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PJM Interconnection, the electricity grid operator for more than 61 million people in 13 states and the District of Columbia, said Monday that it is managing a tight power supply as single-digit temperatures are expected to hit Washington, Maryland and Delaware.
The National Weather Service is predicting temperatures to fall well below 10 degrees Monday night into Tuesday for much of the area. BGE and Pepco, utilities that serve D.C. and much of Maryland, also issued calls for conservation.
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The Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) routinely reviews every trip ticket received from the commercial fishing industry to ensure that the most accurate data are collected and properly reflect the important role the state of Louisiana plays in the production of seafood.
These reviews are critical to ensure that commercial fishermen and wholesale/retail dealers are appropriately credited with landings in the event of compensation that results from a natural disaster such as Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and the current BP oil spill.
BP is requesting commercial fishermen to provide landings information from 2007-09 to determine eligibility for financial assistance. LDWF is providing a landings data report back to commercial fishermen, when requested, to assist with this eligibility process.
The review of trip tickets has become even more critical during this time period considering that the previous years are being used to establish eligibility for assistance. Any trip tickets from previous years are being subjected to another layer of review by LDWF staff to confirm their validity.
"The information provided on a trip ticket is the best way for the department to establish the value of Louisiana fisheries and the importance of those fisheries to the nation. Trip ticket data also plays a key role in the managing of fisheries in Louisiana to ensure sustainability," said Michelle Kasprzak, LDWF Trip Ticket Program administrator. "We ask that trip tickets be completed accurately and submitted on time as required. Inaccurate or embellished trip tickets will be investigated by the department's Law Enforcement Division."
Lt. Col. Jeff Mayne with LDWF's Law Enforcement Division said, "We want to ensure our commercial fishermen and dealers are compensated fairly by using accurate trip ticket information. We do not want to see commercial fishermen or dealers tempted to commit felony violations by falsifying trip ticket documents."
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Hallo my dear friends :-) Today I'd like to present you my Christmas Chart. Every year I dedicate one of them to my favorite novel: Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Last year I designed 3 ornaments, you can see them HERE, and this year I have created a SOCK! This one is for the ghost of the Past Christmases, and you will find the House of Scrooge, brrrrrrrrrr.... There's also a complete alphabet to personalize your own sock! I hope you will love it as much as I do!
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the removal of unlimited iphone data packages, there should be no objections, by the networks, to tethering anymore.
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Tucked into the forested foothills of the Southern Alps, the cosy township of Fox Glacier is geared up for glacier walks, hikes and flights.
Named after Sir William Fox, New Zealand's Prime Minister from 1869 to 1872, Fox Glacier describes both the glacier and the nearby village. Like its twin, Franz Josef, the glacier descends from the Southern Alps down into temperate rainforest just 300 metres above sea level.
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Homegrown Red Sox star Jacoby Ellsbury is leaving Boston to sign with the New York Yankees, according to multiple reports.
CBSSports.com and ESPN are reporting the deal is worth about 7-year, $153 million contract, which would make him the third highest paid outfielder in Major League history. An option for an eighth year could increase the value of the contract to $169 million.
Ellsbury, 30, Boston's leadoff hitter, led the American League in steals this season with 52 and was a vital part of Boston's World Series run. His electric speed on the bases and in the outfield made him a crowd favorite.
He also helped Boston win a World Series in 2007.
"Jacoby was a great player while he was with us," Red Sox chairman Tom Werner told ESPNBoston.com on Tuesday evening. "He helped us win two world championships, and he was a pleasure to watch offensively and defensively. I wish him the best."
Ellsbury's decision is reminiscent of another beloved Boston center fielder, Johnny Damon, who also left the Red Sox to take more money with the Yankees.
But Ellsbury's departure is particularly painful for Red Sox fans because he grew up in the Boston organization. He was drafted by the Red Sox in 2005, and played for the Portland Sea Dogs and Pawtucket Red Sox before being promoted to the Major League squad.
In seven years with Boston, he had a .297 batting average, 241 stolen bases, and won a Gold Glove and finished second in MVP voting in 2011.
That year, he also became the only Red Sox player to ever record 30 home runs and 30 stolen bases in the same season.
The Red Sox will get a first-round compensatory draft pick because of Ellsbury's departure. They could replace him with highly touted outfield prospect Jackie Bradley Jr., or move Shave Victorino to center field and look for a right fielder via trade or on the free-agent market.
Although Boston wanted to keep Ellsbury, his decision to leave was not a major surprise. His agent is Scott Boras, whose clients frequently take the largest contract available regardless of the team making the offer.
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Do you often wonder if natural holistic pet care products are better for your dog or cat? Are they more cost effective? It is certainly reasonable to wonder whether these products compare to the widely used and available mass produced products on the market today. What are the facts you should consider when you are dealing with these products for your pet.
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Start those anal orgasms off with a bang! Slick it up and slide this firm 7½" black vibrating anal probe right into your backdoor for amazing prostate play. While the curved shaft and rounded tip hit just the right spot, the tip-focused motor blasts your P-Spot with multi-speed vibrations! 2 AA batteries (sold separately).
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This week Ars covered the highest-profile Internet argument of the year: Funny Junk lawyer Charles Carreon's beef with the irreverent, money-raising Internet cartoonist Matthew Inman. And who doesn't love a good feud? Just ask the Hatfields & the McCoys.
But this week wasn't all about arguing. We also took a look at the life of mathematician Alan Turning, and saw the Internet's other giant personality—Kim Dotcom—meet with Steve Wozniak and restart his Megabox project.
- The highly productive habits of Alan Turing
On the week of his 100th birthday, we celebrate the mathematician's life.
- FJ's lawyer personally sues, says Oatmeal incited "cyber-vandalism"
Charles Carreon complains about increased Twitter impersonators, e-mail.
- FunnyJunk's lawyer gave money to The Oatmeal's fundraiser
You gotta give if you wanna sue.
- Angry "Internet lawyer" sues The Oatmeal, bears, and cancer research
Charles Carreon claims webcomic raised $180,000 wrong.
- Apple, Google using "military-grade spy planes" to make new maps, says senator
"Sunbathing in your backyard shouldn't be a public event," says Senator Schumer.
- Doubling down: FunnyJunk lawyer to subpoena Ars, Twitter
Charles Carreon's plan to expose a Twitter imposter, and why it matters.
- The Internet's most hated man
Ars goes one-on-one with FunnyJunk's lawyer, Charles Carreon.
- Updated: Kim Dotcom meets with Woz, restarts launch of MegaBox music sharing
EFF prepares for hearing on request for customer access to seized data June 29.
- Motorola proposes way to end patent war with Microsoft
Motorola faces an import ban this July if it doesn't resolve issues.
- Oracle accepts $0 in damages from Google, moves toward appeal
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So two of my ex-girlfriends and my current girlfriend are all religious and have one point or another sat me down on a couch and asked me, "You don't belive in Jesus do you." In my head Im resisting the urge to laugh and say, "no fucking way," but out of respect i restrained myself and explained calmly that i am atheist and no i do not believe in Jesus. Well i hope you can all see where this discussion went. To the point however i would like to ask you guys if any of you have had this predicament and how did you deal with it. I do love my girlfriend very much but she is highly religious and has no intention of allowing me to stay "ignorant of her lord and savior." What do mentlegen?
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You can't convert or pretend-convert, so you got only one choice - you gotta talk to her about it & make her see your point of view.
If she could see his point of view, she wouldn't be religious.
Not really. There are inter religion relationships & in those, one person doesn't always convert to the religion of the other. Sometimes they keep their religious beliefs & relationship separate.
There is a difference between understanding someones point of view & believing in or agreeing with it.
Having had relationships with Christians, Jews, spiritualists, and non-believers, I have found it always worked out best to explain your POV and see where that takes you. My habit of cracking jokes about Jesus or Moses has rarely got me very far. But, even if you love this person, and you want to marry or have kids with them, what happens when they want a Christian wedding or to take your kids to church? This very point ended my longest relationship because I wouldn't automatically let any child I had try church first rather than not be forced into religion. (Sorry for the long and rambling answer.)
I am married to a reasonably devout Catholic who is at this moment off on some religious retreat north of Toronto. It has caused some considerable tension from time to time. If you want to know how this came about, at the time we were married she was not at all active, (never even went to church) and basically considered herself excommunicated due to her personal circumstances. As she became more active in her previous religion under the influence of friends, I have been finding my own friends and am now active in a local atheist group.
man... no offense, but I don't think I could ever involve myself with someone that blindly religious in the first place.
Tell her that Timothy 2:12, Corinthians 14:34, and Titus 2:5 all seem to say that a woman should submit to a man and that she should never speak out of turn, much less to try to teach him about God. Then ask her if she's a real Christian.
ohh, nice thinking.
Yeah, sometimes you gotta temper your integrity with a little compassion. It's just hard to know where to draw the line. I know what you mean because I've liked this Christian girl for some time now and have to quell the urge to question her beliefs regularly. Which is a complete compromise of my integrity, but... I guess that's the trade-off. It boils down to what's more important to you, your personal values or her love and affection.
Find another girlfriend.
yeah, if you think this is a bad speedbump in your relationship, imagine what will happen if and when you have kids. don't you think she will want your children to be indoctrinated into the faith? do you think you could ever convince her to raise your children to be critical thinkers and not be afraid of the skybully?


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Today In NBA History 1954: First Overtime All-Star Game Ever
59 years ago today, the NBA All-Star game had the first overtime game in its history.
HoopsVibe Very Quick Call: Bob Cousy stepped up and delivered.
The legendary Boston Celtics guard poured in 10 points during the overtime period and gave the East a 98-93 victory, also garnering All-Star MVP honors in the process.
This game was so long ago that George Mikan, the original "big man", played in it, going just six of 18 from the field and nearly fouling out. Dolph Schayes is the only other name I could recognize besides the aforementioned Cousy and Mikan. But what's interesting about that is that even the average NBA fan knows those names, which shows you the kind of impact they made on the game and the league.
In hindsight though, it's pretty sad that in an All-Star game with an extra period, the teams combined for just 191 points. 26 years later, the second OT All-Star game occurred with the West pulling out an eight point victory and the two teams combined for 280 points. The game had changed.
Aside from those two OT games, there have been four others, occurring in 1984, 1987, 1993 and 2003.
In '84, Isiah Thomas took home MVP honors after a 21 point, 15 assist, five rebound game. In '87, Seattle's Tom Chambers won the award while he was playing for the Supersonics, accumulating 34 points as the games leading scorer.
In '93, with the game held in Utah, John Stockton and Karl Malone were named co-MVP's of the game, which was as absurd and partial as it sounds.
In '03, the first double OT game in history occurred. Kevin Garnett was named the MVP after scoring a game high 37, making three straight baskets in the second OT. Interestingly, this was Michael Jordan's last All-Star game.
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I'm only aware of 3 major federal student loan managers who manage student debt for the federal government.
These are Navient, Sallie Mae, and mycampus loan.
Wikipedia reports that the U.S. has about $1.2 trillion dollars in student debt. That may be including all type of loans, including private.
Navient claims to manage $300 billion in student debt for the federal government. That means even counting private loans, Navient manages at least 25% of all student debt in the U.S., and it appears they are rather profitable.
From an outsider, it appears that the system is rigged. Why is there no competition from other financial companies to manage student loan debt? Why would Navient be awarded such a large contract by the government? Do these contracts ever go up for re-competition again? Yes, there is refinancing, but it loses the benefits of federal loans and usually requires a good salary (e.g. entry level programmer).
I am not an expert in this kind of business, but it doesn't appear to be rocket science. Nothing that Navient or these other providers are doing appears to be anything that others couldn't do. On the other hand, companies like Google bring actual value (I've used countless programming libraries and technologies developed by Googlers) and would be difficult to argue are easily replaceable. In fact, it appears these student loan managers are nothing more than glorified bill collectors.
Do these providers get bonuses for making sure loans stay current / get paid?
Do they get penalized if the default rate is too high for the loans they service? Which would be interesting, as it'd be the government who loses the money, since Navient didn't 'risk' any capital.
Is there a monopoly on federal student loan management?
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Re: Is there a monopoly on federal student loan management?
Navient is Sallie Mae's loan servicing division, so Sallie Mae is out of the servicing business (they may have residual loans, not sure how that worked).
And they aren't a monopoly, though the list of servicers is limited.
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And they aren't a monopoly, though the list of servicers is limited.
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Sorry , i was just posting that tasks, i obviously don't know their order lol.I'm thinking : Route Info : Some place...Speed Bumb : YodelingRoute Info : A snowy labrynthRoadblock : Gnome CurlingRoute Info : Sleeping Beauty's CastleDetour : Build or BeardPit Stop.
There's a brief shot of Mark/Bopper dealing with the witch in that clip. Since we've got multiple teams at the gingerbread task (Brenchel, Mark/Bopper, another team that is maybe Art/JJ) and the beard task (Joey/Danny, Dave/Rachel, Nary/Jaime), I think it's a good bet that the yodeling is a Speed Bump.
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Hope someone can find the rink!There is a BIG one in Fussen (BLZ) and another in on Malensteinweg in Unterammergau....
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The article starts off kind of tame, then boy oh boy does it pick up. Beyond weird. How the state attorney general can keep someone like this on staff…
Andrew Shirvell is an assistant attorney general who helped run Cox's last re-election campaign. But on his own time, he's the author of a blog he started last spring targeting Chris Armstrong, the openly gay president of the University of Michigan's student assembly.
With 27 postings to date, Shivell's blog is filled with language you'll never hear him use in a court room, calling Armstrong "nazi like," a recruiter for "the cult that is homosexuality," and a proponent of a "racist, anti-Christian agenda."
In other internet postings, Shirvell's language has been even stronger: calling Armstrong "Satan's representative on the Student Assembly," even posting a photograph with a swastika attached to his face.
"How under any circumstance, regardless of whether or not you agree with somebody's lifestyle, is something like that defensible," asked Jones.
"Well, he is promoting a satanic lifestyle, and he is a fierce advocate for it," said Shirvell.
"By being openly gay," asked Jones.
"No," said Shirvell. "By being somebody that's there to promote special rights for homosexuals at the cost of heterosexual students."
And get this from the AG:
Attorney General Mike Cox refused our repeated requests for an on-camera interview. Instead, issuing a two-line statement which reads, in part: "I don't agree with Mr. Shirvell's tactics, his judgment, or his word choice but nonetheless I recognize his non-work related blog is protected by our Constitution."
Then, late tonight amidst growing scrutiny, Cox issued a second statement, saying, "…Mr. Shirvell's immaturity and lack of judgment outside the office are clear."
Try "creepy." This doesn't sound like some guy simply voicing his opinions on a blog. It sounds like someone obsessed. It's creepy as hell. And really weird behavior for someone working for the state, in the attorney general's office.


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In Store….Domenico Vacca, NYC, Spring 2006
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Gorgeous shoe! where is the store located?
Elegant shoes indeed.
I'm sceptical of coats on forms. They are often "tailored" by a few clothespins in back. Better on a live human.
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Thank you!
It is much better to invest in a shoe like this that wiil last forever. I am used to buying Gucci, Prada or Helmut shoes and even though I get classic styles from them, these Vaccas have a beautiful timlessness that is more appealing from a fashion point of view these days. Thanks for opening my eyes to a new way of looking at fashion.
Terrific and even sexy shoe, one that would work equally well as a wingtip. (I'd wear that.)
How's do the other Vacca stores (Soho and I think Meatpacking) compare to the Madison Ave one in terms of merchandise, presentation and staff?
Rob, I've heard that Vacca's shoes are Stefanobi, but I have never seen them in person.
i do know domenico vacca stores carry stefano bi but the sole looks suspicious because it's too thin. but then again that S might stand for stefano. i still prefer branchini over any italian hand made shoes. you can only get branchini in bologna or japan. i noticed the prices went down from $2,000.00 USD to $450.00 – $500.00 USD
I've bought Branchini in the States, at Saks Fifth Avenue in SF around 2002 (the shoes did poorly and were booted after a couple of seasons, maybe even one). I could swear I've seen them at Wilkes Bashford as well.
I do agree that the thinness of the sole of the shoe pictured would be uncharacteristic of Stefano Bi.
Vacca does not sell re-badged Stefano Bi shoes. The shoes are made to his specifications. Like many Italian manufacturers that do private label/contract work, Stefano Bi are quite flexible in terms of what they can make. Hence, the thickness or thinness of the sole doesn't really tell you much about how who made the shoe.
Love the blog, keep up the great work.
those shoes are wicked!
branchini is not sold at wilkes anymore but they do carry Stefano bi. I went online and saw the latest stefanno branchini collections. If you think this pair is handsome wait until you view the collections. Here is the link:
i agree with you that stefano bi or berlutti are handsome shoes but i still prefer stefano branchini shoes. all shoes are handmade and hand polished and if you want to see the collection here's the link:
i would even suggest going to bologna and get a pair or two because it is worth the trip. not only you will get the best pair of shoes but also you will taste the best italian food in italy.
Not even Michaelangelo could have created anything this beautiful. Shoes apparently have replaced Manna from heaven! Is this a shoe "by" Vacca or "for" Vacca? Would someone please afford me the pleasure of an intoduction? What is the name/title of this exquisite work of art?
i just bought a pair of Domenico Vacca shoes. absolutely the BEST!!
That's definitely a Stafano Bi shoe–I have a pair I got at Wilkes Bashford in SF (on sale!) 6 months ago that have an identical sole and identical logo inprinted on the bottom.


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Kelsey Trotnic spent many evenings in her dorm room this past year thinking about spark plugs. It's not the sort of thing one expects of a college coed about to embark on a career as an elementary school teacher.
Trotnic, an elementary education major from Parsons, will graduate from Pittsburg State University on Saturday and in the fall will teach fifth grade social studies and communication arts at Carl Junction, Mo.
Over the past year, as she completed her work on an education degree, Trotnic operated a thriving business selling rare antique spark plugs on e-Bay. She used the money she earned to finance a student-teaching experience in Australia.
"At first I didn't think I was going to be able to go on the trip because of the cost," said Trotnic, who expects to graduate without the typical student debt. "I started raising money in April (2012) and I didn't have to make a commitment until the fall, so I thought I would see how much I could put together."
To launch her enterprise, Kelsey turned to her father, Rick Trotnic, who runs Trotnic Recycling in Parsons.
"He's a big collector," Kelsey said of her father.
Kelsey began by giving her dad $800 of her own money to invest. He bought an old grain truck, which Kelsey sold for $1,200. She reinvested her earnings in some antique engines and sold those, but her mainstay quickly became hard-to-find spark plugs that her father found and bought on her behalf.
"My dad probably has 1,000 in his collection," Trotnic said. "I only sold duplicates of ones he already had."
Trotnic quickly found buyers around the world. She enlisted her fiancé, Nate Roy, a technology and engineering education major from Webb City, Mo., to clean the spark plugs while she worked the e-Bay account and packaged and shipped the spark plugs to the buyers.
"We would do this in my dorm room," Trotnic said. "I was probably the only college student in America sitting in my dorm room with a bunch of old spark plugs."
Trotnic was successful, selling more than 300 antique spark plugs at prices ranging up to $200 each to collectors and people who were rebuilding antique engines.
This spring, Trotnic spent five weeks as a student teacher in Australia. She said the international experience she had was well worth the hard work she put into raising the money.
"I know I will have students in my classes who are from different countries and different cultures," Trotnic said. "(Now) I know what it feels like to be in a different culture."
She added that she would like to develop an Australian unit in her new classroom and that she collected a lot of material for that unit on her trip.
Trotnic said she couldn't have accomplished what she did without the help of her parents and fiancé. She said she is also thankful for scholarships, which paid for her tuition, allowing her to apply the money she made from her Internet business to her international student teaching experience.
Back in the U.S. and preparing for graduation, Kelsey is also planning her June wedding. After that, she said, there will be a couple of months before school starts and she will begin earning a salary.
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Ten Tips for Better Cruisesby Paul Motter
An invaluable list of suggestions on how to make your cruise the best it can possibly be.
The following article has some of the better tricks I have discovered over the years for getting the best possible cruise deal, and then getting the most out of your cruise. Even experienced cruisers can probably learn something new here, or remember something they may have forgotten.
Choosing a cruise is complicated because there are so many different styles available. But once you've settled on a particular cruise, that decision defines most of the elements of your vacation. It determines where you'll go, what you'll see, what you'll eat, your entertainment and your accommodations.
Selecting the right cruise line, ship and stateroom are all-important, but then you can then just relax - the toughest decisions are over. Okay, it isn't exactly that simple, but the convenience of cruising means many details are handled for you - giving you far more time to relax and enjoy your vacation.
For example, at the end of my Danube River cruise last month, we took a train to Salzburg. But here is what we really did in just two days:
- We took a taxi from the ship to go to the train station (15 Euro)
- We took a train from Nuremburg to Munich (120 Euro)
- We had 11 minutes to change trains (with five pieces of luggage)
- We took another train to Salzburg
- We hailed a taxi (8 Euro) and rode to our hotel (250 Euro)
- We walked around Salzburg
- We ate at a random restaurant that was overpriced (40 Euro)
- The next day we took a different hotel room because the street outside was too noisy
- We took a "Sound of Music" tour we had booked independently (110 Euro)
- We walked some more to find the Bier Garten - ate dinner (80 Euro)
- Went to the hotel, slept, woke up early
- Called a taxi and went to the airport (15 Euro)
If you take a cruise, all you have to do is get to the ship. All of your destinations, tour tickets, meals and entertainment are essentially delivered to you - you do not have pack and unpack, pay, tip, keep track of separate reservation tickets, etc.
But there are certain steps you need to take to get the most out of your cruise - and we outline them for you below:
1. Pick the Right Cruise Line
Each cruise line has a distinct personality. Carnival is known for having "Fun Ships," where the staff engages in impromptu antics such as singing in the dining room. They play games some people might find a bit silly, such as the "hairiest chest" or the "sexy legs" contests - men are the contestants.
So it is important to research each cruise line. You should know that Royal Caribbean has the most "hi-tech" ships, while Carnival has the zaniest. Princess is a solid, consistent "premium" cruise line but the ships are rather large; Holland America's ships are much smaller, but also quieter than some people like. Celebrity is hi-tech and has bigger ships, as long as you book the Solstice class vessels, and not the older and smaller Celebrity Century, which takes us the item #2:
2. Pick the Right Ship
Even within one cruise line there can be a variety of ships. Yes, they will all share certain characteristics of that cruise line, but on the more mainstream lines like Carnival or Royal Caribbean you will find newer ships that are very modern, but also older and smaller ships that are a very different experience. When a person says "we only sail on Carnival," it doesn't tell me that much. Carnival's "Fantasy class" ships are so old that only a small percentage of the staterooms have balconies and the décor is very dated. They are still "Fun Ships," but the experience is nothing like the brand new Carnival Magic, inaugurated a few months ago.
So after you choose a cruise line, investigate the individual ships. For Carnival and Royal Caribbean, any ship of less than 100,000 tons and built before 2000 is one I would normally not recommend unless you get them at bargain prices.
3. Be Date-Flexible for the Best Price
People who have never cruised might assume cruise ships operate like trains - the same ship repeats the same itinerary at a pre-set price all year round. Nothing could be further from the truth. Ships are sold using the "yield management" pricing strategy developed by the airlines, meaning the cost of any particular stateroom on any given ship changes constantly and depends on many factors, e.g.:
- How close in is the sail date?
- How sold out is the ship?
- How much competition is there in the region?
- What is the most they think you will pay?
In fact, ship pricing is very unpredictable. A year in advance, most sailings of a particular ship and itinerary will have a similar price structure, but as the cruise gets closer, the ships that are most sold out will become pricier. The ones that still have staterooms available will get cheaper. Waiting until the very last minute can get you a very good bargain, or it can cost you twice as much.
The way to get the best price on a cruise is first to look for regions where there are too many ships (this varies year to year). For example, this year the Mediterranean has lots of cabin availability, hence there are bargains. If you look at any one ship you may see one sail date where prices average 30 percent lower than the cruises before and after it. That happens when one single sailing has not sold well. The goal of every cruise line is to sell out every ship, and they will eventually sell all the cabins on that ship at almost any price.
By contrast, other ships may have only a few very expensive cabins available because they have already reached 100 percent of their capacity when you count third and fourth guests in cabins. A "full capacity ship" may still have empty cabins, but they double the price knowing some people will want to be on that specific ship (to sail with friends, perhaps) -- and if they don't sell those last cabins, the ship is still considered full.
4. Use a Travel Agent
We always recommend using a travel agent because it means you have to do far less research. A cruise-focused travel agent will know everything in this article already, and they will get you the best deal. The cruise line pays their commission, not you. Travel agents are also great intermediaries for you if you have a dispute with the cruise line. Furthermore, since travel agents buy in volume, they often have access to bargains and special offers you can't get on your own.
5. Book Later for the Best Price, Early for the Best Selection
There are some advantages to booking early, and other advantages to booking later. I said above you can get the best prices once the cruise line drops prices on a ship that is not selling quickly. Lower prices will show up about three to six months before the sail date. But if you have your heart set on a balcony cabin facing the back of the ship, you must book early. Suites sell out first. But if you are not that particular about your stateroom, then wait until about two months before the sail date and book the cheapest cruise you can find.
6. Pre-book Restaurants and Shore Tours Online Pre-Cruise
These days it is possible to book shore tours and specialty restaurants on the cruise line's web site well before the cruise. In the old days, many people stood in line on the ship the first day of their cruise to book certain tours and to secure restaurant seating on specific nights. Now almost everything on your cruise can be reserved before departure by going to the cruise line web site. If you want to make sure you can schedule the shows and tours you want on the days you want them, that is another reason to book your cruise early (six months to a year in advance).
The people who squeeze the most fun into a cruise are those who plan out every single day. They do not book the $30-per-person restaurant the same night the main dining room is serving lobster at no extra cost (usually at the captain's "farewell dinner"). The same people might take two tours in one port call - an early one and a late one. They might also reserve a table for two in the best restaurant for their anniversary. If you plan ahead, be sure to make a schedule to map out each day of your cruise.
7. Arrive the Night Before
During Hurricane Irene last week, we heard about ships forced to sail from San Juan three hours early, and from New York City at 1:00 p.m. Weather causes problems. If you are flying from Salem, Oregon, to Miami, but your connection is in Chicago, you could get stranded in Chicago due to bad weather.
So it is always a good idea to arrive at your cruise port a day early and stay in a hotel. This is especially true when flying to Florida from the west coast, because you lose three hours just from the time zone conversion. What's more, flights are often late, and rush hour traffic in Miami can be awful.
The only exception is if you are flying overnight to Europe and will be arriving before 9:00 a.m. But I often book a hotel even in Europe if my flight arrives at noon or later and the ship is a fair distance away.
8. Pack Lighter
In the old days, it was not uncommon for people to bring three bags apiece. There were plenty of porters in airports to help you. But these days, airlines charge $25 to $50 per extra checked bag. You can only carry on one bag, and planes are far fuller than they used to be, so you may find yourself unable to stow your bag.
In addition, ships are not as formal as they used to be, so you just don't need the multiple suit jackets, slacks, neckties, high heels, girdles, etc. that people used to bring. Pack light and save time and money.
9. Ships Tours are More Convenient but Cost More
When it comes to seeing the sights in port, you can go on your own and save money if you know exactly what you want to see. If you hire a cab, always negotiate the price first for going and returning. There are also independent tour companies in each port.
But the safest bet is to book your tours through the cruise ship. The reason is simple peace of mind. You will know exactly where to meet your tour group, and you know you will return to the ship before it sails.
We used to tell people that if you book a tour through the cruise line, the ship will not set sail without you. But some people thought this was a license to hold up a tour as long as they wanted. Certain people took a tour to the Atlantis Hotel near Nassau and disappeared when it was time to return to the ship. They believed the ship would wait for them because they booked a ship tour.
That was not what we meant. That tour guide looked for the laggards for about 20 minutes before telling the bus driver to return the people he had to the ship. They got back onboard just as the gangway was going up. The missing people were left behind.
10. Travel Insurance
Finally, the best advice we can give you -- although many people still don't do it -- is to buy travel insurance. The costs range from 4 to 10 percent of your vacation cost per person, but the insurance will reimburse you if an emergency causes you to cancel the cruise, or if you miss the ship due to an airline problem. The insurance will pay to get you a hotel and to get you to the ship in the next port of call. It is most valuable when you have a medical emergency and need to be taken back to the U.S. under medical supervision. A medical evacuation like that can cost more than $100,000, but insurance will pay for it.
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Lemon Shrimp Pasta with Tomatoes
I initially found this recipe on a site called BevCooks. I made some subtle changes and it is always incredibly fresh, light and delicious. Last night I served it with warm garlic bread and salad for a (pre) Valentines day meal for two at home. It always comes through for a special occasion, but works just as well for a quick weeknight meal too.
*This was a perfect amount for the two of us, but you can always double the recipe if you're serving more…
-1/2 pound extra large shrimp (I buy pre-thawed and cooked already)
-2 tsp lemon zest
-1 pinch crushed red pepper
-1 sprig fresh oregano, leaves removed and chopped
-2 basil leaves chopped
-2 Tbs. extra-virgin olive oil
-2 cloves garlic, minced
-1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
-2 Tbs. lemon juice
-1/2 pound angel hair pasta (1/2 the box!)
-salt and freshly ground pepper
1. In a bowl, toss shrimp with crushed red pepper, half the lemon zest, chopped basil and oregano and salt and pepper. Let sit while you start the rest.
2. Heat olive oil in medium skillet over medium-high heat and add the garlic, tomatoes and other half of the lemon zest. Sprinkle with salt/pepper and saute for about 2-3 minutes.
3. Add shrimp to the skillet and sear on each side (about 2 mins on each side)
4. Cook pasta for 5 minutes in pot of salted water. Reserve 1/2 cup of the pasta water.
5. Mix pasta into skillet and toss with a squeeze of fresh lemon juice and salt and pepper to taste. Add in your remaining pasta water and stir all together.
6. Serve with fresh parmesan cheese.
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Officially jump-starting a United States trek that will include stops in Washington, D.C., Redstone Arsenal and Fort Bragg, Eurocopter showcased its X3 demonstrator on Wednesday in Grand Prairie, Texas. The technology prototype appeared to a crowd of hundreds—including operators, government officials and spectators—following a parade of other helicopter types at the American Eurocopter facility.
Eurocopter President & CEO Lutz Bertling said that the manufacturer would continue to "push the envelope" and top the 232 knots true airspeed (KTAS) reached during developmental flights in 2011. Also joining Bertling at the ceremony were American Eurocopter President Marc Paganini, HAI President Marc Zuccaro and hundreds of company employees, as well as suppliers, operators from the offshore, law enforcement and EMS communities, elected officials and a crowd of hundreds of local enthusiasts.
X3 during a fly-by to kick off its U.S. summer tour. Courtesy of Eurocopter
Preceding the entrance of the X3 was a fly-in lineup that included an older model Alouette, an AS350, a Metro Aviation-operated BO105, American Eurocopter's EC120 trainer, a Texas Department of Public Safety EC145, an EC155 from the University of Michigan, Era Helicopter's EC225, a U.S. Coast Guard MH-65C, and two U.S. Army UH-72A Lakotas. The Alouette, which first flew in 1955, arrived alongside the X3 in greeting the crowd. Following the flight display, pilot Herve Jammayrac lifted the X3 back into the skies for a flight demonstration.
Planned stops during the X3's U.S. summer tour include Redstone Army Arsenal Airfield in Alabama; Fort Bragg's Simmons Army Airfield in North Carolina; the Manassas Regional Airport in Virginia; and various military sites around Washington, D.C. The manufacturer has set up a dedicated web page to track the X3's trip through the United States.
Rotor & Wing Editor-at-Large Ernie Stephens test flew the X3 on Monday. Check www.rotorandwing.com in the coming days for more photos and a video of the demonstrator in action, and look for Ernie's Pilot Report online and in the August 2012 print edition of the magazine.Related: Airframe News
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Peter Suderman, our colleague over at Reason.com, points out recent testimony by Congressional Budget Office (CBO) director Douglas Elmendorf that the $800 billion stimulus package passed in February 2009 will have a "net negative effect on the growth of GDP over 10 years." This is quite notable (and Suderman links to the video testimony; listen for Elmendorf's comments around 1:20 mark.) It's also worth expanding on a little.
The effects of the Stimulus program are being debated (see my extensive critique here from 2010), but the fact that the CBO recognizes the potential for all that money dumped into the economy becoming a drag in the long run implies at least their forecasting models recognize spending has to be productive in order for it to really lift the economy. Much of the support for the Stimulus package was based on a very crude Keynesian economic model that presumed that the problem with the economy was almost exclusively an artifact of depressed consumer spending. In this naive model, all you need to do is pump money into the economy so that people spend it. And, most forecasting models, don't differentiate between productive and unproductive spending. So, literally digging ditches and filling them back in again generates "positive" economic impact. (See also my comments on economic multipliers at Planetizen.com for more on this.) Of course, as national unemployment continues to hover around 9 percent, we can pretty much recognize the crude model didn't work.
In the real world growth occurs when productivity is enhanced and investment is directed by entrepreneurs into the production of goods and services that people want. Whether the product or service has been determined by a bureaucrat to be "shovel ready" is irrelevant. It's not the spending per se that drives the economy, it's the succesful investment of resources in goods and services that improve our standard of living and quality of life in meaningful and tangible ways on a broad level that boosts economic growth. That's why Apple's investment in iPads and iPods is productive investment and boosts growth while unnecessarly replacing curbs and sidewalks because they are shovel ready does not.
The hard-core truth is that the economy is in fact going through a major realignment. The housing market is in shambles, and, as my colleague Anthony Randazzo points out, we probably have a way to go before it really bottoms out. Developers, builders and buyers were responding to the wrong price signals for over a decade, creating a massive housing bubble. But the housing market is only part of the problem. Mixed into the housing market debacle is a financial system seriously out of whack. Until the financial market sorts itself out, capital won't be available for consumers or businesses to spend at the levels before the housing bust. And, it's going to take a while before businesses have a good read on what consumers really want.
The good news is that if the government can keep from jumping back into the market too soon and further distort prices, the economy should be on a firmer foundation for sustained long-term growth. That's another way of saying the short-term spending focus of the Stimulus Package set us back more than it pushed us forward. It may have solved a political problem at the time, but it probably did more to delay the necessary re-adjustments than speed them up.
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Prokudin-Gorskii was given the task of capturing the old Russia in images, on behalf of the czar Nicolas II in 1909. This made him a witness to change. With his color photographs, he created extensive documentation, a remembrance of a space and a time that were about to vanish forever.
The period during which Prokudin-Gorskii worked - the late nineteenth century and the first two decades of the twentieth century - was a period of social, political, and technological upheavals. Some of these changes were slow to establish themselves, and their future consequences could therefore barely be guesses at; others, however, could not be ignored. The old Russia of Tolstoi and Chekhov was gradually passing away.
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Birders flock to Rockport for nature tourism
ROCKPORT — The great white bird stalked regally from one end of the pond to the other.
Smaller birds followed in the wake of its high-kneed kick, but it paid them hardly any mind.
Two boats nearby bristled with lenses and scopes, as birders eyed the majestic whooping crane.
Thousands of birders come to the Texas coastline every year to look for whooping cranes and the more than 630 other kinds of birds in the area. Nature tourism is the largest and fastest-growing section of visitor activities in the Corpus Christi metropolitan area, according to a 2012 report on tourism performed by the city's Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Some 43 percent of the 7.1 million visitors to the Corpus area in 2011 were for nature-related activities, including birding, compared to 12 percent for the rest of the state.
The combination of migration patterns and ranging zones on the Texas coast attracts a huge variety of birds and other wildlife.
"A lot of the birding people I talked to got really excited that I was coming down here," Katie Walker, a University of Vermont student in wildlife biology, said. "There were a lot of jealous birders."
Walker and several other University of Vermont students were touring Texas during Spring Break to view its different types of ecosystems and animals.
The students were keeping a list of the birds and animals they saw. After just a couple of days, the group had seen nearly 50 different types of birds and were hoping to hit 200.
Even birds that South Texans may consider pests are new and exciting to touring birders.
"The great-tailed grackles are awesome compared to our grackles, as annoying as they may be to locals here," Catherine Griset, another student, said. "The tail is awesome."
Hard-core birders are often list-makers — tracking how many and what kind of birds they've seen and where. Lists can be made by state or region, but a popular method is the life list — how many birds are seen in one's lifetime.
"You get people who come to this area for their life list," said Miles Phillips, an assistant professor at Texas A&M specializing in nature tourism.
Phillips said Rockport and Corpus Christi can be places where birders have century days, meaning they see more than 100 types of birds.
Birders deal in minute differences — the slight coloration of chest feathers, the angle of a bill, the swatch on a neck.
If there is one thing people hope to check off their list in the Coastal Bend, it is the endangered whooping cranes that stop in the area every winter.
As our tour boat drifted slowly to a halt in one channel, a pair of adult whooping cranes and a russet-colored chick high-stepped across a small pond, dipping their beaks in looking for food.
Even for experienced birders, a family of cranes is a rare sight. The boat creaked as everyone rushed to the front or top deck, pulling out huge zoom lenses and telescopes.
"This is closer than we've ever seen them before," said Sam Dinsmore, who was on the tour for the third time.
Dinsmore, a volunteer at the Armand Bayou Nature Center in Houston, has been birding for more than 25 years in areas as diverse as England and Trinidad and Tobago.
She still found new additions to her life list on this trip, including a peregrine falcon perched on a beach in the estuary.
Birds aren't the only sight worth seeing on the Texas coast, though. As the tour boat churned through the channels, a group of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins frolicked nearby.
One threw a fish into the air over and over, chasing it like a cat with a toy.
Land animals are just as plentiful. An alligator snoozed by the side of the road in the Aransas National Wildlife refuge. Further down the road, deer nibbled grass, raccoons hunted through wetlands, and feral hogs dug into fields.
"It's overwhelming in a wonderful way," said Walker, the Vermont student.
Larry Jordan, a wildlife guide for the city of Corpus Christi, recommended a birding guide, an annotated checklist and a pair of 7x35 binoculars to get a start.
Numerous parks in Corpus Christi, which has won the title of Birdiest City in America 10 years running, hold regular birding and wildlife walks and feature boardwalks over estuaries for people to experience the wildlife.
"I come out two or three times a week just to watch them. I just come out, and I sit and I watch them and I become one with them," said Patricia Land of Corpus Christi, who was at the Hans and Pat Suter Wildlife Refuge.
"We're very blessed to have all the things in nature here."
Joshua Trudell is a freelance writer and photographer.


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Shock means that your body and its functions are shutting down. The body goes into shock when it can't get enough blood to the vital organs like your heart or brain. This may be caused by a sudden illness, an injury, or bleeding. Sometimes even a mild injury will lead to shock.
Shock is a life-threatening condition. If a person develops signs of shock, call 911 or other emergency services and begin home treatment immediately.
Signs of shock include:
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