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Justia California Supreme Court Opinion Summaries
Articles Posted in Business Law
Voris v. Lampert
The Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the Court of Appeal affirming in part and reversing in part the judgment of the trial court granting Defendant's motion for judgment on the pleadings on certain stock and wage conversion claims, holding that Plaintiff's stock conversion claims should be permitted to proceed but that Plaintiff did not plead a cognizable claim for conversion of wages. Plaintiff worked alongside Defendant to launch three start-up ventures in return for a promise of later payment of wages. Later, Plaintiff was fired and never paid. Plaintiff successfully sued the companies invoking both contract-based and statutory remedies for the nonpayment of wages. In this lawsuit, Plaintiff sought to hold Defendant personally responsible for the unpaid wages on a theory of common law conversion. The trial court granted Defendant's motion for summary judgment. The court of appeal reversed in part but concluded that extending the tort of conversion to the wage context was not warranted. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that a conversion claim was not an appropriate remedy for the wrong alleged in this case. View "Voris v. Lampert" on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Labor & Employment Law, Personal Injury
White v. Square, Inc.
The Supreme Court answered a question regarding California's Unruh Civil Rights Act, Cal. Civ. Code 51 et seq., by holding that a plaintiff has standing to bring a claim under the Act when the plaintiff visits a business's website with the intent of using its services and encounters terms and conditions that allegedly deny the plaintiff full and equal access to the website's services and then leaves the website without entering into an agreement with the service provider. Plaintiff sued Defendant, alleging that Defendant's seller agreement discriminated against him in violation of the Act. The district court dismissed the complaint on the ground that Plaintiff lacked standing under the Act to sue Defendant because Plaintiff had not attempted to use Defendant's services. On appeal, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued the certification order at issue in this case. The Supreme Court held that, under the rule announced today, Plaintiff sufficiently alleged injury for Unruh Civil Rights Act standing because entering into an agreement with the business is not required for standing under the Act. View "White v. Square, Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Civil Rights
Southern California Gas Leak Co. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County
In this case concerning a massive, four-month-long leak from a natural gas storage facility located outside Los Angeles the Supreme Court held that local businesses, none of which alleged they suffered personal injury or property damage, may not recover in negligence for income lost because of the leak. Plaintiffs were businesses seeking to represent a class of persons and entities conducting businesses within the area of the leak, arguing that by depriving local businesses of customers the environmental disaster cost local businesses considerable earnings. Defendant demurred, arguing that Plaintiffs' negligence claims failed as a matter of law because Plaintiffs were seeking to recover for purely economic losses. The trial court overruled the demurrer. The court of appeal reversed, holding that California law did not permit recovery for the purely economic losses sought by Plaintiffs. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that Defendant did not have a tort duty to guard against purely economic losses. View "Southern California Gas Leak Co. v. Superior Court of Los Angeles County" on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Personal Injury
FilmOn.com Inc. v. DoubleVerify Inc.
In this case involving application of the "catchall" provision of the anti-SLAPP statute, Cal. Code Civ. Proc. 425.16, the Supreme Court held (1) the context of a defendant's statement is relevant, though not dispositive, in analyzing whether the statement was made "in furtherance of" free speech "in connection with" a public issue; and (2) Defendant's confidential reports to its paying clients, which were generated for profit and exchanged confidentially, did not qualify for anti-SLAPP protection under the catchall provision. Plaintiff, a for-profit business entity that distributes web-based entertainment programming, sued Defendant, a for-profit business entity that offers online trafficking and brand safety services to Internet advertisers, alleging that Defendant disparaged its digital distribution network in confidential reports to its paying clients. Defendant filed an anti-SLAPP motion to strike. The court of appeal ruled that Defendant's reports were protected under the anti-SLAPP statute and that context was irrelevant to the anti-SLAPP analysis under subdivision (e)(4). The Supreme Court reversed, holding (1) even where the topic discussed in Defendant's reports was one of public interest the reports did not qualify for anti-SLAPP protection under the catchall provision because Defendant did not issue the reports in furtherance of free speech "in connection with" an issue of public interest. View "FilmOn.com Inc. v. DoubleVerify Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Constitutional Law
De La Torre v. CashCall, Inc.
The Supreme Court held that the interest rate on consumer loans of $2,500 or more may render the loans unconscionable under section 22302 of the Financial Code. Defendant, a lender of consumer loans to high-risk borrowers, had as one of its signature products an unsecured $2,600 loan carrying an annual percentage rate (APR) of either ninety-six percent or, later in the class period, 135 percent. Plaintiffs alleged that CashCall violated California's Unfair Competition Law (UCL), Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code 17200 because its lending practice was unlawful where it violated section 22302, the section that applies the unconscionability doctrine to consumer loans. The district court certified Plaintiffs' lawsuit as a class action and then granted CashCall's motion for summary judgment. On appeal, the federal court of appeals certified to the Supreme Court a question of law. The Supreme Court answered in the positive, holding that an interest rate on consumer loans of $2,500 or more may be deemed unconscionable under section 22302. View "De La Torre v. CashCall, Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Consumer Law
Heller Ehrman LLP v. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Under California law, a dissolved law firm has no property interest in legal matters handled on an hourly basis and therefore no property interest in the profits generated by the law firm's former partners' work on hourly fee matters pending at the time of the firm's dissolution. The district court held that the law firm in this case did not have a property interest in the hourly fee matters pending at dissolution. The law firm appealed to the Ninth Circuit, which asked the Supreme Court to provide guidance. The Supreme Court held that, under California partnership law, a dissolved law firm does not have a property interest in legal matters handled on an hourly basis, or in the profits generated by former partners who continue to work not the hourly fee matters after they are transferred to the partners' new firms. View "Heller Ehrman LLP v. Davis Wright Tremaine LLP" on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law
Parrish v. Latham & Watkins
The interim adverse judgment rule applies when a trial court had initially denied summary judgment on the basis that a lawsuit had sufficient potential merit to proceed to trial but concluded after trial that the suit had been brought in bad faith because the claim lacked evidentiary support. In the underlying case, Plaintiffs were sued for misappropriation of trade secrets. Plaintiffs moved for summary judgment, which the trial court denied. The trial court subsequently granted judgment in favor of Plaintiffs. Plaintiffs later brought a malicious prosecution against the opposing parties' lawyers in the trade secrets case. Defendants filed an anti-SLAPP motion, arguing that Plaintiffs could not establish a probability of success because the order denying summary judgment in the underlying trade secrets action established probable cause to prosecute that action. The trial court granted the motion to strike, concluding that the action was untimely. The court of appeal concluded that the action was timely but that the interim adverse judgment rule applied, thus barring the malicious prosecution suit. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding that the denial of summary judgment in the trade secrets action established probable cause to bring that action, and therefore, Plaintiffs could not establish a probability of success on their malicious prosecution claim. View "Parrish v. Latham & Watkins" on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Personal Injury
Kurwa v. Kislinger
Plaintiff filed an action against Defendant for breach of fiduciary duty and defamation, among other claims. Defendant cross-complained for defamation. Plaintiff later conceded he could not proceed on his cause of action for breach of fiduciary duty. The parties agreed to dismiss as well their respective defamation claims without prejudice and to waive operation of the statute of limitations on the defamation claims. The trial court ordered Plaintiff's action dismissed with prejudice with the exception of the defamation cause of action, which, together with Defendant's cross-complaint, the court dismissed without prejudice. The court then entered judgment in favor of Defendant. The court of appeal held the judgment final and appealable, reasoning that because the defamation counts had been dismissed, they were no longer pending between the parties and the trial court lacked jurisdiction to proceed further on any cause of action. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that, under Don Jose's Restaurant, Inc. v. Truck Ins. Exchange, the trial court's judgment was interlocutory, and therefore, not appealable. View "Kurwa v. Kislinger" on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, Injury Law
Greb v. Diamond Int'l Corp.
Plaintiffs filed a complaint for personal injuries and loss of consortium against Defendant corporation and other entities, alleging injuries from exposure to asbestos. Defendant demurred, alleging that more than three years before Plaintiffs filed their complaint, it had obtained a corporate dissolution pursuant to the laws of Delaware, Defendant's state of incorporation. Accordingly, Defendant argued, it lacked the capacity to be sued pursuant to Delaware's three-year survival statute. In opposition, Plaintiffs argued their action was permitted under California's own survival statute, which they asserted took precedence over Delaware law in this situation. The trial court sustained the demurrer and dismissed Plaintiffs' complaint, ruling that California's survival statute did not apply to foreign corporations, and hence Delaware's corresponding statute applied to Defendant. The court of appeal affirmed. The Supreme Court affirmed, holding (1) California's survival statute does not apply to foreign corporations; and (2) North American Asbestos Corp. v. Superior Court was disapproved of to the extent it held otherwise. View "Greb v. Diamond Int'l Corp." on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, California Supreme Court, Injury Law
Aryeh v. Canon Bus. Solutions, Inc.
Defendant leased copiers to Plaintiff pursuant to a lease agreements entered into in 2001 and 2002. In 2008, Plaintiff sued Defendant for violation of the unfair competition law (UCL), Cal. Bus. & Prof. Code, 17200, alleging that Defendant charged for excess copies during its regular servicing of the copiers and that Defendant's practice of charging for test copies was unfair and fraudulent. The trial court sustained Defendant's demurrer and dismissed the action, concluding that because the complaint established a first violation in 2002, the claim was barred by the four-year statute of limitations. At issue on appeal was whether the continuing violation doctrine could be applied to extend the statute of limitations for UCL claims. A divided court of appeal affirmed, finding Plaintiff's claim untimely. The Supreme Court reversed, holding (1) the text and legislative history of the UCL leave UCL claims as subject to the common law rules of accrual as any other cause of action; and (2) continuous accrual principles prevented Plaintiff's complaint from being dismissed at the demurrer stage on statute of limitations grounds. View "Aryeh v. Canon Bus. Solutions, Inc." on Justia Law
Posted in: Business Law, California Supreme Court, Contracts


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A DISQUALIFIED drink- driver was caught behind the wheel again.
Ryan Kyle James, 20, was driving a silver Ford Fiesta on June 24, but was swerving across the road.
Cardiff Magistrates' Court heard James, of Greenmeadows, Trowbridge, Cardiff, was spotted by a police traffic officer on patrol. Sarah Asprey, prosecuting, said: "His attention was drawn to the vehicle because of the manner of driving. The brake light was defective and the vehicle was being driven erratically, swerving in a lane and it crossed over a lane several times."
The officer ordered the driver to stop and asked him to take a roadside breath test, which he failed, the court heard.
A reading showed he had 83 microgrammes of alcohol in his breath, more than twice the legal limit of 35.
James, who has two previous convictions for failing to provide a specimen of breath, was disqualified in 2004 for dangerous driving. He admitted drink-driving, driving while banned and without insurance, and was given a 12-month community order.

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Helpful Tips to Downsize Your Home
As our society trends toward buying and building bigger and bigger homes, there is a subset of the population swimming against that current, looking to downsize to smaller homes. Whether you are looking to rid yourself of newly unused space as an empty-nester, embrace a more minimalistic lifestyle, or simply try to reduce expenses, downsizing can be a great option.
Realize the Limitations
A smaller home will have fewer rooms. Maybe that sounds super obvious, but the reality hits when that friend from out of town is looking for a place to stay for the weekend. Smaller living spaces mean you probably won't be able to host the whole gang on game day. It shouldn't be a deal-breaker, but you need to understand exactly what downsizing looks like on a practical level.
Downsize Your Stuff
You have a lot of stuff. Probably more than you even realize. Human tendency is to buy more stuff to fill more space. Sadly, the reverse is not so easy. You will need to get rid of stuff, and you would be wise to notice specific areas in which you have too much stuff or where your new home is a particularly dramatic downsize from your current home. If you've got a smaller kitchen, get rid of that extra set of dishes. Fewer closets? Maybe it's time for a garage sale.
Use the Cost Difference Strategically
Ideally, a smaller home that is similar to your current home should be cheaper. Plan for how you will use this cost difference. Perhaps you'll get a smaller but nicer home. Maybe the savings will go toward paying off debt, or retirement. There are a variety of options, so choose wisely.
Follow these tips, and your new, cozy space can feel like home, sweet home.


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Wishing all our guests, customers and suppliers a very Happy Christmas & New Year.
May all your winds be fair.
Wishing all our guests, customers and suppliers a very Happy Christmas & New Year.
May all your winds be fair.
Applicants should hold a recent ENG1 and a CRB certificate.
Both Bessie Ellen & Irene has a vacancy for a Mate for the 2015 charter season.
The posting will run from January to September in UK Coastal waters including Scotland with the possibility of a placement extending to a winter in Canary Islands.
You must be a team player with and a positive attitude, strong work ethic and outstanding people and leadership skills. An interest into traditional vessels and rigging is important.
Crewing a tall ship is rewarding but very demanding. The applicant must be prepared to work regulation hours performing a wide variety of tasks under conditions which are sometimes physically and mentally challenging, and the work must be done with a smile on your face.
You must be willing and able to interact with passengers, as well as your shipmates, in a positive and appropriate fashion.
You will have a wide range of sailing experience on various types of vessels with a good knowledge of sailing techniques under all weather conditions both inshore and offshore.
Sail handling and navigation experience
Please apply by email along with a current C.V including references to:
Today we get a day out and away from our desk. We are off to a Cornish Christmas fair, helping to support local business and encourage you to buy local. It's important you know.
Drop in and catch the crew at Pencarrow Christmas craft fair. Bring the kids, learn how to tie monkey fist and buy your loved one the best christmas present, a day sail on Bessie Ellen and Irene, Sailing Ketch. 1907. Oh and get free gold coins!
Gift vouchers are available for Easter day sails from Fowey or summer sailing in Mounts Bay from Newlyn in association with Eat Drink Sleep hotel chain at The Old Coast Guard to include a lobster lunch. bessie-ellen.com/our-voyages/book-a-voyage/
During this time of remembrance, we should also take a moment to reflect on those brave mariners who perhaps did not join up to serve in the Forces, but continued to sail the ketches and schooners full of cargo round our coasts to keep the country working. Coal, wood, salt, clay, trade around the coast did not stop, could not stop!
Aboard Bessie Ellen, loading and discharging cargo under Capt. Chichester carried on with son Jack as crew, and on Sunday August 4th while the ship was being towed from Kingsbridge to Par, war broke out. On reaching home soon after, papers were received calling Jack for military service. Capt John took the papers to the Customs house where he sent for the recruiting officer. After a strong argument, the Captain declared his son Jack indispensable and threw the papers back at the officer.
Jack continued working aboard the vessel until Good Friday 1917 when he fell foul of the law for wrecking but that's another story.
The First World War had a mixed effect on West Country shipping. Until 1914, John Chichester always took the family on a summer cruise to Plymouth or Cowes, sometimes even France, but of course these excursions had to cease at the beginning of war.
Memoirs of the period confirm that the extra demands of a war economy on the national transport system kept the vessels busy and freight rates high. A voyage record for 1917 for the ships covered by the Mutual Assurance Association shows that at least then, when unrestricted U-boat attacks were at their highest, the Braunton fleet was largely employed in the Irish Sea, with only a small number of the ships crossing the channel to France for the more lucrative cargos. Only two Braunton Schooners were lost that year. Several vessels were laid up probably due to crewing shortages and because of the shipping boom afterwards, many of them were not brought back into service.
I have in my possession Bessie Ellen's complete cargo log of her working life under sail. From here I note a few dates of interest and quote from this log:
From that point, the vessel was laid up until March the following year whereafter she continued to trade in the Bristol Channel and the Cornish Coast.
20.09.15 Vessel Laid Up until April 1916. We would suggest winter weather and small crews could be the reason.
19.10.16 A. Cross shipped from Glasgow 142 tons Manure for Barnstaple, arriving 10 days later 29.11.16. Was this due to weather conditions so late in the year?
10.11 17 – Sailed from Lydney with 136 tons of Coal for Barnstaple arriving by 12.11.17
12.11.18 – Sailed from Cardiff with 142 tons of Coal to Fremmington arriving on 13.11.18
During all this time, Bessie Ellen was under sail alone but sail had its drawbacks. Captain John traded to Goodhorne with clay on a regular contract, having a rendezvous with a steamer which visited London docks every three weeks. In late 1915, the bad weather made Bessie Ellen a day late so Captain John had to wait there three weeks for the steamers return. It was this that confirmed the decision to turn to auxiliary power.
Today, the hull of the vessel is 85% of original timber. Well built ships and strong men continuing in a dangerous livelihood has meant that today we have a freedom and a continuing living heritage in both Bessie Ellen and Irene for us all to enjoy their history.
Exiting news. After a break of nearly 100 years, Bessie Ellen & Irene will be sailing together again next season. The operators of Bessie Ellen and Irene have got together and designed a fresh and variable sailing programme for both ships, offering everyone who love the sea and shore to get on the water in 2015.
These two vessels are a pair of the last remaining examples of the schooners and ketches of the West Country, which in the latter part of the 19th century and up until the 1930's carried cargo around the coasts of the United Kingdom and Europe. These sailing ships became the livelihood to many families of the small towns and villages in the South West, such as Par and Fowey, in Cornwall, Appledore, Bideford and Braunton on the Estuaries of the Taw and Torridge in North Devon. Not only did these towns supply excellent seamen and captains, shipyards grew up to build and maintain the large fleet, sail makers and blacksmiths for repairs, chandlers, brokers and merchants gathered to supply the ships with cargoes. In fact a large percentage of the community was somehow involved with sailing ships and the sea.From Scotland to Scilly, water and whisky, maritime festivals and fairs, these two ships from a period now long gone still survive to give us all a reminder of life at sea during the last great age of sail.
From daysails in Cornwall, family holidays to Scilly or adventures to St Kilda, there is something for us all in this maritime nation! So, if you or a friend are itching to go, why not give us a call now or book a sail with these grand old ladies.
Spring 2015 will see the launch of a crew training scheme aimed at young people who wish to learn all aspects of sailing, maintaining and the running of a large sailing vessel with a view to future employment in the maritime sector. With two ships in the fleet, Bessie Ellen and Irene, each original West Country Ketches, 4 training berths are available for a seven month placement commencing in March and ending in September.
Training will take place aboard these working charter vessels both in the boatyard and at sea with charter voyages to Cornwall, Ireland and Scotland. Each placement will cost £8,000 and will include external courses, accommodation, wet weather gear& personal rigging kit. Meals and bedding are provided.
Applicants should be aware that they will be joining in with the general running and maintaining of working ships and the undertaking of crew duties and responsibilities alongside the professional crew.
On completion of the course, we will endeavour to find placements for you on tall ships across the world or entry into training colleges here in the UK to help get you started and further your career.
Please forward your CV including references to email@example.com
If you have any queries or questions about the course, please feel free to contact us.
* These courses are outsourced and are subject to time restraints and availability.
Sitting in a gale in La Coruna has provided me with the time to sit down and publish next years sailing adventures and I truly hope that there will be something for both old salts and newcomers to experience both the ship and the fantastic ocean wildlife & coastlines. Scotland once again will feature for the majority of the summer, but next year you have the opportunity to visit Southern Brittany for some spring sunshine during the Semaine du Golfe in Morbihan.
The Irish sea beckons with a number of trips passing from Scilly and beyond the North Channel andt this year we hope to repeat our visit to Rathlin and Giants Causeway.
We have chosen to offer short and longer voyages again this year as the mix proved very popular last season. Whatever the choice, I am certain the wildlife will abound in the Isles of the West.
We hope to provide you with an experience you will never forget, both on board and ashore, so give me a call if you would like to book or discuss which voyage is most suitable to your tastes.
Gale now ceased!
"What are you hoping to get out of this experience?" It's a perfectly fair question, but not one I was altogether prepared to answer. I told Nikki, "Sailing experience, with an eye on a possible career change," but I'm not certain that's the full answer.
The cuticles on all my fingers are torn up and streaked with dried blood. When I wash the heads, using a vinegar/water solution so I don't damage the woodwork, the cuts burn. My muscles are sore, which isn't surprising, considering I left a desk job to come aboard, but I'm an athlete and it's been four days… Hopefully, my body will adjust to the climbing and squatting and pulling in the next few.
On my first voyage we circumnavigated the Isle of Mull, exploring caves, viewing puffins, and tromping up to Gylen Castle, which has a grim history reminiscent of A Game of Thrones. That was tourism, though, and while those small trips were fun – in fact, they are the purpose for many visitors – those trips weren't my purpose. This is a tour ship, but it's also a living community, a century-old trading ship worked and maintained by a small crew. The experience of working a vessel is what I am here for, and despite the physical strain and the foibles of literally learning the ropes, I'm experiencing a sense of satisfaction that I haven't in a long time.
I can't pronounce, much less spell, some of the knots I'm using: the bowline, clove hitch, reef knot, sheef (sp) shank (?), and slip knot. We coil clockwise "halyards", "lines", and "sheets" – not "rope". We lower the main sail "throat" first, followed by its "peak". All these words, which I struggle to remember in a pinch, are becoming a part of my daily vocabulary. Aboard the Bessie Ellen, I am trading a comfortable office for sea spray and "dreek" Scottish weather; swapping the summer sunshine of my home in Istanbul for rain and fog and cold; and leaving behind the bustle of 23m people for a small boat with fewer than 20 passengers and crew, sailing remote islands that feel like they're locked in the 19th century.
It's jolly good fun. Today will be the start of my second voyage with the Bessie Ellen. More learning and cleaning and work awaits. Tonight, we're bound for Loch Buie, continuing our search for good wind to sail and eagles to watch. Sometime in the course of all this excitement, I hope to find an answer to Nikki's question, but I get the feeling that I don't need to be in a hurry to do so.
Heading out again soon. Rain and thunder on the way, but it has been so hot here in Oban the last days. Looking at the forecast of South easterlies, we will take Loch Buie for eagles as an anchorage, before heading towards Islay again to pick up the cargo of Bruichladdich for Drogheda.
Ballycastle and Rathlin are on the way and I hope to make it to Warren Point where Bessie Ellen used to trade years ago. See you on the Boyne Friday morning.
From leaving our home in Falmouth we had a stunning but rather windless voyage up to Holyhead and Scotland which gave us time to cruise the Southern hebrides. It feels really very quiet at this time of year, the season is just starting and we have the place to ourselves. Empty anchorages and lochs give us peace and more access to watching wildlife. Just on Jura alone, anchored under the paps of Jura in Loch Tarbert, we had 5 red deer including some 6 point stags, seals and of course the wild Jura goats on the shore. The ancient raised beaches are superbly developed along the coast. They occur as terraces and extensive 'staircases' of unvegetated shingle ridges, formed at a time of high relative sea level as the last ice sheet was melting around 15,000 years ago.
Jura and Islay are two islands close together and world renowned for peated whisky. Of course, it would be rude not to try the single malts, so Bessie Ellen's guests gathered at Bunnahabain on the shores of the Sound of Islay for a tour of the distillery there. The smell of the peated barley takes over the moment you walk in and you are treated to the site of copper stills and oak vats of enormous proportions, some over 100 years old now all making whisky in a time honoured tradition. Our love for the water of life was a reason for joining the Feis Ile, a festival of music and malt. Along with our colleagues from the Whisky Lounge, we visited most of the famous names of malt in the week. Port Charlotte was a real find, a perfectly whitewashed small village on the edge of Loch Indaal where one of our guests had a long lost cousin. So after a dram and a present of a Lobster we sailed on towards Port Ellen and the southern coasts where Laphroig, Ardbeg and Lagavulin nestle amongst the rocks distilling some of the finest malts. We were honoured to have a tasting of some tremendous whisky hosted by Colin from Diaggio, an expert in his field who introduced us to Blue cheese with malt whisky, and certainly, it is one to try.
As with much of life aboard, food plays an enormous part of our day. Our time ashore is spent foraging for mussels or sea spinach and the crew set the crab pots for the night. So far, success has been remarkable with a few tins of tinned mackerel. Our last haul from Gometra produced 4 hen crabs, certainly enough for lunch although this lobster was donated earlier in the week.
This week we are off down Southwards again to cruise Colonsay, Iona and perhaps Northern Ireland on the way south to Drogheda for the maritime festival. Once again, Islay whisky plays a part as Bessie Ellen will be taking a token cargo of Bruichladdich whisky and malt to recreate old trading routes between the two ports. If you would like to read further, then follow the link and come and see us there. https://droghedalife.com/791/77379/a/whisky-galore-as-droghedas-hebridean-trade-links-to-be-commemorated


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If you're a business that wants to have staying power, you need a blog. Blogs allow you to have an ongoing dialogue with your audience while keeping your website and social media platforms active. For a blog to work, though, you need to be consistent and to stick to it. When you do blog and blog consistently, the payoff is tremendous.
Blogs Let Audiences Get to Know the Real You
Let us assume that you have a clear brand identity and voice. You have social media accounts and a perfect website. Why do you need to blog? Even with the perfect online presence, you still need to blog because a blog lets your audience get to know you. Your website and social media platforms exist to facilitate business. You want people to go to your website to purchase a good or services. You want them to use your social media posts to take action whether it's going to your website or making a purchase.
These aren't tools for getting to know you. Your blog, however, allows that. In your blog, you can explain your service or product in a way that shows audiences how what you do can genuinely and can positively impact their lives. Blogs give you the space to tell your story in such a way that takes the pressure off the audience. Blogs allow your audience to not only get to know but also to feel like they are making the choice to commit to doing business with you at their pace.
Blogs Give You Content for Your Social Media Pages & Your Newsletter
Continuing on audience reach and social media, you can share your blog on your social media page, which adds to the type(s) of content that you share on social media. You want a heathy balance of content. Certainly, you want to be useful and to share news related to your brand that will entertain or inform your audience, but you also want to have content that will draw your audience back to your website.
Blog posts do just that. They add to the diversity of content that you share on your social media page(s) while also drawing your audience back to your website.
Additionally, your blog posts also make great content for your weekly, biweekly, or monthly newsletter. A roundup of blog posts helps those who may have missed you on social media or who don't routinely swing by your website remember who you are and how much value you add to their lives.
Blogs Keep Your Website from Being Static
When people do click your blog link from a Google search, social media, or the newsletter, it adds to your website's traffic. Blogs can boost your website's traffic. Most websites are not high-traffic zones. In other words, they are not spaces like say, Target.com, where people frequently visit in order to make purchases. Most audiences visit websites either when they need a good or service or when they are compelled by that site's content. Blogs compel audiences to visit your site in a natural way.
Blogs Boost Your Search Engine Rankings
When audiences are compelled to visit your site, not only are they keeping it from being static, but they are also telling search engine algorithms that your site is useful and relevant for certain search terms. Thus, your blog makes it easier for new and existing audiences to find your website. If your blog leads to good search rankings, then you are more likely to draw new audiences and therefore, new customers. Fresh, new content on your site on a regular basis is the best way to build site cred in the eyes of the great and powerful Google. And the easiest and most natural way to accomplish that regular posting of content? Blogs. You're not just blogging because your audience is reading it. You're blogging because the search engines are reading it. Need a good example? Our website gets more than 7,000 unique visitors each and every month and 85% of that traffic is going to one particular blog post on our website…and it's a blog post that's over 2 years old! Can you guess which one it is?
To put plainly, a solid blog strategy, one in which you post on a consistent basis, will improve your relationship with your existing audience and will increase the chances that new audiences will find you and will want to do business with you. Thus, every business can benefit from having a blog.
In the great race to serve your audience, blogs are a marathon, not a sprint. Over the long-term, they improve your ability to relate with audiences on your website, social media, and your newsletter. If you aren't sure how to blog or what to write about in your blog, click here to contact us, The Storyteller Agency. That's what we're here for—to help you grow your business and to connect with your audience with simple, inexpensive tools like blogs.


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Megan is a dog lover! She has taken care of my giant German Shepherd Dog, Jackson, many times, and I know how well she treats him because he gets so excited when he sees her coming! He's 105 pounds of love, which isn't always so easy to handle, but Megan has the right combination of affection and authority that he responds to - I'd recommend her wholeheartedly - two paws up : )
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by Pastor Tim White
Never in all of history have so many of us failed to answer our phones as much as we do today.
Right? We are bombarded by phone calls from people that tell us that we are in trouble with the IRS and you must mail them gift cards to pay to the debt. Surveys, free vacations, amazing investment opportunities (which would cause us to go broke if we fell for their scams). Even spam calls from those selling a product to help us with all the spams. Our home phone (which we have had for 35 years) has not been answered for a couple of years now. Every time it rings it shows up on our TV, but we don't even have a phone to answer it anymore. We have tried to cancel it, but our Cable Company told us it would cost more to cancel it than to keep it. When I published my Doctoral Dissertation, it contained my Vitae which included my phone number, so I guess I deserve a few international calls every day. The less efficient television, print and radio advertising have become, causes companies to invest in Robo calls.
What if God called us and we did not answer? One of my favorite people in the world - Ron Wilbur, will be preaching this weekend on that very subject. For those who don't know, Ron, and his wife, Faye, are former members of our church. They were dependable pioneers for Washington Cathedral helping other pioneers to found this church. Ron soon became a reluctant but fruitful TLC leader for us. Their advertising agency grew to include several cities until their office in Orange County became the most fruitful office. As their business continued to grow, they attended Saddleback Church where they met Rick Warren. Rick called Ron into ministry in Saddleback's small group ministry. Ron advanced to become a Director of Small Groups at Saddleback. Following the DNA of Washington Cathedral, he also started a ministry of his own called Motel Church Ministry ministering to some of the people who are very isolated and living in motels. This ministry became a national ministry.
This weekend Ron will be sharing why Jesus urges us to "Ask, Seek, Knock." In other words when God calls, we do need to answer the phone. If you want to be inspired, then please don't miss Ron Wilbur preaching at the weekend services at Washington Cathedral: 5:30 pm on Saturday and 10:30 am on Sunday. Don't forget if you are out of town or for some reason can't be at one of our services, you can always attend our service via Facebook Live. Check it out on the Washington Cathedral Facebook Page.
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(Discovering Inspired Religious Treasures)
Isaiah 55:9-10
"As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are My ways higher than your ways and My thoughts than your thoughts. As the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish, so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is My word that goes out from My mouth: It will not return to Me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it."
If you are part of a racing team or family which camp out at the AWRCS races in order to race on both Saturday and Sunday, then you have seen some incredible, starry and beautiful night skies. Think about one of those heavenly nights and listen to an interesting fact about the Hebrew language. The Hebrew word for heaven is always plural: shamayim. The word for earth is always singular: aretz. The earth is the physical realm and, although expansive, it is finite. Heaven is the spiritual realm and it is infinite. Because the physical is limited, no matter how many earthly things you possess, they will never complete you or fill you. You are a spiritual being; that is how God created you. Only by seeking the spiritual can you be complete.
It has been said that we are created with a God-shaped vacuum within us and we must invite God into our lives in order to experience existence as the complete spiritual being we are called to be. So, a life which focuses upon physical things is a life which is full of limitations and incompleteness. However, if we can empty ourselves of the desires for physical things and seek after the spiritual ways of God we can be filled to overflowing.
Now understand, we live in the physical realm, therefore, we need and must deal with physical things. We live in this world, BUT we do not have to be of this world. The idea here is to place our focus on the things above, the spiritual things of God and receive God's blessings. Unlimited blessings!
The Apostle Paul wrote the following to the church at Philippi:
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.Whatever you have learned or received or heard from me, or seen in me—put it into practice. And the God of peace will be with you. (4:8,9)
Prayer: Lord, we pray that You help us to focus on the spiritual so we grow closer to You. Our desire is to walk within Your perfect will. We cannot do that if we cling too tightly to the things of this world. May we seek the spiritual, unlimited blessings of our faithful and loving God. In Jesus' name now and forever, Amen.
See you at the AWRCS Races,
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Fifteen Years Ago
With the capital retaken, and the Evil Queen slain, the day was won.
Citizen's Brigade fighters and Imperial Guards alike were joined in song and celebration around the campfires in Azara Forest, sharing ales, swapping stories, making future plans. The happy soldiers and liberated slaves were beacons of joy in this long night.
Fingal wished he could share in the jubilation.
When he'd caught up with McKale and a shy but burly man called Bear, fellow members of his resistance cell who were also tasked with freeing the prisoners, there was little time for questions about the girl in Fingal's arms. They led the thirty-odd imprisoned children, plus dozens more trapped in the Evil Queen's dungeons, out the front entrance to the castle, which had been heavily battered by the Imperial Guard. Parts of the castle were on fire. While the fae militia had officially offered their surrender, there were those among its ranks that hadn't received word, and continued to fight. It had been chaos. The streets of the capital, now once again allowed to be called Halsimarth, were filled with celebrating soldiers and citizens. Fae were being rounded up, caught in nets. Those that surrendered went quietly with the Imperial Guard to an underground prison, where their fate would be doled out.
Fingal was cognisant of little, only that he had to stay in the cart with the girl–and the other children–and ensure everyone got back to the resistance camp in Azara Forest safely. There, he could help them reunite with their families, or escort them back to the various scattered communities along the northern shore, from where most of them hailed.
That was tomorrow's work. Tonight, tonight was a time to be merry. So everyone said.
The moon was full. The trees were large and bushy and black in the middle of Azara Forest. Multiple campfires throughout the clearing housed the celebrating Imperial Guards, all the surviving resistance cells, the prisoners they'd rescued, and countless other villagers, citizens of the capital—everyone and anyone affected by the war, celebrating that the capital had been retaken.
By all accounts, the humans had won the war.
Fingal wanted to feel victorious. The weight of the girl in his arms sobered any thought of merry-making tonight. She was with him now, away from the influence of the Evil Queen. Once his resistance cell returned the stolen children to their parents, he'd figure out what to do with the girl.
The Evil Queen had a daughter, and that daughter was in his arms.
The Evil Queen had been a mother.
That didn't matter, he told himself as the girl rustled in his arms. Mothers and fathers alike could be terrible dictators. The girl was quiet and complacent, her telltale wings tucked safely beneath the stolen cloak. At least she wasn't screaming like the others twice her age, running around the camp in the middle of the night.
Fingal heard snippets of toasts to the king, cries of joy as loved ones were reunited. There were only two people he cared about seeing.
If they hadn't survived, he didn't know what he'd—
"Fin. FIN! That you, you bastard, get over here!"
Grinning, Fingal turned, his free arm extended as he embraced his oldest friend, Brendan Dorr. "I'm glad the fae didn't get you."
"Aw, they never get me, you know, just stab em in the wing, that's the trick, you see!"
Fingal shared the smile and laugh, though deep down, he wondered if that was appropriate conversation for the girl. She stirred and said nothing.
"Did you hear the news about the Evil Queen?" Brendan asked. He was grinning like in the old days, when Mother Zepline would allow them each a sweet on Godsday. He danced around Fingal like a fool, singing, "Zing ding, the queen is dead! Burned to death right in her bed!"
Alarmed, Fingal pressed the girl's head against his chest. The girl gasped.
"Is that…true?" Fingal asked.
"A whole squad of Imperial Guards chased her up into one of the tower. Torched the place. No windows. No way she could've flown out!" Brendan was ecstatic. "Finally, Fin. Justice. For our families. For all our families!"
Easy for Brendan to say—he and Nora had clear memories of their mother and father. Fingal had flashes of faces. Names. Streets. Certainly no physical reminders. Only a feeling of loss and injustice surrounding his own mother's death.
Brendan's smile faded at Fingal's lack of enthusiasm. "What's wrong?"
The rest of the children had followed McKale and Bear to the fire. It would be suspicious if he held the girl for too long. "It's just…it's been a long day."
"For all of us. I'm glad you made it out all right. Was worried there." Brendan's grin widened as he finally acknowledged the girl. She stared at him with her big, too-bright eyes. "Why hello there. Don't worry, you're safe with us now. What's your name, love?"
Before the girl could answer truthfully, Fingal interjected, "She's been mute since her mother…um…died in the castle."
The girl said nothing. That was a blessing.
"Oh." Brendan took a step back and quickly changed the subject. "Sorry, love. It's going to be all right. Do you need me to take her?"
"No, it's fine," Fingal said. He felt her wings flutter against his chest, still hidden beneath the sciacath's cloak. He hoped no one noticed. "I was…with her when it happened. She can stay with me. For now."
Brendan smiled. "Look at you. I thought you hated children."
"I don't."
He slapped him in the chest. "You certainly didn't like them in the orphanage."
It had just been him, Brendan, and Nora in the capital back then. Bleak as those times were, they were rosy compared to the carnage of war. Fingal glanced at the young girls and boys, ranging in age from eight to seventeen, dancing around the fires. "Yeah. Well, they were brats. These kids, they have families that are waiting for them in Cantlyn, and all the other places on the northern shore the fae raided."
"You're my family, Fingal." Brendan was rarely serious, and when he was, he went full tilt, and swung back again. "What was it we called ourselves? The Fae Killers? The Fae….?"
"The Fae Slayers." Fingal's grip on the girl tightened. He hoped she didn't take that personally.
A voice inside him rebuked his point: Why do you care? She's just a child. Drop her at the fire. She's adorable enough, one of the other fighters will claim her.
And then they'd discover she was fae.
"There she is!" Brendan called suddenly.
Two figures ran from the other side of the camp towards them. Fingal grinned. They'd survived! Nora and her new husband Donnoch rushed them. Nora tackled Brendan, and despite their height difference, she knocked him to the soft grass. They shared the same laugh, the same dark colouring and curly hair. Donnoch, being from the Drahticht Isle, was fair and freckled, with bright blue eyes. Fingal hadn't known him long. Nora had met him on the Isle, when she'd gone to rescue a squad of Imperial Guards from the fae militia. She'd ended up rescuing Donnoch as well, a resistance member from a disbanded cell that everyone had given up on. They'd been together ever since. It brought joy to Fingal to see her happy and reunited with Brendan, her brother.
"You heard the news about the queen? Zing, ding, the queen is dead—!"
"Yes, yes, lad, we've heard the song, very good," Donnoch said.
"Donnoch's just mad he wasn't there himself," Nora said. She finally gave Brendan a reprieve. She took Donnoch's hand and he helped her to her feet, grinning at Fingal. "Glad to see you survived kid duty."
"He's still on duty," Brendan chided.
"I see that. I wanted that mission so badly, but…it's probably best I was with the scouts in the woods," Nora said. Her eyes welled as she stared at the girl. "I miss my baby."
Donnoch looked adoringly at her. "He's safe with my mother. He'll be fine."
"I know, I know," Nora said impatiently. "I'm just so anxious. We haven't received word from her in weeks. What if he's said his first word? What if…what if Ashdown has been ransacked by the fae?"
"No one messes with Ashdown, not since the Fires," Donnoch said with a smile. "I'm worried too, but Connor is fine, I promise…"
Donnoch wrapped a comforting arm around Nora and guided her away from Fingal and Brendan, towards the fire.
"She's been like that ever since her baby was born," Brendan said, shaking his head. "Guess I'd feel the same if I had a child."
"If you ever have one."
"Suppose there's time for that now that the war is done. Not that the work is really done. Capital still has to be rebuilt." He glanced around, his gaze lingering on the feminine faces in the firelight. "Don't know if there's anyone around here for me."
"Nora found someone."
"She got lucky, that she did." He smiled, and clasped Fingal by the shoulder once more. "What are you going to do with the child?"
"I'll uh…" Fingal had no idea. "I'll take the child to her father in the morning. I believe he lives in Cantlyn, west of the capital. I'll take the other children from there too." It was the least he could do. Until he figured out what to do.
"You were always the reasonable one," Brendan said. "Come on, sit with me by the fire, we can talk about our futures. Heard that Donnoch's family in the Isle might have some work for me. Plenty to go around, if you want some."
Fingal was touched by the offer. Brendan always counted him as a brother, without question, and Fingal was grateful.
He looked down at the girl as she rubbed her eyes. He'd almost forgotten she was still in his arms, she was so light.
If there was anyone he could tell about the girl, it would be Brendan. Although the grudge Brendan held against the fae was old, it was raw. After what they did to his family, how could it not be? He'd know what to do. Brendan always did the right thing. Eventually.
If I survive this, I'll find you, the queen had said.
Unlikely. The queen was dead, she burned right in her bed.
"I'll join you soon," Fingal promised solemnly.
"Don't be too long," Brendan said with a wink. "I'll get you a drink. Ale for you, watered-down ale for the child! There's plenty. Good stuff too. The Imperial Guard is sharing their bounty with us lowly Brigade fighters!" He was already wandering away, drunk on happiness and glory.
"Yeah, I'll be there," Fingal called after him.
Brendan skipped off and hooped and hollered to the rest of the Brigade fighters and was met with cheer of equal measure. Fingal would join him and the others…eventually. There didn't seem to be much to celebrate, not when he was lying to his best friends. His family.
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He set the girl down on the grass. She was in her bare feet, he noticed for the first time. Otherwise, she seemed to have no scrapes or bruises. Good, because he didn't know how to heal a half-breed.
"Why did you lie?" the girl asked.
He sighed. "I was afraid."
He knelt down before her so his face was level with hers. "How about we play a game. If I answer a question, you have to answer one of mine. All right?"
The girl nodded solemnly. Good. She knew about games.
"Right then." The girl had just found out her mother died. He couldn't begin to think about explaining death to her. If she could comprehend it at all. "This is a camp of humans. When we're in this camp, I'm going to call you by a fake name. But when it's just the two of us, I'm going to call you by your real name. It will be a secret, between you and me. No one deserves to live forever under a fake name." Fingal knew all too well what that was like. "Do you understand?"
"Good. What's your name?"
Another blink. "Not fair. You asked two questions!"
"Oh. I suppose…that's right." He smiled. Nothing got past her. "Ask away."
She looked thoughtful. "Why did Mama leave me?"
Of course she'd ask the hardest question. "Your mother had to…go away." No, he had to be truthful with her. With the girl as clever as she was, likely the truth wouldn't stay buried for long. "The castle was under attack. She left you in my protection. She had to stay. She…died."
He wasn't sure if she fully understood the gravity of death. He was older than she was when his mother had died, and it had taken days for reality to sink in, and more days for him to leave her body.
She looked to one of the roaring fires behind him. It burned brightly in her violet eyes. "The Imperial Guards got her and she died. Because of all the bad things she did to the humans and the fae."
"Yes," Fingal said slowly. "That's right."
"I still feel her. In here." She placed a hand over her heart.
"We carry our parents with us. For good or for ill." Hopefully, for good, Fingal thought. "So, what's your name, girl? Your real name."
"Mama called me Riona," she said softly.
He inhaled sharply. Of course the evil fae queen would name her spawn after herself. "Right. Well, we can't have anyone calling you that. How do you feel about…" He smiled. His birth mother's name—no one would know that. It would do. "Iris?"
Next time, on Wingtorn.
Nora orders some new clothes.
Connor and his mother have a heart-to-heart—revealing disturbing new information.
Riona's past is cast in a new light.
Don't miss another episode.
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- Rewind to 2005
Injured Federer stunned by Nalbandian
Roger Federer took his time to seal his spot at next week's ATP World Tour Finals, and the great man will be taking part in the season-finale for a 12th straight year. We cast our minds back to 2005 to one of the best matches to take place at the event when it was named the Tennis Masters Cup, one that saw David Nalbandian get the better of the record six-time champion in five sets in a stunning final.
Roger Federer had come into the tournament battling an ankle problem after being on crutches three weeks prior to the final. Losing matches were a rarity for the Swiss at the event as he had claimed victory in his previous 35 encounters.
That run saw Federer lift his first Tennis Masters Cup in 2003 and 2004, and there was no player who could get anywhere near him.
It was not just at the season-finale where Federer was a cut above the rest. He had not lost in the last 24 finals he played a part in and only had three defeats all year, so David Nalbandian had his work cut out to inflict a defeat on Federer.
Nalbandian was ranked 12th before the tournament and was summoned to the eight-man field when 2003 US Open champion Andy Roddick pulled out with an injured back. He had to cancel a fishing trip to travel to Shanghai.
Federer injured his right ankle the week after ensuring the year-end No. 1 ranking with his 11th title of the year in Thailand.
He couldn't practice or run until the week before the tournament. And with No. 2-ranked Rafael Nadal, No. 3 Roddick, No. 4 Lleyton Hewitt, No. 5 Andre Agassi and Australian Open champion Marat Safin withdrawing either before or right at the start of the tournament, there was extra pressure on Federer to win.
The final was the only scheduled best-of-five set match in the tournament. Federer had dropped a set in each of his three round-robin wins, then had a 6-0 6-0 semi-final win over Gaston Gaudio on Saturday night - the first "double-bagel" in his career. It was also the first love-love result at the year-ending tournament, which began in 1970.
But that game-winning sequence stopped when Nalbandian broke Federer to open the final. But after trading breaks in each of the first two sets, Federer held on in the tiebreakers.
Nalbandian's luck changed when he swapped his sweat-soaked black shirt for a red one. He'd wasted three set points and then spiked his racket into the court after the second set. He won 16 of the next 19 games.
Groups of fans wearing red-and-white Swiss shirts willed Federer back into the match. His girlfriend at the time and now wife Mirka Vavrinec, urged him to "hang on."
After winning only five points in the first four games of the fifth, Federer broke Nalbandian three times. The Argentine recovered to force a tiebreaker and then led it 2-0. Federer hung his head after missing a volley to fall behind 4-2 and won only one more point in going down 6-7(4) 6-7(11) 6-2 6-1 7-6(3).
"Roger, don't worry, it's not your last final," Nalbandian joked after doing something that no player had done in a very long time - beat Federer. "You're going to win a lot of tournaments, so let me keep this one.
"He caught a big enough fish today - Roger Federer," Nalbandian's translator said at the post-match news conference.
Federer said he'd never expected to make it so far at the season-ending tournament when he limped into Shanghai last week, but deep down he still would have hoped to keep his winning run going after being two sets up and two points from the win.
"I feel like I've had a great year and a great tournament," he said. "Disappointment is always there, because I don't lose very often. ... I still get that feeling. It's good like this."
Besides, he said, "I came much closer than I ever thought I would come to this tournament victory. It was unfortunate in the end. I cannot believe myself I came back in the fifth, but somehow I did. There's also pride in there because three weeks ago I was still on crutches."
Federer had only once lost a best-of-five set match after leading by two sets - to Lleyton Hewitt in the 2003 Davis Cup semi-final.
"To win like this, it's really incredible," said Nalbandian, who earned $1.4 million in prize money.
Not bad for cancelling a fishing trip.
What happened next?While Federer would go on to become the most successful grand slam champion of all-time and hold the record for the most number of triumphs at the season-ending tournament, Nalbandian began to decline as a consequence of injuries.
He would win Masters titles in Madrid and Paris after his remarkable victory over Federer, but lengthy absences from the circuit resulted in the Argentinian retiring from the game in 2013. The year before, he reached the final of Queen's, but was disqualified after kicking one of the lines judges, with the win being awarded to Marin Cilic.
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Cruise Ships Delivered, Under Construction or on Order
(With downloadable list and photo album) Building large cruise ships is still a largely European affair, although the Chinese have fixed their gaze on it too.
The European cruise ship building yards are: Fincantieri CNI at Marghera, Monfalcone, Sestri Ponente and Ancona, Meyer Werft at Papenburg am Ems and Turku, STX France at St. Nazaire and newcomer MV Werften (acquired by the Genting Group Hong Kong in March 2016) at Wismar, Warnemünde and Stralsund.
Soon, China's largest ship building conglomerate China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) will, however, be added to this list due to its joint venture with Fincatieri. Together, the companies will build cruise ships for the Asian market in China.
Cruise Ships Order Book
In SWZ Maritime's cruise special, editor Gerrit de Boer gives an overview of what cruise ships have been or are currently being built. He also collected the data af all cruise ships delivered, under construction or on order from 1 January 2016, which can be found in this downloadable list. Subscribers can read the full article now in our digital issue.
In addition, the photo album below gives an impression of the cruise ships currently under construction or recently delivered. Please click the pop-out link to view the pictures in their proper dimensions.
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We are very pleased that through our partnership with a number of schools within Central Bedfordshire we are able to offer children and adults the opportunity to participate in one of our Fiddle Fiestas. These events are funded by the Arts Council England and are open to all strings students within Central Bedfordshire, whether they are taught by Inspiring Music or privately at no cost.
Our Inspiring Music Hub offers students a unique opportunity to participate in a large ensemble and to develop their musicianship skills alongside other instrumentalists from a wide range of age and ability levels in an environment that is challenging and fun.
The timetable for the event is as follows:
3:45pm - 4:15pm - Assemble and set up (Inspiring Music will take over duty of care)
4:15pm - 5:45pm - Rehearse
5:45pm - 6:30pm - Break for packed tea
6:30pm - 7:15pm - Free concert for family and friends
What does my child need to bring to the event?
Your child will need to bring their instrument, a named music stand, a packed tea and a drink.
What are the travel arrangements for the event?
Parents are expected to arrange transport for their child to arrive at the venue for 3:45pm. Teachers from Inspiring Music will take responsibility for your child during the event. Parents are responsible for collecting their child at the end of the concert at 7:15pm and ensuring they take all their belongings.
Will my child be provided with the music before the event?
Yes, your child will be provided with the music by their instrumental teacher ahead of the event in order for them to practise.
What is the concert dress for the event?
The concert dress is your child's school uniform.
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Your Information:
The information you provide during the registration process will be used by Inspiring Music and Central Bedfordshire Council only as is permitted by law. Central Bedfordshire Council is registered under the Data Protection Act 2018 and is the Data Controller for this purpose. Central Bedfordshire Council's Data Protection policy is available from the website at http://centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/contact-us/website/data-protection.aspx or by writing to the Corporate Data Protection Officer at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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We may take pictures or film the event and use these for training purposes or our publicity materials, website and social media outlets. In such instances we will not use the full name (which means first name and surname) of children in the accompanying text or photo caption. We may use group photographs or footage with very general captions.
How can I contact the organiser with any questions?
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YOKOSUKA NAVAL BASE, Japan – A U.S. servicemember was arrested Saturday in the home of a Japanese couple who found him naked after he'd used their shower, according to local news reports.
Petty Officer 2nd Class Nathaniel Williams, 27, is accused of walking through the unlocked front door of a home in Ebina City while intoxicated at about 5:10 a.m., the Kanagawa Shimbun reported Saturday.
Williams is assigned to the Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance Depo at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Navy officials said Saturday evening.
Williams was discovered after an unidentified 44-year-old man who lives in the home woke up to use the bathroom and heard water running, the Kanagawa Shimbun report said.
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Rembrandt and Rubens may be turning in their graves. The latest show at the venerable Louvre sees blood, bones and beetles cohabiting with the grand masters of the Dutch, Flemish and German schools.
For the fourth year running, France's biggest museum has invited a contemporary artist to show works "in counterpoint" with those of the old masters, juxtaposing art produced hundreds of years apart.
And this year's guest is none other than provocative Belgian artist Jan Fabre, a painter-cum-sculptor-cum-performer turning 50 this year, obsessed by life and death and body art and body parts, as well as insects.
Fabre's show opening on Friday comprises 39 eye-catching and often awesomely sized pieces inspired by the northern European masters he grew up with—Bosch, Vermeer and Van Eyck as well as Rembrandt or Rubens—who, he says, play second fiddle to star draws at the Louvre such as the Mona Lisa.
"I chose this department because this is what I know, this is my tradition" he said at a preview.
"Many of these works are very avant-garde.
"It's important to rediscover this wing," he added.
Fabre, who made about 50 visits to the Louvre in the two years he spent preparing the show, opens the exhibition with a sculpture of himself peering so closely at one of the great old masters that his nose bleeds on to the floor.
"This is respect of the master," he said. "I let myself run dry, bleeding like a sacrifice, emptying myself to these masters."
Fabre, who describes himself as "a contemporary mystic", has peppered the exhibition with sacrificial lambs and other religious-like symbols, including hollowed-out monks manufactured in bone, or a coffin fashioned in blue-green beetle-shells and stuffed peacock parts.
Parrots, lambs and pigeons too figure prominently in Fabre's bestiary, and one work, The Decapitated Messengers of Death, features five owls' heads placed on a church cloth.
But beetles clearly take the spotlight at Fabre's Angel of Metamorphosis show, an insect he describes as both warrior and the world's oldest computer. "They are a bridge between life and death," he said.
Fabre, who claims links to famed French 19th-century entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre, for example has placed opposite Rembrandt's Carcass of Beef his own big Skinned Beef, a piece made of brown and red beetles that all but bring the hunk of meat literally crawling back to life.
And in the vast Rubens gallery dedicated to portraits of French queen Marie de' Medici, Fabre has installed a graveyard, carting in 40 tonnes of granite tombstones engraved with insect names and dates of philosophers and artists—in the middle of which wriggles a giant worm with Fabre's talking head.
"If you take the worm out, the earth goes bad; if you take the artists out, society goes bad," he explained.
So what is his exhibition about? "It's a celebration of life and death. But death is not negative energy, it's positive energy," he said.—Sapa-AFP
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