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All too often we receive questions for Alana asking advice on relationship and marriage conflicts.
A love relationship will have its ups and downs because this is a part of cohabitation and sharing a life together.
But why are some relationships more compatible while others are filled with power struggles and conflicts?
In the following question and answer session, Alana helps the questioner find clarity. Alana assists in creating a space to move beyond a dysfunctional cycle of trying to figure out who is wrong and who is right, into a space of curiosity and self exploration.
Alana's answer uses a relationship quiz developed by Kirk for defining personal values. This is a perfect tool for couples to take independently or together. The information gained can help reveal relationship compatibilities and differences so couples can have greater self-awareness and begin building common ground for resolving their issues with one another.
Question for Alana: Hi, Alana. My husband and I have been married nine years now and could use some relationship help.
From the start, we have had small irritations. But recently the tolerance levels have come down a lot.
He feels that he is doing so much for our family and me and that I am not reciprocating. I feel that I am giving up so much of what I am for him and our family and still not getting a breather from the issues he seems to have with me.
I have been reading up a lot on past lives and wonder if it's something there that is causing us to go round and round.
Should I back down or stand up for what I think are unnecessary comments and expectations?
I feel that I have put up and heard enough. But I can't make out who is right. Obviously, everyone does and says what they think is right. It may not matter, but I feel rather stuck and not sure how to break the cycle.
Alana's Answer: Greetings, Dear One, and thank you for posting your question and for acknowledging your desire to better understand the dynamics in your love relationship. Let's see if we can find a way to change this cycle expressed in your marriage.
First, let us view your question from several different perspectives so we may find a more productive way to expand the communication within your marriage. This can help the two of you find greater common ground. Then Alana will point you to a series of exercises, which when taken to heart and acted upon, can help to expand your capacity to support each other on your shared life path.
Many couples do have shared past life experiences, which can sometimes be fascinating to explore. There are so many factors we could examine from a physical and spiritual perspective that might bring an "ah ha" experience. However, this may not aid in helping the two of you learn to be together with greater compatibility.
Relationship Differences
Also, couples often get caught up in the day-to-day needs to the extent that they forget the simplicity of connectedness, which is based on love and respect for each other's exceptional beingness. Many couples have yet to view their relationship as a team, a co-creative partnership.
We are all the same in our desire to share love, yet at the same time we are unique. This leads some couples to share more compatibility traits than others. Sometimes couples are drawn together because of their differences so they can learn how to further develop aspects of themselves.
Sometimes people are drawn together on an emotional level, later realizing they lack mental and spiritual compatibility. They connect on one level and it becomes the magnet that draws them together, forgetting to notice if they are compatible in other ways.
Does this doom the relationship over time? Sometimes, if the couples are not willing to grow to understand each other's full natures. If they would just allow impartial curiosity to move them beyond their attachments they could learn more by exploring each other's deeper intrinsic values.
So let's move past the need to know or be right, and seek deeper answers, which may help you both learn how to relate from a new level of awareness. Then perhaps your differences will soften because a greater understanding of your and his deeper intentions will express with greater compassion for each other's core needs and values.
What are Your Shared Compatible Values?
Let's create the intent to explore the deeper essence of each of your individual natures so we may find the compatible values, and the underlying facets of your natures that are expressed with the friction you describe.
This must be done by releasing a blaming state of mind as you move to a place for gathering understanding. Then a bridge can be made that will support you both. This common ground can become the bridge for better communication and understanding that transforms into compassion and relational wisdom.
For a preview of the first exercise > Discover Your Negotiable and Non-Negotiable Values
This is an exercise each of you can do. See if you can be curious during this discovery process and leave judgment behind. As you discover each of your deeper intentions, you will be shown that you are each just "who you are." Then the actions of attempting to change the other person to accommodate each other's needs and values will lessen.
The Art of Compromise
Before I share the next exercises let me give you an example of a couple who were blessed with a baby, their first.
The mother had a desire to stay at home and be with their baby until the infant was old enough to start school. However, the father felt they should have his mother watch the baby during the day so his wife could go back to work. He felt it was more important to have the extra income to support their lifestyle needs.
Can you see how neither choice was right or wrong? They both had different perspectives and values, which led to different needs and desires for support.
Through discovery, communication, and examination of possibility, the two found solutions.
Yes, there was compromise from both parties, but neither crossed the line of giving up their non-negotiable needs. If they would have blamed and gone on without taking the time to explore possibility, the two parents may have created resentment, adding to a mountain of misunderstanding.
They could have gone on to spin the situation and "triangulate" with the husband's mother, which could have made matters even worse.
Instead, this couple each wanted to respect the other's values and needs. They moved beyond blaming and needing to be right. They saw their marriage as a team effort.
A Marriage is a Team Effort
The wife discovered that her husband's desire for her to go back to work came from a need to make sure the family remained stable. She was able to listen to him without feeling that her need to be with her child was being threatened. The husband understood his wife's value to care for their child with her full attention. He learned her intention came from a place of love versus being selfish or denying their needs as a family. Both knew neither was right and neither was wrong, but had values they felt were important.
Eventually, the husband found a way to increase his hours at work one day a week. The wife found a way to work at home part-time, a couple days a week. Their differences were addressed. Although the extra income wasn't quite as much as if the wife went to work full-time, it was enough to meet their needs. These options came to be because the couple created a neutral space to explore possibility. Solutions were made available because their consciousness could draw in the opportunities.
So often we forget that our conscious attention is a component of what we manifest. When we combine our attention with greater awareness, shifts of perception will open avenues to explore.
Holding this example as a model of successful relationship communication and collaboration, let us move to a series of exercises that can help build a new foundation for your marriage.
Building a Foundation for a Lasting Marriage
Alana is going to point you to a series of articles that offer questions you both can explore separately and then together.
By taking an inventory of your greater values, you will come to better understand how each of you has different needs and why they are expressed the way they are. You will come to learn why the desire for support in one area of life may be greater than another area. You may identify how your needs will never be met by changing the other person, but by becoming a fuller and more compassionate expression of yourselves.
If you can create the space for exploring this series together, your open discussion of what you learn will be very helpful in solving the irritations and demands that have been building in your relationship over time.
Even if your partner is not willing to do this with you, by doing it solo you will still learn a lot about yourself. Even self-awareness can be enough to change the dynamics in a relationship, opening space for the partner to make a shift.
Begin by becoming familiar with creating your own values list, then move on to the three-part Relationship Quiz designed to help you discover your values. Doing so will provide a better understanding of each other. This is much more than a compatibility test, as it will put you in touch with your authentic nature.
For Part One, visit > Relationship Quiz
Good luck in your exploration. May you both find greater peace and happiness.
~~ Alana


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Bomb in Pakistan kills 25; suicide bomber in Iraq kills 4
Pakistani police say the death toll from a bomb blast today in Quetta market has risen to 25. Authorities have released very little information so far.
Elsewhere in the Middle East, a suicide bomber, pretending to ask for help, assassinated a senior Iraqi military official and three bodyguards at his home Saturday in the north of Iraq, officials said.
Brig. Gen. Ali Aouni, the head of the Iraq Defense Ministry's intelligence academy, and his bodyguards were killed when the bomber detonated his explosive vest just as Aouni was leaving his house in Tal Afar, 420 kilometers (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.
The suicide bomber, who was waiting outside of Aouni's house, told the guards that he wanted Aouni to help him on some matter. When the guards opened a gate to let Aouni's car through, the bomber blew himself up.
There was no claim of responsibly for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida's local franchise, which often uses high profile-killings to sow fear and undermine the government's authority. Violence has decreased in Iraq, but insurgent attacks are still frequent.
A medic in Tal Afar hospital confirmed the death toll.
All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to media.


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Last look at CryoSat-2
As preparations for the launch of ESA's ice mission on 25 February continue on schedule, an important milestone has just been reached with the team at the Baikonur Cosmodrome saying farewell to CryoSat-2 as it was encapsulated in the rocket's 'space head module'.
This milestone is the culmination of over three weeks of work testing the satellite at the launch site in Kazakhstan. Now, sealing CryoSat-2 from view, the protective fairing will not be released until just over 16 minutes after launch, when the satellite is injected into orbit.
The CryoSat mission is dedicated to precise monitoring of the variations in the thickness of ice. The mission will provide detailed data on changes in the thickness of both ice floating in the polar oceans and the vast ice sheets that cover Greenland and Antarctica. With the effects of a changing climate fast becoming apparent, particularly in the polar regions, this information is urgently needed to further our understanding of the complex interactions between ice and climate.
Since it was shipped to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in January, the CryoSat-2 satellite has been undergoing an intense series of tests to ensure it is ready for launch. Although this particular launch campaign has not all been plain sailing, the preparations remain on schedule and launch is still set for 25 February at 14:57 CET (13:57 UT).
One issue in the launch campaign came with the discovery that a piece of material in satellite's X-band science-data transmission antenna had broken off during transport. Through the ingenious use of a local surgeon and an endoscope, the problem was successfully resolved. Fortunately, the piece of ferrite that had broken off was much like the icing on a cake: the antenna works well without it, but improved the already good performance to a level comfortably exceeding the specifications, so it could be safely dispensed with.
Despite this hiccup, the campaign activities, which included further testing on the main instrument antenna – the Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)/Interferometric Radar Altimeter (SIRAL) and the Doppler Orbit and Radio Positioning Integration by Satellite (DORIS), which provides the satellite with accurate time and positioning data, have continued on schedule.
Once this phase of testing had been completed, permission was given to fuel the satellite and encapsulate it with the upper stage of the Dnepr rocket.
CryoSat-2 is now sealed with the upper stage – the 'space head module' – of the rocket and next week will make its way to the launch pad where it will be integrated onto the rest of the launcher in the silo.


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Call them optimistic. Financial advisors are expecting more robust growth in return on assets under management in 2013 that in 2012 even though many in Russell Investments' latest quarterly survey failed to meet ROA growth expectations this year.
Forty-nine percent of advisors responding in Russell's Financial Professional Outlook study reported that they had not experienced the kind of growth they had anticipated. Twenty-one percent said their ROA had grown more than expected and 28% said their ROA growth had fallen short of predictions.
On average, advisors had looked forward to 7.6% growth in ROA this year, but realized 7.2% growth.
In 2013, however, they said they expected 8.4% growth in ROA on average. Sixty-seven percent of respondents said the current ROA on their books of business was 80 basis points or less.
"Return on assets is one important metric for goal-setting around business growth," Sam Ushio, practice management consultant for Russell's U.S. advisor-sold business, said in a statement.
"Based on our research, we believe that a reasonable aspirational ROA level is around 70 to 90 basis points on the overall business. If an advisor is earning less, it may indicate that they are still using a transactional business model," Ushio said. "At a deeper level, a lower ROA may reflect an advisor's tendency to discount the value they deliver to clients, which often correlates with confusion on the competitive landscape."
Ushio said 62% of respondents were focusing on deepening client relationships to help grow ROA across their businesses. Fifty-eight percent also reported that they were proactively seeking new clients to grow ROA, as well as asking for referrals (53%), moving clients into fee-based relationships (43%) and moving client cash off the "sidelines" (32%).
Asked in which of their client segments they expected to see the most ROA growth in 2013, 64% of advisors indicated clients nearing or very near retirement.
Among respondents who expected most growth from clients five to 20 years from retirement, 53% said would increase ROA by asking for referrals, while 52% said they planned to move clients to advisory-based relationships.
The most popular strategy for increasing ROA of advisors expecting most growth from clients less than five years from retirement was focusing on client service and deepening relationships (60%).
Ushio noted that many high-net-worth investors try to diversify by working with more than one financial advisor, but by strengthening client relationships advisors can encourage their clients to consolidate their assets.
Not surprisingly, advisors and their clients talked about tax implications throughout 2012. In the latest Russell survey, taxes were the top subject of advisor-initiated conversations (36% of advisors), while 23% of advisors said clients had broached the topic.
Advisors also pointed to generating income from portfolios (30%) and clients running out of money in retirement (30%) as the issues they were most often bringing up to clients.
"Helping to manage tax efficiency can be a great way for advisors to demonstrate the value they deliver to clients," Ushio said. "Advisors should try to refocus client questions about the fiscal cliff into meaningful conversations around potentially maximizing after-tax wealth and helping to improve the odds of meeting their long-term financial goals."


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How Beauty (No Stronger Than a Flower) Shall Hold a Plea
by Christopher Phelps on November 28, 2010
In a word, Jason Schneiderman is a poet of the helix. In his new book, Striking Surface, he turns and returns a fine Merino wool finer. By refrains; bits of anaphora; tonally and topically, he returns to his concerns in cycle after cycle, rending or revising earlier understandings, and leading new ones up new twists. Scattered throughout the book's three sections are cycles that include "The Children's Crusade," "Stalinism," "Ars Poetica," "Physics," "Rabbi Ishmael ben Elisha," and "Hyacinthus."
The middle section of the book is entirely a cycle: an unforgettable family of elegies that address his mother's death with tenderness and probity, in a casual voice talking through grief without flinching and without sentimentality. From "Elegy I (Work)": "Whatever dead is, you are, and how you must hate that, / busy fixer of problems, busy stitcher of crafts." Soon we learn the role crafts played before death—how they were a kind of tacit conversation between father, mother, and son—and the roles they assume, still unfinished, in the afterdeath. Here, in "Elegy IV (Tallis)":
I don't tell Dad that you never finished cross-stitching
the tallis piece because you were punishing him.
You wouldn't tell him, so why should I? I finished
the curtains you were planning, though I didn't line them.
Picking up the thread, in the next elegy:
I wish I could see the dead as completed instead
of stopped, that some monument in my head
would be erected to you, instead of these scraps
of uncatalogued memory.
And again, in "Elegy VI (Metaphors for Grief)":
____________________________I'd think,
why finish this if Mom won't see it, or why
go to work if my mother is dead? She had never
been the axis my world turned on, but suddenly
everything seemed to revolve around her. No.
Not an axis. A skewer. A spit.
Throughout the book, we encounter a philosophical version of transubstantiation that an object or subject undergoes when it has been taken from us or is otherwise no longer in reach. In "Elegy V (The Community of Mourners)," Schneiderman calls it "a trap": "Mourning's a trap, / isn't it? A way to pretend that what you lost / was better than what you had," a delicious riddle that obviates our thinking those two things (people) are the same, with the bereft feeling that they are not. It's a trap revisited in the last section of "Susan Kohner (Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life)," which begins, "Death tricks you twice. First about yourself, / and then about others," and ends:
Does Sarah Jane owe her dead mother
more than she owed her live mother?
Of course not—but she can't deny her dead
mother what she denied her live one.
Having gathered impressions of her sense of humor, her quietly persistent love, and her humiliating, de facto last rites before the surgery that would be her death, we feel we know this woman—this arch, in its stone and filigree—just in time for the keystone eighth elegy, which—in its omnivorousness (including a nod to Elizabeth Barrett Browning, who returns from being buried in an earlier elegy); in its valences and ambivalence through which an earnest love reflects—seems to accomplish something of Shakespearian ambition ("That in black ink my love may still shine bright"), even as a stand-alone poem:
Elegy VIII (Missing You)
I thought I'd find you here, that I'd finish these poems
and you would stand out as clear as the day. As bright
as the moon. I hate those poets who tell you that
they love, but never make clear whom they love.
My mother's eyes are nothing like the sun. How do I
miss my mother? Let me count the ways. So where
are you? I couldn't believe you let yourself
be filmed for the video they showed at your tribute,
and I wanted to tell everyone, That's only her voice
when she's nervous. That's only her face when she
has to be on display and she doesn't like it. But at least
you were there. Everyone knows you can't write
your way out of grief. Everyone knows that grief
never turns into anything but grief, and OK, I can grieve
you forever. But I wanted you here, in the middle
of my book. Not a complaint about what I lost
or what it feels like to lose it. But you. Your smile.
Your denim dress.
Schneiderman addresses another, closer-to-literal kind of transubstantiation in "Adorable Wounds." An epigraph from Hopkins invites us to "approach Christ in a new way" and cast ourselves "into His sacred broken Heart and his five adorable Wounds" (a fitting bit of pronoun play between a man and his apotheosis). Longinus of Caesarea already having stuck his spear into the body of the crucified Christ, pre-poem, the poem's speaker asks:
Is it blasphemy
to be the nail,
the spear? To want
to be the nail,
the spear?
These fives lines—in their deceptively simple revision and reiteration of that deceptively simple question—ask as much of us as any nineteen syllables I know. "A simple truth miscall'd simplicity," as Shakespeare might have said and did, in Sonnet 66. Substituting "question" for "truth," we have a working description of Schneiderman's quest to understand.
In all three sections of Striking Surface, understanding is key and a key to the poems. From "Ars Poetica II":
I'm trying to say:
Forgiving is the end of love.
The end of hate.
The end of strong emotion.
A poem should be
an understanding.
A forgiving.
But not the end of love or hate.
The poem comes to doubt itself directly ("Maybe this / isn't a poem"), before ending up at a new understanding:
If understanding
was the wrong thing,
I asked
for the wrong thing.
It was what I wanted
when I asked.
Besides the candor of these lines, what makes them feel natural and accessible is their role in a dialogue into which the poem is structured. The poem's speaker addresses the world-as-poem and world-as-parted-intimate simultaneously, a parted intimate who responds:
Look at all the sense you keep
trying to make.
You should know better.
That's why I did what you think
I need to be forgiven for.
Another theme these poems thread and rethread is the nature of identity—in theology and philosophy, called the problem of haecceity (essential "thisness"). Schneiderman pinpoints the requisite subtleties with a weaver's needle. In his death-by-flower poems ("Hyacinthus I" and "II"), he turns a wry eye upon the notion that Apollo had preserved anything of Hyacinthus in his eponymous flower, ending the first poem with, "Who are we fooling? // I'm just plain dead," and the second with:
Who wants
to be a flower?
Better that weeds
should mark my grave
than the stars
should hold my face.
This frames the issue in a smart(ing?) little star-rimmed face. In "Echo (Narcissus)"—a sort of third wheel or three-way for the "death by flower" pair—the Narcissus myth is restored to its context of male-male love, and (as always in these poems, with a twist) it speaks for an Echo who learns to say "No."
In "Probability," the problem of haecceity comes more clearly into relief:
________The statistical probability of being a dinosaur
at the moment that the meteor hit is impossible to calculate,
because you would have to know whether any given dinosaur
was as likely to be any other given dinosaur, or whether
any living thing is as likely to be any other living thing—
but no matter what, the chance was tiny. No matter how you do
the math, every single dinosaur was statistically safe from
meteors. But then again, here we are, you and me, as human
and furless as we might have hoped, tiny teeth, opposable
thumbs, and all the birds locked out of our safe, insured
Here we see another large-looming theme, really a component of the problem of haecceity. If something is essentially 'this'—an exact and unique something—then it can't be exchanged for something very much similar, or even something identical in all its properties (Leibniz argued: if two things are identical in all their properties, those two things are really one thing). But look!—Schneiderman's poems ask between (and within) the lines—at how exchangeable and reversible we and our circumstances are. By a fluke, we're the ones insured, for the moment. The oscine dinosaur descendents are in the garden singing… for the moment.
In "Sailor at Nostrand and Bedford," the non-uniqueness of exchangeable things is again brushed against. Here, from the poem's second section:
There was a sailor, once.
What we wanted
was the same,
and each other
was the last place
we'd looked.
And in "The Book of the Boy," the issue is fully foregrounded, pleading loudly:
____________"Why was I made?"
and the answer comes: "Because we
wanted you," which puzzles the boy.
"But there was no me to want," the boy
protests, and the answer comes: "Well,
we wanted something like you." And the boy asks
"Would any small person have done?"
and the answer comes: "Any small person
we made. It was critical that we be the ones
who made it." The boy hesitates.
The answers are getting angry. At last:
"So I was interchangeable? Then?
Before I was made?"
The poem ends exasperated and without resolution. Hiding in dreams, "maybe / by morning, he'll be someone / specific and loved and necessary."
Near the end of the book, in the four-part poem, "Notes on Detention" (in effect the title poem: in the second part we learn that there are six striking surfaces on the human hand, and the strongest striking surface is the elbow, according to the latest interrogation manual), we once again snag this braided issue of identity. We encounter a mine-detonating robot that has done its work so dutifully that it's lost all but one of its legs, and is continuing to scrape along on its last before an army colonel "declared the test inhumane and stopped it. / The robot's inventor was surprised, as this / is what the robot had been designed to do." Then comes the crux:
________Perhaps the robot stepped
through the same door into humanity
that every victim steps out of. Perhaps
we should find that door.
In the next, the book's penultimate poem, "The person you cannot love," we've reached the end of probing the issue until, in the final poem, we're asked to bury it in a bed of flowers that Schneiderman's husband tends. "I Love You and All You Have Made," wraps up the triple helix of identity—transubstantiation, exchangeability, haecceity—into a convincing and moving three-line finale: "Some days, I flatter myself to think / that I'm one of your flowers. Some days, / I flatter myself to think I'm not."
Viewing this book through one (or three related) of its themes, much that recommends it has been passed over: its several senses of humor; its pop-culturings sprinkled handsomely throughout; its rabbinical backstories; its children's crusades; and its wise and wide-eyed meditation on war—"Billboard Reading: War Is Over / Billboard Reading: (If You Want It)"—that puts Prometheus in dialogue with Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, the Aztecs, and the 1952 film, High Noon, to name a few. Nor have I mentioned my favorite poem in the book, "The Numbers Wait with God for Humans to Invent Them," which involves Two's being kissed, Four's hair being tussled, imaginary numbers "who screamed at night / the things they knew," and—almost free of charge, almost subliminally—a parable about the freedom that is division.
Fearless and affectionate, Striking Surface is a book of lyric poems that neither emphasize narrative nor shy away from it. The story, when it comes to a poem, seems to come across a music already being played; an understanding already being groped; an Ariadne's thread already followed halfway back. Schneiderman's are exuberances on dark topics, trimmed to their essentials, and plangent (rung up and down turns of thought and feeling) in what remains.


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One of the contracted installers for the digital TV switchover Household Assistance Scheme has moved to reject possible comparisons to the Government's controversial home insulation and education infrastructure programs. Skybridge, a satellite and terrestrial network installer, has already contracted work in regional South Australia and Victoria as part of the Scheme, and is set to deliver up to 70 per cent of the installation work for Queensland's switchover.
Read our explanation of the Government's Household Assistance Scheme, and look at the 'talking' set-top box that the Government has been developing for blind citizens.
A statement released by Skybridge founder and director Glen Makin says the company "takes the responsibility of ensuring [its] workforce [is] appropriately trained very seriously." Makin told GoodGearGuide that Skybridge wished to respond to recent coverage: "We felt it important to correct some of the misconceptions about the scheme, and the skills and experience of installers delivering the program."
"Every technician engaged by Skybridge to provide services under the schemes, as a minimum, adhere[s] to all of the relevant technical and occupational safety policies, procedures and accreditations required by the Government."
The $2.45billion home insulation scheme was shut down in April 2010 after being suspended in February of that year, after it was found that unscrupulous operators were using poorly trained or untrained workers for installation work. The home insulation scheme was linked to 205 house fires. Four insulation installers died between October 2009 and February 2010, and widespread criticism of fraudulent contractors and poor installation work led to the Government implementing a further safety assurance program. According to a Government Web site, the Australian Federal Police is conducting ongoing investigations into "possible fraud" and "administrative errors by installers" related to the home insulation scheme.
Skybridge's statement says that the installer seeks to provide work to appropriately accredited local technicians wherever possible. During the recent digital TV switchovers in South Australia and regional Victoria, Skybridge used the services of around 90 local businesses to undertake set-top box and antenna installation work.
These sub-contracted installers are checked by Skybridge to ensure they meet necessary standards: "We constantly monitor the quality of workmanship and compliance to OHS standards throughout the delivery of the program."


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Hamilton County Juvenile Court, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, has jurisdiction over many juvenile-related matters, including delinquency, unruly and traffic charges, dependency, abuse and neglect allegations, and certain custody, companionship and child support matters. Hamilton County Juvenile Court does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, religion, gender, disability or age in the delivery of services.
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Judges' Office - hosts the Clerk's office, probation and administrative offices, and holds most of the Court hearings.
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One of the most drawn out snack nightmares will soon be over. Hostess announced today that Twinkies, CupCakes and Donettes will all be returning to store shelves on July 15. The Associated Press' Christine Choi reports Hostess' new owners are finally putting Twinkies back on shelves in the middle of July after a near eight month absence. Recognizing that the world has been waiting with bated breath for the return of these delicious snacks, they're labeling it "The Sweetest Comeback In The History Of Ever."
Hostess went bankrupt back in November and laid off 18,500 workers in the process. There were some last ditch efforts to save the Twinkies bakery, but they failed. After months of liquidation and a potential Walmart sale, Hostess finally went to Apollo Global Management for $410 million back in March. They tapped "veteran food exec" Dean Metropoulos to run the new, slimmed down operation. Some of the laid off workers have been re-hired under the new ownership, though there's no longer a union.
The recipe and price for a box of ten Twinkies will be the exact same. For the most part you'll hardly notice the little cakes ever left your life. The one thing that will change is availability. Because of the company's new structure, Hostess will deliver Twinkies to even more stores than ever before. You'll be able to get Twinkies in more places, more often than any point in history.
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. - U.S. Sen. Michael Crapo was arrested early Sunday morning and charged with driving under the influence in a Washington, D.C., suburb, authorities said.
Police in Alexandria, Va., said Sunday that the Idaho Republican was pulled over after his vehicle ran a red light. Police spokesman Jody Donaldson said Crapo failed field sobriety tests and was arrested at about 12:45 a.m. He was transported to the Alexandria jail and released on an unsecured $1,000 bond at about 5 a.m..
"There was no refusal (to take blood alcohol tests), no accident, no injuries," Donaldson said. "Just a traffic stop that resulted in a DUI."
Police said Crapo, who was alone in his vehicle, registered a blood alcohol content of .110. The legal limit in Virginia, which has strict drunken driving laws, is .08.
The 61-year-old Crapo (KRAY'-poh) has a Jan. 4 court date.
"I am deeply sorry for the actions that resulted in this circumstance," Crapo said in a statement Sunday night. "I made a mistake for which I apologize to my family, my Idaho constituents and any others who have put their trust in me. I accept total responsibility and will deal with whatever penalty comes my way in this matter. I will also undertake measures to ensure that this circumstance is never repeated."
A Crapo spokesman declined to comment on the circumstances surrounding his arrest.
Currently in his third term, Crapo has been in the Senate since 1998, and served for six years in the U.S. House of Representatives before that. He was easily re-elected in 2010, and won't have to run again until 2016.
In Congress, Crapo has built a reputation as a staunch social and fiscal conservative. It was expected he would take over the top Republican spot next year on the Senate Banking Committee. He also serves on the Senate's budget and finance panels. Crapo was a member of the so-called "Gang of Six" senators that worked in 2011 toward a deficit-reduction deal that was never adopted by Congress.
A Mormon who grew up in Idaho Falls, Idaho, Crapo was named a bishop in the church at age 31. He is an attorney who graduated from Brigham Young University and Harvard Law School. He has five children with his wife, Susan, and three grandchildren.
The Mormon Church prohibits the use of alcohol, as well as caffeine and other mind-altering substances. The state has a significant Mormon population.
Crapo has told the Associated Press in past interviews that he abstains from drinking alcohol.
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Its gone so quickly.
He mentioned once that he'd love a whole box of Twinkies. I never buy them because I am uncertain of what they are made of - they are chemically-engineered for sure. But I bought them... just for him. And quite frankly, I'd've paid big-money to see him smile like that.
Lucky for me, a box of Twinkies cost $2.87, and he's always generous with that grin.
In between celebrations and soccer games, I had a moment of inspiration... or should I say courage?
I actually finished a quilt that I started six-weeks ago.
My favorite part of quilting (making the top) is smack-dab in the middle of the things I don't like about quilting (cutting fabric and the actual quilting part: sewing the three layers together.)
I was given a free-form quilting attachment for my machine last Christmas. Fear kept me from trying to sew with it. After some internet research (AKA- reading blogs and watchin' YouTube vids... sounds official, doesn't it?) I decided that perhaps I should give free-form quilting a whirl.
I'm hooked! Its like drawing with needle and thread. I was so enamored I ran out of thread before I was finished, but in the end, it was enough. So I finished up, and then decided to do more research on fabric to see what I might start next!
The only snafu with this project is that it is quite small. As a matter of fact it should be called a mini-quilt. The finished measurements are 37x32 when I hoped it would be 36x54. I always forget my quilt pieces, laid on the floor, will actually be smaller sewn up. And since I didn't exactly have a recipe that gave me exact-directions and measurements, (not to mention my phobia of math) I made things up as I went along...
All right, must close up for now. Our fall-break begins in just three days! And there is much to be done in between.
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The Gibson Moderne remains the undisputed biggest mystery in the history of guitar. To what extent did the original exist? Designs? Prototypes? Unused parts? Production models? In the upcoming June issue of Premier Guitar (watch for it online next week), we take a deeper look into the mystery, and into the differing theories behind the existence of the original. Until then, we're looking at some of the Modernes that unquestionably existed -- reissues, knock-offs and custom builds that pay tribute to the enigma that is the Moderne.


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Kafkas Soup
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1 onion, chopped
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp pearl barley
1 small beetroot, peeled, cut in matchsticks
2 cups beef broth
1/4 celery root (small size), peeled, cut in matchsticks, soak into water with lemon juice
4-5 baby carrots, cut in matchsticks
2-3 cabbage leaves, julienne cut
1 cup milk, warm
2 hard boiled eggs, cut in small pieces
Saute the onion with salt in a medium sized pot. Add the barley, beetroot and beef broth. After it starts to boil, cook for about 15 more minutes at medium-low heat with the lid closed. The barley and beetroot should start to soften. Add the celery, carrots, cabbage, and cook for another 15 minutes until the barley is done on low heat. Add the warm milk, salt and pepper. Heat the soup up while stirring.
Pour into bowls and spoon the egg pieces into the soup.
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Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are expecting their first baby, according to People.
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The magazine reports that Bell is pregnant and due in the spring.
Bell and Shepard started dating in 2007 and announced they were engaged in 2010. However, the couple has said they don't plan to actually tie the knot until same-sex marriage is legal in California, where they live.
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Shepard currently stars on Parenthood, while Bell just started shooting the second season of Showtime's House of Lies.
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The admitting internist wrote this note:
"The patient states he was incontinent. To personally verify this, I checked his underwear. It was wet, and smelled of urine."
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It's quite a marvellous setting in its own right and the day was more special for us as we were accompanied by Mr HenHouse's parents, his Dad having worked for many years in this very dockyard. Of course, out came the gladrags...
Aside from all the special displays for the '40s weekend, the Dockyard is already a visually spectacular place.
There was a super collection of vintage cars to ogle, often with stylishly dressed owners.
A stray evacuee was up to mischief!
My favourite part (other than the shopping!) was the recreation of a wartime village. We have attended this '40s event once before a few years ago and this time, it really felt like it was getting into its stride; well organised with many more displays, more food outlets and more entertainment. The village was a new display for us. Let's have a wander down memory lane, shall we?
Good humour was in plentiful supply, especially at the butcher's shop!
There were some beautiful clothing items on display and the make do and mend section was of particular interest for me, of course. I was very taken with the dressing gown made from a candlewick bed cover (I am a massive fan of these anyhow and sleep with one every night!) The coat was made from an old woollen blanket. I like the colourful cuffs and collar.
I loved the recreation of a typical kitchen-come-parlour. Oooh, I drooled plenty over the goodies in there.
Somebody was understandably more interested in the toys by the fireside. (I was more interested in the bread bin!)
Then he spotted the sweet shop, but would there be anything inside given the rationing?
Best find out, just in case there might be the odd jelly baby.
The second hand shop would have been doing a roaring trade, I'm sure.
This display was also rather charming (ok, yes, I was coveting the biscuit tin.)
Moving on, it was time for a spot of vintage shopping.
The shopping is usually quite good as there are some less well known dealers there who we don't see elsewhere. It's good to see different stock and their prices are usually pleasantly reasonable.
Outside, there were more stalls. Some traders had made attractive displays with their stock. They were also very knowledgeable, always have a natter with folks at these events as they're really friendly.
What is it about washing lines? They can look so attractive, don't you think? (If you ignore the ironing that's coming next!)
Ok, prepare for a cute overload. Don't say I didn't warn you!
And more. Meet Queenie.
There was an excellent recreation of a fire station, using many artefacts original to local Crayford Fire Station. This lady was able to tell us so much about how the station would have worked during the war years.
What I haven't done is show or tell you about all the singers who were keeping everyone entertained or the marvellous dancing (though I do think it is difficult to see the dancing properly within the confines of indoors, it would be better outside in my opinion). The day ended with the sun coming out and everyone waving flags and singing along to the classics: We'll Meet Again, There'll Always be an England, Rule Britannia and of course, God Save the Queen.


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A sweet-tart pie packed with cranberries and pears.
The tart cranberry might seem like an unlikely candidate to star in a pie, especially after Thanksgiving has passed. But pair it with some sweet pears, wintry spices, and orange zest, and voilà—this holiday staple has earned a spot on the table all winter.... Read More
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I've had my 2009 Camry
I've had my 2009 Camry hybrid for almost 3 months, and I've got 5500 miles on it. I consider the mpg that I am getting to be excellent. I haven't had a tank under 38 mpg yet. And I don't go out of my way to get higher numbers, other than avoiding the jack rabbit starts. The mileage is the best thing about the car. Second best is the quiet of the cabin when moving. And third is the excellent sound of the upgraded stereo. Overall comfort is very good too. (I'm a big guy.) On the negative side, the cabin is so quiet that I hear all the rattles, from the empty passenger seat or an annoying noise from the center post by my left ear. The stereo controls and display (non-nav system) are terrible. And I hate Toyota's dedicated cruise-control stalk. (Why not put those on the steering wheel instead of AC controls? How much do you need to play with those?) I had the car in the shop twice in the first two weeks with the check engine light on, but I've learned to turn the gas tank lid until it clicks, then push on it and turn some more, and then push and turn some more.
I sort of regretted not waiting to try the Lexus hs250h, but reviews I've read indicate mileage is not anywhere near what I'm getting. The Camry is 10mpg behind my wife's Civic Hybrid, but this car is much more comfortable for my 60+ miles per day. Overall, I'm 85% pleased.
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Based on Toyota's own
Based on Toyota's own numbers, comparing the standard 4-cyl Camry and the Camry Hybrid, driving an average of 15,000 per year, based on $2.60 per gallon, equals a gas savings of $355.00 per year.
You would have to drive the Hybrid for 17 years before you broke even.
This is based on a cash purchase and dosn't take into account any financing or a leasing options. Of course if you pay more for gas or put more miles on your car it would bring the break even point down but even if you doubled the numbers your still looking at 8.5 years.
I've had alot of cars in my time and usualy keep them unitl they are on their "death bed" and have never kept a car for 17 years.
Resale values of the the 2010 Camry's and how long you keep your Camry, would also effect the overall value, but at this point the numbers don't add up.
We had a 2007 Camry for 3
We had a 2007 Camry for 3 years, or about 80,000 miles. In the first couple of years I had no trouble getting 40 mpg on the long haul and about 35 mpg in mixed driving. But in the 3rd year, the mileage dropped a significant amount so that in winter a number below 30 mpg was not uncommon.
Now we have stepped up to a 2009 Camry but are very disappointed. It's difficult to get 38 or 39 mpg on the long haul and in mixed driving 32-33 is the norm while under 30 mpg is not unusual. Tire pressures are set to specification.
One difference I noted is the place of manufacture. The 2007 was Japan-made and the 2009 is Kentucky-made.
The Hyundai Sonata hybrid will be out in September.....
We have now had our 2009
We have now had our 2009 Camry Hybrid for 2 full years and have about 28,500 miles on it. We live in NC and typically drive in a hilly area a minimum of 10 miles per trip which almost always includes about half "in-town" driving. Our gas mileage over this time has typically been 34 - 35 mpg (we have never seen less than 32 mpg when my wife was using the car for stop-and-go canvassing). On road trips of 300 miles or more which we do several times a year, we get more than 42 mpg. (One trip from central NC to Wash. DC area, we filled up close to home, drove to Dulles airport area, then around the Manassas city area for 1/2 day since we used to live there, and finally drove home to fill up for the only time since leaving -- at the same station. Total mpg was 42.5.) The mpg I manuall calculate has always been about the same as shown on the gauges.
That only tells part of the story. Our previous two cars were a Lexus RX300 and a Toyota Avalon. Both were fine cars, but this Camry Hybrid out does both in performance, quiet and comfort (though it has a couple less "gadgets"). We are about to take a 12,000+ mile trip around the US and I'm very much looking forward to a wonderful driving experience.
lowest tank av 32.5 mpg
lowest tank av 32.5 mpg winter, HIGHEST 53.4 mpg summer. (2009 camry hybrid) Use premium gas with no alcohol , follow the oil viscosity recommendations in the owners manual, run up to 40 psi in tires. 35-40 mph yields the highest possible mpg for me( 50 mpg+ ), 55-62 mph yields 42-46 mpg summer, trailing heavy traffic on a 6-lane highway yields > 46 mpg summer @ 55-65 mph . Do everything you can to keep the battery used up at all times and it can get the highest benefit from regen coasting and breaking and wasted engine energy. Try to use only the 1st stage of braking which is regen IE get off the gas pedal early when stopping is immenent . Tap the cruise control coast button to shed 3-6 mph when climbing small hills,tap the cruise control accelerate button after cresting the hill to slowly regain your original speed try to keep the realtime mpg gauge at a higher number than the current tank average. Try to run erands without letting the engine cool down this is how i got 50+ av on a few occasions.My car has 50,000+ miles and has been used for just over 2 yrs with no sign of degrading mpg the averages are still increasing some of this is driving habit some is car breakin. Bad gas will ruin my milage this I've seen twice. Last but not least don't expect to get the highest mpg when your spouse is in the passenger seat as this will cause them to lean forward in hopes of more speed causing them back pain and you will suffer verbal abuse from all occupants of the vehicle breaking your concentration . Those of you that expect more mpg than what I've listed are going to have to have the optional oars ,sail, and solar panels installed.
LOL the Color of the oil
LOL the Color of the oil does not mean anything. I'm not sure where you would even get the idea that it's "Hard on Oils".
Oil turns black because it picks up impurities too small to be filtered out.
The Color has nothing to do with the protection you are getting from it......
You should really learn a little bit about cars if you are going to rant about them.
I just purchased a 2011
I just purchased a 2011 Camry Hybrid (SE Texas area), and I must say I'm thoroughly impressed with the car. Initially, I had some concerns about the modest EPA ratings of 33/35 MPG. But I've only had the car for about 500 miles, and I'm consistently getting closer to 40 MPG in mixed driving. I actually think the EPA rating is 'OFF', since my previous experience with gas-version Toyotas has been much closer to the EPA ratings. Anyone interested in a Camry Hybrid should know that they can probably achieve much better than EPA mileage figures. I expect an improvement in MPG as the car gets more miles. Camry Hybrid is quiet and comfortable, and very refined.
I have had my 2007 Toyota
I have had my 2007 Toyota Camry Hybrid since July 2007 and have over 75,000 miles on it and have never reset the overall mileage on the info screen - to date it has averaged 39.1 mpg since it was built. A year and a half ago it was as high as 39.5 overall but a very hot Atlanta summer and a lot of clients will bring that down to 39.0 earlier this summer. Still averaging around 39 to 41 miles per gallon this fall It has been a very good car and only one minor warranty issue for a loose window motor inside the door during the 1st year.
'07 Camry Hybrid with 50,000
'07 Camry Hybrid with 50,000 miles. NO COMPLAINTS! Averaging 35-42 mpg, more on freeway in the summer. Thought about the Prius before buying the Camry, but hate the center dash with Nintendo-like displays. And it was tighter on comfort. The Camry has comfort, style, economy, reliability all in one. About the worst thing about it is the Nav system operability. (Not very intuitive.)
I am considering buying a second one!
i have a toyota camry hybrid
i have a toyota camry hybrid 2007 my car says 17.5 mpg on the moniotor and i dont get this at all , everyone is talking about 30 - 40 mpg and mines is less than 20, can someone help me out???? i have 44000 miles on my car .


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Farafina's Annual Planning Meeting
Farafina's Board of Directors is going to meet on 20 December in Bamberg (Germany).
It is a crucial appointment of our organisation.
Picture: a Farafina's Working Group
We are going to review the 2015 objectives and to evaluate how we have performed. In addition, we are going to plan the way forward and define our goals for the coming year.
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Our most intimate resort experience, Four Seasons Explorer, a 39-metre (129-foot) three-deck catamaran, takes a maximum of 22 guests on a marine and cultural adventure into the undiscovered Maldives.The luxury liveaboard visits isolated reefs and virgin ... more
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Cilek Rosa Pink Table Lamp is the perfect companion for the Rosa collection with its polka dots design
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All Cilek Kids Room items have 1 Year Limited Manufacturer Warranty for defect items. If you receive a damaged, incorrect or missing item, we will work with you to fix the issue asap.
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 12:48 pm
Post subject: Aruba vs Cabarete (March)
Hello all
I am planing a one-week trip on the beginning of March to either Aruba or Cabarete. Does anybody know which place is more windy during that time of the year?
Also, I am going with my wife to the trip. Which of the two places is more spouse-friendly? In particular, which has a beach that is less exposed to the wind?
Thanks in advance.
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Don't know anything about Aruba.
This is for Cab only.
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It looks like strong chance of 4.7-5.5 range. Nice wave riding.
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Sounds like the beach in front of the Ritz in Aruba should be pretty windless.
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dennis_c wrote:
Sounds like the beach in front of the Ritz in Aruba should be pretty windless.
Being to each place twice in the beginning of April I would vote for Cabarete.
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My wife and I (non-windsurfer) went to Aruba a few years okay. We had a nice time, but I don't think we'll go back because (1) the area along the beach is very developed (not really our thing), (2) it felt like we never left the U.S., and (3) it's all flatwater sailing. On the positive side, the Vela center there is well staffed and well equipped and is a short walk from the Marriott (which is great if you are with a non-sailing spouse). My wife even took a windsurfing lesson and really enjoyed it because of the warm, shallow waters. I understand that Vela is in the process of moving a bit further up the beach because the Ritz built a hotel right in front of their location that creates big wind shadow. I think Bonaire is a better alternative although I've never been there.
I've never been to Caberete, but it's on my list because it offers some wave sailing and bump and jump conditions. My wife heard some second-hand stories about security issues / spring break like atmosphere near Caberete, which has made it a harder sell. I'd love to hear other people's experiences with Caberete, both with sailing and on-shore atmosphere so I can convince my wife to give it a go, maybe even this winter!
We've also been to Barbados, which offers great wave sailing, when the wind blows and the swell cooperates. The surfing can also be great (I actually surfed more than I sailed when we were there). We loved the island and I'm sure we'll go back there again. It has great beaches and you can rent a car and explore the island without any worries. You might want to check it out if you're a good sailor and enjoy wave sailing!
Good luck.
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Posted: Fri Feb 08, 2013 10:37 am
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I've been to the DR probably 10 times, most of the time in the winter, and I love it. (I won't go into great detail here, you should so a search for Cabarete and you'll find some useful information.)
No place is skunk-proof, but I've been very fortunate with the wind there. Even on light-wind days, I'll just throw a small sail on an SUP and play around on the reef. Winter conditions can be more challenging because of the shore break, but if you carry your stuff slightly upwind from the Vela locations, it's much more friendly.
Speaking of Vela, you'll have to check with them, but I think they still throw in an extra SUP with your individual rental, so that you and your wife can go paddling in the morning. That's what I've done with my wife the last couple of years, and what we'll be doing again starting next Thursday for a week and a half.
Re lodging/food etc, you'll have no trouble impressing your wife. Cabarete isn't built up like Aruba--which is one of the things I love about it--but there is still serious lodging and dining to be had. I've stayed at the Velero Beach Resort--a four-star hotel--a couple of times, and they have a great pool area, a great view, a nice cabana for enjoying your morning coffee, but at the same time it's small and intimate so it doesn't have the "all inclusive" feel (which it isn't). Plus, it's very close to Vela.
Great food to be had in town, and in most of the restaurants, you eat right on the beach in the setting sun. For truly exquisite dining, try the Sea Horse Ranch, just a short cab ride away.
Plus, there's all kinds of things you can do when the wind isn't blowing, including surfing Encuentro (a semi-famous break), horsebackriding through the beautiful backcountry (where they filmed Jurassic Park), mountain biking, waterfall climbing, an organic coffee tour, etc etc etc. In fact, I know several people who go every year, and aren't even windsurfers.
Oh, and the sailing is awesome. I'm not much of a wave sailor (yet), but in Cabarate I advance on that front every year. The water is fairly flat on the inside, and it's generally not hard to get out through the break, especially since there are ways to cheat on the way out, then drop down to sail in. The waves can be big, but they tend to be fairly friendly, mostly crumbling instead of closing out on top. And it you get caught in the washing machine, you'll eventually get pushed downwind inside the bay, not washed out to sea.
Anyway, you should poke around & do some research. As you can tell, I've been stoked about it for a long, long time.
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May I suggest Bonaire instead of Aruba? I've been to Aruba a dozen times or so, and the last few trips it was hard to enjoy oneself off the water. It is heavily overbuilt. Bonaire (which I've been to half a dozen times, and am returning soon) has better flatwater sailing, the onshore winds make getting in and out much easier, and if your wife was ever going to try windsurfing, this is the place (thigh deep crystal clear water.) Meanwhile the restaurants are excellent in town. No crowds...not a traffic light on the island (I believe).
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To take best from the worst, I would go to Cabarette. Aruba is pretty boring, flat, offshore winds. Winds can be light at times and pain to get back + sun is scorching so you get the picture. Your wife can take a bus to Oranjestad but the town is so polluted with car fumes, it's hard to breeze.
Cabarette is more interesting. I've been to both will never go back. Bonaire - good wind, very flat, absolutely nothing to do for your wife unless she is into freediving/scuba.
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I don't see how Cabarete can be more attractive for wife then Aruba or Bonaire. My wife actually like Bonaire more then other places - she could snorkel there for hours, and she never snorkeled before.
A lot of great surfers were ruined by family and steady job.
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Cabarete is way cheaper than Aruba trust me you can spend half the money in Cabarete that you would in Aruba. That being said Cabaerete is not nearly as built up as Aruba and I would recommend staying at Velero Beach Restort or El Magnifico apartments. Velero is more expensive than the other places but it is worth it. You get a complementary breakfast and it is the only spot that is really clean and has good services. If you go to Cabarete also be sure to check out Otra Cosa Restaurant between Velero and El Magnifico. It is an amazing restaurant with good food an ambiance by the water started by an adorable French couple. The main strip of bars and restaurants I would recommend avoiding the food is not good and the mardis gras like atmosphere gets old fast. Instead stick to everything east and west of that area or the Vela beach resort has amazing local food and smoothies.
Bonaire is also a good choice if you like flat water Caberete has a little bit of everything and you can always SUP out to the reefs and find something to have fun with.
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I am afraid it is not going to be that simple. It seems that my repeated attempts to use Symbolize caused me to enter the NotationBoxTag wrapper twice, but this is a red herring and has nothing to do with the problem. (It is actually rather unlikely that I would have the habit of entering this tag twice. It was just one of those unlikely coincidences that keep happening, that when I decide to post the error to the MathGroup this kind of thing happens which obscures the whole problem.) In any case, the point is that with only a fresh kernel and only the following input: In[1]:= <<Utilities`Notation` In[2]:= Cell[BoxData[ RowBox[{"Symbolize", "[", TagBox[ SubscriptBox["x", "_"], NotationBoxTag, TagStyle->"NotationTemplateStyle"], "]"}]], "Input", CellLabel->"In[2]:="] whcih you can now see is quite correct I still get: In[3]:= \!\(f[\(x\_1\) : _] := x\_1\^2\) From In[3]:= \!\(\*FormBox[ RowBox[{\(Syntax::"sntxf"\), \(\(:\)\(\ \)\), \ "\<\"\\\"\\!\\(TraditionalForm\\`\\(f[\\)\\)\\\" cannot be followed by \\\"\\!\\(TraditionalForm\\`\\(\\(\\(x\\_1 : _\\)\\)]\\)\\)\ \\\".\\!\\(TraditionalForm\\`\\\"\\\"\\) \\!\\(\\*ButtonBox[\\\"More?\\\", \ ButtonStyle->\\\"RefGuideLinkText\\\", ButtonFrame->None, \ ButtonData:>\\\"General::sntxf\\\"]\\)\"\>"}], TraditionalForm]\) From In[3]:= \!\(\* StyleBox[ RowBox[{ RowBox[{"f", "[", ErrorBox[\(\(x\_1\) : _\)], "]"}], ":=", \(x\_1\^2\)}], ShowStringCharacters->True]\) Andrzej On 14 Nov 2003, at 16:23, Jason Harris wrote: > Hi Andrzej, > > [Notation example snipped] > >> On my system this example just fails miserabley (the >> definiton of transmissionCoefficient does not parse) although it once >> used to work. (Actually, I would like to hear from other people, >> because either the Notation package is no longer working or something >> is wrong with my installation). > > I know these things can appear frustrating at times, but the Notation > package is working fine. In the example you have given, you have > managed to include the box wrapper twice in your Symbolize statement. > (You likely did this through copying the k subscript including box > wrapper and pasted it into a new Symbolize statement.) > > >> Anyway, if this works on your system than the problem is solved. You >> can symbolize subscripted variables and use them as if they were >> symbols. On the other hand, in the past, when this package used to >> work >> on my system, I got myself into a huge mess when I tried to evaluate >> again a notebook that had previously worked correctly. > > If there is some notebook corruption going on then we definitely want > to know about this. In the example you have given it is extremely > likely that you inadvertently caused the error with a copy and paste > from one symbolize statement to another. (I know notation statements > can be tricky and it is not all that hard to "hang yourself".) > > >> Because of that I finally decided that relying on a package like >> this is >> just too risky if you are doing any serious work. > > Hmm... Actually I personally think its just the opposite. If you are > really doing serious work you need to know about typesetting and how > to enter expressions in notations which are familiar to > Mathematicians, physicists, and other users and have these notations > function correctly. > > First a general comment: > When you are troubleshooting problems with setting up notations it is > often necessary to look at the underlying boxes representing the > typeset expression. You can do this through either the command key > shortcut of cmd-shift-E (OSX) and I think cntrl-shift-E (Win), or > through the menu item "Format" -> "Show Expression..." > > Looking at the underlying boxes shows you how the typeset expression > is represented. As a Mathematica programmer you no doubt use FullForm > at times to examine how a certain pattern is structured. Its really > not too different with typesetting in that Mathematica functions > through > MakeBoxes and MakeExpression which operate on these box structures. If > you don't have the correct structures, the boxes will not be > interpreted as they should be. > > In a Symbolize statement waiting to be filled in the underlying > structure is > > Cell[BoxData[ > RowBox[{"Symbolize", "[", > TagBox["\[Placeholder]", > NotationBoxTag, > TagStyle->"NotationTemplateStyle"], "]"}]], "Input"] > > To see this load the notation package, type Esc-symb-Esc and then show > the underlying expression. The box structure to be symbolized must be > the first argument of this TagBox. > > The tag box wrapper, NotationBoxTag, is necessary so you can enter > typeset expressions into Mathematica that are not currently > syntactically valid. Then once the Notation package gets a hold of > them, it compiles / translates these into corresponding rules for > MakeExpression and MakeBoxes that do what you instructed. The tag box > wrapper inertizes the box structure so it becomes syntactically valid > Mathematica input. > > You can see this by copying out the box wrapper into a new cell and > entering some syntactically invalid input into the wrapper, say "x" > followed by "*", and then viewing how it is interpreted by > Mathematica. E.g. after loading the notation package paste the > following cell into Mathematica and interpret it: > > Cell[BoxData[ > TagBox[ > RowBox[{"x", "*"}], > NotationBoxTag, > TagStyle->"NotationTemplateStyle"]], "Input"] > > Then evaluate this interpreted cell. Then start a new cell and > evaluate FullForm[%]. The answer will be > > NotationBoxTag[RowBox[List["x", "*"]]] > > Thus the TagBox wrapper, NotationBoxTag, has allowed us to enter > something that is syntactically invalid and get the box structure into > the kernel. (Incidentally you can programmatically create symbolize > and notation statements this way.) The TagBox wrapper NotationBoxTag > can do this miraculous feat because it itself has a corresponding > notation. (The TagStyle option is set so you can get some visual > indication of where these tag box wrappers occur.) > > So anyway getting back to your example if you look at the underlying > boxes you will see that instead of having > > Cell[BoxData[ > RowBox[{"Symbolize", "[", > TagBox[ > SubscriptBox["k", "_"], > NotationBoxTag, > TagStyle->"NotationTemplateStyle"], "]"}]], "Input"] > > You had > > Cell[BoxData[ > RowBox[{"Symbolize", "[", > TagBox[ > TagBox[ > SubscriptBox["k", "_"], > NotationBoxTag, > TagStyle->"NotationTemplateStyle"], > NotationBoxTag, > TagStyle->"NotationTemplateStyle"], "]"}]], "Input"] > > i.e. the wrapper was in there twice. Fixing this mistake resolves your > problem. > > Cheers, > Jason > > ------------- > Jason Harris > Wolfram Research > > Andrzej Kozlowski Yokohama, Japan http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~akoz/