when I was 19 with a friend from school and it was really fun. It was really challenging, and I thought, 'Oh, I'm going to try this for a while,' before I realized that it was really hard to get an acting job.
Did you get a different kind of creative buzz from the writing portion than you get from acting?
They're both very fulfilling. I would say that acting is a great way to stay present, because you show up and you have a couple essential parts of the job. You have to hit your mark and you have to know your lines, and that's about it. Then everything else you just have to be present for. Writing, it's like work. There's no shortcut to writing. You just have to sit down and do it. Sometimes I don't prepare for acting, I'll be honest, and you show up and you have to just, as the English people say, blag it and hope that it's not a nightmare.
There's no such thing as that in writing. You can't just show up and fake it. You have to actually do the work, and every time you write a scene you're going to rewrite it. You just know that you are. It doesn't matter how long you spend on that scene, you're going to rewrite it. When someone reads a hundred pages that you wrote with somebody it's a very different feeling for them to tell you that they like it than them telling you, 'Oh, I saw you on that episode of whatever and I really liked it.' It's more meaningful.
In your writing partnership with Will, does one excel at one thing and the other another thing, or is it hard to tell who's done what?
No, no – Will is a poet, and he did this one thing in the movie where I have to read my journal and I have to read a love letter that Jesse writes to me. I end up keeping it for myself. I was like, 'Will, just go write the thing and bring it back so we can film the insert.' He brought it back and he made me start crying. He did it in, like, ten minutes and he wrote this beautiful love letter to Celeste and he's good at that. He's a poet. I'm maybe better at structure. I'm very organized. He's, in my assessment, funnier than I am. He's really good at pulling out observations, and his turn of phrase and his lingo is really unique, and I feel like defined our characters in the movie.
When you were performing in this did you look at the script like it was something given to you, or did you possess part of it still, in the acting?
Once on set I fully put myself into Lee's [Toland Krieger] hands, because I have immense respect for directing and feel like there is no movie if the actors don't give themselves over to the director. So, I tried to stay out of that as much as I could and just stay in the acting part of it.
Having artists as parents, what are the qualities that you think you've gotten from each of them that have shaped you professionally?
My dad is the most loving human being on the planet. He wakes up every day and is happy to be alive and he's a joy to be around, and everybody who ever meets him comes up to me and tells me how he just had such an impact on their lives. I aspire to be that. What I think I get from my dad probably is being social, liking people, connecting with people, having faith in humanity, being interested in humanity. I would say that most of the jobs that I've gotten, I'm capable and I have some skill, but I think I'm probably just nice to have around because I like working. It's fun and I like people. My mom is incredibly sensitive and empathetic. I hope that I emulate that part of her. Both my parents are really funny and they both curse a lot, and so do I.
How do you deal with the fame side of your career?
It's tough. It's definitely tough. I wish that there was a kind of better relationship with fame and the outside world, because I think there's a lot of it that's really destructive, obviously. Most of it is really destructive. It's tough, and for the most part it's nice and it enables me to keep doing what I'm doing, but sometimes you just want to wake up and go roam around town and watch people and be observed and not be observed and you just never have that option. That's tough, but I would never complain because I know everything that it's given me.
With this labor of love done now, how soon are you planning on doing the next one?
I don't know. Will and I wrote a movie for Universal. It's kind of up to them, whether or not they want to make it. Then we're just kind of trying to do the thing that's so hard to do, which is that we're actors and we're so used to just being, like, 'Yes!' Actors have to say yes to everything, because it's hard to get jobs, and so we're trying to just really get back into what inspires us and just forget about all the other stuff and start writing from scratch.
When do you go back to work at what may not become your day job?
Well, I'm doing a movie in London. It's called 'Cuban Fury.' It's a comedy about salsa dancing with Nick Frost and Chris O'Dowd and Ian McShane. It's going to be fun.
Do you get to dance in it?
Yeah. I've been training for six weeks. I have a little facility, but it doesn't matter. It's so hard. I'm getting better, but marginally. I'm terrible at being lifted – terrible! I don't know what it is, but there's something about throwing up all your body parts and letting someone else catch you that feels so unnatural. My turns are pretty good because now I know how to spot. So my turns look professional and I'm very happy about that.
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Do I need a permit to import plants to US?
Who regulates plant importation? The United States Department of Agriculture, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (USDA APHIS) – Plant Protection and Quarantine (PPQ) regulates the importation of plants and plant products. Why? PPQ maintains its import program… Read More


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Social Security is here with tools and information to help you secure today and tomorrow. Did you know that you can pay your Medicare premiums online? If your bank offers the option to pay your bills online, you can use their service to pay for your Medicare premiums bill from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
You, or your representative, must sign up for your bank's online bill payment process and you can contact your bank directly for assistance. Social Security and CMS are not involved in establishing the online bill pay service with your bank. Before you contact your bank to set up the process, make sure you have the following information available:
- Amount of your Medicare premium bill
- Account number: Medicare claim number without dashes. You can find this number on the red, white, and blue Medicare card.
- Biller name: CMS Medicare Insurance
- Biller's address:
Medicare Premium Collection Center
P.O. Box 790355
St. Louis, MO 63179-0355
You'll need to tell the bank how much money to deduct from your account to pay for the Medicare premium. You'll also need to update the amount with your bank whenever there is a change in the Medicare premium amount. This usually happens in January when CMS announces the new Medicare premium rates. You can find more information at Medicare.gov or CMS's online bill pay webpage.
Remember, CMS does not charge a fee for processing the electronic payments, but in some situations, a bank may charge their customers a fee for using their online bill payment service. If you have any questions about bill pay, please contact your bank or financial institution directly. You can also visit CMS's online bill pay for more information on paying your Medicare premiums.


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Site plan approval is required for all new development except 1- and 2-family dwelling units and their accessory buildings and for projects involving interior construction that does not increase the footprint or square footage of an existing building or result in a change of use affecting fire codes, required parking, landscaping or other zoning ordinance requirements.
The process begins with review of a concept plan by the Development Review Committee (the DRC includes planning, engineering, building, fire, operations and private utility company staff). This review allows the applicant to meet with all of the departments that may affect the project, all at one time. The DRC will provide guidance for meeting the requirements of the Zoning Ordinance and other applicable City requirements.
The DRC meets every Tuesday at 10:00 a.m. in the 2nd Floor Conference Room, City Hall, 10 First Street NW, Mason City. Please call 641.421.3626 for more information or email your questions to firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Development Review Committee will determine if the project requires major site plan review, or if the project is simple enough to warrant minor site plan review. A major site plan must be prepared and submitted for final review by the DRC. A minor site plan can be sent to the Administrative Officer for compliance review.
Download the Development Review Packet for complete instructions and application forms.
See also Zoning Ordinance Chapter 7, Development Review Process, and Chapter 16, Zoning Standards, for development requirements.


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In the Pathfinder Beginner's Box Gamemaster guide, it states that Reefclaws can understand language, but can't talk.
I can't find anything in particular in the Gamemaster Guide that explicitly states that Black/Red dragons can or can't talk.
Since it would help for characterisation for RP and massively impact a story; canonically, can dragons talk?


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Simon Cowell has claimed that a One Direction reality show is "in the works".
The Syco boss spoke about the X Factor boyband's TV move and a new album while meeting Digital Spy and others at Britain's Got Talent auditions in London today (February 11).
"I think there's something in the works, a possible TV show," he said. "We're going to be talking about that in the next couple of weeks.
"They're always busy these guys. But the important bit is they've got a new album out this year."
Asked if he would want any member of One Direction to be a godfather to his son, Cowell replied: "If you ask one, you've got to ask five, so I don't think I can do that."
The 54-year-old then went into more detail about the upcoming birth of his child with socialite Lauren Silverman, telling reporters at the Hammersmith Apollo that he would like his offspring to have a British accent.
"I haven't really thought about it a lot, but it would be quite odd having a baby that talks with an American accent.
"Of course [I'm ready for fatherhood]. I'm good with kids and he'll be well looked after."
And Cowell warned that he could be racing out of a BGT show if he gets the call that Silverman has gone into labor.
"I'll have to," he said. "If it happens to today I'm out."
Photo credit: Dave M. Benett/WireImage
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Give the gift of life by donating blood when One Blood holds a blood drive on Friday, March 13th at Dolphin Research Center, mile marker 59, Grassy Key. The blood mobile will be stationed in DRC's parking lot from 10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Blood is always needed for emergencies, and for people who have cancer, sickle cell, anemia, blood disorders and other illnesses. Anyone who donates blood during the day will receive free admission to Dolphin Research Center. Donors also receive a free wellness checkup including blood pressure, temperature, iron count, and cholesterol screening, and a free t-shirt. To reserve a time to make your donation, call Nancy at DRC at 289-1121, extension 243.
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Blood Drive Scheduled at Dolphin Research Center
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The researcher has changed her own diet as the result of her research:
By the way, although it's a recent article in the Daily News, this is not a new study. Cynthia Kenyonhas been working on this for years and the paleo blogs have been follwing her for some time.But Professor Kenyon herself doesn't need convincing.
'Carbohydrates, and especially refined ones like sugar, make you produce lots of extra insulin. I've been keeping my intake really low ever since I discovered this.
'I've cut out all starch such as potatoes, noodles, rice, bread and pasta. Instead I have salads, but no sweet dressing, lots of olive oil and nuts, tons of green vegetables along with cheese, chicken and eggs.
'I'll have a hamburger without a bun and fish without batter or chips. I eat some fruit every day, but not too much and almost no processed food. I stay away from sweets, except 80 per cent chocolate.'
Here's an article from a year ago. Free the Animalblogged about it in 2003.


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If you are a pet lover, beyond cats and dogs, you may find Animal Welfare on Crete a bit of a controversial, even sad subject sometimes, for the Greek culture has not traditionally been what we mainly urbanised British ex-patriates would call animal friendly. In truth, the mainly rural Crete lifestyle reflects the practical side of day-to-day existence on the island, such as rearing and killing animals for consumption and their products.So when it comes to domesticated animals, here's the rub, that is where we may misunderstand and find contradictions that conflict with our own views on caring for pets and other creatures.Most cats are feral and there are many stray dogs wandering around. Perhaps with the cats being feral, this a throwback to the Minoan period on Crete akin to the Ancient Egyptians where cats were revered in those times?
Again on the practical side, veterinarians can be thin on the ground in Crete and until the last five years or so, neutering/spaying the animals was virtually unheard of. During this time, Northern Europeans started to take up residence in Crete in growing numbers with their own values, along of course with the one million+ visitors each summer to our sunny isle - known to the rest of Greece, as "Melaganissos" - the Big Island.All dogs have to microchipped and supposed to be given the appropriate vaccinations. Perhaps many local residents on Crete do not bother. Or, they find it is too expensive. Few dogs and cats with Greek owners are neutered/spayed. For other Europeans, these are often priorities and necessary. "Different mind - set, different values" is how that cultural comparison can best be described.
The plain truth is that Crete is still very rural and therefore it follows that most local Crete families rear their animals for food. Dogs are used in guard duties and hunting. Cats keep down the vermin. They are not thought of as pets for the most part, although things are changing with the much more Eurocentric values of today's generation. They are growing up with better exposure to the media and Internet on the more caring treatment of animals, and animal husbandry as practised by other Europeans. There are organisations - animal shelters and private groups, set up on Crete and run by both Greeks and by foreigners with the mission to help alleviate the root causes of the problems and educate on the importance of proper animal husbandry.
The first and best known of the animal shelters is The Haven in Malia , also known as C.A.W.G. run by Gayner, from Birmingham originally, with her husband Michaelis. Gayner and her volunteers work tirelessly to not only look after the strays they have, and re-house them in UK and Germany but to try and alert the authorities and those members in the community with influence to do something about the mistreatment of animals. Here are some statistics to make you realise what they are up against. More of CAWG on Facebook
|The CAWG (Haven) Statistics
|New Arrivals in the Haven in 2005
|Running Costs for 2005
|72 Dogs
154 Puppies
32 Injured/Sick Puppies or Dogs
12 Cats
88 Kittens
18 Sick or Injured Kittens or Cats
3 Birds
|Food for 50 Dogs €6000
Food for 30 Cats €2880
Re-homing Costs for 30 Dogs €7500
Re-homing Costs for 20 Cats €4000
Running Cost for the Shelter 2005
This amount of money could have paid for 1000 animals to be neutered
An animal welfare Group serving Western Crete is called "Arche Noah Creta". Their web site in German and English can be found at www.archenoah-kreta.com. They too are working hard to alleviate some of the suffering of the stray domestic animals on Crete. Their animal shelter is located between Rethymnon and Chania (Hania/Xania).
The Cats Pyjamas Rescue is a non-profit organization that is based in Apokoronas near Chania, Northwest Crete. It supports local cats with food, medicine & veterinary care with the help of donations, volunteers & charities. It can be found on Facebook or its own website .
This is their link. The site is in English and German also. There is a branch in Plakias that started in 2005. In 2006, the group says its two animal shelters jointly re-housed almost 300 dogs and 43 cats in Greece and abroad. The group has close links with both Archenoah-Kreta and C.A.W.G.
FILOZOIKOS is the official bi-lingual site of this Elounda, Crete - Local Animal Welfare Group which is a registered charity. The group maintains two year round feeding stations: one in Agios Nikolaos and one in Elounda. As with other Crete animal support groups, rescued animals are placed into temporary foster homes. German vets on visits to Crete, sterilize them as a means to control animal population. The group gives lectures in local schools to help youngsters understand the need for animal welfare and how to be good practitioners. Many rescued dogs after treatment are flown to Germany and Switzerland to new homes, helped by Arche Noah - Crete.
Cretan Cat-a-List is a newly formed animal charity, registered in September 2006. Cat-a-list is committed to helping all animals in need, but their main focus is the welfare of cats. Cat-a-List is staffed entirely by volunteers living in and around Rethymno who take care of the animals in their own homes. More on Cretan Cat-a-list or on Facebook.
The Voice of the Cats Alliance(VOCAL) is looking after the interests of our feline friends in Mavrikiano, Elounda, Lassithi and operate mainly in the Municipality of Agios Nikolaos and surrounding areas. The group is supported by INCO, the Foreign Residents Association. or on Facebook.
P.A.W.S. is a small voluntary animal welfare organisation established in 2009 and based in Istron, Kalo Horio, in Lasithi, Eastern Crete, Greece. The group is dedicated to helping the plight of animals wherever it can. More on P.A.W.S. or on Facebook.
The Mirtos Animal project is a foundation set up in 1999 involved in animal welfare on Crete. The foundation is run by volunteers in the Netherlands and on Crete. Mirtos (or Myrtos) is a picturesque seaside resort 15 kms west of Ierapetra in the Southeast of Crete. More on the Mirtos Animal Project website or on Facebook.
Cretan Animal protection became a legal charity in late August 2009. The association was formed to raise funds to care for all stray dogs and cats in the Gouves, Gournes and Kokkini Xani area of Heraklion Prefecture. More on Cretan Animal Protection website or Facebook.
This animal welfare group or "alliance" in Siteia was started in 1999 by a group of local Cretan residents. Now a legal charity AWS helps rescue and protect all types of creatures in Sitia, the surrounding area and municipality. To fight the scourge of animal poisoning, AWS promotes a motto, abrreviated as: "PWT" - if you see meat lying around in the street, here is what AWS proposes you should do: Pick it up, Wrap it up and Throw it away! -- into a nearest wheelie bin of course.More on the AWS Sitia website.
The Independent Animal Welfare Group, Skepasti is based in the mountain village of Skepasti near Perama, Rethymnon. The area the group covers includes Panormo, Perama, Bali and surrounding villages.The animal support group was formed in January 2010 to deal mainly with cats but have assisted with dogs/puppies. During its first year the Skepasti animal lovers have held numerous fund raising events to help fund their challenging work. Support comes from the local village school too. The children have been encouraged to be involved and learn how to care for pets. The children even designed the group's logo (Logo coming soon). The Skepasti group is a "cause" on Facebook.
Heraklion Council have run their municipal animal shelter and rescue centre since 2004. More on the Dimos Iraklio Municipal Animal Shelter - mainly in Greek, but some pages in English.
The Aegean Wildlife Centre treats and rehabilitates most of the wild animals which have been found to be injured (often deliberately) around the Greek islands. This can happen when birds in particular are migrating or become ill through other causes. Usually the creatures are initially resuscitated and when well enough to face a journey usually by sea are transferred to the Paros sanctuary's specialist care.
Neutering of cats on Corfu is the main task of this group.
GAR is a UK based charity (No:802243), founded in 1989 in order to alleviate the suffering and rescue of animals in Greece. The Canadian branch of the Greek Animal Rescue organisation is GARCanada - an extremely active and in helping re-home rescued animals from Greece to Canadian homes. Their motto is: "You can't save every animal in the world but, for the one you do save, it IS the world."
Then, there is a great web site if you are an animal lover called WorldAnimal.net. Another, is the W.S.P.A. - The World Society for the Protection of Animals. All have connections with animal support groups in Crete.
In NEA FILADELPHIA in Athens this group's mission is to take in and protect animals found roaming the streets in the suburb. The group is a registered charity #25700. It strives to cultivate productive collaboration with the local government for the resolution of animal rights related issues and the education of the public. Click to **Support International Animal Rescue!**
If you know of other animal shelter or animal protection websites on CRETE, elsewhere in Greece or abroad, please contact the Brits in Crete webmaster, so your organisation or others can be included on this page.
When is a true donkey story in Greece a good one? When it was posted in Brits in Crete Forum! Animals in Crete can have a happy ending.
As a postscript: See this perfect picture of a "parked" donkey in Chania, Western Crete!
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A reminder that under the Pet Travel Scheme (dogs, cats and ferrets only), can be carried by air between the Crete airport gateways of Heraklion or Chania and the UK, and vice versa as per the following details:
For Chania Airport pets can be carried on flights to and from London Gatwick or Manchester. The UK Authorised carrier is Thomson Airways.
UPDATED June 2014: In recent changes, Aegean Airlines is approved from Heraklion and Chania to handle pets to London Heathrow. Certain EU carriers have been added to the approved list to carry Pets between Greece/Cyprus and the UK. These include Cyprus Airways for London Heathrow and Manchester; Monarch Airlines for London Gatwick and Manchester and Olympic Air for London Heathrow.
As for flights between Heraklion and Manchester, London Gatwick and Glasgow you can use Thomas Cook Airlines or Thomson Airways. The latter airline also serves Bristol, Doncaster and Edinburgh. British Airways is already pre-approved when it re-starts its flights between Heraklion and Glasgow in 2015. (LHR is also approved, by the way).
Notes: 1. Greece's conditions of animal entry are more relaxed than UK's and therefore to ship pets from UK by air has more choices. 2. Rules change, so check the latest information from DEFRA
The Aquaworld Aquarium is one of the best places to see Crete's Fauna (wildlife) close up. The venue is in Hersonissos, about 30 minutes drive east of Heraklion. Aquaworld is a family run enterprise, friendly and well worth a visit. It makes great day out with the kids and a bit of education to go with it sees the exhibits close up. From the Heraklion direction, it is just off the main road, in town, behind Xalkiadakis large supermarket, on entering the built up area on the right hand side of road.
Dog = Σκυλί (sk-ee-li),
Dog food = τρόφιμα σκυλιών (trofima skeeli-on),
Cat = γάτα (gata),
Cat food = τρόφιμα γατών (trofima gat-on),
Snake = φίδι (fee-dee),
Reptile = ερπετό (airpet-o)
Page details updated June 2014: By the way, horses have their own passport scheme similar to the "Pet Passport" scheme. As regards other pets, you should be aware that there are no restrictions on bringing pet rodents, rabbits, birds, ornamental fish, invertebrates, amphibians and reptiles to the UK from other EU countries.


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Filmmaker John Waters' crazy cross-country hitchhiking journey continues, with word Monday that he sped through Kansas with a middle-aged married couple from Illinois.
Laura Broviac and Michael McHaney, she a county Democratic Party chief, he a circuit judge, were motoring through Junction City, Kansas, this weekend and according to wjbdradio.com, saw a man near an exit ramp holding a sign. She thought he looked like Waters and after a quick Google search, found that the Baltimore filmmaker was in fact hitchhiking across country.
She made her husband turn around on the double.
Waters apparently began his hitchhiking odyssey last week in Baltimore -- he was spotted standing near St. Paul in Guilford with a sign. The band Here We Go Magic then found him in eastern Ohio, close to the Pennsylvania border. They nearly passed him by but like the couple, a band member thought he looked very familiar.
After picking the guy up and realizing their hunch was correct, band members immediately began Tweeting their good fortune: "Just picked up John Waters hitchhiking in the middle of Ohio.. No joke. Waters in the van."
Band member Jen Turner revealed later on Twitter, that she and the band "tearfully" parted with Waters on the side of the road in Indiana, calling him "the real deal" and "a true artist."
"He just wanted an adventure," Turner said. "Imagine!"
From there, the director somehow got to Kansas, where the couple ran into him.
According to wjbdradio.com, Waters stayed with the couple all the way to Denver, Colorado.
After eight hours in the car with Waters, the couple learned a lot.
"He had stories about Faye Dunaway and he talked about his most major accomplishment of selling out the Sydney, Australia Opera House while working as a stand up comedian," Broviac told WJBD. "Of course his type of work isn't for everyone, but chances are you've seen Hair Spray or seen the Simpson's and maybe the episode he narrated."
Waters told the couple he is planning to write a book about his adventures.
"We'll have to see how he viewed us," Broviac told the station. "I laughed and said, 'do you think you just got the most boring people to pick you up at almost the end of your ride'. He said 'no, no, you're very interesting' and said he enjoyed his time with us."
Like he did with the band, Waters treated the couple to lunch to help repay their generosity with the ride. And -- even better than lunch -- he allowed the two to "dumpster dive" with him to find another piece of cardboard to make a new hitchhiking sign.
Filmmaker John Waters' crazy cross-country hitchhiking journey continues, with word Monday that he sped through Kansas with a middle-aged married couple from Illinois.


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(CNN) – Michigan is now a right-to-work state, after Governor Rick Snyder signed the controversial measure into law yesterday. The law limits the ability of unions to collect fees from their members. Unions see the law as a direct threat to their ability to raise funds, organize, and have political clout.
In response to the bill signing, unions held silent protests in multiple cities throughout Michigan today, continuing what is likely to be a long-term battle. And they unleashed vocal anger on Tuesday in a massive protest at the Michigan State Capitol.
[4:41 ] "All that are speaking out here at the capitol, and all over the state… For them this is the beginning of the 2014 election cycle," said Mark Schauer, a representative with Laborers-Employers Cooperation & Education Trust.
The Midwest region has long been a union bastion, but unions are now being challenged. In Wisconsin this past March, a new law ended collective bargaining for most public workers. The right-to-work law in Michigan, similar to the one Indiana enacted in February, is even more sweeping because it applies to both public and private workers.
Kenneth Dau-Schmidt, a professor of labor and employment law at Indiana University, said it's too soon to tell what impact the new laws will have. But he pointed to research that show strong unions can raise wages for all workers.
"The explanation for this is that if you're in a state that has union contracts, other employers, even if they're not union, have to compete with that and they have to provide better wages and benefits in order to get good workers," Dau-Schmidt said.
Michigan's unions now face a test of their diminished political muscle, whether they can make lawmakers pay a price for supporting the right-to-work law.
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This isn't about workers rights. It is about protecting Union Bosses salaries and power. Suckers.
Most of you people don't know the first thing about unions, or the misery of working in a low paying, non-union shop! You buy the propaganda of business people who are enriching themselves to the detriment of their workers. You people buy the blather of the right-wing media (FOX), paid for by wealthy corporate owners who could care less if you puke and die. Doling out opinions on issues you know not the first thing about is called – ignorance. Most of this is pathetic jealousy because union workers have the courage to stand together to better their lives. Most of you people have WELCOME printed across your chests. You lack respect even for yourselves. I'd never be like any of you. Thank God I'm not a gutless turd like many of you here.
Shouldn't you be on a smoke break?
When the employer doesn't 'respect' you or has no reason to, you get 'abused'. Unions force the employer to 'respect' them and I believe in the long run it not only leads to better wages, benefits and working conditions, but a better 'relationship' between workers and employers.
No one is forced to join the union in my workplace. In fact, non-members enjoy the same wages and benefits fought and negotiated by union officials without paying dues. Non-members do not negotiate for their own wages and benefits, the union does.
Beware those like Fox News, Cato and the other Murdoch/Koch brothers who rant endlessly about unions. They want working Americans to work for less, eroded or no benefits, no Social Security, retirement, no nothing. They are the one$ who will benefit, not the working American folks...
Saw Piers Morgan whining about guns tonight. Is he even an American?
You know what? I don't give a rip about your yak yak pal! This forum is about union rights! Go to a gun rights forum!
90% of union workers have no college education. That tells you something!
I do. And so do a lot of others. You are a corporate lackey! I'll bet you don't.
AAhhh, A 10%er
The union brought down Hostess. Remember that!
No they didn't. Hostess corporate execs did. You don't even know what you're talking about!
No corporation in their right mind would close a company that is profitable. If it is unprofitable and not worth the effort of course you close it. Why else does it exist. To keep people employed?
The people that join unions are those that would be unable to get jobs on their own. Mostly the people we dont associate with.
Bull. T
They are more highly skilled than anyone you know.
while i feel that unions are very important to workers having access to better rights and wages and therefore better lives, i also feel that there are many unions that do not deliver on their promises (new or old) and should be abolished because they are essentially nonfunctioning.....however that does not excuse this pathetic attempt to delegitimize unions.....fees are what allow unions to fight for their workers jobs and wages and benefits.....while it is wrong to force new workers into unions (this is a free country, we have choices and we are free o make them) it is just as wrong to tell the unions what they can or cannot do because the same freedoms apply to them
the reasonable (and path least taken) would've been to do a comprehensive review of every union in the state, and aim the law at unions that do not provide services to it's members and are sitting there just gobbling up fees for a service that is almost nonexistent
my father was a union man, some of my best friends are/were union members.....they have all had their unions stand up for them and help them win their battles against corruption in their workplace.....but as many people claim, there are unions that just sit there and take in money from people and never provide a service for them, that's just wrong
Most union workers are lazy. They would be unable to stay employed without the union helping them.
Actually much simpler than an investigation of all of the unions is to give people the choice to join or not. If a union serves them they will join if not the won't. This is exactly what the Michigan law provides.
Amazing how CNN and other news outlets, hide the violence perpetrated by the union demonstrators.
Odd, since the quickly jump if they think a conservative is the least bit violent.
Perhaps, a press the self-censors is worse than a press that is censored.
they don't want people to go back to the days when people actually fought for their rights using their fists and anything else they could get, the fact is that unions aren't like that anymore, the only fighting they do is in the court system....these people might incite violence but we all know they won't follow through, the tea party was less predictable and much more rowdy....not to mention holding signs showing your president as stalin/hitler/hanging from a stick will grab photos much more than a union worker holding an effigy of his dead boss anyday of the week
Tea Party good – and peaceful and clean and patriotic. Unions bad – violent and hateful and dishonest, like the media. The union goons attack of the Fox News commentator is not reported here or any of the big communist news outfits.
Did you not see the video from yesterday where union members purposely collapsed a tent on supporters of the governor. There were women and children and handicapped people in that tent. One union member viciously hit one person in the face for times, and broke his tooth.
The were verbally claiming they had guns and would shoot someone.
This is the news that the liberal and mainline media would not run.
And, thus you are mislead.
Also, the signs carried by your union friends were just as vile. You really do need to become more educated on the issues instead of spouting the slogans you hear the press feed you.
Saw Piers Morgan whining about guns tonight. Is he even an American?
Sure, strong unions raise wages. They also raise prices, and lower global competitiveness.
Another article on CNN asks why Union membership is declining. I think it's a couple things:
1) People don't like to pay someone else to think, vote, and contribute on their behalf, whether they like it or not - which is what union members must do
2) People see that Union demands have contributed greatly to the decline in American market share - Unions priced us out of the market
3) People see that Union demands and quests for power sometimes hurt those paying for their "leadership" - if anyone doubts this, think Hostess - 18K jobs lost because a union boss decided his opinion was more powerful than reality.
4) People see that even the "service" unions care FAR more about money and protecting even the worst workers than they do about the service they supposedly provide. Most can now see that teachers' unions care nothing about education and little about kids, because kids don't pay union dues (the latter is derived from a teachers' union quote).
Union membership is declining cuz businesses are getting smarter about avoiding union organizing and GOP governments are making them illegal.
the NWO is in full effect
Funny how 83% of Michigan lives just fine without Unions. I'm quite happy with my individual bargaining, it allows an above average worker like myself to get above average perks, instead of spreading them around to everyone....
Michigan has long benefited from the higher wages union workers have brought to he Michigan economy and tax base.
Why can't unions be satisfied. Their wages are above most in the nation. They talk of the rich but who is rich? The average American only gets half or less the wages of the Union. Shut up and get in the back seat!
Poor GOP lapdogs can't understand math. Wages have been relatively static for the past 2 decades while Wall Street profits have soared thanks to cheap foreign labor.
Most union members have no college education.
If you get your head out of Pill-popper Rushbo's backside, you won't get so much manure in your ears.
Now think carefully about what you said. "Their wages are above most in the nation". Then you go on to say that non-Union workers only make half of what Union workers make. Now would that alone not be a reason to stay unionized? To make a decent wage, to have decent working conditions? Not to mention that Union wages have kept wages up for the rest of workers. Why do you think so much of industry and businesses packed up and came south? Because there are little to no unions, therefore they can work you however and pay you starvation wages. While the upper echelon get wealtheir and weathier. Oh but no one mentions their outrageous salaries and perks.
Tere it is! You don't have the guts to stand together and bargain for better wages and conditions – so let's bring union workers down to the level of our miserable pay! Pathetic!
Quit whining and wait for the good stuff to trickle down:)
LOL – We've been waiting 30 years for Ronald Reagan's infamous "trickle down". The only thing the 1% tinkled down on us wasn't money or jobs – but it was warm and yellow.
Why are you waiting? The rest of the US has already seen the benefits of trickle down. From 1979 to 2007 (after tax and after inflation)....
"For the 60 percent of the population in the middle of the income scale (the 21st through 80th percentiles), the growth in average real after-tax household income was just under 40 percent."
"For the 20 percent of the population with the lowest income, average real after-tax household income was about 18 percent higher in 2007 than it had been in 1979."
It's horrible when those who spout partisan tripe are provided facts. Isn't it?
Way to go CNN you didn't really show what really happened in Michigan, the violence against the opposing view, punching people, destroying a man's business and using racist slurs, threatening to kill anyone that disagreed with them, yes that was all Union workers, perhaps you should start actually reporting the news if that had been the Tea Party the media would have been all over it. No wonder no one trust the Media anymore, they only report what they want, because this was union workers causing the damage no one bothered to show it.
You'd be sort of upset too if someone was threatening your wages and benefits.
union people (unlike tea party people) actually react when threatened, and they were threatened....fact of life
they work hard for their wages, much harder than some pissed off old white dude who collects social security and wants to be able to say "sorry they don't make those anymore" when his pregnant granddaughter wants birth control pills because her pregnant single mom can't afford them because she doesn't qualify for welfare
i'll stick with the union man anyday of the week thank you, many of these people voted republican in the last election, the same ones protesting against a republican bill right now
The union people weren't threatened. You are a Bolshevik who is making stuff up.
It's called self-defense. Cluster FOX has been leading the propaganda war for a return to anti-American royalism. Where was your outrage at TEA idiots bringing guns to rallies, or Oklahoma City. You must be another Koch sucker.
They must be lying. Midwestern workers are fleeing to the South, and it is in the South that most new factories are opening. Just look at the new Volkswagen plant in Tennessee or the Boeing widebody airplane factory in South Carolina that either just opened or will be opening soon.
This is a terrible law, what am i supposed to do now, actually hold down a job ?? ridiculous.
It's a self serving lie. Americans, really know what the situation is now concerning the Rich. They will do and say anything to make you think that Unions are bad, but when you do the research, it's easy to see that American Corporations don't care whether you live or die. All they care about is their bottom line.They make a fortune from your cheap labor , what do workers get back ? nothing. That's how they want to keep it. Don't be stupid. Support your local unions.
no, the unions have over played their hand and this needs to happen. The health of the company needs to always be considered....besides, the unions and all there thuggery with beating up people who disagree is not helping there cause.....it just makes them look stupid..........
...and they keep mugging the 99%
"The 99% of us who are victims will not sit idly by as 47% of us are labeled as victims."
You mean like the bakers that took concessions, to save Hostess. Then the managers came back and wanted more concessions. All they really wanted was to blame the unions and walk off with multimillion dollar payoffs.
Tell that to the 9,000 other employees without a job, including the Teamsters who were OK with it.
Oh. And also tell that to the bankruptcy judge who approved the deal as well.
They shouldn't care whether I live or die, all they should care about is their bottom line. That's how capitalism works. You want your employer to guarantee your safety? Earn it. You want good pay? Earn it. Be valuable enough that they have to offer you safety guarantees, that they have to offer you good pay. If a foreigner can do what you do for 1/3rd the cost, then what you do is really only worth 1/3 of what you're being paid.
Is a CEO that cruises around in a Private jet and receives millions in bonuses after the company that they are running performs terribly is worth it? The people spoke in this last Presidential election, and I bet the next one in Michigan, they will shout out even louder.
So what is stopping or stopped you from being a CEO and showing people how to do it? I mean it must be easy because you can blame them for success that obviously stopped your success.
Jealousy does not become you!
What is it to you if someone make more than you.
As David said "earn it"
Unions are much like credit cards. Handy to have when YOU want something but costs you more in the long run. As wages go up, two things happen: the cost of the product increases which often forces employers to search for less expensive and alternate ways to manufacture or distribute a product.
Live to work & work to live. Best example this country has is the fab five that are raking in the dough as Owners of Wal-Mart. Each of them have a net worth of over 25 billion each. They pay their employee's squat with little to no benefits. Who do you think pays for the health and welfare of their fine employee's THE TAXPAYERS DO. What happens when the non-union no longer has Union wages and benefits to compete with? They begin to undercut each other, which worsens your working conditions and lowers your wages. Wake up and stop believing every thing you hear from Limbaugh and Hannity......
and when it gets bad enough union membership will rise again. they're not making them illegal
Ya do you thinkthat worth comes from running the business and reivesting in growth. Then you use yoru assets to leverage additional growth. Yet you seem to think growth comes from hiring people, yet they need buildings, training and who gets sued if an employee injures a customer? Net worth is a piece of paper, yet they took out the bank loans and paid them back so who took the risk?
A business can be compared to how you run your house. When you go to the store do you buy the most expensive items or do you pay what you the market is? I mean what job at Walmart can't be replaced by many others? I remember a time when it was called having a trade, now you want to own the job, without taking any risk.


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I Am Music Lyrics
Artist: Common
[Chorus: Jill Scott]
Can you speak your words of bedtime
I was just saying to myself the other day
Most of believing the magician
But you're bewitching
Because of this I must say
I (oh I)
Appreciate what you give to me
Yeah (I)
I (oh I)
Appreciate what you give to me
[Verse 1: Common]
People say I got soul look at all the records I hold
The lives I've affected, connect and control
With me in your basement, your mama got blown
I provide the vibe to keep the strippers on poles
Through me the black experience is glorious told
From a school that's old bold, so I rock gold
And platinum, so cats I hold notes and cash for them
On streets I rap for them, in ghettos I blast for them
Mash with them, at the party and all
Peep the universal language that's embodying all
Put the Billie Holiday, Bob Marley in y'all
Y'all feel most high when I be in y'all
System, with the rhythm I up jump the boogie
Shame I rely on record labels to push me
Since the bush, I been y'all way to escape
Through eight-tracks wax CDs and tapes
I am music
[Verse 2]
You can feel me all over alive, I help culture survive, I opened the eyes of many
Styles y'all wrote in the skies, with your lows and highs, open your mind to hear me
In the streets I beat cops and obsolete
On every station it's hot you can't stop my heat
I taught J and Dre how to rock the beat
On what's going on today yo, I gots to speak
I take the stand, yo you could feel me bam
Whether in Larry Graham or Steely Dan
Live I be killing it man
For how long I survived yo I'm realer than man
Got a soft side but I'm still a man
For me women cry and children dance, I'm trying to eat
I could'a got a mil and ran
But like Sly for the fam still I stand
I am music
[Verse 3]
I been here since the beginning
Beginning of time yo beginning of time
Deep in the mind of the ancient ones
Everybody love me like they do the sun
I shine at times yo at times I'm dark
You can't categorize me, my mind's a art
Inside my heart, it ain't about climbing charts
I'm the one you roll with when your ride is smart
The change that came, the change that comes
I change with chords and I kick it with drums
Get blow with horns and did it on the one
Riffed for guitars, for the Lord I sung
Spun around the world at parties and weddings
Wherever I go I create the setting
You know me from lessons or your pops collections
Whether whole or half stepping I'm a blessing
Yo I am music
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Has there been one patch? Where's the new tables etc. I know it's a business and I guess we should assume pinball VR is not selling enough?
What about a PS4 Pro update like other companies that support their software are doing?
I bought the game full price months ago, was waiting for a sale, for the overpriced in canada, season 1. It's now on sale but I don't think I'll buy anyway because Zen seems to have dropped or ignored VR to the point where I don't want to spend another dollar. (I've bought alot of tables on 360, then bought them again on steam, didn't mind purchasing a 3rd time for psvr but now I'm kinda pissed)
So no more. No fx3 new tables. And I won't buy the season pass until i see support for VR. Support your games and I'll support you.
Mini rant over. Thanks.


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Well goodness me, is that the sun I see shining outside, lighting up the sky and making me feel decidedly cheerier after what started out as a very trying week: car in the garage, locking myself and the Munchkin out of the house, suffering a painful bad back being just the highlights. But hey, today is Thursday, which by my basic mathematics mean one more day to the weekend, one more day to a very expensively fixed car returning and one quilt finished which I can even go outside to hang on the line in the sunshine. I mean a quilt's not a quilt unless it's been a part of the obligatory washing-line-photo-shoot, is it?!
So this was me about an hour or so ago, feeling rather elated that I had only the final few inches of binding to hand sew. Faced with that sunshine and the chance to get outdoors, I was keen to get this quilt polished off this morning. I mean, I only have three more to finish for waiting customers and the small matter of two others on the go for myself! Life's never dull round here.
Before we go outside though, we're going upstairs to the top floor, not in the attic but just grazing the eaves of this much-loved gorgeous house we call home. Not sure we've been in here together before but this is our "Blimp Room" (so named after the Ikea bedding which aged three, the Munchkin declared had "blimps" on it!) It's next door to the Munchkin, in fact I'm rather hoping he might move in here before long as he'd have more room and I could hopefully get him in one of these rather nice old wooden beds rather than his "ladder bed" (another Munchkin-aged-three phrase).
So to explain, the Munchkin is turning another year older next month. Golly, where have the years gone? So I decided it was about time I made him a nice boyish quilt before he gets too teenager-y for this sort of thing and wants hideous camouflage bedding or something. As I mentioned, the Munchy has what he terms a "ladder bed" so it's high up and has enclosed sides, making it deeply unsuitable for showing you his quilt (along with the proliferation of untidy junk in his room). Hence, in the blimp room we find ourselves.
Yes, it's true I've made a quilt without any pink in it. Without any flowers in it. This is a decidedly boyish little photo shoot!
So, the Munchkin's quilt is based on "pinwheels", otherwise known as half-square triangles. Relatively simple to execute so long as you're accurate and get all those points meeting up. There is a good tutorial on this design in the second issue of the online Fat Quarterly magazine.
Each pinwheel block is a mix of a primary coloured polka dot fabric and a cute boyish fabric. There's a fair bit of Cath K cowboy, trains, boats and Stanley the terrier in there, along with a lovely Moda fabric with Spitfires on it (found recently at Fabrics Galore), a fabulous green vintage-style cowboy fabric I hoarded years ago and some dinky multi-coloured toadstool fabric sent to me by my sister just this week. Oh, and because the Munchkin's first love is cars, a couple of fabrics with cars on searched for and found on good old eBay. Oh and a 1930's style fabric in yellow with dogs. Think that's it!
I've backed it with cosy white flannel and hand bound the edges with a red bubbly fabric.
I wanted this quilt to have movement to it, so that it would interest the Munchkin whilst he's cosying up in it. So, I chose the pin wheels, lots of different brightly coloured cottons and was gearing myself up to have a go at free motion quilting it, you know, to give it that bunched-up, squiggly look. Then Fat Quarterly's blog came to my rescue with a technique for quilting in wiggly lines by altering a basic zig zag stitch on the machine. So, I gave it a go. I used a slightly smaller stitch length of three, and found the fabric bunched up a lot even though I used a walking foot but it has given a good old-fashioned wrinkly look to the quilt and I think the Munchkin is going to enjoy tracing those wiggly lines!
I would have made the quilt bigger if it was to go on this single bed but as it has to fit inside the ladder bed and cannot drape down over the edge, I have made it narrower.
Outside then, into the sunshine for a bit of washing line action!
I'm really pleased with the quilt, it's so bright and cheery and it feels gorgeously soft and no doubt it will be even softer once it's been washed (and loved!)
Here's the wavy line quilting which you can see more clearly on the back of the quilt. If anyone else does this, I'd be interested to hear your tips on how far apart it's best to space the lines and what stitch length you prefer.
Doggy decided it was time for walkies!
So, there it is, the Munchkin's first quilt, all ready for lots of snuggling! I can't wait to give it to him- patience, patience- though I guess I should be prepared for it being beaten into second place in the birthday pressie prize list by that ginormous box of "World Racers" Lego hiding in the cupboard!


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In preparation for the new movie "Prometheus", I wrote up what I thought of all the previous Alien movies. I also included my thoughts on the AvP movies, and the Predator movies. Be warned, however, I do talk about the endings of the older movies, but not about the more recent movie, Predators.
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Here's my bottom line, however. I like both franchises, but I think it was a mistake to put them together with the AvP movies. And the franchise owners (Fox) agreed. That's why they greenlit the movie Predators (which has no Aliens in it) and the new movie Prometheus, which doesn't have any Predators in it.
Prometheus will be a prequel to the first Alien movie, also directed by Ridley Scott. I've heard that it might not really be a strait up prequel, that it might change the universe a little bit...but I'm still looking forward to it.
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