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The Latest in Luxury: Six-Star Hotels
With Travel Rebounding, Some New Properties Claim To Raise the Bar on Amenities
Here's an option for travelers who aren't content with the doting treatment that comes with a five-star hotel: A six-star hotel.
As luxury travel rebounds, some hoteliers are rolling out a new class of over-the-top hotels and resorts and declaring themselves six stars. With amenities like personal butlers and private swimming pools -- and prices that soar quickly into thousands of dollars a night -- they are targeted at the leisure classes with bulletproof bank accounts.
Now, Horst Schulze, former chairman of the Ritz-Carlton hotel company, says he is planning to launch a six-star chain next year in locations including an Austrian chateau as well as properties in Mexico, Ireland, Southern Italy and Atlanta. Mr. Schulze, who says he is in the final stages of drawing up contracts for financing and construction, is seeking to join the rarefied company of hotels like the Setai in Miami (a luxury property set to open this month with room rates starting at $900 a night) and the if-you-have-to-ask-you-can't-afford-it Burj Al Arab in Dubai (smallest room: 1,819 square feet).
In the U.S., "five star" has long been a synonym for the top level of luxury offered by any hotel. Four Seasons and Ritz-Carlton, for instance, are considered five-star chains, despite the fact that the majority of their properties rate only four stars from Mobil Travel Guides, the primary arbiter of hotel stars in the U.S. By Mobil's reckoning, a hotel is five-star if it meets an extensive list of requirements including, but not limited to, bathrooms that have a separate toilet stall with telephone. These days, the current trend of luxury inflation has Mobil rewriting its standards -- to the considerable consternation of existing five-star hotels, some of which complain they can barely afford to keep up.
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It's happening as spending on luxury travel bounces back sharply after several bad years. During the first half of 2004, gross operating profits at high-end hotels rose nearly 9%, according to PKF Consulting, compared with only 5% for midscale hotels. As a result, some hoteliers are attempting to create a new top tier for travelers with an appetite for more coddling.
The idea is to focus on highly individualized services: personal butlers, chefs, drivers and concierges, for instance, as well as unique architectural designs and experiences. For instance, a year ago, Amanresorts opened Aman-i-Khás, a resort near a famed tiger preserve in India where patrons reside in billowing white tents.
It's not the first time developers tried to roll out six-star hotels. A number of super-luxury properties showed up on the drawing boards of hotel developers, including hip-hotel guru Ian Schrager, before the 2001 travel recession sent hoteliers scurrying to slash budgets and lick their wounds. Mr. Schrager ended up putting at least one of his proposed six-star resorts, in Santa Barbara, Calif., on the market, and was forced to back off on other expansion plans.
The past year has seen the re-emergence of a number of somewhat excessive travel concepts, such as dog massages and butlers-on-call to handle tasks like filling the bathtub.
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The luxury-hotel business is being fueled these days not only by wealthy leisure travelers, but also by business people cashing in incentive bonuses. "Corporate profits are up and corporate controllers are loosening up," says Mark Woodworth of the PKF, the consulting firm. For instance, Park Hyatt hotels (the luxury tier of the Hyatt chains) are able to charge rates that are about 35% higher than a year ago, says Bernd Chorengel, president of Chicago-based Hyatt International.
Much of the spending is coming from people in their 30s and even 20s. "Americans continue to accumulate more wealth at a younger age than my generation," says 59-year-old Simon Cooper, president of Ritz-Carlton, which is owned by Washington, D.C.-based Marriott International Inc. Mr. Cooper says younger people are more willing to blow a few thousand dollars on a posh weekend than their parents were at the same age.
Discount airlines may be contributing to deluxe binges. "A significant number of our customers will take a JetBlue flight down to Palm Beach and then spend $400 a night on a room at our hotel," says Mr. Simon of Ritz-Carlton.
David Anders, an analyst with Merrill Lynch, notes that there are 7.7 million millionaires world-wide (the U.S. has 2.3 million of them) with their wealth expected to grow at 7% a year through 2008, leading him to tout luxury-hotel stocks.
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The high-flying Ocean Club in the Bahamas is an example of an emerging six-star hotel class. Owned by Kerzner International Ltd. , the Ocean Club is experiencing its strongest year ever, says Butch Kerzner, the company's chief executive. With an average nightly rate of $760 and running 80% full, the resort recently opened three villas that go for between $5,500 and $6,000 per night. Villa patrons are greeted with their own butler and chef, and upon checking in are asked a host of questions, such as their preferred room temperature.
Mr. Schulze's six-star hotel plans have been on the drawing board since he left Ritz-Carlton in 2001. So far he has hired a half-dozen former executives from Ritz-Carton. Within a year, he plans to have eight to 10 luxury hotels under construction.
Mr. Schulze -- who is known in the lodging industry for, among other things, instituting militaristic morning staff inspections at Ritz-Carlton hotels and offices -- says he's raising some money from individual investors, but that most of the hotels will be owned independently and managed by his company. He is also planning a second brand, with what he calls "4½-star hotels" that will offer the service of a five-star but with a less posh design, or, as he puts it, "a four-star type box."
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Most Affordable Room: $700 for a suite
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Understand the characteristics of informative writing.
Hi everyone. I'm McKenzie and today we're learning about introduction to informative writing. When was the last time you explain something to somebody? In this tutorial, we'll learn about the definition of informative writing, we'll discuss objectivity, and we'll talk about informative writing outside of academics.
We'll begin by discussing the definition of informative writing. Informative writing is a specific type of writing that aims to inform explain or describe something to the reader. Sometimes, informative writing is actually called expository writing. When we're using informative writing, we're trying to be as objective or unbiased as possible in the way that we inform or we convey the information. We're only trying to get information across. Sometimes, informative writing does, however, take a stance on something. The goal isn't to persuade the reader, but there could be a specific stance that's being taken when informing or giving information.
Here are some examples. If I write an informative essay about how to prevent identity theft, the stance is that identity theft should be prevented and here's how to do it. Or, if I write an informative essay about robotics and the potential uses for robots, my stance is that robots could be useful. These are both examples of what informative writing may sound like. Again, I'm trying to communicate information in an objective manner.
Because the goal of informative writing is to communicate information as objectively as possible, we have to make sure that we're communicating in the most fair, unbiased way that we can. Our job is to simply present the information. We're not trying to skew the reader's thinking of the information at all. We have to be objective about the information. Some argue that this is somewhat difficult to do, because we all have our own unique perspectives and backgrounds, which are influencing how we think about every topic.
Regardless, it's still our job to strive to be as objective as possible, to treat the information fairly and present it in a fair manner. One of the ways that we can do this is we can use the rhetorical situation to analyze our own potential biases and assumptions about the topic. We have to think about our own personal context and our own personal experience and background with that topic, and if we find that we do have some sort of bias or assumptions about the topic, those need to be addressed, whether it's the way that we write the information or in our writing of the information itself. This helps us to remain objective, which is the main goal when we're communicating in an informative manner.
Informative writing is one of the most common forms of writing and we're likely to come across it in our daily lives. Here are some examples of non-academic informative writing that you perhaps come across frequently. The first is newspaper and magazine articles. The goal here is to inform the reader about some sort of current event or something going on in our culture, community, or society. Business letters. The goal here is to inform the reader of some sort of business happening or business policy or procedure. Media releases. This is to inform the reader of something going on within the mass media. Perhaps it's a new video game that's being released. Instructions. The goal here is to inform the reader of how to do something. Perhaps it's a recipe. Perhaps it's some sort of technical writing that tells you how to put together the furniture you just purchased. Textbooks or encyclopedias. The goal here is to communicate factual information to help to educate the reader. And scientific reports. The goal here is to communicate scientific information in a very structured formal way.
In this tutorial, we learned about the definition of informative writing, we discussed objectivity, and we talked about informative writing outside of academics. The clearer explanation the better. I'm Mackenzie, thanks for listening.
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10.30 Europe/London, July 21, 2011 By Julian Clover
A leading pay-TV consultant has questioned the ability of connected TV and over-the-top systems to satisfy the requirements of leading rights holders.
Andrew Glasspool, managing partner, Farncombe Consulting, told Broadband TV News that the DRM-based TV world was invariably multicast, creating a broadcast-style scenario, where if the pay-TV keys had been obtained they could subsequently be shared with everyone.
You have people who come from the learnt experience of pay television and the hard experience of security breaches that have to be corrected or enclosed and then theres the DRM world that exists self certification and products that are put into the market, said Glasspool. The question really is how will they be managed going forward with a security breach.
Farncombe previously contributed to an Ofcom consultation that outlined the minimum security requirements needed for a terrestrial DTT platform.
Glasspool said it was a different matter protecting a catch-up TV service supporting a linear channel that had earlier broadcast free-to-air than it was high value premium content. Either the industry has until now been taking unnecessary security measures or the new industry will find out how to come out to the standards of the old one.
Typically studios might write in content security requirements into contracts that content be suspended until the breach is repaired. Manufacturers of connected TVs could find content restricted to later models because earlier versions are unable to support studio requirements.
Says Glasspool: The risk for any OEM is that they can take a DRM system, they self certify that they have done all the things they think they should do, and then they get attacked. The attack may not be on the DRM, but on the robustness of the OEM system, and thats something theyre not used to.


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this gets asked a bunch, but I am only finding old post on this. Looking for options on web filtering and wondering what people are using
-1000 user
currently have a Barracuda 610.
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Jun 2, 2015 at 19:50 UTC
I am using iboss here and I can tell you that is much better and much more functional that our previous web filtering Untangle. I would highly recommend it.
Jun 2, 2015 at 21:07 UTC
We're also using iBoss and have been really happy with it. Some key features:
- Category based filtering and the ability to block un-categorized sites
- Active Directory integration. You can have filter policies based on AD security groups/OU's or based on IP subnets.
- Layer 7 filtering. Handy for blocking filter bypassing applications like TOR, VPN clients, UltraSurf etc etc.
- SSL filtering
- Reporting both realtime bandwidth consumption per user, overall realtime bandwidth consumption, and of course exhaustive reports on what specific users have done, such as URL visits and what they've typed into search engines.
They can size an appliance for 1000 users easily enough.
Jun 3, 2015 at 05:43 UTC
We are curently using Symantec but I really dont like it, you need a server its messy with having to configure proxy settings... What are some cloud services that can provide this?
Jun 3, 2015 at 08:37 UTC
We use Sophos
I have used their Web Security Appliance which is when you don't want to replace your router or as I have now their UTM solution which is router, firewall and filter in one
Jun 3, 2015 at 23:49 UTC
We use DNS Redirector almost exclusively. I like it allot.
Jun 4, 2015 at 04:47 UTC
We use Bluereef's Sonar product.
It handles BYOD really well, has AD integration, and filtering is awesome.
They're reports are also a really good feature.
Jun 4, 2015 at 11:54 UTC
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Have you looked at WebTitan yet? From the makers of SpamTitan anti spam. There are various deployment options available : ISO (set up using inhouse hardware), deploy using virtualisaton software or the WebTitan Cloud Service option.
WebTitan (appliance version - not the cloud version) integrates with AD and allows you to whitelist by individual or group. You can trial it free for 30 days, which includes technical support (US support is based in Tampa, Florida).
It's easy to set up, easy to manage and totally scaleable - below is a link to some WebTitan reviews from fellow spiceheads
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Full pricing is available here. As a Spicehead you'll be eligible for a guaranteed 10% discount off list price and you may be lucky enough to speak to a generous account manager who'll offer further discounts!.
If I can help with further information or if you'd like to see the product in action let me know and I can set up a demo at a time that suits you.
Jun 4, 2015 at 15:06 UTC
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Hello Jim,
Take a look at cyberoam next gen firewall appliances, The webfilter module is also combined with Application visiblity and controls, which can integreate in to your directory server, with 89 Plus Web categories you can apply granular controls. Let us know if you are interested in a 30 to 45 min demo window. It can generate up to 1500 reports on appliance built IN, it can also add the functionality of VPN, IPS, AV and Anti-Spam and most importantly Bandwidth Management and controls.
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Sydney has its share of ocean baths. These are essentially public saltwater swimming pools that are right on the shoreline and fill with the tide. Sometimes with a particularly high tide or a good swell these public baths might end up with a few fish and the odd dolphin and maybe even a shark.
The Cronulla baths had never had a shark until this morning. They had a few dolphins over the years but never a shark. The interesting twist, or perhaps irony, here is that the local rugby league team is known as the Cronulla Sharks. So, it is pretty apt that a shark end up in the Cronulla baths.
The shark was finally caught and released back into the ocean at about 10.30 and the sight was an amazing one for all who were able to witness it.
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i finally met up with 'soap friend' today after morning lecture. she's lovely and generous as usual. she gave me lots of stuff – bubble bars, soaps, more bubble bars and soaps. to you who do not love lush, it's just soap. but it's good soap, and very nice scents too i must say.
after which, i went on to myer and ordered in the keds that i wanted. i think my size was sold out coz it was featured in 'in style', a popular aussie mag here. i hope they have it… i have to wait anything between 10 days to 3 weeks for them to transfer the shoes over to the city myer. =( i can't wait!!!
then after class, the housemates and i went for a little shopping trip again. i bought slippers and a nautical bag! love love love. the last pic is the sportsgirl jacket that i bought last week. i actually still have some stuff from valleygirl that're sitting in the plastic bag, but i'm just too lazy to go take them out and snap pictures now.
the parents are coming over in 2 wks time… i wish time would just fly by… i want to spend time with them!!! esp when i hardly log into msn now, i hardly talk to them… =( jaccy, i wish you could come over too…


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(Sorry, just had to do up this pic - resistance was floortile :-) ...and if you'd like a scary-funny insight into some of Kim Sung II's eccentricities, read this article in The Gazette. Everyone already knows King George II's eccentricities... and they're all plain scary.
Meanwhile, here's George Pe II for the family album:
Gee whiz, he'd never get through Passport Control in Heathrow while wearing blatant religious symbols and strange headgear like THAT. Far too affronting... a definite "mark of separation", and therefore clearly SUBVERSIVE, wouldn't you say, Mr Straw? FunkyPix2 insists that George Pell be removed from his job immediately.
FP2's investigations reveal that George Pell is undoubtably a senior catholic operative, implicated in the indoctrination of young recruits in religious schools around Sydney.
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His catholic church claims to be a 'Champion of the Poor'. I'd remind Sgt Pell that some of their poverty might indeed be attributable to his beloved policy on birth control. The catholic church has, in fact, been openly and unrepentantly infiltrating and colonising many poor countries in Asia, Africa and South America. These are very places where, co-incidentally, birth rates are exploding out of control.
No - what matters more is not the problems of people in distant countries, but rather the prospects of a better job (and an even funnier hat) for George himself. Sgt Pell daydreams of one day being promoted to the rank of... POPE. Then he'll be in a stronger position to introduce his Flat Earth Doctrine AND convince Bush that it's finally time to re-conquer Constantinople.
(Hell help us if the Pell becomes Pope).
Meanwhile, he just has to go on being party to that Conga-line of Corporate Suck-holes by parroting what he hears said by other extremist right-wing factions - like the British, American and Australian governments.
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Far Along? 30 Weeks, 6 Days! Officially in single digit weeks... 9 weeks, 1 day until D-Day... but less than that on my countdown since I am counting down to my last day of work before maternity leave. I figure more list 7 weeks, 1 day!! :)
Total weight gain/loss: Whoa baby... this week at my doctor appointment I gained 5 pounds. I wanted to DIE. however, i have been off on my overall count- the doctor said that including this visit, I am only +11. Soooo... that makes me feel better. But holy canoli... 5 pounds in 4 weeks is a little much. I better pay better attention to what I am eating.
Maternity clothes?Yep yep yep. Dying to wear some cute maxi dresses, but they all make me look huge-like I am wearing a tent (I am having flashbacks to what Jessica Simpson looked like in hers, lol)... so I am going to stick to more form fitting clothes to avoid looking like that! See picture below.. that is my motivation for working out and eating well while preggo!
Stretch marks? Ugh. I have never had one of these in my LIFE until the last couple weeks. Please please please let them fade after Ledoux comes. Its either that, or I will get them lasered (another reason I like California... there is a place that does that everywhere. There is actually one right next to my neighborhood starbucks! Wow.. thats the 2nd reason I have found to like California.) I doubt I will find any more reasons after this though.
Size of Baby (in produce)? - Head of lettuce, 3.5 lbs+ (at this point, its hard to say how much she weights because every baby is growing different)
Sleep: still soo good. all weekend I have slept for 10-11 hours. and aside from the pee breaks, i am sleeping like a rock.
Best moment this week: Finished my yard! Flashback to last week when I said nesting was in full effect... I put the finishing touches on my yard this weekend. I was a digging, planting, watering machine! I have completely updated my front and back yard.. and although it may not look like much to you, trust me... its MAJOR progress from where it was 3 weeks ago! Although, spending 2 hours planting flowers yesterday definitely wasn't as easy as it sounds, the big bump is getting in the way.
Miss Anything? Duh. I just want to have my husband home with me. Fingers and toes crossed that he is able to get back before the baby gets here... there is NOTHING worse than having to do all of this by myself. We haven't even been able to enjoy all of this because of the circumstances, and that is one of the worst parts of all. I hate that he isn't able to be here and be involved. It's not right, and I will be so upset for him if he has to miss it all. UGH.
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Movement: She's been pretty active this week- my doctor told me to make sure and count her kicks twice a day... I should get to 10 in an hour. She has been reaching 10 in 5 minutes lately lol! And her little feet are starting to make their way under my ribs... not a good feeling.
Food cravings: Still milk. its insane. I cannot get enough of it.
New Additions? Nothing new. Excited to see what necessities I get at the baby shower this weekend, and then after that- its time to start shopping for everything else I still need!
Anything making you queasy or sick: Nope.
Have you started to show yet: No hiding this baby!
Gender: Girl! and we get to see her little face on Saturday before my baby shower!!
Pregnancy related gripes? Other than the ugly little stretch mark and its evil friend, nothing really. I tried on a bunch of my cute summer dresses last night, and boy oh boy are they tight in the belly! LOL... I guess I won't be wearing one of those for the party this weekend!
Labor Signs: No
Belly Button in or out? In (but boy is it shallow...!)
Wedding rings on or off? On (but they might have to come off in the future weeks, I have been noticing some swelling of fingers and feet lately)
Happy or Moody most of the time: Doing ok... but the closer it gets, the more I start to worry about everything.
Looking forward to: This Saturday! 4-d ultrasound and baby que! Wahoo!
Other news? Its time to pick a pediatrician! My doctor said i dont have to, but it would be a good idea to have one picked out for when doodle comes. so... I am going to do that in the next week or two. other than that, nothing crazy. next week I will have lots of good stuff, I promise!!!


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Skip to comments.Evangelicals, Tea Party Breaking Hard for Gingrich in Florida Primary
Posted on 01/28/2012 7:18:58 AM PST by GVnana
A new Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday reveals that evangelicals and Tea Party supporters are breaking hard for Newt Gingrich in Florida, putting the former House Speaker within two points of front-runner and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
A press release describing the poll states Gingrich "leads among white evangelical Christians 43 - 30 percent and among those who consider themselves to be tea party supporters 43 - 28 percent." Each segment makes up roughly a third of primary voters, according to Quinnipiac pollsters, "although there is substantial overlap among those two groups."
Coming off the heels of his victory in the South Carolina GOP primary, rising evangelical and Tea Party support has allowed Gingrich to slash nearly 10 points off of Romney's lead with less than a week to go before Florida's GOP primary.
(Excerpt) Read more at christianpost.com ...
I am really concerned about your evangelical leader...
My take on Rush is that he is just telling it like it is...he spent most of the last few days debunking the report that Newt was hyper critical of Reagan.
Also Mittens scorched earth drive for the White House seems to be sour him with the Independents. If the Independents are souring on him the undecided Conservatives are souring as well.
Its gonna be a close one.
I listen to Rush and he is not like Ann Coulter. He has been level the whole time which is the right thing to do. Coulter however is rabid and non-nonsensical when it comes to supporting Romney. She has gone round the bend in my book. But do not lump Rush in with anyone.
Have they heard that Obama on Friday hosted Jebbie and his dad at the White House? They might end up with Obama then.
The devil is in the details and he who counts the votes, wins. The GOparty sent out 400,000 absentee ballots prior to the South Carolina primary. According to reports, at least a third of them have come in. Someone is counting those votes. If Mitt is anywhere near Newt in the vote count, the party will put him over the top. In other words, imagine the 2000 election in Florida, only in-party.
Mitt and the GOP-e have learned every trick the democrats have played but they use them against their own party. I fully expect foul play similar to that perpetrated in Iowa, only on a much larger scale. Anything to make their savior, Mitt look like a winner.
he is a respected pastor of large community church
>>I am afraid we may be at the mercy of Santorum voters, and whether or not they can be pragmatic in Florida. If His Florida supporters on FR are any indication, we are in trouble. A final result of Mitt 29.0%, Newt 28.9%, Rick 11.3% doesnt seem to make them tremble is fear in the way it makes most of us shudder.<<
Face it, all the ABR (Anyone But Romney) candidates have warts. As long as Santorum goes up when/if Gingrich goes down in the polls, the ABR vote will be sufficient to beat Romney. And we're better off having an alternative if Gingrich blows himself out the water, which he's perfectly capable of doing on any given day (See pic of him on couch, or remember the "right-wing social engineering" comment.)
And I've noticed that Santorum seems to gain when Gingrich falters, so he's not out of it yet. Frankly, I don't care which of the two ends up on top, but it's way too early in the process to assume that Romney is going to lock it up by winning Florida. Besides, Florida lost half of their delegates by running an early primary, cutting their influence significantly.
Of all the candidates, Newt is a Tea Partier from way back! --1994--
House Minority Whip Gingrich and 7th District congressional candidate Brenda Fitzgerald throw mock tea crates into the Chattahoochee River on April 15, 1994, as part of a "Taxpayer's Tea party" in Roswell, Georgia.
HERE: "Mitt Romney predicts tea party will turn on Newt Gingrich" ~ By Associated Press Saturday, December 17, 2011
TAX DAY 1994 - Politicians play with ire - Gingrich , others stage stunts touting frugality
The Atlanta Journal and The Atlanta Constitution - Saturday, April 16, 1994
Author: ALEXANDER, KATHEY, Kathey Alexander STAFF WRITER: STAFF
As procrastinators put the finishing touches on their tax returns Friday, politicians across the nation carried out carefully crafted stunts aimed at landing the votes of irate taxpayers.
In Roswell, U.S. House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) touted fiscal conservatism by staging a mock tea party on the banks of the Chattahoochee River . Conservative Republicans tossed empty produce crates into the river in symbolic re-enactment of the incident in Boston 221 years ago when colonists dressed as Indians dumped tea into the harbor in rebellion against the government.
More than 200 similar rallies occurred throughout the country, including Boston, San Francisco and Detroit , as candidates used the tax filing deadline as a forum for one-upsmanship on frugality.
Americans literally work every day for months just to pay for a government that wastes their money, said Gingrich , who is seeking re-election from the 6th district. On the day taxes are due, we should remind you that you have every right as a citizen to protect yourself, your family and your wallet with your vote.
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And where was Santorum? Still likely trying to memorize Roberts Rules of Order.
No offense to Santorum or his supporters, but Newt has been at this a VERY long time, and is SOLID in his beliefs.
The fact that he could not get it together in his personal life, well, is unfortunate for him. But I don't feel any of these slip ups EVER affected his loyalty to voters AT ANY TIME while in office.
After I posted the contact page info for Santorum yesterday, the page was removed. Here's how you can reach him (or his campaign) if you'd like to suggest that he drop out:
Rick Santorum for President
PO Box 37
Verona, PA 15147
888.321.6675 [also 603-836-5941]
For Press Inquires, please contact:
Matt Beynon
In Florida:
1680 Fruitville Road
Suite 102
Sarasota, FL 34236
Fax: 484.229.0062
For other states, maybe the state name followed by @ricksantorum.com would work, but better google it first.
If Santorum takes one for the team and withdraws from the FL race, we won't forget it. If he stays in and pulls enough votes from Newt to result in a Romney win, we won't forget that either.
We have to hope that Santorum voters, realizing that Santorum can't take Florida, will vote for Newt just to stop Mitt, if for no other reason. That, and Sarah needs to make a lot of noise for Newt between now and Tuesday.
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Good idea.
Rick can't win in Florida and he knows it. That's why he's pretty much given up his campaign in Florida.
Rick's supporters could still help him with donations and votes in other upcoming states. Santorum supporters in Florida would get much more bang for their vote if they vote Newt to slow down Mitt.
I think that's part of the balancing act that is going on here. They're both going to be gone soon enough. Question is, where are their supporters going to go? I see Gingrich as the natural inheritor, and I think the Romney camp does as well.
Speaking of Romney.
I have, since the 1980 election when I cast my vote for Ronald Reagan, voted on William F. Buckley's recommendation to support "the most conservative candidate."
The way I see it, in a choice between Romney and Obama, it's a toss-up.
Because of everything I've seen in the past week, I have come to loathe Mitt Romney. I will never cast a vote for Barack Obama, and I will never cast a vote for Mitt Romney.
Just so you'all know.
Good point. Give it more time. Perhaps by June, we will be convinced that Santorum is the guy. But vote for him now and you will ensure he's out of the race after Florida.
It boggles my mind that anyone would consdier Romney (liberal/phoney) over Gingrich.
Although, the right? leaning? media has done their best to pervert the process.
Go Fl!
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Oh boy, today was a laugh-until-you-cry kind of car ride! Buckle up and I'll share with you.
Jace: I have a song stuck in my head.
Tyler: Is it this one? Stacy's mom has got it goin' on….
Jace: No.
Gracie: Mama, I think you've done something wrong with these boys.
Me: Oh, I have? But not with you?
Gracie: Nope, I'm the good one.
Jace: Whatever. I'm the favorite.
Tyler: Stacy's mom has got it goin' on….
Me: Oh, Tyler…(sigh) Do you know all the words?
Tyler: Not yet. But I'll learn them because Jace listens to it all the time.
Gracie: Oh, now the truth comes out.
Tyler: Yup. Jace likes Stacy's mom even more than I do.
Me: Awesome.
Gracie: Aren't you glad we don't know any Stacys?
Jace: That's not even the song that's stuck in my head anyway. It's Voodoo, by Godsmack.
Me: I don't even know that song, but I'm sure it's so much better.
Tyler: Voodoo, who do, doo doo. (giggle) I said doo doo.
Gracie: Speaking of doo doo, I plunged the toilet for you.
Tyler: Thanks!
Me: Yeah, thanks. But it overflowed! At least it wasn't doo doo that overflowed onto the floor, though.
Tyler: Was it pee?
Me: No, it was water…but how would it be pee? If you're clogging a toilet with pee, I think we have bigger issues.
Tyler: Yeah, it would have to be pee that's a really weird consistency.
Me: Ew…can we not talk about this? I'm disturbed.
Jace: I like that band.
Me: What band?
Jace: Disturbed.
Me: Oh, yeah, me too.
Gracie: I like Disturbed too. And Meghan Trainor and Dixie Chicks and Chris Stapleton and Metallica and Nirvana.
Jace: I really like Metallica. They have two of my top four favorites. Hey, this song is by Metallica too! How funny.
Gracie: It's like I knew….
We all listen to Metallica sing Master of Puppets.
Jace: I can't wait until I'm a parent. I'm going to play this for my kids. Oh, yeah, I'm going to be a great parent! Listen to your master!
Me: Oh, Jace…
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It ceases to amaze me, as an independent person, I am constantly learning. As the renowned Robert Hunter wrote and Jerry Garcia sang, "Once in a while, you get shown the light, in the strangest of places, if you look at it right." For me, the light continues to shine. Just this weekend, I had visitors over to my home. As soon as they walked in the door, Onyx (fun loving pup she is) greeted them by jumping like a kid on a pogo stick. To my suprise, they stood statuesque…
I must have had a perplexed look upon my face because the little girl went on to explain that she wouldn't "say hi" to Onyx until she calmed down and sat nicely. After a few minutes passed, Onyx did calm down and sat nicely. "Whew," I thought. That was the longest three minutes I've experienced in a long time. I must have held in my breath as I felt my chest exhale and my head clear. It makes perfect sense: don't give her positive attention until she is acting in a manor that warrants it. Lesson learned.
I'd like to think that I am learning from each and every experience I encounter. However, when a lesson such as this jumps out in front of me, I have to be grateful for the lyrics that spread their tentacles through my thoughts reminding me that I am never too old to learn. Scarlet Begonias.


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Spoiled Already
>So we have known for 6 days that we are having a girl…and take a look at Chloe's closet!
A week ago, it was almost empty! Now, thanks to Noni and Poppie, Gigi, and a little shopping by me (of course!) she already has a wardrobe! It is great living so close to Trey's mom and Scott…and they are thrilled that Chloe will be living around the corner soon! Take a look at Poppie's first gift to Chloe…Mary Jane tights, socks, and rain boots! How adorable.
Next weekend we're off to San Angelo, and I'm sure Cookie and Dandy will have some more spoiling to do! I hope we still have room for Chloe when she arrives!
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>Oh my gosh! I am in love with the mary jane tights! I have never seen them before! I have given the mary jane socks before as baby gifts, but I must find the tights now!! SO CUTE!!
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It seems that with Martin Scorcese remaking the HK blockbuster Infernal Affairs, we definitely know where the new Hollywood is. Asian directors continue to produce great movies that put the garbage coming out of the states to shame. Some is one such movie. Having gone into it expecting a typical cop drama I was pleasantly surprised. It's hard to describe the plot in this movie without spoilers, since the plot kind of unfolds with every twist and turn. We first meet Kang Seong-ju, a young detective on the trail of a gang of loosely organized members who have gotten in way over their heads. It's not long before he encounters Seo Yu-jin, a charming news reporter who seems to hold the key to the mystery at hand. As Kang attempts to unravel the the clues and track down a mysterious name, Yu-jin is haunted by deja vu. She is sure that the two have met before, and begins to experience visions. The story was pretty well written. Not too over the top, and the twists were not so confusing as many directors try to do. The thing that really made this movie work was that it took care not to lean too much into one genre that it became stereotypical. IMDb lists it as an Action / Crime / Mystery movie and certainly it contains just the right portions of all those. They even threw in just a touch of Sci -Fi to make it that much more interesting. All together, this is a movie cocktail guaranteed to please.
Popular actor Rengo Shiraki (Yuto Nakajima) dies suddenly. Due to his sudden death, unpopular actor Daiki Kawata (Masaki Suda) attracts the spotlight due to his close friendship with Rengo. Did Rengo Shiraki commit suicide or was he murdered?
Musical director Yoo Il-Han (Kim Rae-Won) is arrogant and has no qualms exaggerating the lengths of his talents. He was once a promising musical director, but, after the box-office failure of a big budget musical, he now works on children's musicals. Nevertheless, Yoo Il-Han dreams of one day working on Broadway in New York City. His big chance then arrives. A TV musical competition program is set out to select the main child actor for a big budget musical of King Jungjo from the Joseon Dynasty. The musical will be performed on Broadway. The setup for the TV musical competition program involves five musical directors as they each select one child actor to mentor. The directors then train their pupil and the TV musical competition eventually selects one child actor to play King Jungjo. Musical director Yoo Il-Han is one of the five music directors taking part in the television program. The first stage of the show involves each of the five musical directors turned away from the stage as they listen, but cannot see, various children auditioning for the TV program. Musical director Yoo Il-Han then selects a child named Young-Kwan (Ji Dae-Han), who turns out to be a half Filipino-Korean child. Once the first episode of the TV show program ends, Yoo Il-Han berates an assistant director of the TV program. He's furious he was allowed to pick a child, that he assumes has no chance of playing King Jungjo and blowing his chance to work on Broadway. Making matters worse for Yoo Il-Han, Young-Kwan possesses zero dancing abilities. Unable to change his selection, Yoo Il-Han half-heartedly begins to train Young-Kwan. He then begins to see something special in the child.


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Hey all,
I have an n. copelandii that's getting to be a bit too big for my rack. I wanted to take some cuttings of it, but it hasn't produced upper pitcher forms yet, and I don't want to miss out on seeing them. I've read that the cutting with the upper growth point in it will continue to progress and produce uppers, is this true? Also, I was told that copelandii is difficult to propagate; but everything that I've read implies that the cuttings should root fairly easily... anyone have personal experience with this plant in particular? The plant is doing great... it's produced 2 basal shoots, and I think it's ready to be cut but I've never done this before and don't want to do anything stupid. Also, would it be okay to separate the basals from the main plant at the same time as making cuttings, or would it be better off to wait and do that after the plant regroups from taking the cuttings?


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I'm sitting here a little peed off at the moment, I've recently upgraded my motherboard from an Asus Z170-E which ran my i5 6400 @ 4.4Ghz with no problem, to a Gigabyte Z170X Gaming 7 using the F7K bios. My problem is that although I can still overclock to 4.4GHz using the 27x multiplier and a 163Mhz bclk and all is stable. As soon as I shutdown for the night and try to turn it on again in the morning, the system just won't post until I switch it off at the mains and back on again, hit the power button then quickly hit reset a few times. I've even tried just a small overclock by increasing the bclk to 105Mhz but that was even worse and I couldn't bring the system back to life until I pressed the Cmos clear button.
So in short any attempt at setting any clock speed over stock results in the system not posting. Is this a bios issue or a motherboard issue? This is the 2nd Gaming 7 I've tried and still the same problem.


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Well were are off.........a day earlier than planned.
Petroc was ready and waiting for us on Wednesday, thank to Rob and team. Moored conveniently where we could unload.....this is the bit we both dislike........the unpacking bit!
Having said all was ready for us......we then discovered that the heating was not working. Since it was only March it was a bit necessary. Rob scratched his head over it for a while but eventually diagnosed a seized compressor. He changed that for a reconditioned one(new ones are 3 times the price) and all seems to be well.
Since all the jobs were done by Thursday lunchtime (including a large shop at Sainsburys) we decided to make ourselves scarce. There were 11 boats due in for turn around on Friday and we would have had to move off the quay and breasted up further down. This is never ideal with Barney...he is a bit of a weeny going over other boats!
I was not full of enthusiasm for moving as, having avoided a cold all winter, I was now feeling decidedly under the weather with one. I might even go so far as to say it was the woman version of man flu! So we pottered just over a mile and moored at the bottom of Hillmorton locks. Then I could try to die in peace.......
Today after a very gentle start for us (9am) we went up our first 3 locks of the year at Hillmorton.
Weather wise we have have been very lucky. The sun sun for us all day Wednesday and Thursday and today was almost as good. The wind is quite chill when the sun disappears but we had a pleasant run up to Braunston and I even feel somewhat more human.
Braunston seems very busy and most of the 14 day moorings closer in were full, but someone was looking after us as there was a Petroc sized space opposite the Boat House pub. We have planned to meet Paul, Helen & Victoria there early this evening so it is very convenient.
Thursday 31st March
Total distance:1.37 miles Elapsed time:0h57m Locks:0 Bridges:4
Friday 1st April
Total distance:7.1 miles Elapsed time:3h 03m Locks:3 Bridges:18