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By Nicolas Parasie
DUBAI—Emirates Airline said profit plunged in its just-ended fiscal year, slammed by a series of headwinds from weak business travel to a drop in bookings to the U.S. related to recent Trump administration travel directives.
Emirates said the turbulence will force it to withhold dividend payments to its Dubai government-controlled owner for the first time in more than 20 years—a sharp turnaround for an airline that has grown in those two decades into the world's largest international carrier by passengers.
Net profit for the fiscal year ending March 31 fell to $340 million from $1.94 billion the year before, while revenue was flat at $23.2 billion.
Emirates bookings to the U.S. slumped in January when President Donald Trump imposed a ban on immigration from several Muslim-majority countries. Bookings have been slow to recover even though U.S. courts have suspended the ban over concerns about its legality.
The airline, known for its luxury offerings in first and business class, said it won't pay a dividend to its owner, the Investment Corporation of Dubai, for the first time since fiscal 1996. It is a major setback for one of the world's most ambitious carriers which has stoked controversy for its rapid expansion and ability to steal traffic from U.S. and European rivals.
Emirates Chairman Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum said the airline's investments in recent years helped it "weather the destabilizing events which have impacted travel demand during the year."
Sheikh Ahmed cited a long list of issues for the airline, including Europe's immigration challenges and terror attacks, Britain's vote to leave the European Union and new U.S. travel policies. The sluggish oil-and-gas industry and its effect on business confidence in the region in addition to currency devaluations in parts of Africa were further difficulties, he said.
Emirates' profit decline underlines how the Trump administration's efforts to limit immigration from several Muslim-majority countries and ban laptops on some U.S.-bound flights have taken a toll on airlines in the Middle East. Emirates last month said it would cut the number of its flights to five U.S. cities in response to U.S. policies.
"One of the biggest challenges we faced, were the actions taken by the U.S. government relating to the issuance of entry visas, heightened security vetting, and restrictions on electronic devices in aircraft cabins," according to Emirates' annual report. "All of which had a direct impact on consumer interest and demand for air travel into the U.S., one of our biggest growth potential markets," it said.
The Dubai-based carrier is the oldest and biggest of the three major Persian Gulf airlines that also include Etihad Airways and Qatar Airways. In the past decade, they have invested heavily in new planes and rapidly expanded their route network across the globe, using major and newly-built airports in cities such as Dubai and Doha.
The immigration and electronics limitations imposed by the U.S. have added to a string of problems already affecting the Mideast carriers. The U.S. government is considering expansion of the ban to other regions, including Europe.
The sharp drop in commodity prices since mid-2014 has hit Emirates' premium bookings in the oil-rich region hard, as energy and related industries cut back on expensive tickets.
Rapid fleet growth at Emirates and its rivals has also led to a glut of seats for sale in the region, depressing ticket prices for economy class. Its own fleet grew by eight planes to 259 long-haul jets. Emirates is the biggest buyer ofBoeing Co. 777 airliners and Airbus SE A380 superjumbos.
Amid those hurdles, Emirates and Abu Dhabi rival Etihad have slowed deliveries of some new planes. Both companies have also cut staff, an unusual move after years of aggressive expansion.
Emirates carried 56.1 million passengers during the year, 8.1% more than the year before.


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From historical Roman monuments, incredible canals that snake their way through medieval bridges, whizzing vespas, grand coliseums, and Baroque churches – Italy is as diverse as it gets. From the colorful village-covered islands, soaring mountains, gorgeous piazzas and historical forums – you'll find everything you can possibly want in Italy. The country is dotted with treasures, and every nook and cranny holds the promise of the unveiling of a new secret attraction. Spending ten days in Italy is a great way to get a gist of what the country can offer – from Rome to Florence to Venice. This Italy itinerary starts and ends in Rome, but you'll get enough time to explore the country in ten days. Here's an itinerary to help you plan your trip and see all the main attractions that Italy has to offer.
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A 10-day Italy itinerary
Rome – Florence – Tuscany – Cinque Terre – Venice
10 days in Italy – Day 1 Arrive in Rome
How to get from and to the airport of Rome
Rome has two airports, Fiumicino and Ciampino.
From/to Fiumicino airport:
Fiumicino airport is only 26 km away from Rome.
The Leonardo Express is a direct train that connects Fiumicino airport and Termini Station in Rome in 30 minutes. Tickets costs 14 euros each way. Remember to validate your ticket in the machine before entering the train. Tickets are valid for 90 minutes.
Regional FL1 Train connects the airport with other stations in Rome (not Termini) like Tiburtina. From there you can take the metro to the city centre. Tickets costs 8 euros. You will need another ticket for the metro (1,50 euros) Remember to validate your ticket in the machine before entering the train. Tickets are valid for 90 minutes.
Shuttle Bus:
The cheapest way to travel between Fiumicino airport and the Rome's city centre is by a shuttle bus that makes 2 stops in the centre (Termini Station and Piazza Cavour near the Vatican). Journey time 55 minutes depending on traffic.
Tickets costs 6 € one way and you can buy them online.
Book your shuttle bus from and to Fiumicino airport here.
You will find taxi stands outside all the airport terminals. Always use the official taxi services and do not take offers from drivers inside the terminal. There is a fixed price of 48 € each way.
Private Airport Transfer with Welcome Pick Ups
The easiest and most comfortable way to get to the city centre is by a private transfer service like Welcome Pick Ups. It costs exactly the same as a regular taxi, only now you will have already prepaid for it, your driver will be waiting for you at the arrivals hall holding a sign with your name on it, a bottle of water and a city map. You will not have to worry at all about the language as all drivers speak English. There is a fixed price of 48 € each way.
Click here for more information and to book your trip.
From/to Ciampino airport:
Shuttle Bus:
The cheapest way to travel between Ciampino airport and the Rome's city centre is by a shuttle bus that makes a stop to Termini Station. Journey time 40 minutes depending on traffic.
Tickets costs 5 € one way and you can buy them online.
Book your shuttle bus from and to Ciampino airport here.
Private Airport Transfer with Welcome Pick Ups
The easiest and most comfortable way to get to the city centre is by a private transfer service like Welcome Pick Ups. It costs exactly the same as a regular taxi, only now you will have already prepaid for it, your driver will be waiting for you at the arrivals hall holding a sign with your name on it, a bottle of water and a city map. You will not have to worry at all about the language as all drivers speak English. There is a fix price of 46 € each way.
Click here for more information and to book your private transfer.
Your first day will be your arrival in Rome and I recommend settling down in the hotel, unpacking and relaxing a little bit before you embark on your mission of exploration around Italy. Settle in your hotel, and then spend a little bit of time exploring the neighborhood…After all, nothing is better than getting lost in a quintessential Italian neighborhood!
Where to stay in Rome
Royal Rooms – Via Del Corso
You could stay at Royal Rooms which is about 201m away from Via Margutta and enjoys all types of amenities – from shopping, nearby plazas, cafes and things to do, along with amenities like a bidet, shower, hairdresser and much more.
Check out the latest prices and more details at Hotels.com or Booking.com
Palazzo Medusa
Located just outside Palazzo Medusa, this property is one of the best in Rome and is a lot of people's top pick there. Not only do you get a large TV, bathroom, hairdryer and more, you also get to enjoy a wonderful gastronomic experience, bike rental, and super comfy beds!
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Navona Colors Hotel
The thing about Navona is that it sells well and it sells fast. It's an incredible choice for travelers – there is the food, the city walks around, and bike rental. But there's also the unbeatable location of being 192 m from Piazza Navona. You'll thoroughly enjoy the Baroque architecture of the hotel.
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Piazza Del Gesu Luxury Suites
This is where comfort and slide go hand in hand, and the hotel itself has a hard to compete with location. Located directly on the Piazza Navona, this hotel is a 5 minute walk away from history – the Pantheon… You'll also enjoy free city views, free WI-FI, furnishings, and everything you need.
Check out the latest prices and more details at Hotels.com or Booking.com
You might be interested in: Where to stay in Rome by a local.
Head over to the Piazza Navona, a gorgeous piazza peppered with Baroque palaces, shops, cafes and lavish fountains. The piazza has an unmistakable 17th century vibe and you can check out the Egyptian obelisk, the different fountains!
Head over to Piazza di Spagna
Piazza di Spagna is known for its charming vibe that takes over you with its drenched-in-golden-hues buildings, romantic steps and iconic fountains. Add to this an unstoppable bustling vibe and you've got yourself an enchanting place to be in.
Fontana di Trevi
Whether you have 10 days in Italy or two, the Fontana di Trevi is one of Italy's iconic symbols. Despite the fact that you will be elbowing your way through hoards of tourists, the view of the magical fountains with its Baroque art, sculptures and figures is enough to make you fall in love.
Piazza del Popolo
Eccentric, harmonious and quite enchanting – the Piazza del Popolo is an effortless blend of Egyptian, Spanish and Italian architecture all mixed together. You'll find orientalist influences throughout the piazza juxtaposed with the remains of a Roman church.
10 day Italy itinerary – Day 2 Rome – Florence
On your second day out of the ten day Italy itinerary you'll be heading to Florence, one of the most quintessentially beautiful European cities. Head over to Rome's Termini Station so you can take the train to Florence. Of course, the earlier you book your ticket, the better the price is going to end up being!
Take the fast train from Roma Termini to Firenze S M Novella which takes an hour and 30 minutes. For more information: http://www.trenitalia.com/tcom-en
Where to stay in Florence
Tourist House Battistero
This 15th-century structure now serves as a beautiful hotel located near the Ponte Vecchio and the famous Scudieri café. The rooms give you a wonderful view of the city's iconic buildings.
Check out the latest prices and more details at Hotels.com or Booking.com
C-Hotels Ambasciatori
This 4-star hotel is located near many local popular attractions. It's a very modern and chic hotel in the midst of all the history surrounding it.
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Plaza Hotel Lucchesi
This elegant 4-star hotel was built in 1860 and is located near the Arno River. This hotel gives you a fantastic view over the city.
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C-Hotels Joy
Located near the Santa Maria Novella, this hotel mixes both modern and traditional elements together. It's also located near the train station which can help make traveling around the city easier.
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After you arrive at Florence, take an hour to settle in the hotel, maybe have something to eat and then get ready to explore the city with unparalleled charm and beauty.
Duomo Complex
The Duomo complex soars magnificently over the city with its Renaissance dome dominating the skyline, ready to allure you in everyway. It is one of the biggest churches in the world and the mixture of Renaissance and Gothic architecture along with the intricate marble spires and statues is enough to keep you amused for a while!
Tip: There is a dress code to enter the church. Women must wear clothes covering their knees and their elbows. Men must wear long trousers.
Tip: The queues to enter the Duomo and to climb the Cupola are long and you might have to wait for hours to enter. A great way to skip the lines is by taking a guided tour or if you are using the Firenze Card (The Firenze Card works like a three-day fast pass to your favorite attractions. This is a great option for visitors trying to pack as much sightseeing into a Florence vacation as it lets them skip the long queue lines at most of the most popular sites. It is a great buy if you are staying in Firenze for 3 days).
Here are some recommended tours of the Duomo:
Duomo Guided Tour & Reserved Cupola Access
Guided Tour of the Duomo Including the Rooftop and View the Terraces
Piazza del Republica
Head over to what was the ancient forum of the original Roman settlement. You'll find reflections of the old Roman military encampment, you'll get to revel in the neoclassical pieces, relish some delicious coffee by outdoor cafes or explore the different basilicas.
Fontana del Porcellino
This square is famous mostly for one thing – its Wild Boar statue. If you have 10 days in Italy, you definitely have time to the bronze boar and take pictures! Legend has it that the boar enjoys magic powers…
Piazza della Signoria
If you have an hour in Florence, then spend it in Piazza della Signoria. A striking square that dominates Florence, this square is peppered with gorgeous statues that hold mythical legends, and tourists flock to see the Neptune Fountain, the Uffizi Gallery, and copies of Michelangelo statues.
Ponte Vecchio
What is Italy without its picturesque, postcard worthy bridges? Florence itself is a painting that has come to life, but the Ponte Vecchio is exactly what you'd expect to see in a postcard. A charming, simple bridge that holds thousands of years of history, the bridge remains unchanged since the Roman crossing.
Basilica di Santa Croce
Marble intertwined with a neo-Gothic façade and Franciscan architecture – the Basilica is quite simply a work of art. The church is mostly known for the tombs of Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo and Ghiberti along with some incredible frescoes by Giotto! The Basilica was recently closed because of an accident.
10 days in Italy – Day 3 Explore Florence
Your journey to Florence in the 10 day Italy itinerary is still not over. On the third day, you'll get to explore the art and cultural side of Florence.
Galleria dell'Accademia
An unparalleled collection of Florentine paintings that span from the 13th until the 18th century, this gallery contains frescoes that were supposed to have decorated Michelangelo's tomb, along with breath-taking statues, frescoes and sculptures.
Tip: There are usually long queues for the Accademia. To save time you can either buy a timed entrance ticket beforehand or book a guided tour.
Here are some suggestions:
Timed Entrance Ticket to the Accademia
Skip the Long Queue with a Guided Tour of the Accademia
Uffizi's collection is incredibly vast, rich and diverse, so you might need to free yourself for a few hours so you can fully enjoy the grandeur of the gallery. There are over 45 halls with artwork spread amongst them, so a visit to this prominent museum would include Renaissance art, paintings by Michelangelo, controversial pieces and more.
Tip: The queues for the Uffizi are long. To save time you can either buy a timed entrance ticket beforehand or book a guided tour.
Here are some great options:
Timed Entrance Ticket to the Uffizi
Skip the long queue with a guided tour of the Uffizi
If you are planning to visit both the Uffizi and the Accademia you might be interested in these:
See the Uffizi and Accademia in One Morning with a skip the line guided tour
See the Uffizi in the morning and the Accademia in the afternoon with this skip the line guided tour
Palazzo Pitti
The Palazzo Pitti is the largest museum in Florence, and despite the fact that you'll be visiting it right after Uffizi, you'll still want to explore all what it has to offer. This is where you'll get to explore the most exclusive forms of Renaissance art.
Watch the sunset from Piazza Michelangelo
The Piazzale Michelangelo is world renowned for the stunning vistas its offers of Florence and the surroundings. In the morning, you get to see the major attractions and at night you get to see the flickering lights of Florence. The best view if of course, the sunset view where you even have the chance of seeing monks sing and chant right before the sun sets.
10 day Italy itinerary – Day 4 Tuscany Villages or Cinque Terre
One of my favorite things about Italy is how compact the entire country is, and taking day trips from one city to another is as easy as taking the metro from one attraction to the other. On your fourth day out of your ten days in Italy, I recommend that you take a day trip to either San Gimignano, Siena Chianti together or to Lucca and Pisa.
By going to San Gimignano, Siena Chianti you get to experience the true meaning of medieval towns, relish in vast wine regions and rolling hills and immerse yourself in quaint little Italian towns. By heading over to Lucca and Pisa, you get to see the stunning symbols of Italy and revel in the major touristic vibe of the cities.
Alternatively, you can make a day trip from Florence to the colourful villages of the Cinque Terre. You can reach the villages by train from Florence, learn more about it on my one day guide to Cinque Terre or by joining a guided tour. There are three options one that includes the villages of Cinque Terre and Portovenere, another that includes Pisa and the villages of the Cinque Terre and lastly one that includes only the villages of Cinque Terre. The choice is yours.
You might be interested in: One day in Pisa.
10 days in Italy – Day 5 Florence to Venice
After going back to Florence, it's time to head to the magical city of Venice – one of the most delightful cities in Europe and definitely one of the most unique. I recommend that you take the train from Santa Maria Novela station in Florence to Venezia Santa Lucia, and that you most definitely book early.
By booking early you get to enjoy lower prices and better rates. The whole journey will take about 2 hours and 5 minutes. For more information: http://www.trenitalia.com/tcom-en
Where to stay in Venice
Hotel Al Codega
This hotel has been rated as one of the best over and over again and it's a great choice if you want to immerse yourself in a little bit of art and culture. This hotel has one of the best locations in Venice and also offers the normal amenities – heaters, flat-screen TV, and much more.
Check out the latest prices and more details at Hotels.com or Booking.com
Hotel Rio
Hotel Rio is right in the center of Venice, so of course you're in extreme proximity to attractions like the Rialto Bridge and Venezia Santa Lucia Train Station. This is a perfect place to stay in if you're in Venice to shop and the hotel has a satellite TV, WiFi, toiletries and a hairdryer.
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B&B Bloom Settimo Cielo
Romantically beautiful and architecturally impressive, this hotel is dubbed as one of the top picks of Venice. The hotel enjoys some of the best hotel architecture in Venice and you also get all the amenities you might need at a hotel. As for local location, the hotel is on Campiello Santo Stefano.
Check out the latest prices and more details at Booking.com
Hotel Ai Reali – Small Luxury Hotels of the World
Enjoying incredible Baroque and neoclassical architecture and adorned with marbles, this hotel is also another pick for Venice. Apart from the restaurant on site, the hotel is a 3-minute walk away from St. Mark's Basilica and all rooms come with every amenity you may need.
Check out the latest prices and more details at Hotels.com or Booking.com
After you settle in the hotel, it's time to get completely enamored by the city of Venice.
Piazza San Marco
Start your visit to Venice by visiting its bustling heart and one of Italy's most well-known and iconic plazas. You'll be in a plaza that dates hundreds of years ago with a typical Venetian atmosphere, brick towers, gorgeous buildings, and beautiful bridges.
Companile di San Marco
This tall brick bell tower soars over the Piazza majestically and the view from up there is even better as you get to enjoy gorgeous panoramas of the piazza.
St Mark's Cathedral
The basilica dates back hundrends of years ago and still stands in its magnificent glory. The façade is incredibly detailed with intricate designs and sumptuous designs and the interior is an ode to art with golden altars, mosaics, a treasury and a lot more.
Tip: To avoid the long queues book a skip the line guided tour to St Mark's Cathedral .
Doge's Palace
After you're done exploring the basilica, head over to the extravagant palace of Doge. A byzantine-style façade is complimented with thousands of paintings inside, lacy patterns, art sculptures and Venetian architecture. You'll walk over the Bridge of Sighs and get lost in the Hall of the Great Council!
Tip: Another place with long queues in Venice. To avoid them you can either buy a priority admission ticket or book a skip the line guided tour to the palace.
If you are planning to visit both St. Mark's Cathedral and the Doge's Palace this skip the line 2 hour walking tour will save you both time and money.
Rialto Bridge
The Rialto Bridge is definitely the iconic symbol of the city of Venice, with gorgeous canals that juxtapose the architecture of the bridge. Colorful stalls pepper the bridge, and attractions surround the entire area. It's a place where you get to revel in the romanticism surrounding you.
10 day Italy itinerary – Day 6 Explore Venice
Accademia Galleries
The thing about Italy is that it's teeming with all types of art and Venice is no exception. Head over to the Accademia Galleries for incredible collections of Venetian art that date back to the fourteenth century and span all types of different artists and influences.
Take a tour around the Venetian Lagoon
The venetian lagoon boasts incredible scenery and history and it's worth spending some time exploring the lagoon. Take a cruise between the Venetian islands where you'll get to really take in the scenery, the simplicity of life, the traditions and the history and a lot more.
Find here more information and book a cruise to Murano, Burano and Torcello islands.
Get lost in Venice
After you're done with the tour, it's worth exploring and getting lost in the quintessential winding alleys of Venice. Cobblestone streets, bridges, canals, and unique architecture will keep you wanting to go back for more.
Gondola Ride
Of course, your Venice experience would not be complete without the renowned canals that you can explore. Take a gondola ride to experience the true authenticity of a Venetian life, and float around Venice's facades reflected unto the waters.
Find here more information and book a 30-minute gondola ride.
You might be interested in: 2 days in Venice.
10 days in Italy – Day 7 Venice to Rome
Take the fast train from Venice to Rome, which will take you about 3 hours and 45 minutes. Make sure you book in advance for better rates!
After you arrive again in Rome, it's time for you to enjoy the rest of what this vast and diverse city has to offer. First, settle in your hotel and them continue your journey through Rome.
This is most definitely one of the most attractions in all of Italy – the epitome of grand and the actual reflection of just how important and influential Rome was back then. Walking around the Colosseum to me was an incredible experience due to the fact that I was surrounded by over 2000 years of history.
Opening hours: Every day: 8:30am until one hour before sunset, 25 December and 1 January: closed
Combined ticket to visit the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine:
Adults: 12€
European Union members (18 – 24): 7.50€
Children (ages less than 17) and seniors (over 65) members of the EU: free entrance
The Roman Forum
To really understand how powerful and influential Rome was back then, I visited the Roman Forum. It was the most important sight in all of Europe back then and you can see the faint reflection of temples, palaces, stalls and the signs that this was a bustling heart of the city.
Opening hours: Every day: 8:30am until one hour before sunset, 25 December and 1 January: closed
Combined ticket to visit the Colosseum, the Roman Forum and the Palatine:
Adults: 12€
European Union members (18 – 24): 7.50€
Children (ages less than 17) and seniors (over 65) members of the EU: free entrance
Tip: The Roman Forum and the Colosseum were incredible places to visit, and the most important monuments in Rome, so needless to say, the lines were massive. Luckily, we bought skip the line tickets that helped make our tour so much easier and convenient.
Find here more information about the skip the line tour to the Colosseum and Ancient Rome
The Pantheon
Needles to say, Rome is simply teeming with historical attractions and the best preserved out of all them is the Pantheon. The walls date back to 125 A.D, the oculus inside is incredibly impressive that even Da Vinci himself studied it and the dome with its designs stand out incredibly.
Opening hours: Mon – Sat: 9 am – 6.30 pm and Sun: 9 am –1 pm.
After checking out the historical monuments, I headed over to the piazza for a cup of coffee and some food. It's an outstanding experience to be sitting by a sidewalk café as the sensory overload of Rome takes over you as you sit there.
Italy itinerary – Day 8 Explore Rome
The Vatican City was and still continues to be one of the most impressive experiences I've had in my travels. You get to revel in an unparalleled sense of spirituality and transcended as you get lost in the churches, the galleries, the gardens and the paintings and it is a must on your Italy itinerary.
Vatican Museum
The Vatican Museum is unparalleled when it comes to the collection it offers and simply how huge it is. There are over 1400 rooms there that you can explore with artwork dating back almost 4000 years old.
Sistine Chapel
This chapel offers great representations of most biblical scenes with Michelangelo's frescoes dominating the entire interior.
Opening hours: Monday – Saturday: 9am – 6pm (Ticket office closes at 4pm).
Sunday: Closed except the last Sunday of each month: 9am – 2pm. (Ticket office closes at midday, 12:30pm).
1, 6 January, 11 February, 22 February, 19, 28 February, 29 June, 15 August, 1 November, 8, 26 December: closed
Tickets: Adults: 16€. Children (ages 6 – 18): 8€. Students (ages 19 – 26): 8€.
The entrance is free the last Sunday of every month.
St Peter's Basilica
One of the biggest churches in the world is an edifice that is blessed with a lavish decoration offering an unforgettable experience.
Opening hours: October – March: 7am – 6:30pm, April – September: 7am – 7pm
Free entrance
Tip: Visiting the Vatican is an essential Rome experience, and it will be quite overwhelming! Before anything, you should know that the queues are huge. No matter how much you think you can wait, you can't. The queues go on for seemingly forever, so I recommend a skip a line tour or an 8-am skip-the-line tour. Both times I've been there were with the skip the line guided tour, and it added to the overall comfort and convenience of my entire visit there.
If you're not really into tours, you can wander on your own and skip the lines.
Climbing the Dome
After exploring the Basilica, you can reach the dome (either through an elevator or a 320-step climb), and get rewarded with the most breath-taking, gasp-deserving views in Rome. You'll get panoramas of Rome, the buildings, the winding alleys, the plazas…This is when you realize the true grandeur you're surrounded with.
Opening hours: The dome opens at 8am and closes one hour before the Basilica.
Tickets: Lift to the terrace plus 320 steps: 8€. Climbing 551 steps by foot: 6€.
Check out some great tours of the Vatican:
Skip the Line: Vatican Museums, Sistine Chapel & St. Peter's
Exclusive Early Morning Vatican Tour with Secret Rooms
Vatican Museums & Sistine Chapel Fast-Track Entry
Castel San Angelo
You can also quickly check out the Castel San Angelo and take a look over the upper terrace with its beautiful views.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday: 9 am – 7 pm
Tickets: Adults: 10,50€, EU citizens (aged 18 – 24): 7€
Book here a 3-hour guided tour of the Castle
Vila Borghese
The Vila Borghese includes one of the world's largest private art collections and you'll find all types of artwork. From ones made by giants like Bernini and Raphael, to an entire Renaissance gallery.
I bought skip the line tickets that made the entire ordeal much easier since the lines were discouraging!
Find here more information about the Skip the Line: Borghese Gallery and Gardens Half-Day Tour.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday: 8:30am – 7:30pm, Monday: closed
Tickets: Adults: 11 €, EU citizens (ages 18 – 25): 6,50 €, Youth (less than 18) and Seniors ((over 65): 2 €
After exploring the gallery, I spent some time amongst beautiful flowerbeds, fountains, and temples in Rome's largest park – Villa Borghese
Italy itinerary – Day 9 Pompeii
As if Rome itself was not enough, you can almost end your 10 day trip to Italy with a bang. Take a journey back in time to the Mount Vesuvius where you can check out the lost city of Pompeii, breathtaking summit views or the different hidden secrets of the place. Above all of this, you're met with the Bay of Naples, the ruins, frescoes, winding streets and a lot more.
Find here more information about the day trip to Pompeii
If you feel like your days have already been overwhelming enough, you can just get to explore the rest of Rome!
Italy itinerary – Day 10 Flight home
Sadly, your 10 day trip to Italy has come to an end but the 10 day itinerary can be mixed and matched however you like.
Spending 10 days in Italy barely scratches the surface of what Italy has to offer but it's a great way to get an introduction to what the country is like. You get to see buzzing Rome, enchanting Venice and beautiful Florence, all while exploring cities nearby.
Thinking of extending your trip to Italy? You might find these interesting.
- One day in Verona
- Things to do in Bologna
- Puglia off the beaten track
- 2o Northern Italian Cities to visit.
- 3 days in Naples.
- One day in Capri.
- One day in Milan.
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Christmas faves!
I definitely do not need to purchase anything during Boxing Day/Week. I got some awesome presents this year and I thought I'd show off a few of them. I'm slowly realizing that I may be a bit of a beauty junkie. Perfume, nail polish, face masks, and makeup are like the key to my heart.
Check out photos of my Christmas goodies below. Details are at the bottom!
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Regulation 2027 / 1997 – Air carrier liability in the event of accidents
Regulation 323/1999 – TicketsRegulation 261 / 2004 – Denied Boarding / Delays
Air France v Saks – U.S. Supreme Court
Regulation 90/314/EEC introduced a regime for regulating rights and duties relating to Package Travel, Package Holidays and Package Tours. Member states have implemented the regulations and in some members states their effect has been profound.
The PEOPIL Tourism EEG is keen to gather the implementing legislation used in the various states which can then be used not only as a data base for PEOPIL members but also to consider comparative law issues in this field. PEOPIL members are invited to forward to Wolfgang Resch a copy of the legislation implementing directive 90/314/EEC in their jurisdiction.
Likewise, if there are any Court decisions in relation to Regulation 90/314 that may be of interest to members of the Tourism EEG please forward details to Wolfgang Resch.
Key issues which are of interest to members of the Tourism EEG include how the courts interpret:
Club Tour Vaigens e Tourismo S.V. v A.C. Lobo Goncalves Garrido
Personal injury claims arising from International Carriage by Sea are largely governed by the Athens Convention and related legislation. If any anybody has any materials which they think may be of interest to members of the Travel and Tourism EEG in relation to maritime claims please provide details to Clive Garner at email@example.com
Materials which may be of interest:
Athens Convention 1976 Protocol
Athens Convention 1990 Protocol
Athens Convention 1996 Protocol
Convention on limitation of liability for Maritime claims 1976
Convention on International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea 1972
The international Conference on the revision of the Athens Convention took place in London in 2002. The agreed revisions in the form of the 2002 Protocol are not yet in force and will not come into force until 12 months after such time as 10 State Parties signify their acceptance. Amongst other things, any revisions are likely to increase the personal injury damages limitations.
The conduct of skiers is governed by the rules of the International Ski Federation and a link to the rules can be found below:


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28th Aug 2014
Upcoming destinations
We are delighted to be reinvited to three of our very favourite festivals next year: Bermuda in January, Naantali (Finland) in June and Murten (Switzerland) in August. Other top venues for the ECO in the first few months of 2015 include Philadelphia, Athens and the stunning Musikverein in Vienna. More details coming soon!


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Warcraft premiered in Los Angeles on June 6, 2016, and was released by Universal Pictures in the United States on June 10, 2016. Despite receiving negative reviews from critics and a poor domestic box office performance, the film has grossed over $381 million worldwide, surpassing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time as the highest-grossing video game adaptation of all time.
Draenor, the homeworld of the orcs, is being torn apart by a mysterious force known as fel magic. An orc warlock known as Gul'dan unites the orc clans and forms the Horde, and creates a portal to the world of Azeroth. The orcs begin to use fel magic to drain the life out of captive draenei in order to sustain the portal. Once it is operational, Gul'dan leads a small warband to capture prisoners on Azeroth and sacrifice them to bring the rest of the Horde through the portal. Despite their doubts, Durotan, the chieftain of the Frostwolf Clan, his pregnant mate Draka, and his friend Orgrim Doomhammer join this initial warband. While crossing through the portal, Draka goes into labor. When the orcs arrive on Azeroth, Gul'dan assists Draka with giving birth, but the baby is stillborn. Gul'dan then drains the life out of a nearby deer to revive and infuse fel magic into the baby, which Durotan later names Go'el.
The orcs raid several settlements throughout Azeroth. Anduin Lothar, the military commander of the human forces in the Stormwind Kingdom, looks over some of the men that were killed, and finds a trespassing mage named Khadgar, who explains that he was investigating the dead bodies because they contained traces of fel magic. Khadgar persuades Stormwind's king, Llane Wrynn, to consult Medivh, the fabled Guardian of Tirisfal, and Llane sends Anduin and Khadgar to Medivh's stronghold, Karazhan, to inform him of the fel magic's presence on Azeroth. In the Karazhan library, a ghostly shadow leads Khadgar to a mysterious book, which he takes.
Anduin, Khadgar and Medivh join a scouting team following traces of fel magic, but are ambushed by orcs. Medivh uses a spell to kill most of the orcs, and the Horde's warchief, Blackhand, flees, along with Durotan and Orgrim. Khadgar restrains the half-orc known as Garona, and the soldiers take her prisoner. King Llane frees Garona in exchange for loyalty to Stormwind, and she leads the humans to spy on the orc camp, where they learn of Gul'dan's plan to bring the Horde to Azeroth. Meanwhile, Durotan realizes that the fel magic is responsible for the destruction of Draenor, and if Gul'dan is not thwarted, Azeroth will suffer the same fate. Despite Orgrim's objections, Durotan invites Llane to a secret meeting so that the Frostwolf Clan and the humans can unite to defeat Gul'dan. While studying the book he took from Karazhan, Khadgar learns that Gul'dan could not have opened the portal on his own; he had help from someone on Azeroth. He is confronted by Medivh, who burns Khadgar's research when Khadgar offers to help him with his work.
The Frostwolf Clan meets with the humans to negotiate an alliance, but the group is ambushed by Blackhand. As the humans retreat, Medivh forms a magical barrier to protect them, but Lothar's son Callan is separated from the rest of the group and killed by Blackhand. Medivh is severely weakened, and Garona and Khadgar take him back to Karazhan to recover. After noticing Medivh's eyes shine green, showing that he is infected by fel magic, Khadgar returns to his former home, Dalaran, to seek help from a group of human magi called the Kirin Tor. Alodi, a legendary mage and the true identity of the shadow who led Khadgar to the book, reveals that Medivh has indeed been corrupted by fel magic and possessed by an unknown demon. At the orc camp, Blackhand purges the Frostwolf Clan. Orgrim helps Draka to escape, and she sends Go'el down a river in a basket, but is then found and killed by another orc. Durotan challenges Gul'dan to Mak'gora, a traditional orcish duel to the death for leadership of a clan – in this case, all of the orcs. During the fight, Gul'dan violates the honorable combat rules by draining the life out of Durotan with his magic, killing him and earning the disapproval of the orcs watching, and he empowers Blackhand with the same magic. Medivh, now in a half-demonic state, starts to open the portal to Draenor, and Gul'dan sacrifices the captured human villagers to allow the rest of the Horde to enter Azeroth.
Llane leads the human army in an assault on the orc camp, while Anduin and Khadgar fight Medivh and destroy the demon that had begun to manifest on the outside. Medivh is left mortally wounded, and uses the last of his strength to close the portal to Draenor and instead open a portal to Stormwind, allowing Llane to evacuate most of the freed prisoners. When Medivh eventually dies, the portal closes, leaving Llane, Garona and a small number of human soldiers to fight the orcs. Llane secretly orders Garona to kill him, bringing her honor among the orcs and putting her in a position of power to bring peace between the two races. Garona reluctantly does so, and is welcomed into the Horde by Gul'dan. As the orcs celebrate, Anduin arrives to retrieve King Llane's body and discovers Garona's knife in the body, realizing that it was she who had killed their king. Blackhand challenges Anduin to Mak'gora, and Anduin quickly disposes of him. Against Gul'dan's demands, the orcs, bound by tradition, allow Anduin to depart with Llane's body. At Llane's funeral in Stormwind, the leaders of the other human nations, along with the high elves and dwarves, proclaim an alliance against the orcs and rally behind Anduin as the leader of the Alliance forces. Elsewhere, Orgrim takes one of Durotan's tusks to one day give to Go'el, and the basket containing Go'el is found by a human.


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Worried about those 11 (yes 11!) propositions on the Nov. 6 ballot? How will you find out what they mean and how they impact you and others? Your AAUW Branch has a solution for you. You will not want to miss this opportunity to help prepare yourself for the November election.
On Saturday, Oct. 13, the Sacramento and Citrus Heights-American River branches of AAUW are co-sponsoring a California Ballot Proposition Forum at 10 a.m. at Christ Community Church, 5025 Manzanita, Carmichael.
Professor Mary Beth Moylan and a panel of McGeorge School of Law students will review each of the propositions, providing an overview of the arguments in favor and in opposition to each. Attendees will have an opportunity to submit questions to the panelists, which will be addressed during a question-and-answer period after the presentation.
The Forum is free of charge, but seating is limited, so please register through Eventbrite by clicking on the following button:
Eventbrite registration is encouraged, as it is very easy (we only ask for your name, email and whether you are an AAUW member. Alternatively, you can register by emailing Dawn Boyd at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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The Guernsey Financial Services Commission and Guernsey Police are aware that a number of businesses and individuals within Guernsey have received correspondence from fraudsters, offering large cash sums for a small outlay and a supposedly risk-free transaction in return for getting the money out of their country.
This correspondence invariably purports to come from an official in a foreign government or agency or someone claiming to have inherited vast wealth. The fraudster offers to transfer millions of pounds into the intended victim's bank account for reasons such as paper currency conversion, property ventures or business investment.
If the intended victim responds he or she is encouraged to travel overseas to visit the author where they will be met in style, taken to government offices, via bribed officials, and then asked for money to cover advance fees. This fee appears insignificant compared to the promised return. However average losses in such schemes exceed £30,000 and it is estimated that £150m a year is lost in the UK alone.
The vast majority of these fraudsters emanate from Nigeria, Ghana or South Africa, and use either email services such as yahoo and hotmail or conventional mail posted from a foreign country or parcelled up and sent to the UK from where it is posted on.
Recipients of any such correspondence are advised not to reply, under any circumstances.
In the case of emails received it is suggested that the entire message is sent to the Internet Service Provider from where the e-mail originated. The email should be addressed to the ISP as; [email protected] (the ISP name).com. (For example, [email protected], [email protected])
In the case of conventional mail, recipients are advised to destroy the correspondence
However, should anyone have had any further contact with these fraudsters or have parted with any money in these circumstances they should contact the Commercial Fraud and External Affairs Department at Police Headquarters on 725111 for guidance.
Additional information can be obtained from the Metropolitan Police fraud alert web site (www.met.police.uk/fraudalert/).


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We are using Jess Frazelle's github action to clean up merged branches (https://github.com/jessfraz/branch-cleanup-action), but it leaves multiple checks:
Is that a configuration error or a bug?
It's not necessarily either one. If multple workflows that get triggered on a pull request call that Action, or a single workflow is called multiple times on the same pull request, you can see that kind of output.
I hope that helps.


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Earlier this week, I received an email from a reader who reported that the right hand column of this site was covering part of the text in the center column - he also thoughtfully included a screen capture showing the problem. I've been unable to reproduce this problem with either Firefox 1.5 or IE 6.0.
If any of you are experiencing this problem, could you shoot me an email, or leave a comment? Please tell me your operating system, display resolution (e.g., 1024x768, 1280x1024, etc.), and which browser and version you're running. I would also be interested in knowing how long you've experienced the problem, or if the problem's always been there, how long you been reading the site.
One group of readers, on Windows XP and IE 6.0 adjusted their text size (smaller) to be able to better view the center column text. This workaround may work for you too, until I get things ironed out on my end. If anyone's come up with a different workaround, please include that in your message too.
Thanks in advance for your help,


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- Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
A woman takes the garbage out and finds a mannequin, moments later realizing that this is not a common mannequin…
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Mannequin (2013)
Amelia Gotham
Directed, Written, Edited by:
Deric Nunez
Executive Producer, Co-Writer:
Erika Kotero
Director of Photography:
Michael Papilla
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Movement Proposition – Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
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Blessed Trinity runners took to the mud at Towneley Park to take part in the Burnley Schools Cross-Country.
Year Eight/Nine girl Imogen won her race as Blessed Trinity finished third overall in that age group.
Tiggi came second, Annabelle third and Georgia sixth as Blessed Trinity won the Year 10/11 girls event.
Freya and Robson were fifth and sixth in the team of six as Blessed Trinity finished second overall in the Year Seven girls competition.
The Year Eight/Nine Boys came second overall with their six counters, Robbie raced to second place with Connor just behind him in third.
Harrison raced to third place and Jack was sixth as the Year 10/11 boys came second overall in their age group.
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Old Chairs need New Homes
There are a number of chairs available for free to good homes, view the article for more information.
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There are a number of chairs available for free to good homes, view the article for more information.
Linkage Community Trust have been named as charity partner of the year for Freshney Place Shopping Centre
The latest edition of the Humber Skills Pledge Newsletter is now available
Vicky Campbell / West Marsh Community Centre /
new contact details are available for West Marsh Community Centre.
Vicky Campbell / VANEL news, Volunteering / volunteers week /
Coming soon – Volunteers Week 2015. To take part or promote your event read this article
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To find out more about your chance to have a cycle stand installed at your venue read the article.
Vicky Campbell / CERT / training /
A bank holiday offer for you from CERT
Vicky Campbell / NEL Healthwatch /
The Healthwatch bulletin
Vicky Campbell / Regional News, VANEL news /
Find out more about what political manifestos mean to you as a charity
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Car shipping is a difficult process that many shoppers find troublesome after they purchase a new car. Cars are shipped to dealers and holding lots many times over during their lives, but buyers do not want to pick up a brand new car after they have purchased it. Door-to-door service is of the utmost importance, and secure shipping is required for such expensive cargo. Continue reading for more essentials to making your holiday car shipping process a breeze.
Safe Shipment of Your Vehicle
The haulers used to ship new cars stack many cars in one place, but a single vehicle may be shipped inside an enclosed trailer. The enclosed trailer will protect the car from wind, rain and inclement weather. A flatbed truck can be used for the same purposes, but the car is covered with a tarp during shipping. The car is inspected before and after the shipment to ensure it is delivered in good condition, and the car is wiped down carefully before it is offered to the customer. The car comes to the customer just as it would off the showroom floor.
Fast Shipment of Your Vehicle
Shipment of a brand new car cannot take very long for a buyer. Buyers are moving on to a new vehicle, and they must sell their old cars. Fast shipping can have the car at the door of the customer within a few days of their purchase, and the car arrives ready to drive the moment it comes off the truck.
Door-to-Door Vehicle Pick-Up and Drop-Off Service
Door-to-door service is the most important part of the shipping process. Every customer must have their car show up at their home or office on the day they expect to receive it. No customers want to drive to a different location to pick up their car, and the car should arrive on their doorstep. Unloading of the car is easy, and the driver will receive the keys when the car arrives.
Pre-Paid Shipping
No customer should spend time paying for delivery once the car arrives. All shipments should be paid for before the cars are shipped, and each customer should have the option to have their car dropped off. The delivery driver may put the car in any place the buyer wants, and the keys can be deposited in a safe place.
Fair Auto Shipping Prices from Dependable Auto Shippers
Every car that is shipped is shipped under a flat fee schedule. One car has its own price, and multiple cars will be shipped for a discounted rate. Cars must be shipped based on their weight, but cars that are very heavy are not charged a massive premium. Customers who purchase large vehicles will not be priced out of delivery once they have made their purchase. Every car shopper who must have their car delivered should work with a company that offers all the services above. Door-to-door service at fair prices helps shoppers get a hold of their vehicles. Safe shipping gives each driver a car that looks pristine when it comes off the truck, and every driver walks away happy. Learn more about how Number 1 Auto abides by all of these aspects of auto transport by calling 855.422.414 and get your auto shipping quote today!


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Dental bonding is a cosmetic dentistry procedure in which a tooth-colored composite material is applied to a tooth, sculpted into shape, hardened, and polished. It's called bonding because the material bonds to the tooth. Dental bonding is ideal for small cosmetic dentistry work, such as fixing a broken or chipped tooth or closing small gaps between teeth. Dental bonding is also used as a tooth-colored filling for small cavities because it's more cosmetically appealing than silver fillings.
What Does Dental Bonding Involve?
Dr. Paul Freeman would first prepare the surface to help the bonding material stay in place. This process doesn't hurt. The putty-like bonding material is then placed on the tooth's surface, shaped, and sculpted. A special light is used to help the material harden and set. Finally, the composite is polished and buffed for a smooth finish.
Advantages of dental bonding include:
- Cost. The average cost of dental bonding is less expensive than veneers or crowns and some dental insurance plans may offer some coverage, particularly when it is done for structural reasons or to fill a cavity.
- Speed. Dental bonding typically requires only one office visit. The entire process can be accomplished in 20 to 60 minutes per tooth.
- Ease. Anesthesia is usually not necessary, unless bonding is being used to fill a decayed tooth.
Disadvantages of dental bonding include:
- Bonding material can become stained. Unlike crowns and porcelain veneers, dental bonding has a tendency to become discolored over time. Coffee, tea, red wine, and cigarette smoke can stain the material used in dental bonding, making it stand out from the rest of your teeth. To minimize staining, you'll need to avoid these substances for 24 to 48 hours after bonding is first performed. If you're a smoker, you'll want to choose a different cosmetic dentistry treatment. Because bonding material is porous, it will yellow from exposure to cigarette smoke.
- Less durable. Additionally, the material used in dental bonding isn't as strong and long-lasting as porcelain veneers and crowns. It can easily chip. With proper care though, dental bonding can last three to seven years.
When Dental Bonding is a Good Choice
If you have a minor cosmetic dentistry issue — such as a cracked or discolored tooth, a gap between your teeth, or silver fillings that show when you smile — dental bonding may help.
Dental bonding can be used in cosmetic dentistry to reshape or recontour teeth. In contrast to veneers and bleaching, dental bonding can not be used to whiten your entire smile.
Maintenance of Dental Bonding
Because dental bonding is more susceptible to staining and chipping than other forms of cosmetic dentistry, special care is required to keep your bonded teeth looking natural.
- Cut down on coffee, tea, and red wine.
- If you're a smoker, this is a good reason to quit — not to mention that smoking also increases your risk of gum disease and oral cancer.
- Since dental bonding can chip easily, avoid biting your nails or chewing on hard objects, such as ice, pencils, and raw carrots.
- If necessary, dental bonding can be repaired or touched up.
Because dental bonding does take some artistic skill for optimal cosmetic results, you can feel assured knowing that Dr. Paul Freeman is a very highly skilled and comprhensive dentist.
Dental bonding isn't appropriate in every situation, but it can be a quick and relatively inexpensive way to improve your smile.


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I love Japanese food, I can eat it almost every day. I love sushi, we usually get Tempura for an appetizer.
They are light and airy and they make an amazing snack.
This is a base recipe for any tempura you want to make, today we are using sweet potatoes, but any vegetable will work. It's also a great way to get the kids to eat their vegetables.
If you are new to air frying or just looking for some recipes.
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Here are some other of my tried and true recipes:
- ½ cup of cornstarch
- ¼ cup of flour
- 1 beaten egg
- ¼ cup of soda water
- 2 sweet potatoes, cut into thin slices
- 1 cup of panko breadcrumbs
- Other supplies needed: non-stick cooking spray
- In a small mixing bowl, mix together the cornstarch, flour, egg and soda water.
- Then dip the sweet potato into the batter, shake off the extra batter. Then place it directly into the panko, coating all sides.
- Put the completed sweet potatoes into the fryer basket and spray both sides with non-stick cooking spray.
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Friday, November 25, 2005
Thanksgiving Mist
It was just about three years ago I left my work as captain of the pilot boat to deal with a semi-critical situation in New York . . . my mother, with health issues, was having great difficulty taking care of the house she had lived in for 43 years.
Looking back, I can't help but acknowledge the serendipity of my last pilot run, how it foreshadowed the social and family problems I would face in the years ahead.
Our pilot boat was an old 36' Hatteras sport fisherman. She was more than thirty years old, and she looked it. A great design by venerable Naval Architect Jack Hargrave, but not the best built boat of her size and vintage. What I mean by the latter is simply a function of technology. Today, modern builders use non-wood core products and vacuum bagging techniques to ensure rot resistance and complete saturation of the fiberglass resin. Back then, builders used plywood or other wood core products, and only builders of the very best boats did their damdest to get the cloth to stick to the wood. If you look at an old fiberglass boat from inside, even one without rot in the core material, you're bound to see delamination and areas where the cloth has dried and frayed. Major bulkheads and stringers, and the places where these structural components are tabbed into the hull, are noteworthy areas to find these problems.
Crown Pilot showed this type of aging, and more. In addition to delamination, she had rotten spots in her bulkheads and stringers, stress crack issues, alignment issues, old sealant, and her wiring needed replacement. Wiring in a boat is only good for 20 to 25 years.
What many people don't realize is this: If an old boat cost $100,000, and you keep that boat for twenty years without doing any major work to it, you can expect to put in another $100,000 (or more) to bring it back to its original condition.
As they were saving for a new, custom built pilot boat, the owners had no intention of putting this amount of money into the Crown Pilot. What they needed was for the old work horse to "hold together" long enough for the new boat to arrive.
It was a cold, late September evening. I was scheduled to take Skip Strong off the outbound Tug, Captain Bruce McCallister. Chris Wells went as my mate, and together we left Rockland for the MP Buoy about an hour and a half before our planned rendezvous.
A few minutes after we passed Whithead Light, we smelled a hint of smoke. We checked around the boat, including the engine room, but found nothing. Figuring the cause of the smoke was a short in the bus heaters, I turned off the heater switch at the panel. At this point, we'd already had communications with the pilot and arranged for an early transfer at a patch of water called, the Devil's Half Acre. With the seas kicking up and the smell of smoke, the prudent thing to do was get the trip over as early as possible. (This area, Devil's Half Acre, provides the best lee for a pilot transfer in the wind and sea we were facing that day. In addition, the water is deep for a few miles. The deep water leaves room for a catenary in the cable should the tug need to slow way down or make a turn.)
Taking a pilot off a tug or ship in rough weather is like competing in an episode of Fear Factor, but without the nets or safety wires. Add the threat of fire on a gasoline powered vessel and you have a recipe for some very frayed nerves.
Just as I started my approach to the tug, the cabin filled with smoke and the port engine died. Chris quickly and rightly reminded me about the main breaker for the heaters, which I immediately addressed. I restarted the port engine, and Chris and I opened all the windows and doors to clear the smoke. We still had not actually located the problem, and we didn't have time for a thorough search.
Generally, it takes only a minute or two to get a pilot off a tug or ship. You don't want it to take any longer for obvious reasons. Imagine balancing on the rail of a rolling tug or hanging from a ladder off the side of a ship in a gale. Could you do that for a whole minute? Could you do that for two minutes?
After I got the pilot, I turned the helm 90 degrees to starboard in order to get away from the tug and its barge, the latter the more dangerous of the two, like the poisonous tail on a manta ray. Skip came aboard and was greeted with a mariner's worse fear, a potential fire emergency.
Clear of the tug and barge, I cut the engines and let the boat drift. The three of us went into action. Chris and Skip readied themselves with fire extinguishers while I slowly and cautiously lifted the engine hatch. Fortunately, whatever was smoldering did not live in the engine room.
The source of the problem turned out to be a corroded bus heater core, which caused the heater motor to draw more current than its feed wire or main switch could handle. With the breaker off, the threat of fire abated. The port engine problem was something altogether different. As it turned out, about 7/8ths of the way home, that engine shut down completely.
The very next day I notified the pilots I had to turn the boat over to another captain. My mother, I said, needed my help. Somebody else would have to deal with Crown Pilot. I stuck around the next morning to supervise repairs of the engine, then I headed to New York.
At first, I missed the action of the pilot boat job. I missed the commeraderie and the challenge of the work. However, over time, it became celar to me that working 24 hours a day, seven days a week, nearly 365 days a year, being on call at a moment's notice, with virtually no time off, left little or no room for family and friends.
Things are a lot different now. These days, nobody tells me where to go on Thanksgiving.
Bottom line: Even though my mother's hull and machinery are reaching their operational limits, and her wiring has gone bad, there's no replacing her. No amount of money will bring her back to original condition.
In my mother's case, there is no turning over the helm to someone else. Every shared Thanksgiving counts.
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Three Danes CrossFit – CrossFit
Every 3 Minutes for 12 Minutes
15 Kettlebell Swings 53#/ 35#
21 Burpees to Target 6″
15 Kettlebell Swings
Rx+ 70#/ 53#
Calorie Row 100/ 70
Calorie Bike 125/85
Suggested mobility stretches for today's class. Complete stretches as needed for areas which need improvement/ are tight. Approx. 1 minute per stretch:
Couch Stretch
Front Rack Stretch
Wall Stick-up
Knee Circles – Left, Right, Back and Forth
Cradle Stretch
Hollow Rock
Superman Arm Raises
Superman Arm Hold
Band Pull Apart, palms up
Banded Arm Circles
Banded Reverse Shoulder Stretch
Banded Shoulder/ Lat Stretch
Mobility Ball – Shoulder Back Traps Lats Pecs
Back Squat (8 – 6 – MAX REPS)
Choose a weight you believe you can hit for 8-12 reps
Warm up sets:
8 reps @50% of working weight – Slow controlled pause squats
6 reps @75% – Focus on speed
Max Reps Set:
Max effort reps at chosen weight. If you get over 15 reps, you went too light.
Enter weight and reps for last set.
Metcon (AMRAP – Rounds and Reps)
Every 3 Minutes for 12 Minutes
15 Kettlebell Swings 53#/ 35#
21 Burpees to Target 6″
15 Kettlebell Swings
Rx+ 70#/ 53#
If the round has not been completed when the three minutes is up then continue from where you are in the round. Enter completed number of rounds and reps as your score.
4 Rounds
Not For Time
:30 Freestanding Handstand Hold
Rest :60
:30 Max Rep Shoulder Taps (freestanding)
Rest :60
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When She Flew!
17 Responses to "When She Flew!"
Girl, you are the queen of altered projects. I love it!!!!!!! Love all the detail and of course, your flowers….. I'm 'practicing' ….. getting better at it.
Definitely a great day when you come out of your craft room feeling like that….that makes for the best day evahhh…. 🙂
Happy Halloween….. and yes, I'm still craving a stinkin' cigarette, lo!
Wonderful, masterful, beyond words. Love your artistic talents. I can see why you were at this all day. Thank you for sharing your talents and inspiring the rest of us. Happy Holloween!
What a fantastic treat to see a Bad Sherry project today. You inspire me to make a "mess" and get into my canvases and make something. Happy Halloween, Have a spooktacular day!!
Bevie Pearl
Happy Halloween Sherry!! I just love this, your flowers as always beautiful!! The birdcage is great too!!
This is awesome!!! You really have a talent for altered stuff…wish I had your talent!
Also wish I could spend a whole day doing something I love, but there's always something else that has to come first!
Anyway, HAPPY HALLOWEEN, SHERRY!
Awesome, simply awesome! Love it!
FABULOUS, just FABULOUS!!! Need I say more…..
What a fabulous project ~ I love it!!! I'm curious, how big is the finished piece?
I just love this………you are awesome. (p.s. we have the m&m's and snickers by the door too)
wonderful Sherry!
This is absolutely beautiful, Sherry!! I love all of the intricate details – the polka dots, the tiara – very nice!
Our trick or treat was Thursday night, so all of our candy's gone … well, not my personal stash of Hershey's Special Dark Pieces…lol
This is a fantastic piece Sherry!
Gorgeous beyond words, Sherry!!!!!
Really… What is expected to be said for this piece??? NO WORDS come to mind other than @$#*($#%&$* !!!!!!! Seriously, those Roses…. **drool** seriously A SERIOUS PIECE OF ART RIGHT HERE!!!!! I LOVE it Sherry….
THIS is as BAD and the BAD-est….!!!!!! **blah blah blah** Cant express it enough!!! **sigh**
Happy Halloween Miss Sherry ~ I hope you're going to be wearing your new witching'–b*tching hat you made last week 🙂
This altered artwork is brilliant and the roses ~ YUMMY!!!!! And I especially loved the face behind the grilled wall —-> SPOOKEY! Love it Love it Love it 🙂
I love the dimension you have achieved with the bird cage!
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Autophagy is closely linked to many human diseases. This is due in part to its role in digesting the unfavorable material in cells that has the potential to cause problems. By removing this "junk" in cells, autophagy serves as the garbage disposal and recycling system to keep bodies healthy.
Dysfunctional autophagy, on the other hand, is implicated in aging and a range of diseases including cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, muscular disorders, diabetes, and obesity. Manipulation of autophagy is actively being pursued as a potential druggable pathway to treat many of these disorders, some of which are in clinical trials.
The material that autophagy can digest ranges from a single molecule to a whole bacterium. Previously, all known substances consumed by autophagy took place outside the nucleus in the cell's cytoplasm.
In the study published today in Nature, autophagy is shown, for the first time, to digest nuclear material in mammalian cells. "We found that the molecular machinery of autophagy guides the degradation of components of the nuclear lamina in mammals," said senior author Shelley Berger, PhD, the Daniel S. Och University Professor in the departments of Cell & Developmental Biology, Genetics, and Biology. Berger is also founding director of the Penn Epigenetics Program.
The nuclear lamina is a network of protein filaments lining the inside of the membrane of the nucleus. It is a crucial network in the nucleus, providing mechanical support to the nucleus and also regulating gene expression by making some areas of the genome less or more available to be transcribed into messenger RNA.
On the autophagy side of this complicated machinery, a key protein called LC3 was detected in the nucleus in earlier studies. But the nuclear location of an autophagy protein thought to be functional in the cytoplasm begged the question: why is LC3 in the nucleus in the first place?
First author and postdoctoral fellow Zhixun Dou, PhD, an experienced researcher in autophagy, came to the Berger lab with this question in mind. At the same time, coauthor Peter Adams, from the University of Glasgow, published a previous study on the breakdown of the nuclear lamina in which he observed a peculiar protrusion, or blebbing, of the nuclear envelope into the cytoplasm, and these blebs contained DNA, nuclear lamina proteins, and chromatin (the nuclear structures in which genes reside). This evidence led the Berger and Adams labs to work together to find out what was going on.
Using sophisticated biochemical and sequencing methods, Dou found that laminB1, a key component of the nuclear lamina, and LC3 were contacting each other in same places on chromatin. In fact, in unanticipated findings, LC3 and laminB1 are physically bound to each other. LC3 directly interacts with lamin B1 and binds to lamin-associated domains on chromatin.
Autophagy in Cancer and Aging
In response to cellular stress that can cause cancer, the team found that LC3, chromatin, and laminB1 migrate from the nucleus — via the nuclear blebs — into the cytoplasm and are eventually targeted for disposal. This breakdown of laminB1 and other nuclear material leads to a cellular state called senescence, or literally "getting old." The Berger and Adams labs have been studying senescence in conjunction with cancer for quite some time. Human cells have complicated ways to protect themselves from becoming cancerous, and one way is to drive themselves to become old through senescence, so that the cells can no longer replicate.
The team showed that when a cell's DNA is damaged or an oncogene is activated (both of which can cause cancer), a normal cell triggers the digestion of nuclear lamina by autophagy, which promotes senescence. Inhibiting this digestion of nuclear material weakens the senescence program and leads to cancerous growth of cells.
"The nucleus is the headquarters of a cell," Dou said. "When a cell receives a danger alarm, amazingly, it deliberately messes up its headquarters, with the consequence that many functions are completely stopped for the cell. Our study suggests this new function of autophagy as a guarding mechanism that protects cells from becoming cancerous."
Although senescence suppresses cancer, which is the good side of this physiological balance, there is also a dark side. Senescence is associated with normal aging, and senescent cells accumulate in aged tissues, which impair the normal functions of the tissue and contribute to age-related diseases.
The team noted that while autophagy digestion of the nucleus is able to restrain cancer, this machinery is improperly turned on during normal aging. "There is a short term 'tactical' advantage, but a long term 'strategic' defeat," Berger explains. "This mechanism makes a normal cell, even without cancer stress, get old much faster, and in a detrimental way."
In support of this notion, the team found that in late middle-aged normal cells, blocking the autophagy-driven breakdown of the nuclear lamina can make cells live 60 percent longer. In fact, say the researchers, the age extension is equivalent to a 70-year-old person living to over 110 years old.
Looking toward the future, the team reasons that specific manipulation of the nuclear digestion by autophagy holds promise to intervene in age-related diseases. The team showed that a blocking peptide, which inhibits LC3-laminB1 interaction, is able to slow cell aging. The implications are that a small molecule could be made to stop the long-term dark side of the senescence pathway, and to treat age-related diseases, especially those related to chronic inflammation as seen in human aging. Such a molecule might also be able to ameliorate the side effects of chemotherapy or radiation therapy of cancer patients. Dou and Berger are actively pursuing this direction.
The study was funded by the National Institutes of Health (P01AG031862, R01 CA078831, R01 GM106023), the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, the Dermatology Foundation, the Melanoma Research Foundation, the American Skin Association, and the Progeria Research Foundation.
Penn Medicine is one of the world's leading academic medical centers, dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and excellence in patient care. Penn Medicine consists of the Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System, which together form a $5.3 billion enterprise.
The Perelman School of Medicine has been ranked among the top five medical schools in the United States for the past 17 years, according to U.S. News & World Report's survey of research-oriented medical schools. The School is consistently among the nation's top recipients of funding from the National Institutes of Health, with $409 million awarded in the 2014 fiscal year.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System's patient care facilities include: The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and Penn Presbyterian Medical Center — which are recognized as one of the nation's top "Honor Roll" hospitals by U.S. News & World Report — Chester County Hospital; Lancaster General Health; Penn Wissahickon Hospice; and Pennsylvania Hospital — the nation's first hospital, founded in 1751. Additional affiliated inpatient care facilities and services throughout the Philadelphia region include Chestnut Hill Hospital and Good Shepherd Penn Partners, a partnership between Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network and Penn Medicine.
Penn Medicine is committed to improving lives and health through a variety of community-based programs and activities. In fiscal year 2014, Penn Medicine provided $771 million to benefit our community.


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Perhaps I'm missing something, but I have a featured hub here: http://thomasswan.hubpages.com/hub/Onli … s-with-NPD
There is room for the ad below the picture, and I have ads turned on, but no ad is appearing. The ads in the sidebar are appearing, but not the adsense in the body of the article (ebay is appearing fine).
-EDIT- In fact this is the case in ALL of my featured hubs. Is this a change I haven't been made aware of?
I see an advert immediately under the picture. Do you have an ad blocker on?
Not that I'm aware of. I have checked on my laptop (using firefox), and my desktop (using chrome) now. I am still not seeing any ads since this morning. I didn't install any ad blockers yesterday or today, and it would have to be on both computers, so unlikely for an automatic download to have occurred on both. Also I can see the sidebar "tower" ad. I clicked on a few of your hubs and I'm not seeing the ad below the pictures either. If you can see my ads... I can't explain it.
I have noticed this, too -- not only on my own hubs, but on every hub I visited today. Maybe HubPages changed the ad layouts again?
The ad placement can be different for Hubs based on layout.
I looked at your Hub and did see ads.
WryLilt's explanation seems to be the most likely.
Please disable or remove any browser plugins, tools, toolbars, etc.
Here are some other general browser tips to try as well.
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Your saw ads right under the picture? I can see an ad in the sidebar, but nothing under the picture. It's the same in all my hubs, even when I sign out.
I haven't installed any browser plugins, tools, or toolbars since yesterday, and certainly not on both computers that I've checked this on. Both use different browsers too...
Paul talked about ad layout being changed, starting last night. It would have to be a massive coincidence for that to occur at the same time I've noticed this.
There are ads directly below your profile image and at the end of the Hub
Profile image? That's the ad in the sidebar. There should be an ad directly underneath the image of narcissus gazing into the pool. There was one until last night. I have this same issue in all of the hubs that I've looked at. Those ads have simply disappeared.
Writer Fox was kind enough to post a link to Paul Edmondson's response regarding our trying different ad layouts.
You can find that link here.
Yes, I've already been there, and mentioned it two posts ago in this thread
yep, I can't see my ads as well.... must be bug or something ....
See Paul E's answer on this forum thread:
Thanks for this by the way. It explains the change. I wish they wouldn't experiment like that without telling anyone though. I wasted a lot of time thinking my pages were broken. It also reminds me of exactly how vulnerable we are to the whims of those who work here. This could easily cut my earnings by a significant fraction, and I had no say in it, no warning, and no real explanation beyond "we're testing something". Yea, well, I'm sure what I earn here is a drop in the ocean that can be experimented with, but for me it's something substantial. I must say, I'm starting to see why some hubpages writers get so annoyed with the goings on here. Apologies for the rant, but I've never been so angry with this site. The time wasted and the potential earnings lost because they decided to "test something" has really piddled me off!
My hubs have a different ad layout now too. And it looks better and less spammy than the previous layout. I like the change.
When you are in edit mode for your hub and you click to preview the hub you will see exactly where ads will appear once your hub is published. Your hub does have ads in it so if it doesn't appear below the picture that means the layout doesn't allow for it to be displayed there.
by Joanna 2 years ago
Ok, here it is. Hubpages edited some of my hubs to "make them better" so they can be featured and moved to vertical sites. If I undo their "corrections" I risk having that hub removed from the featured status. When I have reviewed their "corrections"...
by blue parrot 9 years ago
I rather like those small blue Google ads, but I have never seen a Kontera ad and don't know whether I should sign up for them. Where could I see one?
by Taleb AlDris 6 years ago
I have a featured hub with 508 words but Google add no ads. It has a good traffic. Do you know why?
by Lovelli Fuad 13 months ago
I'm seeing ads when on my articles when I'm logged in to HP, but when I view the hub from outside of the site, the ad space near the comment section (on the bottom) is just a blank. Is this normal? I notice this on my older hubs too. How do I fix this?
by Bible Studies 8 years ago
I got into an interesting discussion on another thread, and thought it would make a good thread itself. The question of the day is how do you feel about other hubbers clicking on an ad in your hubs?Personally I really don't see a problem with it as long as the ad interests them from a good quality...
by Person of Interest 7 months ago
A true story.A Saturday morning it was (04/13/2019). Sitting there drinking my first cup of coffee of the day, I decide to visit one of my extinct profiles. There it is with its one-and-only hub; unfeatured due to lack of traffic it was. Though unfeatured, it was still published and the ads...
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Valentine's Day 2018 update and weather forecast?
Choosing your wholesaler and distribution process directly affects you. In terms of what you can expect this year, we are getting reports of there being a late harvest. At FMI Farms, we want our customers to understand how this could affect you. Logistically, we are working to make sure you receive your roses and flowers as quickly as possible from Ecuador. We do want to urge how important it is to pre-book. Pre-booking insures your order to you. Last minute open market orders are taken care of after a pre-order. A late harvest means that the majority of the production will be cut late and shipped late.
A late harvest and resulting tight supply affects the entire industry.
- On average smaller heads
- Thinner stems
- Higher costs
- Limited availability
- Substitutions
- Delayed deliveries
- Partial shipments
- Fresher product
We understand that this is not optimal, but we are asking for patience as we do our best to meet your needs. FMI is available around the clock at 866-916-5360 to answer your questions and listen to your concerns.
Given this situation, we are doing whatever we can to speed up the shipping process and take control of what we can control. We ship primarily FedEx overnight, to anywhere in the country next day. We have reserved with FedEx ample space on flights leaving South Florida.
We have even added an option for last-minute shipments scheduled to arrive on 02/12 Monday. Here is our shipping availability for the week leading up to Valentine's Day. Please feel free to contact us during working hours.
- Febuary 1st – Febuary 14th 8:00am – 9:00pm
With all of this said, we remain optimistic that Valentine's Day 2018 will go into the books as a success for our customers and ourselves. We will stay in constant contact with our suppliers in Ecuador and let you know of any significant developments during the next couple of weeks.
It is often difficult to be reminded that the flower wholesale business is a business where we can only control so much. Although our business depends on growing each and every blossom, ultimately, nature controls what grows. If we had it our way, we'd deliver the perfect shipment each and every time. But the fact is that the perfect combination of sunlight, water, nutrients, and luck just doesn't happen every year.
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11 Dec Serena Williams partners with Neighborhood Goods to launch new fashion brand
Big things happen in Texas so it wasn't a surprise to many of us when tennis great Serena Williams selected local (and recently launched) retail startup Neighborhood Goods as one of the chic, pop up destinations for the launch of her eponymous, new line of activewear for women, Serena. New York, LA and Miami also made the exclusive list.
Last Saturday, fans and media alike got up close and personal with Williams as she talked life, business, the court, investing in startups, motherhood and her mission to create a line for plus sized women, Serena Great.
Her goal with Serena Great is to "create a size-inclusive collection for real women", Williams said. Always innovative, the superstar athlete will use "great" rather than "plus size" to describe the line designed for women with curves. All of the pieces and accessories are priced $200 or lower.
Fans also got a special treat when supermodel Ashley Graham made a surprise appearance and recorded a live episode of her popular podcast show Pretty Big Deal at the launch.
You've got until December 30th to check out the Serena collection. Photo credit: Neighborhood Goods


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The Borno Government today banned the sale of dried meat in order to curtail the activities of Boko Haram terrorists currently engaged in cattle rusting to fund their operations.
Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno announced the ban at the inauguration of a high powered Committee for the Management of the Maiduguri Cattle Market in Maiduguri.
Shettima, represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Jidda Shuwa, said government had also suspended importation of cattle to the state capital for the next two weeks. He also noted that ONLY the Butchers Association and Cattle Traders Association were permitted to slaughter and sell cattle in the market.Boko Haram will definitely end someday.


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As I type out this random blog post I am banned from searching Google yet again after only executing 2 searches this morning. One was for a phone number to a business in Florida and the other was to find a SSH FTP Application for a client that's easy to use.
But after that I get the famous "you must be a computer sending automated requests". Now if I'm not mistaken Google is a search engine correct; or am I mistaken after all these years? The object is to type in queries in order to find information; or at least I thought that's what Google was for.
I did a bit of research thanks to Bing.com allowing me to search the web with their search engine, which I must add is really nice. I don't know if it's just how it looks or the fact that it freaking let me search the INTERNET. Either way I am thankful and wanted to acknowledge a working search engine. The research showed that I am one of 10's of thousands with the same problem. Go figure.
I fully understand the purpose of what Google is doing, I really do, but I am not automated in any way and therefor can not agree with this search engine giants decision to ban me. I could under stand if I was typing in raw machine code or etc, but I'm not. I am merely looking up sites, applications, phone numbers, and restaurants. How can that be offensive to Google?
Anyways It's time for me to get back to work so I'm cutting this rant short. Reply with your comments if you've had the same issues.


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P.O. Female Athlete of the Week: Camryn Greenlee
To many players, scoring 14 points would not be considered an offensive explosion.
But to Chambersburg's Camryn Greenlee, who is considered a defensive specialist, that point total she put up last Friday in the third-place game of the Hanover tournament represented quite a milestone.
It was twice as many points as she's ever scored in a game in her three-year career, it led to a 52-34 victory over Susquenita, and it earned Greenlee the honor of Public Opinion Female Athlete of the Week.
"Yeah, I was a little surprised," Greenlee said. "But I think I've started to improve my shooting recently anyway, so I shot a little more than I normally do."
Trojan coach Barry Purvis said, "Camryn made a couple of steals and scored off them, but she also hit a couple of 3-pointers, too. And she had a really good defensive game - she took one of their better players and did a good job on her. She was picked to the all-tournament team.
"We've been looking for this from her, and hopefully she can keep it up. She has the ability to score; hopefully this will get her started."
Greenlee said, "That should help my confidence, so I'm going to try to keep scoring."
Defense is her calling card, however. She uses her quickness to make it tough on opponent's ballhandlers.
"She's really quick and aggressive and we usually put her on the other team's best offensive guard," Purvis said. "She's a real pest on defense. And she's also a pretty good rebounder despite her height (5-foot-2) because she's quick to the ball and has good reactions."
Greenlee said, "I try to use my quickness on defense. Sometimes I get called for hand checks, so I have to move my feet faster to get to the spot first. Sometimes players get frustrated, and try to push me away or run around me."
Chambersburg is hoping teams will have to start worrying about her offense, too.
Camryn Greenlee, Chambersburg
Sport: Basketball
Grade: Senior
Position: Guard
Height: 5-foot-2
Parents: Lilly and Roy Greenlee
Interests: Greenlee also runs track & field for the Trojans.
Surprising fact: She volunteers her time to teach basketball to middle schoolers.
Favorite team: U. of Maryland women.
Statistics: In a 52-34 win over Susquenita to take third place in the Hanover tournament, Greenlee scored 14 points, which was a career high.