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David Peterson del Mar. What Trouble I Have Seen: A History of Violence against Wives. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996. xi + 244 pp. $39.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-674-95076-4.
Reviewed by Deborah L. Kitchen (Norwegian School of Management, Sandvika, Norway)
Published on H-PCAACA (December, 1996)
What Trouble I Have Seen by David Peterson Del Mar weaves together an extraordinary mix of contradictory threads in the histories of violence, westward expansion, race, economics, gender roles, work, attitudes about marriage and women, and changes in the economy to explain historical changes in violence against wives. It is both a local history of Oregon and a larger social analysis of changing national patterns. It is solid scholarship with an activist aim at understanding the problem in order to solve it.
The complexity of Peterson Del Mar's argument is commendable. He covers the incidence and nature of male violence against wives, women's resistance to it, and societal interventions in violent marriages. He argues that the rise of a production economy in the late nineteenth century encouraged "disciplined self-control," making wife beating less acceptable and less common than earlier. Simultaneously, greater privacy and concern for respectability decreased wives' resistance. Rates and severity of violence against wives increased again as twentieth-century consumerism proclaimed individual freedom and a lessening of "self-restraint." On the other hand, lessened economic dependence increased wives' resistance. Shifts in the goals of violence against wives are more tangled. He sees a change over time from compelling wives' obedience to more affective purposes, and notes, in particular, a growing fear among men of becoming feminized.
Chapters are arranged chronologically, providing a panoramic view of Oregon from white settlement in the mid-nineteenth century through the 1990s. Peterson del Mar carefully makes distinctions of class and race and includes an interesting comparison of white and Native American women's experiences with and responses to husbands' violence. His analysis of Oregon's whipping post law in the early twentieth century is particularly cogent. By publicly punishing a few, already marginalized men, middle-class and elite men defined themselves and their behaviors as outside the problem, deflecting the growing feminist movement's critique of entrenched male power. Also good is Peterson Del Mar's assertion that violence against wives is an integral part of a shared, mainstream, masculine culture in the United States in which ideas about and expectations of women held by abusive men are not essentially different from ideas and expectations of men who never abuse their wives.
The number and range of primary sources used to support his thesis is impressive. Roughly 3,500 Oregon divorce records are examined. Novels, films, comic strips, and newspaper commentaries are then used to illustrate and explain shifts seen in legal records, especially in his discussion of men's ambivalence toward women. His analysis is primarily qualitative, but he also tries to measure quantitative changes based on this qualitative reading of evidence.
Intuitively, he may be right about both the timing and nature of the historical shifts in violence against wives. It is a thought-provoking thesis. However, his use of statistical comparisons over time is problematical. Changes in raw numbers are compared without consideration for changes in population size, and some of the shifts he identifies quantitatively can be explained by changes in definitions of normal behavior, perceptions of individual rights, and processes used to deal with undesired behavior. A consideration of when marriages occurred and violence began, rather than solely when divorce papers were filed, would also improve the analysis. Therefore, these estimates are better considered as theoretical suggestions rather than measurements.
Despite these problems, which I suspect we will be wrestling with for years because of the nature of the sources, What Trouble I Have Seen is an immensely useful book. Peterson Del Mar's thesis regarding historical changes in the level and nature of violence against wives is a much-needed contribution, as he ties together disparate changes in society. His careful reading of legal documents blended with a variety of popular culture sources gives us greater insight into the problem.
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Brands are about to get a lot more help with their Instagram campaigns. For the first time, the photo-sharing service is giving its advertisers instant access to data about how well their posts are performing.
The data sharing represents Instagram's first self-serve tools for advertisers to manage their activity on the platform. The data will be available in real-time online, giving insights into impressions, reach and engagement on paid and unpaid posts. There also will be the first ad staging tools to preview ads and show how they will look when they ultimately run.
"An advertiser will now have access to a real-time campaign summary and data showing how their target audience is responding to each of their sponsored photos," Instagram said in a blog post today, announcing the new suite of tools. "Also, brand marketers will be able to better understand the best time of day to post a photo or video."
The first brands to get the information are those that were early ad partners, like Banana Republic. Instagram started selling ads last year, and it has been an unusually hands-on affair with the company working closely with brands to create, approve, deliver and report on campaigns.
Instagram has been delivering brand reports to advertisers about campaigns, but now those same statistics will be at their fingertips.


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Group Mikael Nilsson
Short description
Research on mechanisms and pathogenesis of thyroid cancer.
Research summary
Thyroid dysgenesis and cancer are the most common developmental defects and tumors of the endocrine system. We investigate basic mechanisms of pathogenesis with the long-term attempt to identify new biomarkers and potential novel treatment strategies of these diseases. Particular interest is paid to inductive and supporting signals that regulate progenitor cell commitment, propagation of endocrine cell lineages, and differentiation of epithelial and hormonogenic phenotypes in normal cells, and the corresponding aberrations recognized in diseased cells.
Current work on embryos concerns expression and functional analysis of transcription factors (e.g. FoxA2) and morphogens (e.g. Sonic hedgehog) implicated in endoderm and neuroendocrine development of the thyroid gland; the potential role of candidate genes for the biology of thyroid cancer with different ancestral cell origins are coordinately addressed.
The involvement of ephrin-Eph receptor bidirectional signaling in post-natal thyroid growth is investigated in a model of experimental goitrogenesis. The DNA damage responses of the fetal and young thyroid to potentially carcinogenic levels of 131-I are characterized in mouse models under the influence of modifying genetic and environmental factors.
The potential use of kinase inhibitors to restitute iodide transport in thyroid tumors with blocked radioiodine uptake (e.g. by exaggerated/constitutive activation of the EGFR-Ras-MAPK pathway) is studied in cultured cells expressing the sodium/iodide symporter (NIS).
Research tools and resources
A combination of 3D-organotypic cell culture techniques and animal models is employed for cell and molecular biology and genetic studies. An isotope laboratory is at hand for investigation of radiobiology effects of radioiodine and other nuclides of interest.
Current group members
Mikael Nilsson, MD, PhD, Director/Group leader at Sahlgrenska Center for Cancer Research and Professor of anatomy
Shawn Liang, Postdoc
Elin Schoultz, MD, PhD student
Jakob Dahlberg, PhD student
Therese Carlsson, Technician
Lina Qtet, MD student, Amanuens
Thomas Ramo, MD student, Amanuens
Selected publications
Contact information
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Ugandan troops have captured a senior commander of the rebel group the Lord's Resistance Army, a group that has led a bloody rebellion against the Ugandan government for more than 20 years and gained international notoriety with the recent "KONY2012" viral video.
Caesar Acellam is thought to be the fourth highest commander in the LRA, under Joseph Kony. At the time of his capture on Saturday morning, he appears to have split away from a larger group of LRA fighters, apparently over a dispute. He had just one AK-47 rifle and eight rounds of ammunition, and was accompanied by his wife, a daughter, and a helper.
"The arrest of Major General Caesar Acellam is big progress because he is a big fish," said Felix Kulaigye, the Ugandan army spokesman, at a press conference announcing Mr. Acellam's capture. "His capture is definitely going to cause an opinion shift within the LRA."
The capture of Acellam (the spelling of his name confirmed by the AFP's Max Delany, who also writes for the Monitor) is a huge success for the Ugandan-army-led operation against Mr. Kony's LRA, which has killed and maimed thousands, conscripted at least 60,000 child soldiers, and displaced as many as 2 million people over the past 20 years. Originally started as a rebellion of the northern Ugandan Acholi people against the southern-dominated government of President Yoweri Museveni, the LRA turned into a proxy militant group for hire, whose current mission seems to be simple survival.
Uganda's army, the Ugandan People's Defense Force is backed up in its anti-LRA operation by 5,000 troops from South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The United States has contributed 100 Special Operations Forces as trainers in counterinsurgency and communications, as well as access to spy aircraft with the capability of sensing rebel troop movements under jungle canopy.
A blow to LRA's resolve?
Quoted by Mr. Delany of the Agence France Presse, Acellam predicted that his "coming out" would weaken the resolve of the few hundred LRA members still in the bush with Kony.
"My coming out will have a big impact for the people still in the bush to come out and end this war soon," Acellam told reporters brought by the Ugandan Army to the Central African Republic for the press conference.
The fight against Kony has been gathering pace, pushed along by an ambitious public campaign by human rights organizations such as Invisible Children. Earlier this year, Invisible Children targeted young Americans with a video called "KONY2012," using social media such as YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to make Joseph Kony one of the world most famous men, and to pressure international organizations to seek Kony's capture.
Kony increasingly erratic
Defectors from the LRA say that the Ugandan-led operation has forced Kony to stay on the run, moving nearly every day. Abu Moussa, the UN representative to the Central African Republic, told reporters this week that defectors say Kony has begun acting increasingly erratically.
"People who have defected have provided information on his state of mind. Kony is no longer "very, very stable," said Mr. Moussa, who is helping to coordinate the international hunt and get more governments to try to trap Kony.
While Kony's force is dwindling, the group's capacity to attack civilians is undiminished. In the first months of 2012, LRA forces carried out 53 attacks, abducting 90 civilians and killing nine others, according to Human Rights Watch and the United Nations. The attacks are an increase over the number of LRA attacks reported in 2011.
"The increase in LRA attacks shows that the rebel group is not a spent force and remains a serious threat to civilians," said Anneke Van Woudenberg, a senior researcher at Human Rights Watch.
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Anna was a woman in trouble. She had been living on the streets for 12 years, was a heroin user on a methadone script, and would binge-drink alcohol. She lived with and cared for her partner in a hostel, often putting his needs above her own. Her children had been taken from her because of her drug abuse and neglect.
When Anna began the Enrich Programme at Alana House, a women's centre in Berkshire, she said she felt hopeless. She was sure that she would fail, not because she wanted to, but because she was worried she'd miss appointments, just as she had in the past with her doctor.
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Do your guitar solos sound un-musical?
Chances are you're missing these two basic skills...
So you're to the point that you have some scales together and you're banging away over a choice chord progression, but for some reason your guitar solos just don't sound the way you want them to. Try these two easy tips to focus your improvised solos and make them more musical.
I had a new student just the other day come to me with this same problem. Everything he was playing was technically correct, but it just didn't sound very good. It sounded scattered, disorganized, and unmusical. This is how we're solving his problem and it will help you too.
1. Play just chord tones. Some notes are more important than others. The notes of the chord you're playing over should form the basic skeleton of your melody.
Do these two things to practice this:
- Take one position of your favorite scale. You'll find that full major and minor scales will work better than pentatonics for this one. Once you've got the feel for it, it's easy to scale back to a pentatonic scale. Work on playing the arpeggios for each diatonic chord in that key. Be sure to stay just in the one position. You can (and should) try other positions after. Using a C major scale for example, you'd pick out the notes for each of these chords: C, Dm, Em, F, G, Am, Bdim. For some extra melodic joy, go to the 7th of each chord as well.
If you're not sure how to spell the particular chord in that key, just remember to stay inside the scale pattern you already know and just go every other letter.
Keeping to just one position of the scale will help you think more melodically instead of just moving patterns around the neck. Your melodies will be better connected that way. Once you've gotten comfortable with one position, then try others.
- When you've gotten comfortable with the arpeggios for all the chords in that key, start improvising some melodies over a 2 or 3 chord progression. A trusty old 12-bar blues or just a little two chord vamp comes in handy here. As each chord arrives, only play the notes in that chord. Your solo will still sound a little "jumpy", but now you're focusing on the structure of the melody.
The rest of the notes in your scale are used as passing tones from one chord tone to the next. Once you're got your chord tones together you can start throwing in a few non-chord tones. Be sure to keep one of your chord tones on beat 1 right now, just to keep things grounded.
When you listen to a good solo you'll be able to hear the chords go by, even if nobody is playing them. The note choices of the melody will reflect those chords.
2. Jam with a metronome. As a young guitarist, I had a big problem with my guitar solos losing the groove. Metronome to the rescue!
Turn your metronome on to a comfortable tempo. Don't force yourself to go too fast just yet. Pick a tempo that you can keep up with for at least a minute straight. Improvise a melody based on each of these rhythm patterns:
- 8th notes
- 16th notes
- 8th note triplets
- 8th notes and 16th notes, alternating one measure each
- 8th notes and 8th note triplets, alternating one measure each
- 8th note triplets and 16th notes, alternating one measure each
- Do each of the combination ones again, but for just two beats each
Don't over think your note choices here. We're only concentrating on keeping a good steady rhythm and locking in with the click. While note choice is important, rhythm is what really makes a melody memorable and interesting.
These two simple exercises will improve your improvised guitar solos dramatically, both in your note choice and sense of grooves. Once you're comfortable with these ideas you'll be able to move on to more complex techniques.


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Throughout Southwest Florida you'll find more than 150 golf communities offering luxury homes, single-family homes, attached or detached villas, or condominiums for sale. Whether you're a passionate golfer or enjoy the ambience of golf community living it's important to know there's a distinction between "equity golf communities" and "bundled golf communities."
Bundled Golf Communities
In bundled golf communities the golf or social membership is included in the purchase price of the property. Every homeowner in the community financially supports the golf and clubhouse operations. Annual dues are required but you do not pay an additional upfront initiation fee. Bundled golf communities in Naples and Bonita Springs are an excellent deal for seasonal owners who can't be here more than 3-4 months per years, or for recreational golfers who only play 2-3 times per week.
Stonebridge Country Club
Vanderbilt Country Club
Cedar Hammock Golf and Country Club
Spanish Wells – Bonita Springs
Highland Woods – Bonita Springs
Countryside Golf & Country Club
Foxfire Country Club
Glen Eagle Golf and Country Club
Pelican Sound – Estero
Equity Golf Communities
Most equity golf communities require an initiation fee for membership as well as an annual membership dues. Fees and equity vary depending on the club. Many of the golf memberships offer a "Social" or "Sports" membership.
Audubon Country Club
Bay Colony Golf Club
Bear's Paw Country Club
Collier's Reserve Country Club
Country Club of Naples
Grey Oaks Country Club
Imperial Golf Estates
Kensington Golf & Country Club
Lakewood Country Club
LaPlaya Golf Club


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If Beyond the Sea, the new album by Monster Rally (contributor to the NY/LA sound collage and mixtape collective, Mondo Boys), is a sequential reference to his 2011 EP, Deep Sea, it's because, this time around, the ship has finally reached the party on the beach of that tropical island sitting just on the horizon of every previous release. Let Monster Rally take you on a sample-based tour around all the hot spots, shady paradises, and secluded beaches of this island. Just make sure you wear comfortable shoes. LAAAAAAANNNNNDDDD HOOOOO!!!! (And thank God; I'm getting sick of all of this ocean nonsense.)
Check out the album below and buy it on "lava red" vinyl over at Gold Robot Records.
• Monster Rally: http://monsterrally.bandcamp.com
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You would think that we would have learned from Google by now to expect the unexpected. There is calm in the SERPs during the holiday season where not too much changes. This way businesses can trust (and invest) in Google to sell their products or services this time of year. In mid-November, there was a considerable change in the Search Engine Results Page (SERP) where about 51% of the search results has longer snippets associated with their listing. This update is a significant change for many and could be disastrous for others.
How? Isn't this the best news ever! For some it may be, for others, it could be a loss.
For starters, any good marketer knew that before November 2017 the meta description length should be between 160 to 180 characters. Now, this number has almost doubled. There are some search results with meta description lengths up to 300 characters before being truncated.
So an easy way to describe this is when you compare an old SERP to the new SERP the top 3 results in the former page now will be taken up by the top 2 results. This means that the real estate at the top of the page is more valuable than ever before.
So what should you and your marketing team do? You should still try to entice people to click as much as you can while again attempting to answer the user's query. With the longer description showing you may lose a high percentage of click-throughs to your website because you could be answering the question immediately. It could also impact you positively if the user's issue is relatively complicated and they need to read more into their subject, utilizing your website as a resource.
There could also be the negative or positive impact depending on how far down the page your result drops or takes up due to these changes. The thinking here is that the searcher will not scroll far down to preview the other results below the fold of the page. So the higher your position, the higher probability that they will choose your website as the one to go to.
What is the first step to take right now? If you have not done so already, check out your top performing and most essential blogs and landing pages and see if your traffic has dropped at all. These are most likely the pages that you want to re-optimize first and add a more extended meta description to see if it will positively affect your placements over the next few weeks. Catching this update now could be the make it or break it moment for you, many of your competitors could not be aware that this update has occurred yet.
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LG Chem bags five orders worth US$ 8 million
LG Chem has acquired new orders for water purification filters totalling US$ 8 million under exclusive deals with five desalination projects. The projects are at sites in Israel, Spain, Malta, Egypt and Mexico, the company said.The Korean firm was set to manufacture about 17,000 reverse osmosis filters at its Cheongju, factory by the end of 2016 - enough, it claimed, to filter 200,000 tonnes of seawater daily.
"The latest deal will pave the way for LG Chem to increase the company's footprint in other countries. LG aims for 10 percent of the global RO filter market share by 2020," said a company spokesman. LG Chem said planned to establish its global presence in the water purification industry through deals with 17 more countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Singapore and Spain.
"This large-scale exclusive deal proves our global competitiveness in RO filter production," said LG Chem vice chairman, Park Jin Soo. "We will continue to invest in related research and development to become a top-tier player in the field," he added.
LG Chem said the move into reverse osmosis membranes was part of a diversification strategy as a hedge against risk in the chemical sector.
The latest collection of orders make up LG Chem's biggest reverse osmosis filter deal since it completed construction of its US$ 35 billion Cheongju factory in August.
The orders, according to LG Chem, were the result of increasing demand for water treatment equipment that drove a 10% hike in reverse osmosis filter sales to 1.2 trillion won (US$ 1.1 trillion) in 2014 and is expected to increase to 1.8 trillion won (US$ 1.6 trillion) by 2018.
LG Chem entered the water treatment industry when it acquired the US-based startup NanoH20 in April 2014. The acquisition enabled LG Chem to secure patents for developing reverse osmosis filters for industrial and commercial purposes.
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Just 8 percent of Americans rate the economy positively.
Aug. 25, 2009 -- Consumer confidence has moved up in August to its best in three months, though remaining at historically low levels.
The ABC News Consumer Comfort Index stands at -45 on its scale of -100 to +100, up 4 points in the past month and 8 points since the summer's start. But it's nonetheless been very low for very long, this week matching its average since 2008. It's much closer to its record low, -54 in January, than to its 23-year average -12, much less its highs.
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Two separate, forward-looking measures point to decreasing economic pessimism. In an ABC News/Washington Post poll last week fewer than half said the current recession will last more than another year, down from 70 percent in February. And last week's CCI found 31 percent saying the economy's getting worse, the fewest in more than five years.
President Obama announced his nomination of Ben Bernanke today for a second term as chairman of the Federal Reserve, crediting him with putting "the brakes on our economic freefall" while noting that "we are a long way away from a completely healthy financial system and a full economic recovery." Unemployment remains a significant problem, at 9.4 percent, but home values are showing signs of recovery: The Case-Shiller Home Price Index released today shows the first quarterly increase in home values nationally in three years, and existing home sales in July beat those in June by the biggest one-month jump in a decade.
INDEX – The CCI is based on Americans' ratings of the national economy, their personal finances and the buying climate. Only 8 percent rate the economy positively, in single digits for 43 of the past 46 weeks and 30 points below its long-term average in weekly polls since late 1985.
Twenty-five percent say it's a good time to buy things – 2 points from the best of the year but just 7 points above the all-time low, 12 points below average and below 30 percent for a record 76 weeks.
Ratings of personal finances, typically the best of the three measures, are at their best since mid-May and up 10 points from their record low in late June. But they're still 8 points below average; fewer than a majority have rated their finances positively for 15 weeks straight and all but two weeks this year.
TREND – The index, while far from good, is its best since mid-May, having elbowed its way up 8 points since hitting the recent low of -53 in June.
Still, it's been below -40 for 70 consecutive weeks, a record, and hasn't seen positive territory since March 2007. The CCI's average so far this year is -49, 5 points below the worst annual average on record, -44 in 1992.
Its best yearlong average was +29 in 2000; its best week, +38 in January 2000.
GROUPS – The index is higher as usual among better-off Americans, but negative across the board for the 26th week straight and all but two weeks this year.
It's -31 among those with the highest incomes (3 points from the low in January) while -79 among those with the lowest (the worst since May), -33 among those who've attended college (the best since May) vs. -69 among high school dropouts, -40 among men while -49 among women, -39 among homeowners (also the best since May) compared with -57 among renters, and -45 among whites vs. -49 among blacks. The last is far different from the usual 28-point racial gap.
Partisan differences remain, but also are narrower than usual: The CCI is -37 among Republicans, -52 among Democrats and -45 among independents. That 15-point Republican-Democratic gap compares with 41 points last year and 32 points long-term.
Here's a closer look at the three components of the ABC News CCI:
NATIONAL ECONOMY – Eight percent of Americans rate the economy as excellent or good; it was 7 percent last week. The highest was 80 percent Jan. 16, 2000. The worst was 4 percent Feb. 8, 2009.
PERSONAL FINANCES – Forty-nine percent say their own finances are excellent or good; it was 48 percent last week. The best was 70 percent, last reached in January 2000. The worst was 39 percent June 28 and 21, 2009.
BUYING CLIMATE – Twenty-five percent say it's an excellent or good time to buy things; it was 26 percent last week. The best was 57 percent on Jan. 16, 2000. The worst was 18 percent, last reached Oct. 19, 2008.
METHODOLOGY – Interviews for the ABC News Consumer Comfort Index are reported in a four-week rolling average. This week's results are based on telephone interviews among a random national sample of 1,000 adults in the four weeks ending Aug. 23, 2009. The results have a 3-point error margin. Field work by ICR-International Communications Research of Media, Pa.
The index is derived by subtracting the negative response to each index question from the positive response to that question. The three resulting numbers are added and divided by three. The index can range from +100 (everyone positive on all three measures) to -100 (all negative on all three measures). The survey began in December 1985.


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Three rescue craft came to the aid of a disabled cargo ship adrift in heavy seas and in danger of hitting the rocks off the Irish coast.The Antigua Barbuda-flagged general cargo vessel Lily B reported to MRCC Dublin Tuesday afternoon that it had lost power off the Waterford Harbor, southeast of Ireland.The Irish Coast Guard called upon three Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) lifeboats from Dunmore East, Kilmore Quay and Rosslare to aid the drifting vessel until a tug could arrive.
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Finnish shipbuilder Helsinki Shipyard said it has secured an order to build a third luxury expedition cruise vessel for British operator Swan Hellenic.The new vessel is scheduled to be delivered at the end of 2022, and like the two ships already on order, it is designed for the global cruise market, with an emphasis on high-latitude cruises, the shipbuilder said. Helsinki Shipyard said design work is already underway and that construction is slated to begin in the summer of 2021.The order follows a keel laying ceremony held in September for the 113-meter, 10,500-ton SH Minerva, the first cruise ship to be built for Swan Hellenic at Helsinki Shipyard.
Hull Damage Not to Blame for 1994 Estonia Ferry Disaster -Report
An Estonian ferry disaster that killed 852 people in 1994 was probably not caused by hull damage to the vessel that was first revealed in a documentary this year, experts concluded after a preliminary investigation of the video footage.The sinking of the ferry Estonia in the Baltic Sea was the deadliest peacetime shipwreck in European waters for centuries. An official investigation in 1997 concluded that the bow ramp of the ferry had failed during a storm, flooding the car deck and causing the vessel to roll over and sink.
FMC Grants Temporary Relief Requested by CMA CGM
The U.S. Federal Maritime Commission voted to grant the temporary relief sought by CMA CGM from certain service contract and tariff filing requirements following last month's cyber attack affecting the carrier's servers.Earlier this month, the French shipping company sought relief from Commission regulations as part of its efforts to respond to a malicious cyberattack it experienced in September.The Commission said Wednesday it granted the request for exemption from relevant service contract filing requirements and relevant tariff publishing requirements. Both exemptions are subject to certain conditions.


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Luis Del Valle is a prize-fighter from Puerto Rico, so he knows all about the boxing rivalry his homeland has with Mexico. He is far from being a hater, though.
"I love the Mexican community – they are the most humble and welcoming people," Del Valle said Tuesday. "I remember when I visited Mexico for the first time, and I felt at home. While the Mexico vs. Puerto Rico matches are always heated, I have a deep respect for the Mexican public."
Del Valle (22-2, 16 KOs) on Saturday will take on Diego De La Hoya (15-0, 9 KOs) of Mexico in a 10-round super bantamweight bout. They will tangle underneath the junior middleweight title fight between champion Liam Smith of England and Canelo Alvarez of Mexico at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas (on HBO pay-per-view). Del Valle is expecting to hand De La Hoya – cousin of Oscar De La Hoya – his first loss.
""I am going to leave the ring with a victory under my belt on Sept. 17, without a doubt," Del Valle said. "Not being the favorite doesn't affect me at all. I have had many experiences in which things have not gone the way we anticipated. However, those setbacks have brought me to this stage I stand on now, and the opportunity to further my career. This is my destiny, and I'll prove that this Saturday."


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(CNN)Benjamin Brown is a glasses-wearing lawyer who flavors his language with words like "heck" and "gosh." He has also been punched in the face in an altercation over dating, one of the few subjects that can rile Mormon men.
Growing up, Brown was taught that marriage was his raison d'être. "I had fantasies of being married since basically as young as I can remember," he said. Mormon doctrine holds that intrafaith marriage -- a union to another Mormon inside the church's temples -- is essential for salvation in the highest level of heaven.
Brown, 31, said he "often went on multiple dates a day" while a student at Brigham Young University. Nonetheless, he graduated single.
Six years ago, he began flying cross-country in search of a wife. On weekends, he created elaborate dating strategies for new cities, filling his calendar with singles events he heard about through the social media grapevine. On Sundays, Brown attended multiple church congregations called "Young Single Adult Wards" that aim to help Mormons ages 18 and up socialize and, ideally, get married.
"I literally flew all over the country to date. I was booking red-eyes just to attend church somewhere and meet new people. Some weekends, I would go to three, four, or if I was really ambitious, five wards in one Sunday," Brown said. "Singles wards often feel like meat markets. So much of church revolves around dating."
Inside these chapels, marital concerns and sexual frustration (Mormon doctrine prohibits premarital sex, regarding it as "second only to murder in its seriousness") figure prominently into the service. Curious eyes wander the pews, scoping out the well-groomed singles while hymns are sung and the sacrament is passed. In the pulpit, leaders announce upcoming social events planned to help teetotaling Mormons get to know each other. The latest in Brown's ward: "Pictionary with Pudding."
Now, however, singles wards could be considered a secondary social venue -- the place you may run into the match you chatted with the night before on Mutual, a dating app created exclusively for Mormons and monitored by members who ensure only faithful users participate. Mutual has collapsed the singles wards onto a digital platform, providing an alternative to the church-sponsored matchmaking venue.
Dating apps writ large have been blamed for tectonic social shifts, from delayed marriage to relaxed sexual mores. Vanity Fair hyperbolically credited Tinder as the source of a "dating apocalypse."
But Mutual contradicts this trope. To swipe through the app is to get a glimpse inside a cultural enclave antithetical to the modern dating landscape.
One user, Brandon, who is 28, captures the ethos of the app in his "About Me": "(I) would like to be married and raise children." Another, Kolton, 21, of Rexburg, Idaho goes even further, telling prospective matches, "If you're on here just for fun, unmatch me!"
Cooper Boice, the founder of Mutual, says that while some people are just on the app to date, he considers marriage to be the "ultimate success." In total, he says, more than 100,000 Mormons in more than 100 countries around the world have swiped through the app more than 250 million times.
Boice proudly cites dozens of marriages that have resulted from Mutual, including international unions from the UK to the Philippines.
In the face of declining millennial religiosity, Mutual, which is named after an old church program that brought Mormon youth together, may have another benefit: ensuring the longevity of Mormonism. One swipe at a time, Mutual is uniting the Mormon diaspora, perpetuating lineages, and addressing the anxieties of youth facing familial and cultural pressure, as well as a personal desire, to marry within their faith.
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Growing up, Jillian Sewell spent Sundays dreaming of her perfect spouse. "In (church) we would do this thing where we would write down all the things we wanted in our future husband," she said. When she enrolled in Brigham Young University, Mormonism's flagship school, Sewell expected to get married right away.
"One of my friends got married in the year right after we graduated," the 23-year-old said. "Everyone had boyfriends. When I didn't, I thought I wasn't good enough."
Upon returning from her Mormon mission in New Hampshire, Sewell felt unable to break into the "competitive" dating pool at BYU, where appearance is paramount. After a semester, Sewell returned home to Arizona, where she prayed for help finding a husband.
Mutual was the answer to her prayers, she said.
"I felt like I was guided to go on Mutual that night. I feel like Heavenly Father, he has so many resources -- and Mutual is one of them."
Sewell met her husband on the app soon after joining and the two were happily married this year. "I never would have met him without Mutual because he was in a different city," she said.
For the majority of users, though, their endings aren't so neat.
Mormons today face longer tenures in singledom and a skewed gender ratio. There are 150 Mormon women for every 100 Mormon men, according to one study, creating a statistical dilemma that complicates church leadership's bold project to ensure all youth attain a temple marriage. In total, 51% of Mormon women over age 18 are single, according to internal statistics cited in a church public relations video, which leaked on the website "MormonLeaks." For these women, the dream of previous generations -- 87% of married Mormons have a Mormon spouse -- may not be statistically attainable.
In late July, local church leader Wayne Janzen held a conversation with women in a Washington, DC singles ward, asking them to air their dating grievances. He validated their frustration with what one woman said was a "lack of options." Janzen said the regional church leadership was focusing on "reactivating single men" to balance the gender ratio of faithful, church-attending singles.
Though you'll rarely hear about it from a pulpit, Mormon leaders are concerned with the continuity of their religion. While Pew reports that 64% of all people raised in the faith still identify as Mormons, the church's internal records reveal a bleaker picture.
As of 2008, only 25% of Mormon youth worldwide stayed active -- or attended church regularly -- into their "single adult years." As the "MormonLeaks" video reveals, top officials have held private meetings to discuss this problem, as well as the troubling gender disparity.
Their solution was to continue investing in singles wards, creating stronger nuclei for Mormon singles to congregate outside of Utah. They even created a church building in Arlington, Virginia exclusively for singles, a first for the faith. Today, the singles community in the DC metro area comprises its own "stake," the Mormon term for a group of congregations, similar to a diocese. It has grown to roughly 5,200 members.
Janzen is the stake president of this singles community. In his meeting with single women this summer, he said leadership became especially concerned by unmarried Mormons about a decade ago. "The trends they saw in the church weren't very encouraging, you know, delaying marriage, temple attendance, general activity, and the youth said the church wasn't meeting their needs."
Janzen said Mormon singles know they should be seeking a spouse, and professed faith that all who seek shall find. But he didn't say how. At the end of the conversation, he implored the women. "Don't give up -- don't think any of this is for naught."
'A whole other option'
For most of his life, Brown, the lawyer, felt he had three dating options. Ranked in order of preference, they were: a happy marriage to a fellow Mormon, an unhappy marriage to a fellow Mormon, or not getting married at all.
While the LDS church does not encourage loveless marriages, they present marriage as a choice between a church-sanctioned marriage or no marriage at all -- an attempt to dissuade singles from looking outside the faith for companionship. Mormon doctrine is clear that temple marriage is essential to enter the highest echelons of heaven, and leadership never encourages interfaith dating or marriage.
That messaging made an impact on Brown, who said he did not consider dating a non-Mormon until he was nearly 30, when he was at a low point in his life and was tempted to try secular dating apps. "I met a girl on Tinder who seemed to be ridiculously awesome."
"With this girl it hit me, there's a whole other option here," he said
Brown's realization is a radical idea within Mormonism -- one only found on the fringes of the faith. Some Mormons who flirt with dating non-members live in areas with scant Mormon populations or feel they have exhausted their options at church. For many, Mutual brought them back to the Mormon dating fold, providing an incentive to seek a temple marriage that rhetoric alone could not.
A recent convert to the church, Elle Bretherton said she faced loneliness as she adapted to a new life as a Mormon at Pepperdine. "My friendship circle got really small," she said. "I had quit my cross country team, I had quit my sorority."
Far from the nearest singles ward, Bretherton did something discouraged by leadership: She, like Brown, dated non-Mormons.
"It was just a complete crap show," she said. "Like it was a disaster because ... there is such a pressure to hook up. It just wasn't going to work."
After a particularly bad experience, Elle was drawn to download Mutual, which she had heard about through a friend. Within weeks, she had met her future husband.
Like Bretherton, Brown faced the prospect of decreased observance as he ventured outside Mormonism to date. He says he attended church less while dating his non-Mormon girlfriend. They eventually broke up, and he was left with a sense of foreboding about the prospect of being forced out of young single adult wards when he turned 30, after which he would be expected to attend a "mid-singles ward" for Mormons ages 30 and up. These wards are regarded as a dreaded marital purgatory.
Brown is determined to avoid this fate. He once skipped a flight home to extend a fruitless weekend scouting singles, buying a ticket on a last minute red-eye to visit a Mormon ex-girlfriend. Catching wind of his arrival, Brown said that his ex's previous boyfriend, who held a local church leadership position, came over to her house to disrupt their date. The night ended with punches thrown in the driveway.
The prospect of mid-singles wards offers fatigued Mormons minimal incentive to stick with the church, but the appeal of Mutual brought Brown back to regular church attendance. Now, he says he has faith again that he will be able to find a Mormon wife.
"If Mutual weren't around, I'd just feel defeated."
Dating ADD
There's no data to prove that Mutual will ensure the continuity of Mormonism. Stories of marriages from the apps are powerful anecdotes, but their evidence is only qualitative.
Mutual also shares the criticism that has recently been levied at Tinder: that the prospect of infinite choice is making users lazier, and more selective. According to Pew, roughly 1/3 of online daters fail to convert on a fourth down -- they chat with matches on apps but say they have "never" been on a date with someone they met online.
Washington, DC matchmaker Michelle Jacoby called this phenomenon "dating ADD." The industry is trending "niche" in an effort to cater to more specific demographics.
In a sense, these apps support the claim that the Internet is funneling us into self-selecting echo chambers, affirming homogeneity rather than diffusing dogma. If this is true, then faith leaders with a vested stake in their religion's longevity have cause to rejoice. These apps have facilitated the connections and conversations their strategic planning, and investments, couldn't.
The subgenre of religious dating apps is growing -- with millions of users on apps like Minder (for Muslims) and JSwipe (for Jews). Most importantly, these apps have incentivized disillusioned users like Brown to buy into the project of salvation -- both their own and, in turn, their community's. What remains to be seen is whether they are simply faddish phenomena or long-term trends.
In the meantime, Mormon youth will continue to embrace Mutual as a source of hope that, through ardent swiping, they just might find their eternal companion.
"If I get married to a Mormon girl," Brown said, "it's because I'm going to be able to connect with them, I hope, on Mutual."


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- I have no idea what the Flashfall was or what has brought about this life. I don't care for didactic explanations in books, but I do like some sort of hint about the world in which we find ourselves.
- The action is nonstop but not in a "wow, can't wait to see what happens next" way. No, for me it was a "something else is happening but I don't know what it is nor what just happened before this new turn of events" way. Just one deadly scenario after another.
- I can dig (not in a mining way) a good uprising against the corrupt government book but there needs to be at least some sort of hope of success.
- I'm not a fan of stories where all sorts of characters sacrifice themselves in order to keep one or two main characters alive. The surviving characters usually do something stupid that makes all the sacrifices pointless. If someone is willing to die to save you, make that count!
- Although this is a unique-ish world, there are not really surprises in the overall storyline. Romance between good friends, government that turns out to be oppressive and lying, tough heroine who defies the forces trying to kill her... Seen it before.


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Hanscom Field (ICAO: KBED, FAA LID: BED) (Laurence G. Hanscom Field) is a public use airport operated by the Massachusetts Port Authority in Bedford, in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.[1]
Hanscom is mainly a general aviation airport, the largest in New England. Both runways can accommodate jets, and are used by Hanscom Air Force Base, a defense-research facility next to Hanscom Field. It is a popular training airport, with more than 40 rental aircraft on the field. The Civil Air Terminal building hosts one airline and is home to two flight schools, East Coast Aero Club and Executive Flyers. East Coast Aero Club offers helicopter and airplane instruction and rental. Executive Flyers offers airplane and aerobatics instruction. Transient general aviation planes are served by three FBOs: Jet Aviation, Rectrix Aviation, and Signature Flight Support.
Federal Aviation Administration records say the airport had 8,385 passenger boardings (enplanements) in calendar year 2008,[2] 7,350 in 2009, and 7,952 in 2010.[3] It is in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015, which called it as a non-primary commercial service airport (between 2,500 and 10,000 enplanements per year).[4]
Hanscom is a critical part of the air transportation infrastructure for Massachusetts and the rest of New England. As T. F. Green Airport in Warwick, Rhode Island and Manchester-Boston Regional Airport in New Hampshire have become viable alternatives to Logan International Airport (the region's main commercial airport), Hanscom has emerged as one of the most important airports serving the region's business and general aviation needs.
The field serves aircraft from Piper Cubs to Gulfstream V jets. The events of September 11 caused a number of changes to general aviation in the US. Hanscom Field saw changes implemented by Massport that included large security fees, identification cards, and a requirement for propeller locks.
The Massachusetts Air and Space Museum is looking at Hanscom Field as a future location.[5]
Hanscom Field covers 1,125 acres (455 ha) at an elevation of 132 feet (40 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt runways: 11/29 is 7,011 by 150 feet (2,137 x 46 m) and 5/23 is 5,107 by 150 feet (1,557 x 46 m).[1]
In 2010 the airport had 163,421 aircraft operations, average 447 per day: 88% general aviation, 11% air taxi, 1% military, and <1% scheduled commercial. 282 aircraft were then based at this airport: 70% single-engine, 7% multi-engine, 20% jet, and 4% helicopter.[1]
In 2008, and many years prior, Hanscom has handled the second most aircraft movements of any airport in New England (Boston-Logan is number one). On a nice weekend day the traffic pattern gets so busy the tower is known to close the traffic pattern and only allow full stop landings.
Hanscom's traffic is primarily business jets and general aviation aircraft.
New England's oldest and largest flight school based at Hanscom along with their new facility at Lawrence Airport. EFA has been around since 1964 and has been recognized as a Cessna pilot center due to their large fleet of Cessna aircraft and their exceptional maintenance and safety. EFA offers training for Private pilot-ATP.
Executive Flyers has a fleet of: 4 Cessna 172 classics, 4 Cessna 172SP's, 2 Cessna 172SP G-1000's, 1 Cessna 182, 1 Decathlon, 1 Extra 300, 1 Beech Duchess, and 1 Piper Arrow. EFA retired aircraft: Cessna Millennium Skyhawk, Cessna 152, Piper warrior, and the Piper Seminole.
Hanscom's flight school that offers ratings up to ATP. ECAC also offers helicopter training in two Robinson R44 helicopters. ECAC is primarily based at KBED, and also operates out of KASH and KOWD.
ECAC has a fleet of: two Piper Tomahawks; two Cessna 172M; two Cessna 172S G1000; one Cessna 172SP; four Piper Warrior II; five Piper Warrior III (Garmin Equipped); one Piper Arrow (New Model); one Diamond DA-40; one Cessna 182T (Garmin Equipped); one Cirrus SR20; one Piper Seminole (Multi-Engine); three Cirrus SR22 (G2, G3, G5); one SR20; two Robinson R44 (Helicopter);[6] American Champion: Super Decathlon;
From 1999 until 2003, Shuttle America, a Connecticut-based regional airline, operated scheduled service from the airfield, carrying more than 10,000 passengers each month to airports in New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania using De Havilland Dash 8 and Saab 340 aircraft. Soon after US Airways Express pulled out, Pan Am Clipper Connection began servicing the airport using Jetstream 31 aircraft. Clipper flights connected Hanscom Field with Pease Airport in Portsmouth, NH and Trenton-Mercer Airport in NJ.
In its final years, Clipper would add flights to Ithaca Airport in Western NY from Hanscom. Even with this new route, however, Clipper could never draw the numbers it needed to remain profitable. The Airline was forced to cease operation in 2008 by the FAA for lack of funding and management. This left Hanscom Field without scheduled airline service for the first time in a decade. While there is still some community opposition, Hanscom has shown its usefulness as a gateway for Boston-area travelers. This has since attracted the new Trenton-based airline Streamline Air to start its first public charter route to Hanscom using 30 seat Embraer 120 Brasília aircraft, beginning with two daily round trips on weekdays. Streamline ceased operations as of September 15, 2012.[7]
As an airport close to Boston, many teams competing in the Boston area use Hanscom Field. Exceptions include the New England Patriots, who use Rhode Island's T.F. Green Airport, and the Boston Red Sox, who typically use Boston's Logan Airport. The following airlines visit Hanscom regularly to transport these Boston teams:
Hanscom can be reached by car by following Route 2A west from exit 30B on I-95/Route 128. It is serviced by the MBTA's Route 76 bus from Alewife Station in Cambridge.
On August 8, 1962, a US Air Force KC-135 tanker crashed on approach to Hanscom Field's runway 11, destroying the aircraft and killing all three members of the flight crew.
In September 1964, The Beatles arrived at Hanscom Field aboard a chartered aircraft during one of their American concert tours. They were making an appearance at Boston Garden the following day. It was felt that the immense popularity of the British singing group would cause congestion at Boston-Logan International Airport, so this alternative airport was selected.
In April 1975, President Gerald Ford used Hanscom Field before and after making speeches in Lexington, Massachusetts and Concord, Massachusetts to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the Battles of Lexington and Concord.
In February 2006, NBA player Sebastian Telfair was questioned after a handgun registered to his girlfriend was found in his pillowcase aboard the Portland Trail Blazers team plane.[8]
In 2006, Neil Entwistle was flown from London to Hanscom by U.S. Marshals to face murder charges.[9]
In December 2006, pitcher Daisuke Matsuzaka held negotiations with the Boston Red Sox on board a private jet owned by John Henry. The plane was seen landing at Hanscom by news channels from all over Boston as well as some Japanese news outlets.
On August 29, 2009, the body of the late Senator Edward M. Kennedy was flown from Hanscom Field to Andrews AFB for burial at Arlington Cemetery.
On May 31, 2014, a private Gulfstream IV business jet crashed and caught fire beyond the end of runway 11 following an aborted take off from Hanscom Field, killing all seven people on board. A preliminary NTSB report suggests that the flight controls were locked, preventing the aircraft from rotating to take off.[10] Lewis Katz, co-owner of the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Philadelphia Daily News, and Philly.com, was among the dead.[11][12]
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President Erdogan must heal divided Turkey after bitter referendum
Erdogan must heal a divided country after winning the referendum, but it is unclear whether he will forge the compromises needed for reconciliation.
Published: 17th April 2017 08:03 PM | Last Updated: 17th April 2017 08:03 PM | A+A A-
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan must heal a divided country after narrowly winning a contested referendum, but it is unclear whether he is interested in forging the compromises needed for reconciliation, analysts say.
After months of campaigning, with the 'Yes' side dominating the airwaves and posters on the streets, 51.41 percent of the electorate voted for an executive presidency, expanding Erdogan's powers.
But some 48.59 percent on Sunday voted against, according to nearly-complete results from election authorities.
The 'No' was in front in 33 of Turkey's 81 provinces, notably in major cities.
The campaign polarised the country. Erdogan railed against enemies abroad and traitors at home with his usual combative style, even accusing European countries of "Nazi practices" last month during the crisis in relations with the European Union.
Videos shared online by pro-government journalists and social media users made comparisons between Kurdish separatists and former far-right nationalist party members voting for 'No', suggesting "terrorists" were against constitutional changes.
Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said at the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) headquarters on Sunday night said "no one's heart should be broken" after the 'Yes' won.
"There are no losers in this referendum, the winner is Turkey, the winner is the dear people," Yildirim told supporters.
But Erdogan ignored warnings from the EU over bringing back the death penalty and repeated he would approve any bill for its return and even could hold a referendum on the issue if necessary.
He urged "other countries and institutions to show respect to the decision of the nation", and did not show a softening in his rhetoric against the West.
Meanwhile, two main opposition parties, the Republican People's Party (CHP) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said they would challenge the result, alleging major violations.
Analysts agreed even with such a "razor-thin" mandate and opposition challenges, Erdogan would defiantly continue his style of politics.
"I don't think Erdogan will change the robust and muscular approach to politics that he has adopted so far," said Fadi Hakura of the British thinktank Chatham House.
"If anything, I suspect he will double down on his very hardline and tough and uncompromising style of politics."
Aykan Erdemir, a former Turkish main opposition party lawmaker, said Erdogan would probably conclude that he should "entrench" and "strengthen his one-man rule machine".
But Erdemir, a senior fellow at Washington-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies, noted that Erdogan was still unable to muster more than 51 percent of the vote, despite the advantages of the 'Yes' campaign plus the imprisonment of high-profile 'No' campaigners.
"He has to find new mechanisms" to consolidate his rule, Erdemir added.
There will now also be intense attention over whether Erdogan moves to resume the peace process with Kurdish militants or works to try to simply destroy the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).
Pro-government Hurriyet daily columnist Abdulkadir Selvi wrote on Monday Turkish leaders were trying to "defuse the tensions" with their messages.
In the most significant blow to his authority of the referendum, Erdogan lost the support of the country's biggest cities: Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir.
While the Aegean city of Izmir has often opted for the CHP, Erdogan has always seen Istanbul as his territory after serving as mayor in the mid-1990s.
"I would classify this as at best a Pyrrhic victory for him," Hakura told AFP, adding Erdogan "lost the base of his support".
"Beyond the political polarisation, what we are seeing is an economic polarisation," Erdemir agreed.
"The AKP has been associated with economic dynamism, strong export growth. but now, all of those actors that are key to Turkey's economic performance are sceptical about a centralised presidential system."
The tight result is likely to raise questions for investors, whom the government has previously said were awaiting the result before putting funds back into to Turkey.
"The referendum result raises at least as many questions for investors as it provides answers," Neil Shearing, chief emerging markets economist at of Capital Economics, said in a note to clients.
He said questions remained for investors over Erdogan's behaviour and whether the result pushes Erdogan towards more conciliatory policy positions, or whether it "accelerates the slide towards autocracy".


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In the middle of an industrial zone 15 km from Thessaloniki (Greece), surrounded by weird construction monstrosities, there does exist an oasis of luxury and calm, of exquisite cuisine and impeccable service that propels you to another planet. It is the Thessaloniki Regency Hyatt Hotel*****.
In the past several years we stayed there at least a dozen times and were always impressed by the staff's attention to every detail, up to remembering your name when you come back several months later.
The lobby is like from a James Bond movie with an ambience that would make even the most sophisticated aficionado of luxury feel at home. You can almost imagine Sean Connery having a cigar and sipping a Vodka Martini, shaken not stirred, at the bar (and if he is not there, try the casino). Now, it is not cheap, but to be honest not that expensive bearing in mind what you get for the price. Book a room on the ground floor since then you end up with a large patio rather than a small balcony if you stay upstairs.
The breakfast is to kill for and the local gentry come here to savor fantastic omelet, freshly baked bread, salmon, fruit and you name it. So make sure you wake up early, no matter how many drinks you downed with 007 the previous night. Then spend the entire day by the pool, next to a waterfall which is a piece of art.
Whatever is your indulgence, the Hyatt is here to please: tennis courts, gym, spa, cigar bar, hairdresser, we can go on forever. One thing though: there are better places to have dinner than the hotel restaurant. We recommend the food-bar in Daios Hotel or the Seven Seas Restaurant, both located downtown.
So, will we go back to the Thessaloniki Hyatt Hotel? Well, as you might have heard, we recently moved to the Sahara desert, but who knows, one can never say never again.
Posted on November 17, 2011, in Hotel reviews and tagged casino, five star, Greece, Hotel, Hyatt, Regency, review, spa, Thessaloniki. Bookmark the permalink. 3 Comments.
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According to Usmagazine.com, the pop star walked down the aisle in an Elie Saab haute couture dress that was dove gray with lace sleeves. The website also reports that Perry, who celebrates her 26th birthday on Monday (October 25), had plans to also wear dresses designed by Zuhair Murad and Donna Mizani for the ceremony.
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I have been fortunate in being successful in business over the years. Being wealthy brings with it the opportunity and, I would argue, the obligation to use your money to make a difference to people's lives. I don't have family of my own, and I like to spend my earnings on things that I really care about. This is something that people should celebrate, but I worry that our society is all too quick to denigrate people who give their money away.
I have been raising money for the Labour party through coffee mornings and jumble sales for the best part of 40 years, and in more recent times donating money - my own money - to Labour because I passionately believe in social justice and economic prosperity for all. I also feel strongly about the power of education to transform people's lives. I was lucky enough to go to an excellent state grammar that gave me a great start in life. Many kids today aspire to go to university, and I have recently endowed a chair at Warwick University through a gift. I give money to many other charities and causes, such as peace in the Middle East.
I didn't want these things to become public because I want to be anonymous and have a private life. I was brought up to believe that if you donated to a good cause, you didn't make a song and dance about it. And like most sensible lottery winners, I do not want my wealth to change the way I, as a working-class boy, lead my life, or to get in the way of my many friendships with people from a similar background.
If people know you are wealthy, their behaviour towards you changes - often, perhaps through envy, for the worse. The last thing any wealthy person wants is to be inundated with begging letters from people, however well meaning. It ranks a close second to being inundated with calls from the media looking for a scandal that isn't there.
Mistakes were made, of course, and no one is denying that. I didn't read the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act 2000 before giving money to the Labour party any more than I read the Warwick University statutes or the Charities Act before parting with my money. I trusted Labour to ensure that donations were received and spent in the manner they were intended, as anyone in my position would.
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· David Abrahams is a Labour party donor and a former parliamentary candidate