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Squatting the Palace (2007)
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American artist Kiki Smith is renowned for print and sculptural works that explore issues of feminism and the female body. This documentary offers a glimpse into Smith's artistic process as she creates a series of prints, sculptures, and furniture for an eight-room art installation called "Homespun Tales: Stories of Domestic Occupation," which was exhibited in Venice, Italy, as part of the 2005 Venice Biennale.
|Documentary, Drama, Special Interest
|Directed By:
|Vivien Bittencourt, Vincente Katz, Vincent Katz
|In Theaters:
|Jan 10, 2007 Wide
|On DVD:
|Nov 24, 2009
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The film at times seems like a comic opera. It's no surprise that it all comes together in the end.
An edifying documentary about how one of today's hottest artists creates her memorable work.
Ms. Smith's vision is sketched on a napkin, and her approach to executing it is something like an act of surrender.
Kiki Smith: Squatting the Palace studies the frizzy-haired, multi-tattooed woman as she works in her East Village house preparing sculptures, paintings, drawings and furniture for an eight-room installation at a palace in Venice.
In perpetual, almost pathological motion, Smith fills her Lower East Side home with sketches, sculptures, and people in preparation for an ambitious installation in Venice.
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1998 Triunvirato has a Walk Score of 71 out of 100. This location is Very Walkable so most errands can be accomplished on foot.
Nearby parks include "La Plaza de Pitín" and Almacén Natural VIDA ECOLOGICA.
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"Electronic prescribing should be a core part of the definition of 'meaningful use' for every electronic health record," Mr. Tullman said in his testimony. "In fact, our view is that no electronic health record should meet the standards without robust use of electronic prescribing."
Mr. Tullman closed by noting that "Congress has provided the incentives and some of our leading clients have demonstrated to us and to the country that world class healthcare with a focus on quality care provided cost effectively is not a dream, but a reality. Now, we have to move the rest of the healthcare system to where the early adopters are today. And we have to keep getting better. At Allscripts, we share the goal espoused by the President and Congress...to allow our citizens to connect to health."
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Allscripts (NASDAQ: MDRX) uses innovation technology to bring health to healthcare. More than 150,000 physicians, 700 hospitals and nearly 7,000 post-acute and homecare organizations utilize Allscripts to improve the health of their patients and their bottom line. The company's award-winning solutions include electronic health records, electronic prescribing, revenue cycle management, practice management, document management, medication services, hospital care management, emergency department information systems and homecare automation. Allscripts is the brand name of Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions, Inc. To learn more, visit www.allscripts.com.
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THIS SERIES OF FOUR CLASSES IS A PERFECT OPPORTUNITY to learn the basic practices of meditation and its many benefits.
Meditation helps reduce stress, improving health, happiness, concentration and work productivity, thus increasing our life satisfaction.
Each class includes 2 guided meditations, and instructions that can easily be integrated into daily life.
Classes are offered in either three or four week series.
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Anne Gruel started attending the Centre regularly with her daughter in the last few years. She currently studies in the Foundation Program and helps teach Dharma to both children and adults at the temple. Her experience as an ESL teacher and a mom inspires her to make learning simple, practical, and enjoyable.
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2015 Registration is now open. Please click here to register online.
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Online registration closes Thursday, October 22 at noon. After this time, you can register at Packet Pickup or Race Day beginning at 6:00 a.m.
Please note that the registration company will add a service fee to all online registrations. Sorry, no refunds. If you find out you cannot run, however, you may transfer your registration to another runner. This must be received before October 20, and requests should be submitted to firstname.lastname@example.com.
Register by mail/ Registro por correo
If you prefer, you can print the registration form, available below, and mail it in. Please make sure that we receive it by October 23. There will also be in-person advance registration at Packet Pickup days in addition to Race Day registration.
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Registration Fees
Half Marathon:
- Until September 15 – $65
- September 16 to October 15 – $70
- October 16 to October 23 – $80
- Race Day – $90
5K – 19 years and older:
- Until September 15 – $30
- September 16 to October 15 – $35
- October 16 to October 23 – $40
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- Until September 15 – $10
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Race packets and shirts can be picked up at packet pickup events before the race or on race day morning beginning at 6:00 a.m.
Packet pickup dates and locations are as follows:
- Wednesday, October 21, 4:00-8:00 at Road Runner Sports, 1125 Industrial Road, San Carlos, CA.
- Thursday, October 22, 4:00-8:00 at Fleet Feet Sports Menlo Park, 859 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, CA. While you're there, join Fleet Feet's Thursday fun run at 6:30 PM. Mileage from 3 to 6 miles. All paces welcome. Drop in…no reservations needed.
- Friday, October 23, 4:00-7:00 at Back Yard Coffee Company, 965 Brewster Avenue, Redwood City.
Half marathoners and 5K runners/walkers will receive a short sleeve performance shirt. This technical shirt transfers moisture away from the skin, keeping you dry and comfortable. When considering sizes please note that, unlike cotton, they do not shrink and tend to run about one size bigger than normal. By popular demand, we are offering women's, men's, and youth sizing.
Although we will try to have enough shirts for all runners, they are not guaranteed and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis at packet pickup and on race day.
Do you want your name on the shirt? Families who donate $100 or more to the Redwood City Education Foundation qualify for a Family Sponsorship which includes a listing on the race T-Shirt. You can make this donation with your registration, or if you are not planning to run, you can donate separately by clicking here. In the space for Designation, be sure to say Family Sponsorship and the name you'd like on the T-shirt (e.g. The Smith Family). Family Sponsorship donations must be received by September 15, 2015 to be included on the T-shirt.


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Skoll Awardee(s): Ellen Moir
Award Year: 2011
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Skoll Awardee(s): Ellen Moir
"We are driven to build a better profession – to honor and value teachers. I want to be sure that it's not left to chance that every underprivileged child in America gets the best teachers."
Sub-Issues: Early childhood to primary education, Secondary education U.S. education systems routinely assign new teachers to the toughest classes in the toughest schools, provide little or no support as they struggle to connect with students and make a difference, and leave them discouraged and questioning their career choice. Half of new teachers leave the profession within five years, leaving behind the very students most in need of stability and connectedness.
The Skoll Awardee: Sometimes having a champion makes all the difference. Ellen Moir was lucky to have a high school teacher who inspired her passion for learning and helped her become the first in her family to attend college. She founded the New Teacher Center to change the way new teachers are oriented to the profession, pairing talented and inexperienced teachers with experienced, veteran teachers who guide them through the crucial first two years. By 2010, the New Teacher Center had engaged 6,000 mentor teachers to work with 27,000 new teachers, providing 1.5 million students with a better chance to achieve by accelerating the effectiveness of new teachers, especially those who work with low income, minority and English-learning students.
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Oklahoma football: Dominique Whaley just takes the ball and runs
"I say that's a freak. We really need him."
Grissom requested the position switch after realizing it was his best chance to get on the field. The Sooners had strong depth at defensive end but were thin at tight end.
Coach Bob Stoops declared Grissom OU's first-team tight end last week, although position coach Bruce Kittle tempered that a bit, saying the competition with Brannon Green and Taylor McNamara was ongoing.
Grissom has battled injuries through his Sooner career. A stress fracture in one foot forced him to redshirt as a true freshman, and then another stress fracture, in his other foot, cost him valuable repetitions in workouts this spring. He said he feels fine now, though.
Senior cornerback Demontre Hurst said this year, he and fellow corner Aaron Colvin are sticking to one side of the field rather than being assigned to the field or boundary side. Hurst said he likes the change.
"I think everyone has gotten comfortable being one side and seeing everything," Hurst said. "Last year, we just saw the field or boundary side.
"We get comfortable seeing the ins and outs of both sides of the field. I think that makes us more versatile and reliable against the run game and the short passes and different schemes."
Hurst and Colvin will be joined as secondary starters by safeties Tony Jefferson and Javon Harris and nickelback Gabe Lynn. Defensive coordinator Mike Stoops said sophomore Julian Wilson, Lynn's backup at the nickel, would be the sixth defensive back or "dime" back in some schemes.
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There are scores of awards program out there — some might argue that there are too many. But 1105 Government Information Group's Rising Star awards program remains unique by recognizing good work that younger people have done while also trying to assess their future potential.
The program started three years ago, when the Young AFCEANs of AFCEA International's Bethesda, Md., chapter proposed the idea. We thought it was great then, and we still do now.
Meanwhile, the program has evolved. In previous years, the awards were announced only in Federal Computer Week. But this month, our sister publications are also featuring Rising Star winners. The Aug. 11 issue of Washington Technology profiles the industry winners, and this week's issue of Government Computer News presents the technology winners. In the following pages, you will find the policy and management winners. The complete list is below, and we have links to the profiles in GCN and Washington Technology on FCW.com's The Week page.
Like FCW's Federal 100 awards program, a team of judges reviewed the nominations we received and selected the winners. You can find a list of the judges online. They took their responsibility seriously, and we thank them for their time.
The winners will be recognized at the GCN Awards Gala Oct. 22 at the Hilton Washington. We are also creating a series of e-seminars with some of the winners so they can share their insights.
I continue to be passionate about this program. The Rising Stars are remarkable people who don't get enough recognition. And it is important to tap into that perspective if government is going to attract the best and the brightest.
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Maj. Gary Hockett, Pacific Air Forces
Jared Howerton, National Nuclear Security Administration
Lee James, Army
James Jones, Interior Department
Matthew Keeneth, Office of Management and Budget
Abraham Klinger, Naval Research Laboratory
Carlos Laureano, General Dynamics
David Lee, U.S. Postal Service
Mark Lee, Gen eral Services Administration
Vernon Lee, Microsoft
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As much as marketers love engaging with people on Twitter, what they really want to know is how to start making a profit from those conversations. Twitter ads are a great way to do that.
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When was the last time you looked at the words in your Twitter profile?
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A little personality in your Twitter description makes you stand out from the masses and entices people to follow you.
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Are the majority of your Twitter followers using a mobile device?
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Understanding how to design your Twitter profile for mobile views helps you put your best foot forward.
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Current Twitter data confirms that 80% of Twitter users are on mobile devices. They use Twitter during their commute to work, while they're shopping and while they watch television.
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Mark explores what you need to know about using Twitter for your business.
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Stronger than an 'own'. Stronger even than a 'pwn'. Owening is the ultimate domination of any activity or just life in general. Including but not limited to: Video games, smuggling peas, tonsil hockey with the ladies, Destroying random ships with the swing of your sword, growing some mean facial hair or just jamming out on the raddest sparkle ridden green guitar.
Chris Dane Owens holds the world record for the most consecutive and numerous Owenings.
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A verb meaning the act of camping excessively in an online first or third person shooting game.
Man, Owen's owening again, he's definitely got a world record in camping.
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The Right Time to Have a Baby
October 24, 2014One writer (and mom) explores the factors that every woman should consider before getting pregnant.
The Problem with Having a Back Burner Romance
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Those glass bubbles would make me feel like a hamster in a rolly ball.
Do you think they detached for that very purpose? I could just roll to the toilet in my clear ball.
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I carry with a round in the chamber, safety off. My DAO 9mm is quite happy that way.
This is a discussion on When you carry, are you chambered? Safety on? within the Concealed Carry Issues & Discussions forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Taurus PT-145. One in the chamber and safety off. It's DAO, though. Just my .02...
Taurus PT-145. One in the chamber and safety off. It's DAO, though. Just my .02
I carry with a round in the chamber, safety off. My DAO 9mm is quite happy that way.
1911 Cocked and Locked-Always
"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength. Industry and determination can do anything that genius and advantage can do, and many things that they cannot" TR
BHP: Condition 1 as John Moses Browning (blessings be upon his name) intended.
And of course the primary safety (between my ears) is always engaged when carrying (Hopefully at any rate!)
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Glock - round in, finger off trigger.
DAO w/ safety- round in, safety off while on my person.
That's just what I'm comfortable with, and how I am training.
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"He went on two legs, wore clothes and was a human being, but nevertheless he was in reality a wolf of the Steppes. He had learned a good deal . . . and was a fairly clever fellow. What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life. The cause of this apparently was that at the bottom of his heart he knew all the time (or thought he knew) that he was in reality not a man, but a wolf of the Steppes."
Mine's a DAO, chambered and ready to go. My new Commander will be carried cocked and locked, and my bedside shotgun is currently chambered and on safe. No one under the age of 19 lives in my house and they're all well versed in gun safety so I feel comfortable doing this. Whenever we throw a party every gun gets unloaded, disabled with a key lock and hidden, with the ammo seperate.
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xd40 sub with one in the pipe ever time I'm wearing it. Passive safeties only (grip & trigger) means its always ready to go.
Luke 22:36 And He said to them, "But now, whoever has a money belt is to take it along, likewise also a bag, and whoever has no sword is to sell his coat and buy one."
I carry my Kimber 1911 chambered, hammer back, safety off in my hip holster with a thumb strap that doesn't snap well with safety on. Looking through these posts, I'm wondering if that's wise, or I should adjust the strap to make it easier to keep the safety on.
I would consider it very unwise to carry in that condition.Originally Posted by Shekkian
Either fix the holster or buy a new one.
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+1. Carrying a cocked and unlocked single action is practically begging for a ND.
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Not to be argumentative, forgive me if it sounds that way, the gun as designed by JMB didn't have a thumb safety until the U. S. Calvary (via the Ordnance Department) requested a way for the gun to be made safe with one hand so the mounted trooper would not have to let go of the reins completely. The gun was developed for the military (not the civilian market), whose regulations at the time were for the gun to be carried hammer down on an empty chamber.
Before the Calvary request, the M1910.
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"Terrorists: They hated you yesterday, they hate you today, and they will hate you tomorrow.
End the cycle of hatred, dont give them a tomorrow."
I carry a Goverment Model Cocked and locked with a 230grs Personal Protection Remington JHP
True OD, I'd forgotten about the original lack of thumb safety but, as you said, military carry was also hammer down on an empty chamber. IMHO, few people outside of the Mossad can carry that way effectively.
When I carry (pretty much all the time), I always keep one in the chamber.
As far as safeties go, most of the guns I carry don't have a manual safety. My carry guns include: Glock 23, Glock 33, Glock 29, Sig P229 DAK SAS, Sig P239 DAK SAS, H&K P2000SK, Springfield XD-40, and a North American Arms Guardian, none of which have safeties.
I have two single action guns that I frequently carry: a Kimber Ultra Carry II and a Kimber TLE/RL II 4". Those I always carry cocked and locked with one in the chamber.
I don't see the point of carrying a gun if you can't fire it as soon as you need it (without having to rack the slide).
Guns don't kill people - bad people (and stupid people) with guns kill people!
Some personal favorites:
Kimber Ultra Carry II, Glock 23, Colt AR-15
I agree Jack, I have only ever carried the 1911 C&L.
I just believe that the ability of C&L is a side benefit of the genius of John Moses and the Colt engineers of the time.
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Zameaze wrote:
I skimmed through this post but didn't find much.
Really? You claim as a source: IMDb Star Trek: Voyager (19952001) Trivia. These are contributions from the readers. And the woman's statement that you quote begrudgingly admits a rise in ratings for Ryan's first few episodes.
You keep repeating the self evident: the ratings went down until the show was cancelled. Do you think you are saying something profound? Of course they did: The show was cancelled. It certainly doesn't negate the fact that Jeri Ryan boosted Voyager's ratings when she entered the cast.
But to give the devil his due, if I had started from where you did, I couldn't have gotten much farther.
I already said that the IMDB quote is bullshit, the statistics quote is not and the New York times quote is not. And I have always said that Jeri's first episodes which had 17 cubes, 8472 and 4 months of intensive advertising between seaosn 3 and 4 did have the 60 percent bump Berman says it did, but then ratings fell, and fell and felling. The ratings went up for one story. That's a blip not a trend.
Then we're in agreement.
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Your steadfast point of view to this point is that the ratings didn't go down.
Not at all; I never said that.
Guy Gardener wrote:
The only thing I have ever said is that the ratings went down, and the only thing you have ever said is that I can't prove that the ratings went down because the ratings don't reflect the ratings.
That was never my point. I never said that.
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And you have repeatedly called me an idiot for saying that the ratings went down....
From the first I said that the ratings going down was, of course, an incontrovertible fact. I was perplexed as to why you kept repeating it.
I had a professor who use to say, "we all use the same vocabulary but have different dictionaries."
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Does anyone know of any doctors in Orange County, CA. who does a thorough skin exam and is not afraid to see you naked?View Thread
The one I'm thinking of goes back to a time when wife and I were driving rental 21-foot truck through the Midwest as we were moving from one place to another. According to our routine we would get an early breakfast and she would do the first hour's driving while I slowly woke up in the passenger seat. That morning as I sipped on my coffee and watched the landscape go by I began to realize that an unusual combination of events was taking place.
We were driving over cement pavement which caused the truck to bounce about once per second or two. The truck had really poor suspension and we could feel every vibration. But the capper was the fact that I was wearing a pair of new blue jeans which hadn't been washed yet, meaning that the crotch pouch room was a little bit bigger than it needed to be.
I hadn't been realizing it but each bounce over the concrete seams had been stimulating my man parts. My penis had been getting a little bit longer and a little bit wider with every bounce. Finally my penis tip began having regular contact with the denim fabric. Each touch was then like having a match strike a stone — I was starting to fill up with an incredible amount of masculine desire. You know how it is, guys, at times like that all thoughts are of p-e-n-i-s. And the need to take care of it.
I turned to my wife and explained what was happening.
"The bouncing of the truck and the stiffness of these new jeans are giving me an incredible hard-on"! I moaned out to her.
"Well, honey, I'd love to share that with you. But we're on a schedule and I can't stop now. So why don't you just whip it out and enjoy yourself?"
That idea surprised me. I was so completely occupied with the needs of my raging penis that I hadn't thought of that! So I unzipped and pulled the guy out who was at full-size by that time, bouncing up and down with each beat of my heart. But that wasn't enough. I unbuckled my belt, and realizing that the height of our cab meant that no one was likely to look it, I pulled my jeans and underpants down to my ankles. And further wanting to enjoy myself, I whipped off my T-shirt. Apart from the seat-belt, I was entirely nude up from my ankles.
For about ten miles I moaned as I caressed my dick with one hand, massaging my pecs with the other. When I pinched my nipple and let out a little yip, my wife asked me if I could please calm down a little so as not to distract her while driving. Finally I shot my load, picking up a shop towel just in time to catch most of my load.
When it was shortly my turn to drive I was surprisingly mellow. It was a wonderful experience, completely an unplanned surprise, made possible by my wife's compassionate understanding. Going for a ride and beating off are two of my most favorite things to do. And here it happened early one morning, totally unexpected.
If you need a break now yourself, fine. But when you come back, would you please add an unusual and special masturbation story of your own? I'm sure there are lots of them out there.
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Is it common and not a big deal? Or are guys shy and modes? I am very comfortable being naked in front of other men.
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I am single, I have this attitude of masturbating and ejaculating on places I go, Comfort rooms on airplane's during a flight, CR's on offices, friends house, hotel rooms, almost everywhere I go as long as its a new place.View Thread
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The exams were thorough and yes, the female MD's checked my genitals. The last MD found two small cysts in the scrotum which she handily removed. I would rather be safe than sorry, and I would be upset if the MD missed something just to preserve a bit of modestly. It is best to be fully nude and request that a genital check be done.View Thread
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Shave when I am in the shower after soaping up every morning, Follow with an after shave balm for sensitive skin and have not had a bumps or break outs. Also hit the back side once a week… feel so much cleaner.View Thread
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With my personal situation, it seemed to decline some in my 30s but seems to have come back full force lately. To the point that it can be distracting while I'm trying to focus on work or other things.
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The village itself is close to the old fishing village of Hope Cove, where you will find sandy beaches and miles of delightful and varied scenery along this rugged Heritage Coastline. Salcombe lies a few miles away and is famous for its beautiful estuary, its sailing, boating and golden beaches. Thurlestone Sands is a wonderful beach for sunbathing, swimming and watersports. The wonderful surrounding countryside is designated an 'Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty' and is a real joy for those who enjoy the outdoors. There are many beautiful country walks quite literally on your doorstep. South Hams offers a wide variety of days out, including Dartmouth for shopping and its beautiful castle, or take a trip to Agatha Christie's house. The market town of Kingsbridge, 3 miles away, provides all the main local amenities such as shopping, supermarket, cinema and leisure centre. An ideal property for a family holiday and will welcome everyone, after days exploring the pretty villages of the spectacular South Devon coast.
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If a company cuts corners on security, then in the same way that if I leave my door unlocked and get burgled, I can't make a claim.
I agree with the second portion of your comment. It's an entirely different matter when it's personal property verses protected information. There is or should be a certain level of security afforded to one's private property regardless of the level of security maintained. Meaning I don't care if the door is wide open it's still wrong to have someone come in and take what isn't theirs. I know that my home-owner's and auto policies have zero stipulations on eh security levels that must be maintained. Where as there is a documented level of security that needs to be in place for the protected information. Look at HIPPA, PCI, SOX, etc. requirements. I think if you don't meet those standards it should be a criminal as well as a civil offence to allow the non-compliance. From a an admin's perspective you better have documented proof of your recommendations and when/why they were shot down or you are just as guilty as the PHB.
We will have to accept that an actual experiment on a scratch Earth cannot happen.
Sadly it can, and is being done. We are the test subjects. Unfortunately it probably won't be us who gets to parse the final data.
Heh, maybe he should have sued his wife, not Apple. It would have been cheaper, and either way he's not getting any. There fixed that for you.
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We would like to do a river cruise on the Danube. The best choices seem to be between Vienna to Budapest or Budapest to Bucharest. If anyone has done either of these, I would love some feedback. Did you like the cities and the scenery?
I read a post recently that said the scenery between Budapest to Bucharest is depressing since most of the cities (except Budapest) still look devastated from WWII bombings or are filled with ugly Soviet Block cold war concrete box buildings.
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We would like to do a river cruise on the Danube. The best choices seem to be between Vienna to Budapest or Budapest to Bucharest. If anyone has done either of these, I would love some feedback. Did you like the cities and the scenery?
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We were on a Viking cruise from Budapest to Buchrest this past May. The overall cruise was nice. The food, service and accomadations were fine although the boat - the Primadonna- was in its last year of service for Viking. Budapest was beautiful and a great experience. The rest of the trip was so so. As noted, war and Communist rule have left ugly scars and architecture. That is not to say that it was all bad. There were some interesting things. But overall, I would go elsewhere - like ending a Danube cruise in Budapest. We went with some people (who selected the trip) who had been everywhere else.
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I like Vienna to Budapestthe most. Its most smooth and relaxed.
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We are set to do Nuremburg to Budapest Danube River cruise in May with a 3 day pre-cruise visit to Prague. Stops include Regensburg, Passau, Melk and Vienna. I agree that this is probably the prettiest part of the river.
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I did the Riverboat cruise on Uniworld from Bucharest to Vienna and found it to be very nice.
When else would you get a chance to see Romania , Bulgaria, Croatia , Hungary, Slovakia,Austria...we then took the train from Vienna to Prague.
Uniworld was terrific, the tours were great, the boat was very nice, the food was great...but most of all the weather was terrific.
I was lucky because for our 2 week cruise the weather was always over 84 F, in Belgrade it was 100 F!
I came a few days earlier to Bucharest, hired a private tourguide for one full day of touring Bucharest.
The next day I took the Castle Loop drive to see all the quaint town in Trannslyvania, including Dracula's Castle.
The other day I toured Bucharest on my own.
The tour in Bulgaria from the Danube to Varna ( which is right on the Black Sea) was a nice full day tour.
I also enjoyed Rousse, Vidin and Belogradchik tour..these are all included with your cruise.
It was nice having a relaxing day going through the Iron Gates ( this is like a day at sea).
Belgrade was a lovely time ,we were there for 2 days.
You get entertainment on the Riverboat in the evening.
When in Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia we had the local song and dance group come on board to entertain us.
In Belgrade a Professor came on baord and gave us a 1 hour lecture about Marshal Tito and about the Serbian / Croatian War...... very interesting to say the least.
I noiw appreciate everything I ever saw on TV about the war.
In Croatia.....yes we saw some war torn places , but I knew this from the research I had done and I was eager to see them.
It was in Vukovar Croatian ( right along the Danube) is where we saw war damaged homes and buildings... but it was interesting to see.
Then we went to Osijek Croatian about a half hour drive away.
This was a lovely town with a equally lovely Town Square.
It was here that we had lunch at a Croatian family home...absolutely delightful!!
On to Bucharest.........what can I say , a gorgeous place.
Bratislava Slovakia...very nice and clean city with the usual ornate European buildings.
Vienna..... I am sure you have read and heard enough about Vienna!!
Prague.... I could spent the whole evening telling you about Prague.
You want to see something a little different from the usual Amsterdam to Vienna....then do Bucharest to Vienna.
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I totally agree with Reme. Sail the other way.
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We did Viking's Nuremburg to Budapest with pre cruise in Prague. It was so- so. Kind of boring, not really scenic. Kins od blah Many locks. Enjoyed after cruise in Budapest and returned to Vienna for more time, traveled by train.Prague was good too.
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SO, she announced it yesterday. For the last so many years I've taken Monday off. Only bc the other co-worker has been here WAY longer than i have... and I've just been okay with her taking Fridays off. But yesterday I asked my boss if this year if i can have Fridays instead of mondays. And of course, my co-worker was out yesterday so now i feel like I asked our supervisor behind her back.
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Biden himself leaked word of his son's dying wish.
By Elizabeth Price Foley
Joe Biden has been making his 2016 deliberations all about his late son since August.
Aug. 1, to be exact — the day renowned Hillary Clinton-critic Maureen Dowd published a column that marked a turning point in the presidential speculation.
According to multiple sources, it was Biden himself who talked to her, painting a tragic portrait of a dying son, Beau's face partially paralyzed, sitting his father down and trying to make him promise to run for president because "the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with Biden values."
It was no coincidence that the preliminary pieces around a prospective campaign started moving right after that column. People read Dowd and started reaching out, those around the vice president would say by way of defensive explanation. He was just answering the phone and listening.
But in truth, Biden had effectively placed an ad in The New York Times, asking them to call.
Before that moment and since, Biden has told the Beau story to others. Sometimes details change — the setting, the exact words. The version he gave Dowd delivered the strongest punch to the gut, making the clearest swipe at Clinton by enshrining the idea of a campaign against her in the words of a son so beloved nationally that his advice is now beyond politics. This campaign wouldn't be about her or her email controversy, the story suggests, but connected to righteousness on some higher plane.
Biden's "Uncle Joe" schtick is designed to camouflage the career politician inside who has no qualms about lying to further his own ambitions. You know, the man who plagiarized his law review comment and falsely claims that he played college football, graduated in the top half of his law school class (he was 76 out of 85), had a blue collar upbringing, that his first wife and daughter were killed by a drunk driver (there is no evidence the driver was drunk), and that he was a skeptic of the Iran nuclear deal.
Biden has displayed, over a long period of time, a near-pathological propensity to lie in order to aggrandize himself. That he would "embellish" the story of his dying son's last words–and plant the story himself with the New York Times–is just another example of this pattern.
By New York Post Editorial Board
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Just three years ago, President Obama famously ridiculed GOP opponent Mitt Romney's statement that Russia remained America's main geopolitical foe by taunting: "The 1980s are calling to ask for their foreign policy back."
Four years before that, Obama stood at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate to declare that once he became president, all people would join him around a global campfire, hold hands and put an end to the world's evils and miseries.
Well, seven years into Obama's presidency, the promised worldwide Kumbaya is instead global chaos — caused in large measure by his willful retreat from America's position of leadership.
Washington's traditional allies increasingly feel abandoned, its enemies emboldened. The United States isn't even leading from behind — it's cowering in weakness.
And no one is taking better advantage of this than Vladimir Putin, now storming headlong into the yawning chasm of American retreat and reasserting Russia's global influence and power — just as Mitt Romney said.
Putin remains unchallenged in his invasion of Ukraine, leaving him free to intervene — again unchallenged — in the Middle East.
In Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya, Obama's outreach to the Muslim world hasn't ended the threat of terrorism. On the contrary, it has seen the rise of "JV team" ISIS and new power for the Taliban. Israelis and Palestinians remain as far apart as ever — because only Israel has been targeted to make concessions.
This president accuses his political foes of wanting to wage war as their first option and warns of the limits of unilateral military power.
But in his eagerness to leave office as the president who ended America's wars, he refuses to consider any use (or even a credible threat) of US force — even when hundreds of thousands are being massacred in Syria, many by the chemical weapons he claimed to eliminate.
His premature abandonment, against all military advice, of Iraq and Afghanistan (where the pullout is still under way) has left both countries worse off. Iraq, in particular, is bleeding far more than it did even in the worst years of "George Bush's war."
Equally eager to open America's arms to longtime adversaries, this president has begun new relationships with Iran (all but giving Tehran a direct path to a nuclear arsenal) and Cuba without any concessions in return — even on such basic issues as human rights.
It's no accident Obama has twice spoken in Berlin — at the very spot where Ronald Reagan famously demanded Mikhail Gorbachev "tear down this wall." Two years later, the Berlin Wall came down. Two years after that, the Soviet bloc collapsed, ending the Cold War.
Obama chose Berlin as the place to call on all nations to join him in "tearing down the walls" to "remake the world." But his soaring rhetoric was followed by indecision, hesitation and outright appeasement.
America's allies are calling, Mr. President. They want Ronald Reagan's assertive foreign policy of the 1980s back.
They want an America that leads — not retreats.
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Syria is Obama's Watergate
By Michael Goodwin
What did he know and when did he know it? The immortal question about Richard Nixon and Watergate should be posed to Barack Obama about Syria. What and when did he know about Vladimir Putin's axis-of-evil coalition?
The significance is not limited to Syria. The question goes to the heart of the Iran nuclear deal, especially the timing of the congressional votes.
Imagine Obama trying to sell the Iran deal now. With Russia, Iran and Iraq working together to muscle the United States aside and defend Bashar al-Assad, the president couldn't possibly argue that the nuke deal would help stabilize the Middle East. Nor could he argue that Russia could be trusted to help enforce restrictions on Iran.
The strong likelihood that Obama would have lost the Iran vote if Congress knew then what the world knows now suggests the possibility the president concealed the Russian plan until the Iran deal was done. That view fits with his single-minded determination to get a deal at any price, including making key concessions and downplaying Iranian threats to Israel and the United States.
After all that, what's another lie?
That view is also supported by the chronology, which reveals strong evidence the president hid the truth.
For much of September, reports of Russia moving soldiers and military equipment into Syria invariably said the Pentagon was "puzzled" or the White House was "unclear" about Putin's intent. Obama declared on Sept. 11 that whatever the dictator's plan, it was "doomed to fail."
The claims of fuzziness about Syria allowed Obama to keep the focus on his push to sell the Iran pact to Congress. He touted Russia's support, vowed to impose "snapback" sanctions if Iran cheated and said he would work to stop the mullahs' regional aggressions.
His arguments and arm-twisting kept 42 Senate Democrats in line, enough to save the deal. Yet soon after opponents lost their final vote, on Sept. 17, Russia revealed that it would lead a coalition of Iran and Iraq to intervene militarily to save the Assad regime.
The shock-and-awe attacks launched last week are rattling the world as Russian airstrikes pound Syrian rebels, including some we support, with Iraq and Iran providing boots on the ground. But it's not possible that nobody in Washington saw this coming.
After all, the Russian plan took shape well before late September. The Iran deal was officially finalized on July 14, and Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani met with Putin in Russia on July 24. Fox News, which first reported the meeting, even had the flight numbers of Soleimani's Iran Air flights between Moscow and Tehran.
Soleimani, banned from international travel because of links to terrorism, earlier had been spotted in Iraq, helping to defend Assad against Islamic State. Yet five days after Soleimani was in Moscow, Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate the travel restrictions against Soleimani would never be lifted. Apparently, they would never be enforced, either.
Although Russia and Iran had separately supported Assad, Kerry never mentioned that they could be working together militarily. Yet the Institute for the Study of War, a respected think tank, reported that "available satellite imagery and open sources" showed that "the new buildup of Russian military forces in Syria began in July 2015 and accelerated considerably in late August and September." That means the buildup began near the Soleimani visit to Putin.
The institute offered key details, including that in late August, a Russian ship unloaded armored personnel carriers. It cited another report from Syrian rebels that Russian-speaking soldiers were engaged in combat against Assad's opponents.
Yet in early September, less than two weeks before the final Iran vote, Kerry still wondered whether the buildup reports were "accurate." That ridiculous feint would soon morph to an acknowledgment of a buildup, but with convenient claims that nobody understood Putin's intent.
Now, of course, everybody understands Putin's intent and is alarmed because the war is widening and Russia has replaced the United States as the region's top power broker, a blow to our national security and allies.
But there still is little understanding of the connection between this tectonic shift and the Iranian nuclear deal. In fact, the deal was the final piece that put the Syria plan into action.
By eliminating most sanctions and freeing Iranian assets, the nuke deal provides money and protection for the world's largest sponsor of terrorism to attack our allies. And Iran's liberation gave Putin the Muslim ground troops he needs.
So the question needs to be asked of Barack Hussein Nixon: What did you know, and when did you know it?
By Boston Herald Staff
House Republicans told some hard truths yesterday about the nature of Planned Parenthood's work.
No, not more horrifying disclosures about the harvesting of body parts from aborted fetuses — though that does indeed remain at the center of the controversy about federal funding.
But as lawmakers consider whether the organization should get federal funding at all, Planned Parenthood officials and supporters always insist that any cuts to federal funds would deny women breast exams and other essential health services.
And so with Cecile Richard, president of Planned Parenthood, seated before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) rattled off a stunning set of numbers, based on the group's own tax and other filings. Over the past five years Planned Parenthood has funneled $22 million to its political affiliate, the Planned Parenthood Action Fund. It spent $5 million in travel in 2013 alone and paid Richards an annual salary of $590,000.
Richards fired back that none of the money transferred to its PAC was federal money, but let's face it, money is fungible. Every federal dollar given out — about $450 million of the organization's $1.3 billion budget — allows it to channel other dollars elsewhere, including to its political arm.
"That has absolutely nothing to do with young women who need a breast exam," Chaffetz said.
And that $22 million would fund a lot of mammograms.
Now faced with a level of public and political outrage in the wake of the videos about organ harvesting, Planned Parenthood has doubled down on, shall we say, its non-clinical work — buying ads, starting petition campaigns and filing lawsuits in states where it has been denied funding. All of that coming out of the same very fungible pocket of funds.
That's not to say GOP lawmakers should shut down the government over the issue. That would be suicidal. But showing that Planned Parenthood is something far different than your community health center is a valuable contribution to the debate.
By Stephen Dinan
Ben Carson is hoping to awaken black voters to his campaign with a message of economic empowerment, saying the black community has been done a disservice by heeding political power overtures from Democrats.
Speaking to a small group of black leaders and activists last week, the retired neurosurgeon, who is surging in polling in the Republican presidential race, said he believes black Americans bring more power through the size of their bank account than by putting their "fist in the air."
Mr. Carson said he generally shies away from focusing on race: "I say that's because I'm a neurosurgeon, because everyone's brain looks the same and it works the same way."
But he said black voters should step beyond their allegiance to the Democratic Party.
"The Democrat Party, of course, is the party of the KKK. Of Jim Crow laws. And perhaps just as bad right now, of servitude. 'Now you do this, and we'll take care of you, pat you on the head, take care of all your needs.' Which keeps people believing that's what they actually need," Mr. Carson told the small group.
Mr. Carson said he is an admirer of the late A.G. Gaston, a businessman in Birmingham, Alabama, who made millions of dollars that he used to help fund the civil rights movement. Gaston said his influence stemmed from his economic power.
"I think he has a very good point. It's something that black America needs to understand," Mr. Carson said. "Jewish America understands it. Korean America understands it. Black America, if they could understand it, they could blow everybody else out of the water."
Michael Tyler, the Democratic National Committee's director of African American media, countered that Mr. Carson's stances on issues will sink him.
"Ben Carson reminding black people that Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation is not only insulting, but it's a clear attempt to hide from the disastrous record of today's Republican Party," Mr. Tyler said. "Here's what black people understand: Black people understand that our families are healthier when more people have access to care, when we expand Medicaid, and when patients cannot be turned away by insurance companies for having a preexisting condition. Black people understand that we don't grow the middle class by dishing out tax breaks for the wealthiest and powerful corporations.
"Republican candidates like Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Carly Fiorina, Donald Trump and Marco Rubio all fail to understand these facts," Mr. Tyler said. "While their adherence to an extreme ideology might play well to the tea party, they're demonstrating that they're out of touch not only with black voters, but with a majority of Americans on the issues that matter most."
Mr. Carson, 64, is the only major black candidate in the presidential race this year. The Democratic field is comprised of a handful of white men and one woman, and the crowded Republican field has two men with Cuban parents, an Indian-American and a woman.
The activists who met with Mr. Carson last week said his campaign had a more serious ring than that of Herman Cain, who sought the 2012 Republican nomination before dropping out a month before the Iowa caucuses amid accusations of sexual harassment and marital infidelity.
Mr. Carson, though, starts off with credentials that are difficult to match, including a 2009 television movie, "Gifted Hands," based on his life.
One of the activists at last week's gathering, a self-described member of the millennial generation, said he and his classmates studied the doctor's groundbreaking medical breakthroughs.
"We know exactly what it is you've done. We had to — we got graded on it," the activist told Mr. Carson.
Mr. Carson has not had a major breakthrough among black voters, though he does run better than other Republicans.
A Quinnipiac University poll released last week found that in a head-to-head matchup with Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton, Mr. Carson garnered 18 percent support among black voters. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush got 11 percent support in the same matchup with Mrs. Clinton, and Ms. Fiorina got 7 percent.
Many analysts have lumped Mr. Carson, Ms. Fiorina and businessman Donald Trump together as a symbol of anti-establishment sentiment within the Republican Party. Combined, the three candidates account for about half of the Republican primary vote in some polling.
"There's no question that people are tired of politics as usual. But I don't think that in and of itself would be enough. I think they're also looking for people who have accomplished things," Mr. Carson told The Washington Times when asked about the comparison.
As Mr. Carson rises, he faces more scrutiny by the press. He spent much of the past week defending a comment he made on NBC's "Meet the Press," where he said a Muslim who believes in the primacy of Shariah law shouldn't be president.
Opposing candidates in the Democratic and Republican parties criticized Mr. Carson, saying the Constitution doesn't allow for a religious test to determine who may hold office.
Mr. Carson, however, said he wasn't talking about defying the Constitution, but rather saying he doesn't think Muslim beliefs fit well for a chief executive.
He said he would turn the question back to his critics.
"If they were to ask themselves, do they really in their heart of hearts believe that the tenets of Islam, including Shariah, are compatible with the United States Constitution — ask the people who are critics that question. And hold their feet to the fire. I bet they will not be able to answer."
Speaking to the activists at last week's event, arranged by Armstrong Williams, a Carson confidante, the retired doctor said he'd heard from "some of my Muslim colleagues who are very supportive."
"They say, 'We know you; we know the press is trying to get you,'" Mr. Carson said.
One of the activists, Akili West, a Muslim who is also an official with Mr. Carson's USA First political action committee, said he faced questions from Muslim friends in the wake of the comments and was able to assure them that Mr. Carson is a man of faith whose objection is to Shariah law.
"You're a good man with a good heart," Mr. West told Mr. Carson.
"It's going to be great when people like you start speaking up — actually saying that," Mr. Carson said.