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Where in the Bible does it show an example of sprinkling instead of immersion as a symbol of baptism? And if there is not one, why do Presbyterians allow sprinkling instead of immersion?
The Westminster Confession of Faith (28.3), the official confession of faith of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, says, "Dipping of the person into the water is not necessary; but baptism is rightly administered by pouring, or sprinkling water upon the person."
You will note that this statement does not say dipping (today we call it immersion) is invalid. It only says that it is not the only acceptable mode of baptism. It was written this way precisely because some mistakenly believe that baptism is not really valid unless it is done by immersion. Yet the truth is that the New Testament nowhere actually says that baptism must be done by immersion. And there are certainly instances in which we know that it was not. As an old Scottish preacher once said, the Egyptians were immersed but were not baptized while the Israelites were baptized but not immersed (see Ex. 14:27-31, 1 Cor. 10:1-2).
I remember only one instance in my own ministry in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church when I administered baptism by sprinkling. Apart from that instance, I virtually always administer it by pouring water on the head of the person baptized.
Why, then, the mention of sprinkling? For two reasons. (1) The Old Testament prophet Ezekiel spoke, specifically, of the promised cleansing that was to come in the Messianic age. "I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean; I will cleanse you from all your filthiness and from all your idols" (Ezek. 36:25). Since this event was to coincide with the giving of the Holy Spirit (vv. 26-27) we are certain that it refers to the cleansing symbolized by baptism. (2) There are at least some occasions when pouring is not the best option. I recall a hospital baptism that I conducted (with representatives of the session and congregation present) when pouring was out of the question (not to mention immersion).
Yet even on that occasion, with the use of a very small amount of waterby sprinklingthe essence of the sacrament was maintained. And what is the essence? It is (as our Shorter Catechism, Q. 94, says), "washing with water, in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost [which] doth signify and seal our ingrafting into Christ, and partaking of the benefits of the covenant of grace, and our engagement to be the Lord's."
You will see from this that no one who sincerely confesses faith in Jesus Christ is excluded from this Christ-commanded ordinance, nor are their helpless children. The one instance (mentioned above) in which I did baptize by sprinkling was an infant (born to two believers) who was expected to die very soon. Because we believe what Peter said on the day of Pentecost, "for the promise is to you and your children," that little infant received the covenant sign of baptism.
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Media Advisory: October 19, 2010
Frank O'gara , : 703-588-3260
Elaine Kanellis, : 703-588-3265
ARLINGTON, VA — Earlier this week, DoDEA officials identified a data transfer problem affecting the 12 schools participating in the Aspen X2 pilot. A delay in the procurement process prevented DoDEA from having a mechanism in place to transfer data from Aspen X2 to the Student Management Solutions (SMS), school information system DoDEA currently uses.
Aspen X2 is a school information system (SIS) that manages student data and applications. Records of newly-registered students and students who changed information in their records over summer break are the only records affected by this situation. DoDEA estimates approximately 2,000 records are affected in the 12 pilot schools.
This process is critical, because the only way to populate GradeSpeed, DoDEA's electronic grade book, is through SMS. The projected timeline to correct this problem is estimated to be 4 to 6 weeks. Based on the time estimate to correct this situation, the DoDEA Director has suspended the pilot program for the first semester until a mechanism is tested and in place to transfer data.
The pilot schools are Sasebo Elementary School, Edgren High School, Kadena High School, and Andersen Elementary School in the Pacific; Kaiserslautern Middle School, Kaiserslautern High School, Incirlik Elementary School/High School, and Brussels Elementary School/High School in Europe; Quantico Middle School/High School at the Quantico Marine Corps Base, Va., Dahlgren Elementary School/Middle School at the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren, Va., Lejeune High School at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and McNair Elementary School at Fort Bragg, N.C.
The data for newly-registered students will be manually entered by above school level staff into the SMS so that an interface can be made with GradeSpeed. The DoDEA staff began a manual data transfer process to ensure student data records are complete for the beginning of the school year in Europe and the Pacific on Monday, August 31. DoDEA is also working hard to minimize any negative impact this postponement will have in DoDEAÕs stateside schools, which have already begun the new school year.
In launching the pilot last spring, DoDEA set internal benchmarks to be met to ensure accountability and success. When it was evident that the benchmarks were not being met, DoDEA implemented a postponement to mitigate any negative impact on teachers and students. The postponement will allow DoDEA to work with the contractor to build and test an automatic data transfer mechanism; ensure that parallel data systems are in place; and revise the accountability benchmarks necessary to proceed.
Pilot schools will discontinue the use of Aspen X2 immediately and revert to the SMS system. The remaining 179 DoDEA schools are not affected by this situation.

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Great Ride.
This last weekend the IMS crew had the great opportunity to participate in the Cal Poly Penguins Hi Mountain 125 in the hills of San Luis Obispo CA. At the ride was the owner Scott Wright on a new Husky 501, Chris Hardin, manager, on a Husky 310 and I, Ethan Sullivan, blog writer and elementary school teacher, on the IMS Triumph Tiger 800XC.
I have owned the IMS Triumph Tiger for the last 9 months and the bike has always ran flawlessly. As I was quickly approaching the 6,000 mile warranty service mark, I figured now is as good a time as ever to replace the old worn out TKC80 with a new one, and kill two birds with one stone. This also gave me the peace of mind that the bike would have fresh oil, and completely checked out for what was going to be one of the tougher rides I have ever done on the bike.
The ride wasn't until Sunday but for me it started a day earlier, with riding the bike down from Monterey to Pismo to the hotel I was staying in. I had originally wanted to leave in the late morning, early afternoon, and cruise Highway 1 all the way down, much like I had done during Thanksgiving. But as life and luck would have it, I was not able to leave until almost 6pm. Since I didn't want to get stuck on the 1 at night for to long, I decided to slab it down the 101. Now, where as the 1 from Monterey to Pismo is a gorgeous, an amazing feat of engineering and breathtaking beauty, the 101 is a great study in efficiency and practicality. It is almost arrow straight, carving it's own way through the state of California, not following any route other then the one decided on by man. This means that getting from Monterey to Pismo took just about two and a half hours, verses the three and a half along the 1. As it was I arrived in Pismo just a few minutes after total darkness, (after a brief stop at Firestone Walker Brewery, the one main highlight of the 101). I checked into my hotel, got some food, detached the Tourtech 45L hardball full of my stuff, and went to bed.
I was up early, geared up, and meet Chris and Scott at the Cal Poly University H1 parking lot at the IMS booth, showing off the new Rally Foot pegs (full review to come soon, but lets just say, they look awesome). After parking the bikes to display the ADV 1 foot pegs we rubbed shoulders, walked around, meet some great people, and saw some really cool bikes. They did a rider briefing, and raffle, and by 9am, we were off.
The beginning of the ride was pretty uneventful, just under 31 miles of on road riding to the first dirt. I usually ride alone, not because I don't like riding with people, just none of the people where I live now ride a motorcycle. As a result I had a great time riding in the group. There were a few times, in the tight, blind corner roads I was a little unnerved, riding that close to the other bikes, but over all it was great fun blasting along with other riders, together.
The first set of dirt we encountered was what I was expecting the majority of the dirt riding to be, nice dirt roads, a few dips and hills, pot holes and ruts, but over all nothing to super hard to do on a 500 pound ADV bike. After all these are the types of roads I normally ride on when I off-road the IMS Tiger. For this ride I had aired down the tires to around 22-24 PSI, which for a big ADV bike is pretty low, a far cry from the 14-16 PSI I used to run on my XR650R, and I left the rear Touratech Shock alone, set up for a 215 plus pound rider, and two fully loaded 45L panniers. How did this effect the bike, how did she perform off road? In a word, Flawlessly. The bike did great, only let down by the lack of skill of the rider. Yes, with a 50/50 tire (which the TKC80 is considered) the front end would push on hard pack, or gravel. There are some times where you just can't deny the laws of physics, a 500 pound bike with limited grip, will push. But that was not the bike's fault, but more a consequence of having to run street rubber for the high speed highway miles this bike does. There were a few times that I crested a small hill, unable to see very far ahead due to the dust of another rider, and came upon a pot hole infested, rutted downhill that, had I known was there I would have slowed down for. As it was, I trusted the Precision Concepts forks, and Touratech rear shock, and actually found my self gassing it down such hills, surprising even myself. The bike ran over everything in it's path, ate it, and burped it out. I can see now why many people love these bikes.
After some lovely dirt roads, we hit the asphalt again, only to transition again to some dirt roads. After having our spark arrestors checked, and dealing with a lost license plate, we were off to the first Ranch. Now in this area the GPS was of no use, we were going old school, with neon orange arrows marking the often very narrow single track. This is where things got fun. It was evident that the creators of this ride were making a true dual sport ride, not a ADV ride. This was apparent by the A. lack of big ADV bikes that showed up (5 counting me) and B. the types of trails and hills that were set up to ride.
As we entered the first Ranch things were good, narrow single track yes, but nothing that the IMS Tiger and I couldn't handle, (remember the bike could do all of this, the rider…well not so much). This was until the first of 3 major hills. This was a hill that entered through a left hand turn through a gate, and up a 50-60 foot hill. This normally would not be a big deal, except this hill was tough to just walk up, was about 6 inches of deep powdery silt, and was littered with fallen dual sports that had tried and failed to climb the hill on the first try, and the only way to get up it was the 12 inch wide trail, the rest was tree and branch lined making other line choices almost impossible. This was the first of several tip overs.
I charged up the hill, confident that I could do this, just stay to the out side edge, on the virgin not as deep silt dirt, and modulate the clutch to prevent tire spin. Unfortunately a XR650L had decided to take a nap right on my chosen line, so I cut left and almost immediately the back end tried to swap places with the front, I got sideways in a bad way, and went down. With some help, I was able to get the bike upright, aimed it down the hill and went for run number two, this time with no sleeping XR in the way. I charged up the hill, and soon discovered it didn't matter what was in the way I did not possess the skill necessary for this amazing machine to do what it does best, conquer the dirt. After dropping the bike again, I was able to get some more help, and with Scott coaching me and pushing, I got the bike to the top of the hill.
The quickly found out that it wasn't the uphill that was the worst, but the downhill that really made you tighten up. When you are riding a 300 pound XR650R, you think you got a heavy bike. When that bike has custom Precision Concepts suspension, and a 680cc big bore kit with matching HRC cam, you think you got power. Nothing is quite like the 100 horse and 500 pound off road beast that is the IMS Tiger 800XC. This bike wanted to go faster then I wanted it to go. With the loose silt everywhere and the ruts that forced you to go where they wanted, and with 500 pounds keeping you where it wanted, it was a different experience. Yes, it would have been easier on my old 650R, but better, well, that is debatable. I loved every minute of it, the bike, the ride, the people around me, all of it.
I finally found my personal limit on the Hill from Hell. After an amazing steak, maracconi, and salad lunch,
we headed out, I got lost, and then was found (there is a metaphor in here Luke 15, Prodigal Son) and came upon the Hill from Hell. It was a steep downhill to a right hand up hill to a left hand up hill, all in deep deep loose silt, that had been abused by probably over 100 riders by this point. After looking at it, muttering "you got to be joking" a few times I finally had my turn. After watching over half the field try and fail to make the hill after the first, second, and sometimes third try I knew I wasn't going to make it first time either, but hope springs eternal and I went for it. Trying a different line recommended by the Cal Poly Penguin spotter I charged straight down the hill, saying screw the turns I was just going straight up this hill. I made it to the right hand turn, the first of the two turns, hit a dip and plowed into it like a bull. Those laws of physics came into play and the bike stopped, but me being significantly lighter then the bike, didn't. I went head over tail smashing my helmet onto something incredibly hard, and landed on the ground, the bike simply fell over, ran for a second and then stopped. I have never been hit so hard in my life. I immediately stood up to save what was left of my dignity, and walked the few steps over to the bike to pick it up. I almost immediately started to black out, my vision started to narrow to a black tunnel and I had to use the bike to steady myself. But being a male I refused to acknowledge that I was swimming in a sea of almost solid black, and with some help hauled the bike upright. Scott had already climbed the hill, with an ease of a seasoned Pro level rider, and was walking down the hill to check on me. The fact that to me it looked like two Scotts were walking down the hill kind of told me that there was no way I was climbing that hill on anything other then my own two feet. Giving the bike to Scott I got a chance to see what the Tiger could really do in the hands of a real rider. Basically it looked like any ole Sunday ride in the dirt, the bike simply went up the hill. The hill was still deep silt, the grass hid the many many pot holes, and the bike still weighed 500 pounds, but Precision Concepts and Touratech knew what they were doing when they did the suspension, and Triumph knew what they were doing when the built that engine, and the bike did what it was supposed to do and made that mountain into a little mole hill.
After a long miserable hike up the hill, I mounted up and we finished the ride, there were a few more hills, all of which paled in comparison to the Hill from Hell, and I was able to ride up in the first try. The downhills were still frightening, where I pulled over a few times to watch the much lighter KTM bikes skip down. But finally it was over, and I have never been so glad and yet so sad to see pavement in my life. In the end I had a blast. The bike was perfect, yes it is a big heavy beast, yes I need much more time off road to learn how to ride the thing to it's full potential. But in the end I wouldn't trade this bike, or that ride on that bike for anything. It isn't the ride that you win that sticks with you, trophies fade away and glory is eclipsed by another better rider, but it is the ride that you stuck it out and finished that matters. "Coming in dead last with nobody but an old man and a flash light was the greatest victory I ever had." said a rider to me once, and after this ride, waking up the next moring with bruises and aches I didn't even know I had, I think I see what he meant. It was more about the fact that I did it, on a bike I had never really tested on this hard of an off road course, that is what mattered.
Yeah, on a KTM 450EXC this ride would have been easier, or my old Baja Preped XR650R this ride would not have been nearly this hard, but it didn't matter, what did matter was I did it. I did it on a 500 pound, 90% street ridden ADV bike, and I could ride it home the next day, in comfort, and style, 160 miles. This is what Adventure riding is all about, this is why these bikes are so popular. It just makes sense, these bikes will get you there and get you home. In the right hands with the right amount of forethought (in gear, suspension, and trail choice), these bikes can do it all, and do it with more comfort and style then any dual sport.
Not to sound like a paid advertisement, but I really can't say enough about the suspension on this bike. Precision Concepts once again did a great job, they took a soft, and heavy brake dive front end, and made it a work of art. This floated over bumps, dips, pot holes, ruts, and rocks. It didn't miss a beat, didn't wander, shake its head, or lose control ever, only the tires (being 50/50 dirt/road tires and the rider) letting them down. As for Touratech, wow, just wow. Yeah this shock is expensive, but anything this good will be. At slow speeds the shock could have been softer, it was set up to handle me (215 plus pounds all geared up) and full panniers, but once you got the speeds up a little, to where the fun really happens, the rear shock just motored over everything, and asked for more. It didn't matter the terrain, the bike just moved over it like it was smooth asphalt, and made a hero out of a Average Joe. Thanks again to the Cal Poly Penguins and all the sponsor that made this ride possible, and I will see you again next year.
April 28, 2015 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 1200GS, 310, 450, 501, 650R, 800, 800xc, ADV, adventure, adventure riding, Big, bike, bikes, Cal Poly, California, Dual, dual sport, Hi Mountain, Husky, ICON, IMS Products, KTM, Penguins, Sport, Tiger, Triumph, XC | Leave a comment
KTM SXF,XC-W, XC-F, EXC gas tank update.
Riverside, CA April 3, 2013– Due to a labeling accident the 2007-2010 KTM 450 SXF tank was labeled as only 2.7 gallon but is instead it is actually 3.1 gallons. This has been corrected on the IMS website and we apologize for any confusion or inconvenience that this may have caused. This tank will also fit the:
11-12 450 SXF (carbureted model part #113329)
12-13 450 SXF Factory Edition* (requires nut #78107088014/connector #78107088017)
12-13 450 XC-W* (2012 models require nut #78107088014/connector #78107088017)
12-13 500 XC-W* (2012 models require nut #78107088014/connector #78107088017)
12-13 500 EXC* (will not fit with California Emissions Equipment require nut #78107088014/connector #78107088017)
*All these models are fuel injected part # 113332
April 3, 2013 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tags: 450, 500, EXC, gas, IMS, KTM, SXF, tank, XC-F, XC-W, XCF | Leave a comment


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I have returned to life on the green mountain…and life here has somewhat returned to normal. Of course, what exactly is normal in this constantly shifting thing called life!? Normal so quickly becomes abnormal – and vice versa – that we all – humans along with all the rest of the earth's creatures – must continually adapt if we are to survive.
The best story of survival in Monteverde that I can share is that of our friend Wolf Guindon. He is immensely better than he was when I left last June. Stefany, his lovely nurse, has left; he then had another young woman helping with his physical therapy, but she too has gone. Lucky has taken over guiding Wolf through his daily exercises. The results of all this attention is obvious – Wolf is walking steadier, even without his stick much of the time. He takes care of his own bathing needs. He gets in and out of the car on his own. He goes for short hikes on trails in the Reserve and elsewhere. He even has been working on a trail in the forest beside the house, where his son-in-law Rodrigo installed a bench so that Wolf and Lucky can go and sit to watch the sunset together.
Wolf is back to having some purpose in life – he gets out daily and works a little more on that trail. One of the best improvements is the use of his right hand that had serious damage from being tied to the bed posts during his time in the hospital. In June, about three months after his release, he was still barely using it. Now he can clearly sign his own name, handle his eating utensils, and hold and swing his machete with a fair amount of force.
He is also getting woollier. There was a time, exactly a year ago, when he was weak, his body frail and his head almost bald. I remember walking into his hospital room and thinking that he looked like Gandhi. One year later, his sideburns are bushy, his eyebrows are furry and he has the look of a robust, if elderly, bushman. The twinkle has returned to his eye and his humor remains contagious and genuine.
Something that brought huge smiles to his and Lucky's faces were recent visits by their son Tonio and his family from Connecticut – who left eldest daughter, Oriana, here for a prolonged stay with her Monteverde family; a week with son Tomás and his family from California; and a very quick visit by Wolf's nephew Dale and his family from Ohio, their first time in Costa Rica. They were here for their eldest son's wedding down on the beach, and despite the fact that their son, Jeff, broke his foot playing beach soccer a couple of days before, it sounds like they had a wonderful wedding. Unfortunately, Jeff and his new bride couldn't come up the mountain with the rest of the family as he needed to rest his foot and I'm sorry not to have met him. As I've often said, I've never met a Guindon I didn't like – wonderful folks all.
So, this year I returned to Costa Rica without a plan. I usually have a good idea of what I'm going to do in my months here and some sense of how I'm going to do it. Last year became an amazing roller coaster ride undulating between Wolf's health crises, working to finalize the paperwork for my bit of jungle near Cahuita, and the push to complete the publication of the Spanish edition of Walking with Wolf. Wolf survived, the property paperwork appeared on my last day in the country, and the translation got edited, but nothing went quite like I expected. This year, I decided that instead of arriving with expectations, I would come with a buncha seeds in mind, cast them out, and see what germinates. Now, a month later, I'm starting to water the plants that took root, and I hope that I'll have a fruitful garden to show for it over the next six months.
The most important project, and the one that will take the most of my time, will be overseeing the layout/design and computer work of Caminado con Wolf. If I get nothing else done in the following months, I am committed to publishing, one way or another, the translation of our book. The English version continues to be very popular, selling well by word-of-mouth here in Monteverde and online, as well as on the shelves of the Café Britt souvenir shops in the San José airport.
Last March and April I spent working with Lester Gomez, the young editor hired by the Tropical Science Center to edit Carlos Guindon's translation. The TSC has been very generous in its financial support in this project. Carlos Hernandez, the director of the Monteverde Cloud Forest Biological Preserve, and Javier Espeleta, the director of the TSC, as well as other staff and board members, have been very enthusiastic and helpful in getting this done. Don Javier then went to the Editoriales de la Universidad de Costa Rica, whose director, Julian Monge, agreed our book should be published in Spanish as a valuable addition to Costa Rica's historical and nature-centered literature.
More than three years have passed since I self-published the English version in Canada. We have watched a warm and critically-positive reception to our book – it has been used as the inspiration for a high school course in New Hampshire, it's been bought by local biology professors for their visiting university classes and I've received many letters of thanks from visitors to the Monteverde community who say that it has provided a valuable background that enriched their time here. We know there are many Spanish-reading Costa Ricans waiting to read the book. The coming year 2012 is the 40th anniversary of the Monteverde Reserve and the 50th anniversary of the Tropical Science Center. They have numerous activities and special events planned and it would be wonderful to have Caminando con Wolf available for the participants of these celebrations throughout the year.
Since I have already gone through the process of "self-publishing", I don't fear stepping back into it. We are so close to finished I can taste the hors-d'oeuvres at the book launch! So I have decided to start walking down another path with Wolf, and get this thing done. It will mean some fundraising on my part for the costs of printing, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. If the EUCR's new director remains interested, we will be thrilled. If not, we will be ready to go to print ourselves.
Throughout Wolf's months of medical crises last year, he told people that he had no plans to die until the Spanish book came out. I think it was one of the mantras that kept him alive, along with his love for Lucky, his joy in the time he got to spend with his family and friends, and his phenomenal strength of spirit that is nurtured by his relationship with the natural world around him. The rest of us had somewhat of a dilemma on our hands when we didn't know if getting the book finished quickly would send Wolf sooner to heaven, but happy, or if we should be slowing the process to keep him with us here on earth as long as possible, perpetually waiting for the book to appear.
In the end, of course all of our fates were out of our hands and things happened as they would. Wolf doesn't look to me like he is going anywhere soon, but he regularly expresses his faith in my ability to get this translation done. Our talented friend here in Monteverde, Pax Amighetti, is ready, willing and able to do the computer/design/layout work for the book. I have arranged my dance card between time in Monteverde working with Pax, time in San José helping out a friend in need of some organization in her home, and time in Cahuita helping Roberto build a small casita. I have my eye on the prize, my heart in the right place, and my body and mind will go wherever it needs to be to get this job done.
As we move into the very busy holiday season, I am leaving Monteverde to spend Christmas in Cahuita. Pax and I have already made some important decisions about the design of the book's cover. We will break for the yuletide and return with strength and determination in January. I have great faith that Caminando con Wolf will see the light of day in this exciting upcoming year of 2012!
I proceed inspired by the words of one of my heroes, civil rights leader and freedom fighter John Lewis, who says, "If not us, then who? If not now, then when?" I find it interesting that his own autobiography is titled "Walking with the Wind"…coincidence, I think not. Happy festivities everybody! I'll keep y'all posted.


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Since the first time I laid eyes on the man of steel, he effortlessly captivated my heart. I fell in love. I first saw him in the pages of a comic book, he was just a cartoon. Nothing prepared me for the magic Hollywood weaved in the first film Superman The Movie, and I was so young then. Needless to say, I was spellbound. I had since then seen all the Christopher Reeve movies. It broke my heart when he had his injury, and devastated when he died, but not before he made a historic appearance in the series "Smallville".
Clark Kent had such an impact on me that I just found myself naturally gravitating towards men with glasses! Only to find out the harsh reality that Clarks in the real world are so hard to come by. When I went into Journalism for a while, I wanted to be like Los Lane. But again, reality bit hard. I had changed career, and resigned to the fact that there are no Clark Kents in this planet.
I have kids now and we all share the same fascination with Superheroes. They have their generation's slew of Superheroes continuously spewed by Marvel and DC, some are amazing, incredible, uncanny; some are just plain ridiculous. I stuck to my first love, Superman. The 2006 reboot was good, but it didn't compare to the first movie. Brandon Routh was the perfect choice after Christopher Reeve and I would have wanted to see him in more sequels. Unfortunately, the franchise fell prey to the mercurial moods of the powers-that-be in Hollywood. Now there's a new reboot (a re-reboot?). I'm eagerly counting the days til the June 2013 release of "Man Of Steel". The man from Krypton lives on.
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...aaaaand just to round out the confirmations, Apple has just acknowledged the expansion of its iTunes Plus catalog and price drops. According to the company, there are now over 2 million DRM-free iTunes Plus tracks, making the iTunes Plus catalog the "largest DRM-free catalog in the world." This includes all EMI artists that are on iTunes, in addition to a slew of groups from independent labels, such as Sub Pop, Nettwerk, Beggars Group, and IODA.
Of course, Apple also gave just a slight nod to the fact that all of the DRM-free tracks would drop from $1.29 apiece to 99¢. "iTunes Plus has been incredibly popular with our customers and now we're making it available at an even more affordable price," said iTunes VP Eddie Cue in a statement.
However, a quick glance to the iTunes Store tells me that the new price still has yet to trickle down through all iTunes Plus artists. For example, Norah Jones and Corinne Bailey Rae's albums are still showing $1.29 per track. But as Steve Jobs said yesterday, the new price should be reflected throughout the store hopefully by sometime today.
What we still don't know the answer to the question of whether users can upgrade their collections for free (seeing as DRMed and DRM-free tracks are now the same price), or whether they still have to pay money to be able to use their tracks freely. Going by what the store currently tells us, the answer is "pay up!" But since the new prices haven't been fully updated, we're cautious to declare such a thing just yet.


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Racine woman discovers 'mountain of tires' in yard
More than 90 tires dumped in backyard of rental property
A Racine woman said she came home from vacation to discover a mountain of used tires dumped in her backyard.
But while she works to find a way to clean it up, WISN 12 News learned that cases of illegal tire dumping are on rise.
Patty King came to check on her rental property to discover a pile of nearly 90 tires dumped in the yard.
"I saw the tires piled up above the fence," she said. "What do you do? You just feel sick."
Neighbor Tiffany Taborn said she had no idea anyone had dumped the tires next door.
"It's a mountain of tires," she said. "A mountain of tires."
The news got worse when King learned that she would have to pay hundreds of dollars in fees to get rid of the tires. City officials told her that while the situation was unfortunate, the tires were here responsibility since they were on her property.
Ninety tires, combined with a $3 per tire recycling fee, adds up quickly.
"It's overwhelming," she said.
Thankfully Scott Killips and Adam Velasquez heard about King's plight and volunteered to haul away the tires. The city also waived the recycling fee.
But WISN 12 News reporter Kent Wainscott learned that this pile is only part of the problem. Racine's Public Works Commissioner said similar incidents are reported about once per month in the city.
"I wish it wasn't a big problem," he said. "I wish I was surprised by it. But it's a problem that's been around for a while now."
The city passed new legislation to raise the penalties for illegal tire dumping. Mayor John Dickert said the city is determined to put a stop to the issue.
But King is just happy her mountain of tires is going to go away.
"I have somebody who's going to rid me of these tires. I thank everybody for that," she said.


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In the closing paragraphs of Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen gave us a few hints about what happened to her beloved characters after she wrote "The End" on the last page of her manuscript. Those tantalizing little breadcrumbs she tossed to us have helped spark many a Jane Austen-inspired sequel!
One of her hints concerned Mr. Darcy and his ongoing relationship with Wickham. Jane Austen wrote:
Though Darcy could never receive [Wickham] at Pemberley, yet, for Elizabeth's sake, he assisted him further in his profession.
I've often wondered what, exactly, Jane Austen meant by that. Was Darcy willing to help Wickham occasionally, but only if he never had to see him again? After he and Elizabeth were married, did Darcy sever all communications with Wickham?
I'd like to know your opinion on the subject. Do you think Darcy was the kind of man who would refuse to step into the same room as Wickham, considering all the grief and havoc the man caused him and the people he loved?
Those are important questions for me, because I'm working on a Pride and Prejudice sequel where the issue has to be addressed.
Here's the premise: Kitty is getting married, and Mrs. Bennet's greatest wish is to have all her daughters together one last time before Kitty—like Jane, Lizzy, and Lydia before her—leaves Longbourn forever to set up a home of her own.
All the Bennet sisters have pledged to attend Kitty's wedding, except Elizabeth.
While Elizabeth wants very much to attend Kitty's wedding, she won't promise to be there because she doesn't want to put Darcy in the position of having to encounter Wickham, after all the bad blood that passed between them.
Here's a portion of the scene from my story where Lizzy explains her predicament:
If Elizabeth Bennet Darcy ever needed proof of the depth of her husband's love and devotion, she was to have it on the occasion of the marriage of her younger sister, Kitty.
The particulars of Kitty's betrothal had been formally settled in January; since then, Elizabeth sometimes lamented the fact that she resided in Derbyshire—almost one-hundred-fifty miles from her former family home in Hertfordshire—and so far away from all the plans and activities that must attend the promised nuptials. For the first time since her marriage, she heartily wished she were closer that she might share in her sister's joy.
Kitty wrote with admirable regularity to apprise Elizabeth of her wedding plans and progress. Elizabeth's mother, Mrs. Bennet, also wrote. Indeed, almost every week since the announcement of Kitty's betrothal had brought Elizabeth a fresh letter from her mother in which Mrs. Bennet listed her lavish plans for the couple's nuptials—plans that were not at all in agreement with the simple wedding Kitty initially described.
The first such letter was delivered while Elizabeth was at breakfast with her husband, Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.
Elizabeth read the letter and looked up at him in astonishment. "Mama plans to petition the bishop to perform the ceremony. She thinks the vicar of Meryton is a very good sort of man, and does well enough for Sunday sermons, but she wants someone with a bit more dash to conduct the marriage ceremony." She frowned slightly. "Where do you suppose my mother learned such cant? A bit more dash? Who are her influences?"
Mr. Darcy did not answer, choosing instead to concentrate on the contents of his breakfast plate, but Elizabeth was quite certain she saw the corner his mouth twitch, signaling his amusement.
The next week brought another letter in which Mrs. Bennet informed Elizabeth that she had recently read a newspaper article concerning a men's choir of sixty voices that was touring Derbyshire, and did Elizabeth know any of the particulars? And would Elizabeth take on the task of hunting down the choir's representatives? For Mrs. Bennet desired the choir quit Derbyshire immediately and travel to Hertfordshire that they might sing at Kitty's wedding.
Elizabeth read this portion of her mother's letter aloud to her husband, who uttered "Good God," in a quiet voice, but said no more.
Similar letters with similar tidings arrived every few days, each containing some morsel of information that bespoke Mrs. Bennet's grand plans for Kitty's wedding.
Elizabeth, at times shocked, at times amused by the extent of her mother's imaginative plans, dutifully read the letters aloud to her husband, until the April day she received yet another missive as she presided over the tea table.
On this occasion she mastered the contents of her mother's letter with a deepening expression of concern, and would have folded the letter and silently slipped it into the pocket of her gown had not her husband stopped her.
"Bad news?" he asked, in a casual tone, his gaze never wavering from the newspaper he had been reading.
"No, not at all."
"Who is the letter from?"
"My mother."
"She and the rest of your family are well, I trust."
"Yes, quite."
"I am glad to hear it." He looked at her then with an expression of patient sympathy. "You may as well read it aloud. I confess I am curious what words she might have written to cause you to think it a wiser choice to hide the letter rather than read it to me." Elizabeth unfolded the letter, but still she hesitated, prompting him to ask, "Has she left the Church of England and converted to Catholicism in order that the Pope might perform the wedding ceremony? Or perhaps she has hired a band of jugglers and acrobats to attend the bride down the aisle?"
Elizabeth laughed, at both the absurdity of his suggestions and at his gentle understanding of her mother's foibles. There had been a time when he had not always been so patient, but the great distance of the Darcy's home in Derbyshire to the Bennet's home in Hertfordshire—and, thus, their infrequent meetings—had gone a long way toward softening Mr. Darcy's opinion of Mrs. Bennet, and hers of him.
"No, there is nothing like that in her letter," she said, smiling.
"I am glad to hear it. In the past four months I have often thought how different are the simple wedding plans of your sister Kitty compared to those of your mother, who seems determined to impress the entire county. It cannot be comfortable for Kitty to be so much at odds with her." He turned his attention back to his newspaper, as he asked, "I wonder why your mother is so intent upon making Kitty's wedding such a lavish affair?"
"If you are asking my opinion, I believe it is because she felt a bit cheated by the simple parish ceremony Jane and I had. Mama did her best to convince us to make the affair much more grand, but Jane and I would have not have it so, for we both thought the spectacle of two sisters marrying two men who were close enough to be brothers was exhibition enough to make the neighborhood tongues wag."
Elizabeth made a move to tuck the letter into her pocket, as she had tried to do before, but once again her husband stopped her.
"So you're not going to tell me?"
"Tell you what?" she asked, trying to sound as innocent as possible.
"What your mother wrote to cause you such concern."
Elizabeth took her time unfolding the letter again, in order that she might choose her words carefully. "There is a question about the guest list."
"Is that all?"
Briefly, Elizabeth considered how best to answer him, before reminding herself that her husband was a man who appreciated truth above all things.
"I may as well tell you, Kitty wrote to me weeks ago when talk of wedding plans first began. She asked me then if I would be comfortable to have Lydia and her husband at the wedding, considering all the havoc they have caused the family."
Darcy, his eyes still focused on the newspaper, asked quietly, "And how did you reply?"
"I replied that Lydia is my sister and I love her, and however much I wish to see her again after her long banishment, the decision to invite her is not mine alone. Others must be consulted."
"And when you say others . . . Of whom do you speak?"
"You, of course. You were just as injured as we were when George Wickham ran off with Lydia, and I am convinced it was you he wished to injure and shame. Given the heartlessness of his conduct, I cannot think you would wish to set foot in the same county as Lydia and her husband, to say nothing of the same room."
Mr. Darcy did not reply, but he looked at her over the top of his newspaper with an expression on his face that touched her very heart. "Is that what you think?"
"Yes, and so I wrote Kitty, and now she is in a quandary."
"What kind of quandary?"
"She knows you and I will not attend the wedding if Lydia and Wickham are to be there; yet mama implores her daily to include them among the guests. Mama writes," and her eyes scanned the letter again, "Kitty has become unnaturally obstinate on the subject, and has even threatened to elope to Scotland because she will not be made to choose one sister over another. Mama is beside herself to think Kitty may actually carry out her threat, for then all mama's plans to impress the Longs and the Lucases with a grand wedding will count for naught."
"Kitty has grown into a very determined young woman," Darcy murmured, as he focused once again on his newspaper.
Elizabeth took encouragement that her husband was willing to continue their conversation, for it had been many months since either of them had spoken the name Wickham aloud.
"Yes, she has, and I do hate to cause poor Kitty such unhappiness at a time when she should know only joy. But, of course, if Lydia and Wickham will be guests at Longbourn, it is out of the question that we will be there, too!"
"Is it?" Glancing at the clock on the mantle, Darcy laid aside his newspaper and rose from his chair. "Thank you, Elizabeth, for sharing the contents of your mother's letter; but now you must excuse me, for I have some business to attend. It should not take long; no more than an hour, I think."
"But what is to be done about mama and her wish to see all her daughters and their husbands together again? I cannot think what is the right thing to do."
"The right thing to do," he said, stopping beside her chair and bending down to place a tender kiss upon her forehead, "is to make your mother happy."
The scene continues, but before I share more of it with you, I'd like to know:
What is your opinion of Darcy's behavior? Knowing Darcy as you do, do you think he would willingly attend the wedding—and face his nemesis George Wickham—in order to please Elizabeth and her family?
Or do you think Darcy would react in a completely different manner?


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This food of the Goddesses is a one of a kind treat. This is raw organic Cacao beans (raw chocolate, fermented). Chocolate is made from cacao beans. Now you can eat raw chocolate, make raw food delights and frozen chocolate shakes. Have a chocolate party.
The Cacao tree shares a wide array of unique properties. Chocolate eating is often associated with love.
The cacao tastes similar to, yet better than, unsweetened bakers chocolate. A sweetener is often used like raw organic agave nectar in conjunction with your raw treat ingredients. A great chocolate dairy free shake consists of water, cacao, agave nectar, ice and macadamia nuts. Blend the cacao with the water and agave until smooth. Next add ice and quickly blend to crush ice into a slurry. Now get crazy.
What do I do with cacao beans?
*Peel the cacao beans with your fingers and fingernails or a small paring knife, rinse if desired.
Now there are many things to do (be the star of your next potluck):
* Eat them plain, chewing and experiencing the taste
* Add to your fruit, nut or coconut based smoothie
* Dip in Raw Agave Nectar and then in Maca for a Saturday night party treat
* Freeze them with agave and enjoy a frozen treat
* Creativity abounds in raw brownies or a raw chocolate pecan pie
Warning! Eating cacao may cause you to have an incredible day.
Recipe - Goddess Divanna
Blend 20 peeled cacao beans with 1 cup water, 3 tablespoons agave nectar, 1 teaspoon mesquite, 20 macadamia nuts, and 1 banana until smooth. Now add 2 cups of ice and 1 cup more water and blend into a slurry. Share with two friends.
Special Notes:
- Refrigeration of these cacao beans is not required, although recommended for optimum freshness.
- These extremely high quality beans are Organic, raw cacao beans and exclusively sold in the United States by only a very few vendors.
- Be extremely aware of other cacao beans and nibs available on the world market because they are typically heated, fumigated and are contaminated by bacteria and fungus. We purchase the best, highly satisfying.
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In the second round, Rhizome members choose two Rhizome Commissions recipients from the pool of twenty-five or more finalists.
The results are determined by single transferable vote, also known as instant runoff voting. Each voter ranks the proposals from most favorite to least favorite. If a proposal has more than 50% of first-place votes after the initial tally, it becomes the winner. If not, the lowest-ranking proposal is removed from the list, and the votes are automatically tallied again.
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Hope of Treatments Beyond Facial FillersThere is currently no cure for lipoatrophy. Even the so-called "treatments," such as poly-L-lactic acid (Sculptra, New-Fill), Radiesse (calcium hydroxylapatite, Radiance), polydimethylsiloxane (Silikon 1000) and poly-Alkyl-Imide (Bio-Alcamid), are facial fillers that can correct the symptoms of lipoatrophy wonderfully well but leave the actual problem -- fat-cell destruction -- untouched (see Lipo Fixes).
Fortunately, it's now known that certain HIV meds are the cause, and by switching off of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors (NRTIs, also known as nukes), such as d4T (stavudine, Zerit), AZT (zidovudine, Retrovir) and ddI (didanosine, Videx), to more lipo-friendly drugs, such as tenofovir (Viread) or abacavir (Ziagen), you can arrest the process. But can you ever recover that lost layer of fat in your face, arms and legs, or butt? Kinda, sorta, maybe.
Most researchers agree that lipoatrophy is "reversible, but ..." When fat cells return, they do so only extremely slowly, over a period of years, and even then, only partially. The prospect of living with cadaverous cheeks and AIDS stigma for the rest of their lives has HIVers who cannot afford the facial-filler treatments eager for news of drugs that might hurry up the recovery.
We asked a leading lipo expert, Kathleen Mulligan, Ph.D., a professor and researcher at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, for an update. Mulligan has been working with HIVers since the early '90s. Back then, her focus was AIDS wasting, which is a major metabolic and nutritional complication of HIV that causes severe fat and muscle loss in people with a low CD4 count in the throes of late-stage disease.
She quickly shifted gears in the late '90s, when weird fat disorders -- originally misidentified as the fat-redistribution syndrome dubbed lipodystrophy and now recognized as several separate and distinct problems, including lipoatrophy's fat loss -- began making healthy HIVers lives so difficult. According to Mulligan, the research is not exactly going gangbusters. There are two main drugs under investigation, and neither has Mulligan and other researchers kicking up their heels.
What It Is: A naturally occurring nucleoside molecule central to the functioning of mitochondria. It is available commercially in a dietary supplement called NucleomaxX that contains Mitocnol, a sugar-cane extract rich in nucleosides.
Most researchers agree that lipoatrophy is "reversible, but ..." When fat cells return, they do so only extremely slowly, over a period of years, and even then, only partially.
How It Works: In studies, adding uridine helped protect fat cells from the nasty effects of d4T, AZT and other lipoatrophy-related nukes.
"The rationale behind using uridine is that one side effect of mitochondrial damage might be a reduction in nucleoside production," Mulligan says, "and by giving uridine, which is a nucleoside, you're overcoming that deficiency, and by overcoming this deficiency, perhaps you could reverse some of the lipoatrophic effects of the nucleosides." That's the theory. But does it work?
How It Tested: Only one small study has been done well, and it showed that the 10 HIVers on NucleomaxX did in fact have an increase in fat in their limbs and belly (facial lipoatrophy was not measured). The amount of recovered fat, however, was somewhat underwhelming -- a little over a pound after three months, which, as Mulligan helpfully but messily describes, is about four sticks of butter spread out over your limbs and belly.
Plus, it remains to be seen whether uridine specifically helps reverse the loss of subcutaneous fat by kick-starting the mitochondria or more generally helps stimulate the body's production of all fat by some other mechanism.
Still, four sticks of butter worth of fat is the three-month record in lipoatrophy studies -- it's more than the amount of fat regained by HIVers who simply switched off the offending nukes or those who have tried the anti-lipo glitazone drugs.
The Take Home: "Before I ran out and spent money on it, I would want to see more data," Mulligan says. Still, there are numerous anecdotal reports of HIVers who swear by NucleomaxX.
What They Are: A class of drugs approved to reverse insulin resistance related to type 2 diabetes. In studies, troglitazone, the first in the class, looked like a possible homerun for both lipoatrophy and lipohypertrophy because diabetics who took the drug not only gained subcutaneous fat in their limbs but lost visceral fat in their bellies. Unfortunately, a few also developed life-threatening liver problems, so the drug was yanked from the market. Its two offspring, pioglitazone (Actos) and rosiglitazone (Avandia), although much safer, "don't have the same dramatic effects on visceral and subcutaneous [fat]," Mulligan says.
How They Work: The glitazone drugs stimulate the body's production of PPAR-gamma, a protein used in the creation of fat cells and in maintaining cell sensitivity to insulin. In studies, adding pioglitazone or rosiglitazone helped protect fat cells from the nasty effects of HIV meds associated with both lipoatrophy and lipohypertrophy -- by a complex mechanism different from that of uridine, one not directly related to mitochondrial toxicity.
How They Tested: The biggest rosiglitazone study was dubbed ROSEY, although the results were anything but. The drug showed "no positive effect on subcutaneous fat in people with HIV lipoatrophy," says Mulligan, cautioning that a closer look at the data suggests that a certain subgroup of patients on the drug did up their quota of subcutaneous fat.
More recently, smaller studies of both rosiglitazone and pioglitazone tend to confirm this more hopeful finding. "But the people most likely to benefit are those who are [or were] not taking d4T, and that's unfortunate, because those are probably the people who need it most," Mulligan says.
The Take Home: In "sticks of butter" effects, the best the glitazones have been able to accomplish is about three in a year (three quarters of a pound), while a big study of people who simply switched from d4T or AZT to the nuke abacavir got all the way to nine sticks of butter (two and a quarter pounds of subcutaneous fat) after two years. Still, Mulligan says that more research may clarify to what extent glitazones help accelerate fat-loss reversal in certain post-switch lipo-sufferers.
Uridine and the glitazones are the only treatments that have been earnestly researched for lipoatrophy. But many HIVers have, over the years, experimented with dietary supplements, including L-carnitine and coenzyme Q10, both of which may have some effect on mitochondrial health, as well as C and B-complex vitamins. In the general absence of a demand for more research, the supply of studies into drugs to cure or speed the reversal of lipoatrophy is likely to remain a little disappointing.
All that may change in about a decade, however. With access to HIV treatment in the developing world steadily improving, and with generic d4T, which is effective, cheap and easy to make, ever more widely prescribed, a million-plus HIVers may soon be walking around with puppet face, stick legs and arms and other markers of AIDS. No matter how grateful they are to be alive and healthy, losing their face and the self-esteem and sense of identity associated with that will be a very bitter pill to swallow. A global movement for a drug to gain fat may not be far off.
Get your questions answered at The Body's Ask the Experts forum on facial wasting!


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After all of the shopping is done, it is time to wrap your gifts and I love to pick a theme for each year. Some ideas I love...
This year I went for an unexpected color pairing - turquoise and deep red. (Pardon the lousy photo). I used business card stock from Paper Source and a silver stamp with Joyeux Noel to make my own gift tags.
How are you wrapping your gifts this year?
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"Georges is an illuminating, instructive, and enduring blueprint of racial conflict and strife, as compelling and relevant today as it was back in the 1840s, when it was first published."
"I know this is a novel of great historical and cultural significance and that it explores complex issues of race and colonialism and all, but what matters to a guy like me is, it's a hell of a read. Sea battles and land battles, a steamy setting and hot-blooded gallantries, ancient enmities and sweet revenge, forbidden love, insults and duels, bravado and bravery and redemption, hot pursuit and desperate flight and crushing captures and daring escapes. What a story! And Kover's translation lets all the lushness and the romance and the passion come through with cinematic clarity."
–David Bradley, author of The Chaneysville Incident
"A remarkable discovery that expands the corpus of Alexandre Dumas. Rendered in beautiful language, this is a tale that transports us to a time and place that still speaks to us in our present circumstances. We are indebted to Werner Sollors and Jamaica Kincaid for their framing documents that provide us with a critical lens for the journey Dumas has created for us out of his own generous and expansive imagination."
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"A brilliant example of the French Romantic novel, far too infrequently read and . . . deserving of a broader audience."
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Oman Air the national carrier of the Sultanate of Oman will be launching daily non-stop scheduled services between Muscat, capital of the Sultanate of Oman, and London Gatwick, which is considered a significant milestone for Oman Air. The carrier can now offer passengers seven flights a week between Muscat and the London market.
In this regard, Ziad Bin Karim Al Haremi Chief Executive Officer of Oman Air said, "London is one of our prime markets, and Gatwick offers an alternative to the highly popular Heathrow services. Oman Air is really planning to spread its reach to exciting new destinations to cater for upward demand from a diverse group of travellers. London Gatwick is part of a route expansion programme that will reinforce the carrier's position on long haul route. Our plans include the further breaching of the high-potential markets. We are pleased that our enhanced presence will provide travelers, particularly those in the Middle East more convenient access to London. I am also confident that the new, direct link will stimulate increased commerce and tourism exchange between the two long-standing partners, namely the United Kingdom and the Sultanate of Oman, and prove popular with both business and leisure travelers," he added. Mr. Al Haremi also indicated that they would soon be announcing new destinations that would connect with the London route in the very near future.
Giving a background of the airline, Oman Air's CEO said the young airline is moving swiftly on the upward curve, and is now set to achieve greater heights. Oman Air is ready to tackle the future with the long-range Airbus A330-300 and A310-300, featuring the latest inflight entertainment system. He added that the new A330 and A310 would be used principally for the carrier new non-stop flights to operate the Gatwick service and other long haul destinations to be launched soon. We will be operating Seven times a week to London Gatwick with two-class service, international standards of catering and entertainment in both business and economy. People can experience the latest in in-flight entertainment and airline amenity he added.
Mr. Al Haremi acknowledged that the new London Gatwick flights depart Muscat at 1600, arriving in Gatwick at 2030. Return flights depart London Gatwick at 2230, arriving in Muscat at 0945. Daily service with A330-300 (6 days) and A310-300 Sunday to / from Muscat. Complimentary limousine services will be available to all business class and gold card Oman air Sindbad FFP members when departing and arriving in London. Holiday packages inclusive of flights, hotels, and tours for the United Kingdom will be on offer. The delivery of the two new Airbus aircraft represents our continuing commitment to offer our customers a greater choice of destinations, more flights, and a premium class service," said Mr. Al Haremi. We can continue to offer the travelling public an excellent airline service. These wide-bodied aircraft will be used to attract corporate travel business.
"Oman has tremendous potential, and His Majesty Sultan Qaboos Bin Said has a strong vision for our country and, we are committed to fulfill that. Our objective is to promote Oman to the public and introduce Oman Air services such as our new long-haul destinations," Al Haremi said. He added that the carrier last year carried 1,225,604 million passengers. This year we expect to surpass our previous figure as indicated by the affirmative indications. Oman Air will take off to 28 destinations by end 2007 as part of a growth strategy that will allow the airline to offer its customers a greater choice of destinations, more flights, and fast connections at its hub in Muscat.
He noted that Oman Air within the last few months became the first Middle Eastern carrier to launch non-stop scheduled flights to Chitagon in Bangladesh beside the other newly inaugurated destinations. Oman Air will operate soon across Europe, the Far East beside new destinations in the Middle East, and Indian subcontinent. The exposed new destinations are just a precursor of much more to come from the young airline. Astute management and intensive reforms have transformed Oman Air into a nimbler, more efficient and customer-focused airline as it continues to overhaul its operations under the watchful eye of an official receiver. It has improved schedule reliability and on-time performance, slashed costs, and dramatically improved its balance book.
"Oman Air plans to expand its fleet, further enhance service products and systems, and push into new markets. We are on the right track and we have something to build on going forward. Among items on the agenda are fleet expansions, also network expansion and, critically, a continuation of focus on corporate discipline, a relentless drive for efficiencies, attacking costs, and further strengthening of the company's financial position." said Al Haremi.
Oman Air's Corporate Communication and Media Department in conclusion affirmed that Oman Air today stands tall with a list of achievements to its credit. Distinguishing its self as a leader in the region, Oman Air was the first commercial operator in the Gulf to purchase Boeing's new version of the 737. The all-new Next-Generation 737 is the best selling airplane in commercial aviation history. Our safety record is a matter of pride. Oman Air has excellent on-time performance - OTP exceeding 95% and is striving to better its record of accomplishment, in times ahead. They said that the national carrier of Oman perhaps, one of the youngest fleet in the world, but its growth strategy is aggressive. Since its inception in 1993 until now, Oman Air has witnessed only success. The airline, which began operating only one aircraft for its flights to Salalah, has now grown to an international airline ready to face all challenges. The airline network will consists of 28 destinations by end 2007. Receiving 10 new Boeing 737-800 aircraft by the end of March 2009, and 9 Airbus A330s by the end of 2011 are merely the beginning.