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Remarks by Angel Gurría, OECD Secretary-General, at the Roundtable with Israel's Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz
Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, 19 January 2010
Minister Steinitz,
Ministers participating in the Economic and Social Cabinet,
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Minister Steinitz has asked me to make some remarks on the key findings and recommendations of our first Labour Market and Social Policy (LMSP) review of Israel. It is a great honour to present the OECD's work in front of this distinguished gathering.
Israel is a country that has enjoyed strong economic growth over the last decades and there are many success stories to be told. Some examples that immediately come to mind are its commendable policies for promoting an innovative and vibrant high-tech sector, as well as its scientific expertise in managing water resources and its experience in handling mass immigration. Since the late-1980s early 1990s, the context of macroeconomic stability has provided the right conditions for stable growth and building confidence. All these are valuable experiences to other countries, including many OECD members. In addition, let us not forget that the modern Israel was built with few natural resources and hostile environment.
From left to right: Benyamin Ben-Eliezer, Minister for Industry, Trade and Labour, Israel; Angel Gurría OECD Secretary-General and Yuval Steinitz, Minister of Finance
However, it has to be acknowledged that the fruits of this growth have not been equally shared amongst the country's rapidly growing population. Consider the incidence in the population of the people with disposable income less than half the median, which is the standard indicator of poverty used at the OECD. Based on this measure, the overall poverty rate is high.
At 20% it is higher than in any OECD country and it is strongly concentrated. About half of all Arabs are in poverty and 60% of the Haredim. With almost half of all children starting primary school belonging to these groups, there is an urgent need to tackle the causes of this poverty.
So, the Israeli society still faces deep divides and inequalities – both economically and socially. The roots of poverty lie in low labour-market participation of Arabs, in particular Arab women, and of Haredim men. For both these population groups there is a comparatively high share of low-wage workers. High poverty rates are also attributed to their low levels of education attainment.
Bridging these divides and promoting a more socially inclusive society will be key to Israel's future economic development and the well-being of its people. How can Israel do better in tackling poverty? Let me provide some key substantive highlights, drawing from our report.
At the outset, our report underscores the need to increase investment in effective public social protection. Countries get the poverty rate they are prepared to pay for. Public social spending in Israel is 16%, some 5 percentage points below the OECD average. If Israel is to cut poverty and reduce inequality, it will have to not only shift the composition of social spending, towards more cost-effective benefits, but also increase its investment in this area.
Effective enforcement of labour laws is another issue. Minimum employment conditions among resident and foreign workers alike can be achieved through more investment in enforcement (e.g. the Labour Inspectorate), and increasing sanctions for employers who break the law.
Also, we believe that there is a need to fight discriminatory practices more effectively. Specific recommendations in this regard contained in the report are as follows:
Welfare-to-work programmes in Israel still have some way to go. Particularly the "Lights to Employment" and the associated "Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC)" could be made more effective. Plans to extend these programmes across the country are welcome, but there are serious flaws in their design. Better incentives to place clients in regular jobs are needed, and employment supports should be tailored more closely to clients' needs. EITC payment rates should be increased, helping those working families with children who are struggling to make ends meet.
Lastly, the need to stop exploitation of temporary foreign workers is a challenge. Recruitment agencies continue to charge high and illegal fees, and some employers violate minimum working conditions. Quotas for temporary foreign workers need to be set in a transparent manner; employers should be required to advertise jobs in Israel first, and hires from outside Israel must be justifiable with reference to the skills of the individual in question.
Israel has been embarked on a continuous effort to reform its economy. Over two decades it has succeeded in opening to global competition. The pattern of economic growth has strengthened, as a result, becoming significantly more stable. I very much hope that, by providing a framework to address poverty and inequality, the OECD's reflections will help Israel write a new chapter. It is time to complement past achievements with new gains: the gains of inclusiveness, which will make the Israeli economy stronger and fairer. It is a priority to put Israel on track to meet the future challenges of globalisation.
This Review and our Economic Survey of Israel mark two first milestones for OECD analysis of Israel's economic policies and our cooperation with Israel. Let me express my warmest thanks to you, Minister Steinitz, and your colleague Ministers for the opportunity to discuss the OECD's work and for the support in the peer-review process that has lead to this report.
We look forward to a fruitful discussion. I hope that I will have the honour to meet you again tomorrow at the public event to be in a position to continue our exchange of views.
Thank you!
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A record 150 vendors will line Crenshaw Blvd for the second annual Taste of Soul October 13, where food lovers and aficionados can look forward to sampling everything from peach cobbler to seafood gumbo. Coming back this year are the live cooking demonstration stage and several pavilions for: health awareness, kids safety and career recruitment. Event creators, The Los Angeles Sentinel and V100 are expecting at least 50,000 people to pack the boulevard once again at an event initially intended as sort of a neighborhood get together.
"A remarkable show of unity," was the best way Los Angeles Councilman Herb Wesson was able to describe last year's event, which shut down one of L.A.'s most frequented thoroughfares from King Boulevard to Coliseum Street.
So far, artists like Angie Stone, Rashaan Patterson, Gary Taylor, Evelyn "Champagne" King, Leon Ware and the Polyester Players are scheduled to perform and TV Chef G. Garvin ("Turn Up the Heat.") will be back with his live cooking demos.
"It was so wonderful to see so many people come together because I believe it was close to 35,000," said soul food maven Chef Marilyn Cole whose fans can look forward to delectables like lemon cake, homemade bread pudding, ox tails and smothered chicken.
"It was peaceful, Black people showing that we can get together and not have any problems. It was all peace and love and a fabulous event and that's why we're looking forward to doing it again this year…"
However, that fact seemed to be lost on main stream media as the only coverage of the event came through it's own sponsoring media outlets.
"Don't you find it ironic that when more than 40,000 African Americans came together for Taste of Soul without a single incident, not one single White media organization could be found," asked Sentinel President and COO Danny Bakewell Jr. in a scathing October 2006 editorial.
Perhaps even more vendors and an extra block added to the "shut down" area (it will be closed all the way to Rodeo) may bring at least a news van or two.

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It is easy to be cynical about Latitude, not least because when the rain happens, you spy people swathed in Guardian-branded waterproof ponchos. Its faux-Woodstockian, blobby-fonted signs and its Granta-redolent £9 programmes and its heinous £3 glass deposit are all clearly vile. To heap insult upon dread, they also have this sort of neon signage in the woods:
So before you have been there five minutes, some bleeding heart or other will be saying how middle class it is. Maybe it is you who will be saying it. People will ho-ho-ho. But: there are no men pissing in cups. But: the loos have attendants and queuing systems. But: there is a CHEESE and WINE stall.
Latitude IS delightful. I mean, say what you like about the middle classes, but Lore, do they know how to make things nice. And given that the weather forecast for Latitude 2011 essentially amounts to IT IS GOING TO PISS IT DOWN: ALL DAY, EVERY DAY; and since I have discovered a three-inch split in one welly on Thursday night, I want as much nice as I can get. I am going to lap you up, Latitude, with your civilized air. I am going to gulp down your bourgeois values and your well-behaved childers with both hands and a pint of cider. Maybe two.
Despite the thunderstorms forecast, Friday's sun has definitely got his wacky festival hat on, and I duly spend my first morning wandering about, beaming, free as the youngling girls in floral dresses and with garlands in their hair. One of whom (I realise when I get closer) is really and hactually saying - out loud – 'I love THE TREES and the TREES love ME'. I go to a wicked book stall and purchase a cheap as triple-cooked-chips Edward Gorey about recently deflowered girls; I do a scoff at the Mind, Body & Spirit tat; I seriously consider buying a vintage Flamenco dress, and I wander past Tom Warner doing his poem about mushroom-picking in the Poetry tent. Eventually I settle in the shade; half a cow in one hand, a glass of cider in the other, listening to Edwyn Collins sound-checking triumphantly on the main stage.
Avi Buffalo has the dubious honour of kicking things off, musically speaking, occupying an unholy, non-glory slot of 12:45. It's hardly fair, partly because I think the first band of any festival should unite and uplift – Scala & Kolancy Brothers (who will actually play on Sunday) – would have been amazing for this. But Avi does what he can, making a virtue out of whine, beginning with recent single 'How Come', and making it sound considerably less slight than it is on record. Some teenage girls squeal when he begins 'What's It In For' - and I notice a line I have not before: 'You are tiny and your lips are like two pieces of bacon,' which pleases me. There is drone, there are psychy flourishes, The People are pleased, but he does do a song called 'Five Little Sluts' (oh, Avi) and overall it is not quite the starting pistol it might have been.
Not long after, and against my better judgement, I stick my beak into the Cabaret tent. Which is where I discover Richard Dedomenici halfway through a PowerPoint presentation which I gather is about Eastenders' fictional borough. Also: dogging, and Richard is asking if we would like to do some, as well as enquiring if anyone has a car we might borrow ('It's ah, quite difficult to go dogging, if you, ah, haven't got a car'). He posits that the best time for us to go dogging is when Paolo Nutini is on, as there is likely to be little crossover with his fans. And then he shows us a Venn diagram that looks something like this…
…which just about settles it.
Then there is a dreadfully nutty performance of Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballé's 'Barcelona' - which is my cue to leave, not least because I want to see The Phantom Band. But something weird has happened, because The Phantom Band (like TOO MANY Bands Of Now, and far TOO MANY BANDS at Latitude) have gone all Simple Minds. They appear to have turned into a Serious Rock Band and even the lead singer dude is dressed like Theo out of Hurts (but not as good) - all mock serious doom and pomp. This is not what I was expecting, but it is all explained when Rick Anthony says 'Hi, we're Chapel Club' because he is actually not Rick Anthony at all. He is Lewis Bowman. 'Oh fack, I've come to see Chapel Club by mistake,' I think, promptly sack myself, and run off to the woods.
There I discover the real Phantom Band, and find that marvellous single 'Everybody Knows It's True' is quite marvellously unrepresentative - for they are much, much more Moog wonky than said song hints at. It is like Stereolab fronted by Aiden Moffat, but you cannot damn them with the oft-attributed-to-Scots epithet 'dour'. Because they spell out their name in stacatto, computer voices, have glinting guitar lines, wicked-urgent tom-toms and jolly, massed doo-doo-doo vocals. Mr. Rick Anthony comes over all Preach; slapping the bit of his chest where his heart is, and then throwing one arm out in a anguished challenge: Come with us. It is all incredibly rousing.
I retire to the main arena for a rest with a friend and discover Mark Lanegan now resembles an incredibly craggy Will Ferrell. But there are no jokes, and his unmistakeable rumble cannot disguise the fact that his collaborations with Isobel Campbell are rather dull. This makes me sad, and I long for the two enormous dudes from Screaming Trees to come out, break the stage and do 'Shadow of the Season'. But it's not 1992 and it isn't going to happen, so I go to see Deerhunter. Who are entirely wonderful, opting to string out and loosen the seams of all the songs on Halcyon Digest. It's not quite the echo chamber in my head that happens when I listen at home; it's less focused and neat. But it's good, it's good.
Caribou, next, are not good. They are not good at all. Caribou - you utter, ackfing bastards - are absolutely incredible. And something happens, something that feels like Narnia is exploding in my ribcage, so that I am forced to use both hands and cling onto the only thing I think has constancy, which is to say, the bassline. 'Hang onto the bass, everything will be alright,' I think, before writing some drivelish twaddle about a 'religious experience' and how Caribou are 'the MOST [underlined] TRANSPORTIVE' as well as 'THE ONLY REAL BAND THAT EXISTS'. See, Caribou wield all the zenith noises of house music, they know (inside out and back to front) all the button-pushing tricks that less careful and nuanced bands would slather over their songs like free sauce. The point about Caribou, though, is that despite all that raging and their wonderful clatter, they have restraint. I don't know how they do it, but I love how they play pointed into each other in a circle to ensure cohesion, and I love that it is noisy and graceful, allatonce. I love them. I love them. I love them.
After such flagrant superlatives, Jonny have the unfortunate task of putting all the pieces of my woman-mind back together. They do this by provoking me to shout 'I love you Norman!' like a teen, and by playing exactly as you would expect them to; grinning, jaunty, amiable, impossible to dislike. There are quite a lot old dudes watching them and I am sure we are all remembering buying Bandwagoneque or having it taped for us like a shower of berks. But it's okay, because Norman's still got it and so has Euros.
By the time I have witnessed the second worst cover of the weekend, when Paloma Faith butchers Nick Cave's 'In Your Arms' (adjacent accomplice: 'Oh No. Oh NOOOOOOOOO'), and despite admiring her delightful Native American headdress, I am starting to pall. But I go to see The National because it is nice to go and see a band you are not sure about, especially if you are with someone who thinks they make the music to end all notes. And despite a vague thought pootle about whether The National might be better suited to the cosier, containing environs of the Word tent; and despite not really knowing any National songs, they are stirring. Joined by Annie Clark for a song we are instructed we must '…Read between the lines. It's about eating each other. But in a nice way,' they are a band who have mastered cadence, a band about mood, a band with a heaven-sent brass section, whose doom I can't really believe in. But tonight, I am happy to pretend to.
All photos (apart from the divvy ones) by DiS' Jamie Boynton.
Read Saturday's Latitude review here.
Read Sunday's Latitude review here, here.
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Pre-race recap:
First Ironman: Wisconsin 2004. Sick heading into the race. Couldn't consume calories or fluids during. Woke up in the back of an ambulance after I passed out half way through the bike. Later diagnosed with parasitic infection.
Second Ironman: Wisconsin 2005. Very, very rough day but managed to stave off unconsciousness to get to the finish 11 minutes before the midnight cutoff. I am an Ironman.
This Ironman: Missed 5 weeks of training this spring due to undiagnosed illness. Missed another week completely in June plus another couple of weeks of reduced training. Same reason.
Was not racing with a watch. Did not want pressure of time goals. The day was going to be hot, humid, and um, hot. Getting to the finish was job number one.
Not having access to my medicinal cookies to alleviate the side effects of my medications was a concern. It was going to make a challenging day more so. Spelled 'POZ' with the reflective tape on the back of my race shirt.
If nothing went wrong -- like oppressive heat and humidity -- and absolutely everything went right, then I thought 12 hours was possible. But really, getting to the finish line was the primary goal. At all costs.
I was only going to leave the Ironman course across the finish line or by ambulance. Quitting was not an option.
Giddy up, Buttercup.
Pretty much according to plan. Just swam easy. Executed my planned mantra for the entire day: 'Hold back. Relax. Focus on form.'
Time trial swim start meant not getting punched in the head even once during the 3.8 k / 2.4 mi swim. Nice.
What doesn't kill you…
Did not push the pace at all. Even though it was not yet 9 am it was hot. And humid. A lot of guys passed me in the first 40 km / 25 miles. I didn't care. I was going my own 'easy-does-it' pace.
Couldn't consume solid food anymore around mile 65 / 100 km. Only gels would go down. Hmmm…that never happened it training. Must be the heat.
A few athletes walking their bikes up the hills during the second loop. Others are lying on the side of the road. Starting to feel less then stellar myself. Heat really starting to kick in.
The guys that were kind of riding at my pace have disappeared behind me. Fewer guys are passing me. I'm going easy, holding back. Want to make sure I get to the finish line.
Self care is paramount and I'm doing it: calories, water, electrolytes. Cold water in the helmet. Hold back. Relax. Focus on form.
The last 40 km / 25 mi I start feeling a little rougher. I back off the pace a wee bit more just to make sure I'm feeling the love for the run.
Guys stop passing me. I'm starting to catch and pass some people. I ask if they notice that it's kind of hot.
Oh yeah, it was humid. And hot. Did I mention that?
Some bad patches. Some ugly patches.
I took my medications, the ones that keep me from certain death, during the second transition. As I swallowed them I thought: 'Dream as if you will live forever. Live as if you will die today'.
Coming out of transition I did not feel my usual perky self. Running 26.2 miles did not seem appealing.
I thought it was hot when I was biking. Now there was no wind chill factor. Things were going south in a big, big hurry.
The heat was oppressive: 96 F / 35.5 C. The humidity offensive: well into the 90's. Making it feel well over 100 F / 37.7 C.
I slowly jogged about 200 metres before walking. I was not feeling well. At all. It crossed my mind that a marathon is a long way to walk.
In what will become a repeating pattern at every aid station, I put ice in a zip lock baggy under my hat. Ice down my shirt. Cold, wet sponges tucked under my shirt on my shoulders and back of neck. Fill my water bottle. More electrolytes. More calories from gels.
I feel a wee bit better and am able to start running. By mile 2 I'm feeling absolutely wonderful. Only 24 miles to go. I'm thinking that I can do this. I'm over that bad patch. Just the same, easy does it. Don't want to count your chickens.
By mile 4 I've lost that lovin' feeling. By mile 5 I'm walking again. But so is almost every one else at times. I tell myself that I can manage my body by just walking the rest of the way.
By mile 6 I'm lying on the side of the road. Time is distorted. The aid station volunteers keep checking on me: 'Do I need medical assistance?'
A little voice in my head says 'Suck it up, Buttercup'. I slowly get up and start walking. And then running. As I go through mile 8 I reach around and give myself a little pat on the back: 'Good job, Scott'.
I run a few more miles before things deteriorate again. More walking. More athletes lying on the side of the road. 'That was me' I think. I run some more.
I stop sweating. I know this is not a good sign. Somewhere around mile 15 I crumple to the grass.
I hear someone say 'Don't worry guys, an ambulance is on the way.' Guys? Plural? I open my eyes to look around and see two other guys lying on the grass.
I'm not done yet. I struggle to my feet. Lazarus rises again. I have to get out of here before the paramedics arrive. I'm scared they'll want to make me quit.
Some guy asks if I'm sure I should continue. I take a quick glance at the 2 guys lying on the grass and mumble weakly, more to myself then him, 'never give up'.
Walk. Run. Walk. Run. With the occasional dry heave thrown in for good measure.
I thought of my good friend and training partner, Matt, who died 50 weeks ago after crossing the finish line in a local triathlon. I choke up. I miss him. I took a moment to appreciate being alive. And healthy enough to try to do this crazy shit.
Some uber fit guy, looking dazed and confused, asks me where it all went wrong. I said that I thought it was the heat. Or maybe the humidity.
As I approach mile 24 I decide I'm not going to stop running until I get to the finish line. I'm going to empty the tank. I start digging in to run faster. Sweating returns.
At mile 25 I pick up the pace again. Now I'm really starting to hurt. But I'm passing loads of people and that feeds me emotionally. The mantra has become: Dig in. Ignore the pain. Empty the tank.
I turn the final corner and can see lights illuminating the finish line in the distance. Cheering crowds line the street. There are still a few more people I can catch in the last 400 metres. I dig in again. I am emptying the tank.
200 metres to go and there is one more guy between me and the finish. I dig in one last time and go by him fast.
50 metres to the finish and my sun glasses fall off. I stop, turn around and pick them up. He runs past me. Fuck! I sprint all out, the world starts spinning, and pass him again with 5 metres to go.
I cross the finish line at full speed into the arms of medics. They want to put in a wheel chair. I want to walk. I win, and we walk for a couple of minutes. I think I'm going to be okay.
Then things got ugly.
I recognized the signs of impending unconsciousness and knew I needed to get horizontal. Immediately. A medic told me to keep my eyes open, not pass out. She kept tapping my arm.
They put on a gurney. They are running me through the crowd. Yelling at people to get out of the way. Every bump makes my head ache. Every twist and turn more nauseous. Blackness creeps into my peripheral vision.
We arrive within the air conditioned medical center. I am immediately cold and start shaking uncontrollably. People are pulling off my clothes. I'm being wrapped in blankets and those silver cape things.
A needle is stuck into my arm and I'm hooked up to an intravenous bag of saline. My legs, back and abdomen are cramping. They give me some anti-nausea medication. I continue to shake uncontrollably.
After the second saline bag I start to come around. One of the medics asks if I'm coming back to race again next year. I'll decide after both my big toe nails fall off in the next few days.
I am an Ironman.
Time splits:
Swim: 1:13:19
Bike: 5:54:50
Run: 5:56:13
Total time: 13:17:05
76th of 284 men in my 45-49 age group.
To all my friends and strangers that supported me on this journey and sent good vibes my way: thank you, thank you, thank you. You've helped more then you know in making it about the process and not the outcome.
And to that guy who bitchily commented on one of my previous blog entry's that I wouldn't / couldn't succeed and finish an Ironman: I've got a finisher's medal you can suck on. Meow.
And because life is too short not to follow one's passions, and because I want to, I have registered for Ironman Canada 2011.
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Fugitive hip-hop mogul James Rosemond was apprehended earlier today on a federal warrant, accused of running a cocaine ring that trafficked drugs in music equipment cases between Los Angeles and New York.
Rosemond, owner of Czar Entertainment, was taken into custody by Drug Enforcement Administration agents who got a tip that he was at the W Hotel in Union Square, law enforcement sources tell NBC New York. He was arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn, and did not enter a plea.
Sources tell NBC New York that Rosemond, who is known as "Jimmy Henchman" and has managed Brandy, Sean Kingston and The Game, fled and was chased by marshals up Park Avenue. He was carrying a fake I.D. and a passport application in a fake name, sources said.
Authorities believed Rosemond, who lived in Brooklyn until he went on the run in recent months, was planning to leave Thursday for the Bahamas.
Rosemond's attorney, Jeffrey Lichtman, said he would fight the charges.
Rosemond is accused in court papers of being involved in a cocaine distribution ring that ran drugs from Los Angeles to New York City, starting in 2008. In the papers, the DEA accuses Rosemond of being the leader of the organization that distributed hundreds of kilograms of cocaine and generated millions of dollars in sales.
Traffickers changed their methods of moving the drugs over time, according to court papers. Before 2010, they sent drugs through FedEx and UPS, sometimes vacuum-sealed and covered with mustard to hide the smell from drug-sniffing dogs.
Later, cocaine was smuggled in so-called "road cases" like those used to carry music equipment. Court papers say that road cases containing cocaine were sent to music studios in New York City, and afterward, members of the drug ring organization would retrieve them and distribute the cocaine.
The proceeds from the coke sales would then be packed back into the road cases and sent to music studios in Los Angeles.
Court papers say high-level members of the drug ring cooperated in the investigation.
Rosemond was also recently accused by a federal inmate of orchestrating a plot to ambush rapper Tupac Shakur outside a recording studio more than a decade ago.
Shakur was hit five times in the 1994 shooting at the Quad Studios in Manhattan. He survived but was later gunned down in a slaying that remains unsolved.
Last week, Lichtman said his client had nothing to do with Shakur's shooting. The accusations against Rosemond were levied online and attributed to Dexter Isaac, who is serving a life sentence in an unrelated murder-for-hire plot.


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When I volunteered to become an assistant scoutmaster for my local troop way back in 1980, the main competition we had for boy's time was the school sport programs. Some boys were just too busy playing football, basketball, or baseball to join the Scout troop. Some boys did join both, learned to juggle their schedules, and had a good time in both programs. I always knew though that if both happened on the same night, the Scouting program would lose participation. That is just the way it was.
It is still that way today, but there is another thing that is taking up boy's time: technology. By that I mean video games, the internet, and even cell phones. Some kids are so (shall I say it?) addicted to video games they may not join any other program, be it sports or Scouting. Those that do join Scouting always seem to have a cell phone or some other piece of technology with them wherever they go. Today's teens have a tough time cutting that chord, and that can sometimes create a problem when a troop has a "No cell phone, video game, or mp3 player on campouts" policy.
Adults get caught up in the whole thing also. I see a lot of adult leaders at summer camp and camporees with a cell phone attached to their ear. With the new smart phones they no longer leave the internet behind. I bring a cell phone to camp but the only time I ever seem to use it is when the boys call their parents on the way home. I do bring an iPod along when we are going to an outing that is more then several miles from home so that I have something to listen to in the car. The boys usually choose what to listen to on the way.
Now there is the iPad. I do plan to get one someday. I do plan to put some Scouting related programs on it, like the Scout Handbook and an advancement tracking program. It should come in handy at troop meetings. But do I bring it on camping trips? This would violate our troop's no electronics policy.
Some troops have changed their policy to allow electronics after the Scout earns a Technology Chit card, similar to the Totin Chip card. The Boy Scout takes a "course" on how to use technology responsibly during a troop activity. I have heard that a couple troops have used this new policy quite successfully. It may be something Troop 68 has to review sometime in the near future, but I still do not like the idea of Boy Scouts bringing video games and cell phones along on outings. I have seen Scouts in other troop too often paying attention to technology instead of having fun in the wilderness.
Today and tomorrow's troops are going to need to find a balance between the two. Tech is here and I do not see it going away anytime in my future. In fact, I think the competition is only going to get worse.
How does your troop handle cell phone, video games, and iPods?
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Randy Couture will use his braun to build this Sunday.
The UFC Hall of Famer and ageless heavyweight is set to appear on ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," a show that helps needy families rebuild their homes.
Couture joins wrestling legend Dan Gable, Les Stroud of "Survivorman" fame, Gabe Rygaard of "Ax Men" and the rest of the show's cast in this week's episode, which is set in Louisville, Ky. The show often features celebrity guests to meet with the families.
In Louisville, the Extreme Makeover crew descends on the house of the Lampe family, which fell into disrepair. The family is sent to Walt Disney World while the house gets a makeover.
The family's garage has doubled as a wrestling room to help mentor and train young people in their community, which is where Couture and Gable come in.
The show airs this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET/PT on ABC affiliates.
Couture's acting career has heated up in the past 12 months. He also is scheduled to appear in a national commercial for Ford, and in February, he begins work on a feature-film project that ends just as he kicks off a formal training camp to meet Lyoto Machida at UFC 129 in Toronto, according to sources.
The 47-year-old fighter sent a shockwave through the MMA community this past month when he appeared to announce his retirement via Twitter. He later downplayed the message, though he admitted his interest in competing was limited to a few opponents, with Machida being one of them.
Then, following UFC 125 this past Saturday, word leaked that Couture was in active negotiations to meet Machida at the Canadian event, which takes place April 30.
Couture recently wrapped filming on "The Setup" with Bruce Willis, rapper 50 Cent and Ryan Phillipe. He is expected to begin filming the sequel to the surprise hit, "The Expendables," following his fight with Machida.
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For the 16-minute animated film Lucky Day Forever, director/writer Alek Wasilewski depicts a future where the present-day glorification of the celebrity moron has been taken to society-destroying extremes. An intensely sinister and dark watch, tempered with some gorgeous animation and music. Here's the synopsis:
Prole 514 dreams about winning the Great Lottery. The lottery winner is transformed and allowed admission into the elite White society, where everyone is beautiful, young and happy and people spend their carefree lives solely on fun and partying. One day, 514's wish comes true...but was this what he really wanted?
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Hello All. I'm trying to do something I thought was simple but I cannot figure it out. A look in the manual had not revealed the secret to me either. I'm drawing in a snap grid configuration. I'm just doing ortho drawing at this point. If I want to draw a line, I can start it, but how can I get the line to a specific length. I can drag a line to the left (so to speak) but I have to manually enter the endpoint. Is there anyway to point the mouse in the direction I need, and then enter something like 26.25 inches?
Thanks to whomever enlightens me!
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How many applications is too many?
In March, Capgemini issued its 2011 Application Landscape report, which surveyed almost 100 companies application portfolios. It found that 60 per cent of enterprise respondents had more applications than they needed.
In large and enterprise-class firms, a bigger proportion of people felt that there were far too many applications.
This is not surprising. When companies grow, there are more cooks to spoil the broth. Bureaucracy can run out of control and different teams can develop applications with different sets of requirements, so their functions overlap.
In short, the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.
A case of indigestion
Large and enterprise companies also tend to buy other firms – along with their applications. Like a snake eating a rabbit, they can take some time to digest their prey, leaving a bloated IT infrastructure laden with applications they no longer need.
You could leave these applications puttering away happily in a corner, but application bloat has some nasty side effects. They cost money to support, which places burdens on the helpdesk, and they cost money to maintain. The more applications you have, the more you pay.
And all applications are not created equal. Many are custom jobs, tweaked and tailored to suit the user base. They may need extra work as the business's requirements change, which can be a problem if they are not well-documented or if the original architects have departed.
According to the Capgemini survey, 56 per cent of large and enterprise customers said that more than half of their applications were bespoke.
Losing weight
No wonder that chief information officers are focusing on consolidating applications to make them more manageable.
The Cap Gemini survey found that adding more value to the business was the top priority for CIOs in 2011, followed by increasing the efficiency of IT.
Cutting out that fatty layer of applications being used by employees in single or low double-digit numbers, but which still incur heavy maintenance and support costs, is a way of achieving that.
Even more so if, for example, the app is running on that old DEC Alpha in a long-forgotten corner of the data centre.
The problem is how to sell this concept to the business while the economy is collapsing. Squeezing budget from the board during financial apocalypse is always tricky, and consolidating applications is going to be an expensive process no matter which way you cut it.
Hard times
During happy times of growth, IT managers can use the promise of agility to promote foundational, infrastructural projects like this.
In times of frantic belt-tightening, the pitch has to be a little different. Instead of agility, cost cutting and efficiency are more appropriate talking points. Even then, the impetus may be towards other projects.
"It will consume bandwidth and effort that may not be available," says Andy Bates, chief technical officer of Infrastructure transformation services at Capgemini UK .
Consolidating will save money that the IT department may be able to allocate elsewhere
"You're always in competition with other business change initiatives. On the one hand, I could save dollars by shaving applications, but I have to create functionality for this new department. A lot of organisations know that there's a business case there, but they don't have the bandwidth to deliver."
In that case, focus on infrastructure consolidation, says Bates. The application base that has grown up organically over the years will have a calcified layer of servers, networking and storage, built up like limescale on the inside of a kettle.
Consolidating that down to the essentials will save money that the IT department may be able to allocate elsewhere – such as to incremental application consolidation projects, perhaps. In any case, hardware virtualisation will be an integral part of application rationalisation, so you may as well tackle it while you can.
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If you get the budget to go after those rogue applications after culling delinquent servers, how do you sift the wheat from the chaff?
Begin by understanding what you have and what it is used for. How many people use each application? What functions does it support? Pinpoint which applications are critically important to many business functions and focus on those.
What do you do with each application? Bates advises one of four options: firstly, decommission it altogether if you don't need it.
Secondly if you need something to do what it does but it is too old and unwieldy, replace it.
"For example, you may have a fragile legacy system. You don't even need to worry about that – turn it off and migrate across," he says.
That tackles things at the business function level, but there are two others approaches. You can modernise the application by going in and tinkering around with the code. Or, you can farm the application, making more use of it.
This is likely to involve virtualising it. Even with legacy applications, some parts may be doable.
"If you look at an SAP system, you might say I can't virtualise it. But lots of people do. Typically, you virtualise the application server layer rather than the database," says Bates.
Reformed character
Of course, the moral of the story should be "don't do it again".
We would like to think that, having consolidated all of your hardware, virtualised your operating system portfolio, wrested the budget from the cold, dead hands of your finance director, and rationalised all of your applications into a finely tuned, streamlined stack of awesomeness, you won't let your company make the same mistake again.
In reality, stopping application bloat from happening over the next few years will be a challenge. Internal politics and managerial myopia will see to that. But you can at least put policies in place to prevent things from running out of control.
Start with a proper application lifecycle governance strategy that allocates budget to decommissioning applications at the end of their useful life. That will help you to tie off the loose ends in your application portfolio.
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Okay there hasn't been any blood yet.
But MOM is at her wits end.
This is the one where I admit that I am not good at the stress of having one four year old + two 2.5 year olds. When things are good, I rock. When things are bad.....I just suck.
My husband is quite ill today, maybe going to the hospital later (he has bleeding ulcers and hernias that are giving him problems if it isn't something else) and I'm completely stressed out.
My four year old has not quit talking. SINCE 10 AM. Nonstop. Jabber. Jabber. Jabber. Talk talk talk talk talk. He has 6 of those information pamphlets you can pick up at tourist areas (this is FLA everything is a tourist area) and has gone through EVERY SINGLE DETAIL OF EVERY SINGLE ONE IN EXCRUCIATING DETAIL with me. I may poke my ears out (not my eyes, gotta be able to see what they are up to).
I tried to talk on the phone earlier to my mom and the 4 year old dumped an entire bucket of blocks (which, incidentally I had JUST PICKED UP) over his head, despite the fact that as he picked it up I DIVINED his purpose and said "NO! NO! Don't DO THAT! NO Don't YOU DARE DUMP THOSE OUT FOR NO REASON!" which he then did anyway.
The littlest boy keeps SHRIEKING everytime the TV show changes. Even though shows he LIKES are coming on. Oh, did I mention we don't allow screaming? Did I mention I have disciplined him EVERY SINGLE TIME AND IT DOESN'T EFFING MATTER BECAUSE HE KEEPS DOING IT?
Deep breath Mom.
Here is a shot of them being sweet, not demons.
As you can see, Target suggests I limit my repoduction to the current brood. Not such a bad idea based on today's track record.
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Sunday, Bloody Sunday
Posted by Gidge Uriza at 2:23 PM
3 comments:
- Becky said...
I blame Stephen King. And all that telepathy stuff. I swear. Our kids have telepathy. And they're TALKING to each other. To drive us INSANE.
- Mon Dec 18, 10:53:00 AM
- wendy boucher said...
Oh, just don't hurt them. They are adorable.
- Tue Dec 19, 04:14:00 PM
- Elizabeth said...
You have my sympathy on this, Gidge. My ten year old has been reading fact books since he was four. He checks out Guiness Book of World Records from the library. He reads books about dinosaurs, mummies, animals. And he LOVES to recite facts to me, over and over again. I tell myself, one day he'll be a teenager and probably won't even want to talk to me, so I just nod my head and listen.
Merry Christmas to you and your family!
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This article briefly discusses the technologies used in modern browsers to display web pages, and goes into a little more detail about the user experience on those web pages, in particular how we can get part of a web page to refresh automatically when data changes on a web server.
Browsers and HTML
I'm sure anyone who's reading this page is aware that the web is based on a request and response process that returns web pages of data. If I click on a link my browser makes a request for the web page specified in the link, the request gets routed to the appropriate server, and the server responds with a page of HTML which my browser displays.
HTML (hypertext markup language), of course, is a simple markup language that tells a browser where to put text and images on a web page using tags (e.g. <header>). The request format is a text URL (uniform resource locator) of the kind you see all the time in your browser's navigation bar. Furthermore, the returned text can contain additional links that the browser will show underlined and that I can click on.
Anyone who uses the internet understands this, but the success of the web is at least in part due to the simplicity of that model. The HTML is just text with a few special tags in angle brackets, and all a browser has to do is know how to send a request, handle the response, and then draw a screen using the HTML that's returned. Similarly all a web server has to do is know how to receive a request, get the right HTML text to send back, and send it. Often web servers will simply store the text in text files on their hard drive, and just load and send the right one in response to a request depending on the text of the request.
At root it's unbelievably simple; just look what it's turned into.
Other Technologies Used In Web Browsers
Of course modern browsers aren't as simple as described above and there are a number of other technologies that they understand and developers can use.
For the Javascript to change what's displayed it needs to manipulate the HTML. Obviously this can be done by simply changing the text. However, there's a programmatic representation of a web page that Javascript can use to manipulate elements within it. This format is the Document Object Model or DOM.
Another baseline technology for what gets displayed to the client is Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). These allow a common look and feel to be applied to a group of web pages without the need for detailed coding in each page.
Drawbacks of the Basic HTML Request/Response Page-Based Model
HTML + Javascript + CSS allows us to create quite sophisticated web pages. However, there's one big drawback with the model as described above: to display new data we have to click on a link to request a whole new page and wait whilst it loads.
For a more sophisticated user experience there are a few things we might like to have:
- The ability to refresh part of a web page without reloading the entire page. Initially this could be initiated by the user clicking a button, but we want just the relevant data to update, not the entire page.
- The ability to do this refresh whilst allowing the user to continue to interact with the rest of the page. That is, the request shouldn't block the user, it should be asynchronous.
- The ability to update the page when data changes on the server without the user having to refresh in any way.
1. Refreshing Part of a Web Page
The first problem that developers tried to solve was updating part of a web page in place without reloading the entire page. There are several ways of doing this.
However, there are some simple approaches that predate Ajax. One is to use IFrames. These are HTML elements within a page that can issue their own request/responses to a web site and render the results independently of the rest of the page. They have a SRC property that can be set to a URL. If you set the src to a different or the same URL (say on a button click) the new data will appear without a full page reload.
Many developers don't like IFrames. Search engines can get confused by them. They may show scrollbars if your content doesn't fit correctly. Worse if your user has scrolled to the bottom of a page and then you load a new shorter page in the same frame they may be off the bottom of it. Because of restrictions in HTML IFrames can usually only issue requests to the same site as the main site of the page they are on. All of this means people have looked for better solutions.
Script Injection
Another approach to refreshing part of a web page is client-side script injection. This takes advantage of the fact that Javascript code in a web page can be retrieved from a server using a URL via a src tag.
One advantage of this approach is that script tags can issue requests to any URL, not just the same site as the page they are on. One disadvantage of this approach is that it can lead to security vulnerabilities in the code.
JSONP is just a way of using client-side script injection across domains to get data from a different website: we request the script from the different server and it returns it as the parameters of a Javascript function which immediately executes and uses the payload.
2. Refreshing Part of a Web Page Asynchronously
Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) is probably the primary technology for this. Ajax is actually a label applied to a way of using many of the technologies described above to allow web pages to be displayed and then be updated asynchronously without reloading the entire page.
The original call to the server will not block and will not reload the page. The user can carry on interacting with the page as usual, even if the call to the server takes some time.
It is up to the callback function to make whatever changes it needs to make to the web page using the usual Javascript techniques described above. This will typically involve updating just a part of the screen.
One thing to note here is that the data returned is just text. It doesn't have to be XML, in spite of the names (XMLHttpRequest, AjaX).
3. Updating a Page Automatically when Data Changes on the Server
Ajax as described so far updates a page in place, but only in response to a request from the web page. This means that the user has to click a button or something similar for the page to update.
Obviously there are situations where data is changing and we would like it to update on our web page without the need for the user to manually refresh.
There are quite a few ways of doing this, some of them direct extensions to the Ajax model described above:
The drawback to this is we may make requests when no data has changed, putting unnecessary load on our servers. Also our data on the client may well be out of date at any given time if we are between polling requests.
We really want a way for our server to send data only when it's changed, and at the moment it has changed.
Long Polling
Another approach is long polling. Here the browser fires off a request with a long timeout and sets up a handler for the results using Ajax as before. However, the server itself doesn't respond until it has data that has changed, and then it sends the data in response to the original request. The browser handles the request and immediately sets up another long timeout request for future updates.
The disadvantage of this approach is that the server has to keep the connection (a network socket) open until it has data. In general it will have as many connections as it has clients waiting for data. This obviously puts load on the server and the number of sockets that the server can possibly use becomes a limiting factor. Also this is clearly a more complex solution to implement than normal (short) polling.
In streaming the client makes a request and the server responds with an open response that keeps the communication channel open and allows subsequent responses to be sent to the client. The server may eventually time out the connection, or may keep it open indefinitely. If the connection times out the client will have to make another request to refresh the data. So this approach is like long polling with the client needing to make fewer requests.
One drawback of this approach is that many proxy servers buffer http responses until they are complete: that is, they won't send on the message until they have the completion. This means the client won't get timely updates. Another obvious drawback is that this is a fairly complex way of keeping data up to date.
With all of these approaches the call backs from the server tend to tie up one http communication channel. As a result many approaches to solving the problem use (at least) two channels: one for polling or streaming to update the data in place, and one for regular requests from the client to the server.
A number of commercial frameworks have been built using these techniques.
Comet is a name that's been applied to the techniques described above to update a web page in place automatically when data changes on the server using a longlasting HTTP connection.
HTML 5 Web Sockets
HTML 5 web sockets are the new way to do bidirectional communication between a web page and a server. They don't use the old HTTP request/response at all, but instead set up one dedicated channel for communication between client and server. This is fast, and the messages involve very little redundant header information, unlike conventional HTTP requests.
The main drawback of this new technology currently is that many browsers do not support it. For example, it doesn't work in the last version of Internet Explorer, IE9, although it works in IE10.


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XMM-Newton talks again loud and clear
XMM-Newton, ESA's X-ray observatory, has re-established communication contact with Earth, showing that the spacecraft is safe and fully under control. The news was confirmed this morning by the mission control team at ESA's European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany.
Radio contact was re-established on Wednesday 22 October around 18:00 Central European Summer Time (CEST). This followed an unexpected radio silence from the spacecraft which started on Saturday 18 October 2008 when XMM-Newton, coming out of a nominal period of non-radio visibility along its orbit around Earth, did not succeed in sending the expected signal to Earth.
Fearing the worst, teams at ESOC and other ESA establishments, supported by industry, immediately started studying the situation and performing the first attempts of recovery. The first signs of hope arrived on Monday evening when images obtained by the Starkenburg Observatory in Germany confirmed that the spacecraft was intact and did not give any sign that it was tumbling. This fact was also confirmed by many other ground observatories from all over the world that had answered XMM-Newton's call for help.
The initial hopes were then confirmed on Tuesday morning when ESOC ground controllers, using ESA's 35-metre ground station in New Norcia (Western Australia), managed to establish a feeble two-way communication path to the spacecraft. This suggested a failure in the on-board Radio Frequency (RF) switch – an important clue for the experts that could then focus on more targeted solutions.
Once these solutions were simulated and validated on ground, the final recovery action started. Ground controllers made use of the NASA 34-metre Deep Space Network ground station in Goldstone (California), which is located in a favourable position for times when XMM-Newton is closest to Earth (perigee passage). They sent a command that allowed the RF switch to go back to its last working position and then managed to get radio contact with the spacecraft with ESA's 15-metre ground station at ESA's European Space and Astronomy Centre (ESAC), near Madrid, Spain.
"XMM-Newton is now safe and fully under control," said Dietmar Heger, XMM-Newton Deputy Spacecraft Operations Manager at ESOC. "It's been a thrilling moment for our team. We even feared the spacecraft could be lost, but hard team work and a good star helped us turn this into a new success story for ESA."
"XMM-Newton has been in orbit for almost nine years, investigating the violent Universe as never before and providing discovery after discovery" added Arvind Parmar, XMM-Newton Mission Manager at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) and Head of the Astronomy Science Operations Division at ESAC. "It's a big relief to know we can still count on this great spacecraft. We thank all the teams which have worked non-stop in the past days to make this possible, and our colleagues at NASA who made their 34-metre station available."
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I am so thankful that Jesus is not a wimp! Huh? Let me repeat....JESUS IS NOT A WIMP!! Yes, he loves us desperately. That is love...LOVE not LUV. It's not a soft, fuzzy, do whatever you want kind of love. It's a deep passionate, I want what is best for you kind of love.
So many times I hear people say they cannot stand up for themselves because they want to be a good Christian. I don't really remember anywhere in the Bible where Jesus was wimpy. I remember him toppling tables in the synagogue. Showing the pharisees the fallacy of their reasoning when they challenged him. I remember him asking the hard questions (Peter, do you love me?) and giving the hard answers (feed my sheep, sell all you own and follow me.)
Jesus doesn't call us to be nice, he calls us to be his. I am grateful that I am allowed to be strong in him. How do you see Jesus? Maybe this Advent season is a good time to research that for yourself.


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LINDA: Tobe, I need to make a tape about death and need it by next week at 3pm Wednesday. Is that OK? I cant tell you where I will show it because that is not for public knowledge.
TOBE: Lordy, Linda, I do hope you make a tape about death but I thought you were finished making tapes.
LINDA: I know it is very disturbing to investigate this but death terrifies me and I need to talk to you about it. It will be only a 3 minute tape, ok?
TOBE: I know that. OK as long as it is under 3 minutes I will make it. Let me do some research. Wikipedia says that death is the cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Phenomena which commonly bring about death include biological aging (senescence), predation, malnutrition, disease, suicide, homicide, starvation, dehydration, and accidents or trauma resulting in terminal injury.[1] Bodies of living organisms begin to decompose shortly after death.
LINDA: I know that Tobe. Our friend Wikipedia also says that death – particularly the death of humans – has commonly been considered a sad or unpleasant occasion, due to the affection for the being that has died and the termination of social and familial bonds with the deceased. Other concerns include fear of death, necrophobia, anxiety, sorrow, grief, emotional pain, depression, sympathy, compassion, solitude, or saudade. What is saudade Tobe? Oh well, let me continue. Many cultures and religions have the idea of an afterlife, and also hold the idea of reward or judgement and punishment for past sin.
TOBE: I know that. Oh Linda, how many minutes is this by now??? You promised only 3 minutes. I thought you retired? Do we have to make this tape? Please I beg you let's not. Help!!! Help!!!!!!!!! Help.
LINDA: I know Tobe. This wont be too long. Have you ever heard of senescence? I think I have it Tobe because I'm in my late 70's. Let me tell you about it:
Senescence refers to a scenario when a living being is able to survive all calamities, but eventually dies due to causes relating to old age. Animal and plant cells normally reproduce and function during the whole period of natural existence, but the aging process derives from deterioration of cellular activity and ruination of regular functioning . I know I look fabulous and not old at all. Maybe I wont die Tobe, what do you think?
TOBE: It's almost up. Your time that is. But here is some more information. Wikipedia says that
Signs of death or strong indications that someone is no longer alive are:
- Respiratory arrest (no breathing) or
- Cardiac arrest (no pulse) or
- Pallor mortis, paleness which happens in the 15–120 minutes after death
LINDA: Tobe, I'm still breathing, maybe I am still alive? DO I look alive to you????I don't think I have
- Livor mortis, a settling of the blood in the lower (dependent) portion of the body OR
- Algor mortis, the reduction in body temperature following death. This is generally a steady decline until matching ambient temperature OR
- Rigor mortis, the limbs of the corpse become stiff (Latin rigor) and difficult to move or manipulate OR
- Decomposition, the reduction into simpler forms of matter, accompanied by a strong, unpleasant odor.


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Beneath the hood, drivers are afforded all of the capability theyve come to expect from a SUV thanks to the impressive engine choices. Available standard is the 3.6-liter Pentastar V-6 engine with 6, 200 lbs tow capacity, fantastic fuel efficiency, and variable-valve timing (VVT). For those in need of a little more power, the legendary 5.7L HEMI® V-8 is also available and prepared to haul a staggering 7, 400 lbs. The interior has been completely revamped for 2011 to provide a ride experience that is as extraordinarily breathtaking as it is capable. Surfaces are smooth and soft to the touch while the dazzling driver display creates a visually stunning cockpit that youll find difficult to resign to just the garage. The cutting-edge amenities are complemented by modern safety features, including standard front seat-mounted side air bags, side-curtain air bags that cover passengers in all three rows, Blind-spot Monitoring, Rear Cross Path detection, and Forward Collision Warning.
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ARENUI - Indonesia's boutique dive liveaboard experience!
Here at the Arenui we believe scuba diving holidays CAN combine world-class dive sites, with a truly relaxing and luxurious experience. You shouldn't have to choose between colourful, critter-packed, fishy, pelagic-filled dives and 5-star accommodation with gourmet food and a personalized service. Yes, you can have it all ... diving cruises without compromise!
So, what makes us special?
Here at the Arenui, we have built a stunning wooden vessel that offers a taste of the local culture (a traditional Indonesian Phinisi) but fitted it with all the modern conveniences of a luxury hotel. We designed spacious boutique cabins that once again invite our guests to enjoy the country they're visiting (local handicrafts and inspirations). We added a luxury restaurant serving international and local cuisine (evenings are waiter served a-la carte) and added both an outdoor sky restaurant and a top-deck sky lounge for massages, sunbathing, relaxing and enjoying the island views. Then we trained up an enthusiastic local crew, including 2 highly sought-after chefs and 3 eagle-eyed dive guides, to join our 2 western cruise directors, adding up to 22 members of the Arenui onboard team providing a truly personalized service for our 16 guests.
Next we chose to focus on diving the stunning Indonesian archipelago, a true remote paradise, packed with 5-star dive sites to match our 5-star liveaboard and crew. Indonesia offers everything from healthy coral reefs to sandy critter hide-outs, with so much to see that one trip is never enough. Dive Komodo for incredible diversity from frogfish and nudibranchs to schooling jacks and mola-mola (oceanic sunfish), then travel to the untouched reefs of Alor and Flores, before heading into the Banda Sea to dive the wonders of Maluku (and visit the famous Spice Islands) but don't forget to make time for Raja Ampat and its world-famous gorgonian sea fans, enigmatic wobbegong sharks and manta rays.
How to use this website
The aim of our website is to promote our luxury dive cruises but also to promote diving in Indonesia.
As such, we have tried to provide an extensive amount of information (and photographs) to show you more about the major dive destinations and also advice on travel within this incredible paradise! You will find pages dedicated to both the details of our boutique boat and our luxury services, as well as our diving practices and crew, but also about the best dive areas such as Komodo and Alor or Maluku and Raja Ampat, plus the practicalities of travel within Indonesia.
We recommend starting with a look at what makes us special (our concept). If you want more details on how our beautiful boat was constructed see the section on our vessel history, including the safety features and boat layout.
Once you find a trip or destination you are interested in, be sure to read more about the itinerary (including a map of the cruise route) by clicking the links from the schedule page. Or why not head over to our Facebook page and click on each 'event' to read more and find great video links too!
Oh and don't forget to sign up for our eNewsletters, to hear about special offers and last-minute spaces (we send it out every 2 months and add lots of interesting industry news too); just fill in the form at the end of this page.
We hope this website will inspire you to visit Indonesia and dive in true luxury with the Arenui - the Boutique Liveaboard!