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With the holiday season still upon us I have again put my new action-packed 5 Star thriller WATERKILL on sale for for just $0.99 in Kindle and Nook eBook formats. See http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017Q9593K and http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/waterkill-mark-donovan/1122942895?ean=2940156684144 to download a copy to your Kindle or Nook.
"Waterkill" Weaves Nanoscience and Cult Religious Terrorism into a Major Threat to Western Civilization. It is an Action Packed Thriller that Spans Three Continents and is the second book in the Dave Henson Series
Book Summary:
A Yemenis man tragically loses his wife and daughter, a small plane disappears into the Alaskan bush carrying a deadly secret, and thousands suddenly die in a small German town. American business magnate and high tech entrepreneur Dave Henson is tapped by the U.S. government to help solve the related mysteries, but quickly finds himself drawn in deeper and his timeline shortened when his wife suddenly goes missing.
Sunday, December 27, 2015
Tuesday, December 22, 2015
My new book WATERKILL is on sale for $2.99, in eBook Format
For the holiday season I have just reduced the standard list price of my new thriller "WATERKILL" from $3.99 to $2.99, in eBook format.
See: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017Q9593K and http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/waterkill-mark-donovan/1122942895
If you were not fortunate to win a copy of the book in my recent Giveaway event, now's your chance to buy the book in eBook format for a 25% savings.
So order yourself a Kindle or Nook version of this book today and see why this book is receiving so much praise.
See: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B017Q9593K and http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/waterkill-mark-donovan/1122942895
If you were not fortunate to win a copy of the book in my recent Giveaway event, now's your chance to buy the book in eBook format for a 25% savings.
- On Goodreads.com, WATERKILL has a 4.62 rating after 8 reviews.
- On Amazon.com, WATERKILL has a 4.8 rating after 9 reviews.
- On B&N, WATERKILL has a 5.0 rating after 1 review.
So order yourself a Kindle or Nook version of this book today and see why this book is receiving so much praise.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Drone Registry Information will be Made Available to the Public
Your Registered Eye in the Sky will be Observable to the PublicBy Mark J. Donovan
The FAA has confirmed that information logged in its new UAV / Drone registry program will be open to the public. Meaning, the information gathered from everyone who registers a drone will be available to the public. The only information that will be withheld will be email addresses and credit card information. In regards to who needs to register their drone, any drone that weighs between 0.55 lbs and 55 lbs will need to be registered in this program.
It is important to note that this registry program is no different than what is already currently done for traditional aircraft owners. Visit this website and type in any tail number of an aircraft. You'll quickly see the aircraft owners name, address and specifications about the aircraft.
Although some may have privacy concerns about this new UAV registry program, it should help to put any drone owner/operator on notice about using their drone in a malicious or reckless way. For example, any person that sees a drone being operated in some questionable manner will have the ability to look up in this database for any registered drones in their area and be able to contact their local police department and/or FAA to report the problem and prospective perpetrator.
Again, this same type of registry and private citizen capability already exists today for standard aircraft. For example, if a pilot flies a small plane over a congested area under 1,000 feet above the ground, he or she can expect to hear from the FAA in short order if someone on the ground records the aircraft tail number.
So, although the forced registry of your drone and having some of your personal information made available to the public may sound like you're registering as a sex offender, it shouldn't be personally taken that way, unless you indeed have those intentions. It is simply putting you on par with every other owner of traditional aircraft for the public's safety, and in the case of drones, public privacy.
Saturday, December 19, 2015
The Rise and Swarm of the Mini-Drone Forebodes a Frightening Real Future
By Mark J. Donovan
Back in May of 2015 there was a report that came out about U.S. military scientists who had come up with a new drone that can fit in the palm of your hand, and that can be deployed in large swarms from aircraft, balloons, or even a large mother drone. The mini-drone is called "Cicada" after the notorious loud and swarming insect. The Cicada name is an acronym for Covert Autonomous Disposable Aircraft.
The Cicada mini-drone has no propulsion system. It is simply a glider that is released from a mother aircraft and flies a prescribed mission profile. After flying its mission, it eventually ends up on the ground at a designated target area. While flying, and on the ground, the Cicada mini-drone can listen and observe targets of interest. The Cicada is also equipped with sensors for measuring and reporting temperature, humidity, and air pressure. Moreover, it can be outfitted with a plethora of other sensors for measuring and transmitting back data.
Because of its small size, and the fact that it is released in swarm quantities, full detection and destruction of Cicada mini-drones by enemies is highly unlikely. Thus, the Cicada makes a very effective surveillance tool. Moreover, at a targeted cost of only $250 each, the Cicada mini-drone, even in swarm quantities, is an extremely inexpensive military surveillance tool.
Though the Cicada mini-drone represents public state-of-the-art drone technology news, there is no doubt that numerous government defense agencies around the world are investing heavily to further shrink and empower this surveillance drone technology. MicroElectroMechanical systems (MEMs) and even NanoElectricalMechanical systems (NEMS), a.k.a. "smartdust or nanodust", are already in development that will eventually enable nano-drones of the future to be invisible to the naked eyed. So small in fact, that they could literally and unwittingly be ingested into a living body, from which then anything is possible. The nano-drone, if you will, could be used for anything from surveillance to medical diagnosis and therapy, to even life termination if so programmed or command to.
Suffice it to say drone technology is still in its infancy, and the latest social, logistical and legal issues facing the use of this technology are just the tip of the iceberg. In the not too distant future, expect nano-drone technology and all of its pros and cons to become real and public. And when it does, be prepared to live in a very different world. Where the phrase personal privacy is a giggle at best.
The Tecnam P2010 Receives U.S. Part 23 Type Certification from the FAA
By Mark J. Donovan
If you're looking for a new high wing, four-seater aircraft, that is ideal as a trainer and for general aviation/purpose flying, and want something different and better in performance than a Cessna Skyhawk, you're in luck. The Italian company Costruzioni Aeronautiche Tecnam just received U.S. Part 23 type certification on its Tecnam P2010 aircraft. This is a very big milestone. To put it in perspective, it has been 47 years since the last four seater high wing aircraft received U.S. Part 23 type certification.
The P2010 looks very similar to the Cessna Skyhawk, but smoother and sexier. With a carbon-fiber fuselage and aluminum wing, and a 180 horsepower Lycoming IO-360 engine, it also provides a higher cruising speed that is closer to the Cessna 182 Skylane. The Tecnam P2010 has a rated cruise speed of 140 knots and a range of 715 nautical miles, and burns about 11 gallons an hour in fuel. And in regards to fuel, the P2010 can use 100LL or 91 octane mogas (low lead, ethanol free automotive gas). It also has a maximum useful load of 992 lbs, and a maximum ceiling height of 15,000 feet.
The P2010 is also equipped with a full glass cockpit, based around a Garmin G1000 avionics system.
In regards to price, the base model costs $345K, however the price can approach $400K when an autopilot and constant speed prop are added to the customer dream-sheet.
So if you're in the market for a new high wing, four-seater aircraft that has speed, looks and increased useful load capacity, and is priced below a brand new Cessna 172 Skyhawk, check out the Tecnam P2010 aircraft. It's a dream aircraft that takes advantage of modern technology, and that quite frankly, has been a very long time in coming. You should be able to purchase it in the United States in the very near future.
Friday, December 18, 2015
You're Clothing May Someday Power Your Wearable Electronics
Using nanotechnology researchers at Case Western Reserve University have developed a way to enable clothing fabric to act as a battery for powering wearable electronics. More specifically, they have demonstrated the ability to weave flexible capacitors into clothing fabric. A capacitor is akin to a battery, but affords the ability to store and release energy much faster.
Their testing to date has shown that the nano-sized capacitors continue to hold up their storage potential even after 1,000 charge/discharge cycles and hundreds of 180 degree folds of the fabric.
When this technology is eventually combined with integrated nano-sized solar collection cells woven into the clothing fabric, I would expect that all of our wearables, external and internal, should be capable of being powered from our clothing.
See the full article on this new break-through in nanotechnology here.
FAA Launches Drone Registration on 12/21/15
If you own a drone already or expect to own one by 12/21/15, and it weighs between 0.55 lbs and 55 lbs you will need to register it with the FAA by 2/19/16. See the full article here.
As a private pilot I can understand and appreciate why the FAA is doing this. The last thing a pilot wants to see when coming in on final is a meter wide drone flying in his or her flight path. Hundreds could be killed in an instant if a drone gets sucked into an engine on a 747.
Also, registering drones should hopefully help curtail the amount of voyeurism that will inevitably occur with this technology. We are already hearing cases of it happening today. Undoubtedly we will see a lot more, but at least by registering the drones there will be a better chance of locating and bringing to justice the perpetrators.
As a private pilot I can understand and appreciate why the FAA is doing this. The last thing a pilot wants to see when coming in on final is a meter wide drone flying in his or her flight path. Hundreds could be killed in an instant if a drone gets sucked into an engine on a 747.
Also, registering drones should hopefully help curtail the amount of voyeurism that will inevitably occur with this technology. We are already hearing cases of it happening today. Undoubtedly we will see a lot more, but at least by registering the drones there will be a better chance of locating and bringing to justice the perpetrators.
Saturday, December 5, 2015
Report of Middle Eastern Men Arrested on Border Carrying Steel Cylinders
A very interesting article came out yesterday titled "Middle Eastern Men Arrested Near Mexican Border with Steel Cylinders". See the article from Judicial Watch.
Can't help but wonder what they may be carrying in those steel cylinders. For anyone that hasn't read my new book WATERKILL. They should. What WATERKILL suggests as a possibility may very well be arriving on our country's doorstep sooner than we think.
Can't help but wonder what they may be carrying in those steel cylinders. For anyone that hasn't read my new book WATERKILL. They should. What WATERKILL suggests as a possibility may very well be arriving on our country's doorstep sooner than we think.
Thursday, December 3, 2015
Interview with Author – Mark Donovan
Here is a link to an online interview I had with BookGoodies.com in regards to my new book release of WATERKILL. See my interview here.
Why I Wrote WATERKILL and NANO SURVEILLANCE
People ask me why I wrote WATERKILL and NANO SURVEILLANCE. There are a number of reasons why. However, the main reason is, is that I believe the United States is under attack from within. More precisely, I believe that Washington DC, and in particular the White House, are at the epicenter of where the attack is originating from. And who are the perpetrators? Global politicians who care less about the USA, and more about a single global government, and their own specific powers that they can garner.
So in short, I wanted to educate the American public, and the world, on what threats and technology are available today, or could be so in a very short time, that put the USA and the world at high risk.
Nanoscience is one of the technologies, that though offers many incredible possible benefits to mankind, also offers major social concerns and risks to the public. For example, nanotechnology provides incredible surveillance and medical benefits, but if used in appropriately by the wrong people, could also be used to encroach upon individuals privacy and to spread biological epidemics.
Case in point, look at the now ubiquitous consumer drone. This meter in diameter toy is being used as a new voyeur tool by private citizens. Imagine when that drone is only the size of a fly, or smaller. If you can't imagine it, then simply do a Google search. They already exist, and they are getting smaller by the day. Thus why I wrote NANO SURVEILLANCE. Simply put, your government, and anybody else that wants to, can and will soon be observing your every move.
Its a similar story with nanotechnology used in medicine. Nanoscience is used today in medicine to precisely deliver medicines into the human body and for fighting cancer. Similarly, it could also be used as a vehicle for spreading massive pandemics. Thus why I wrote WATERKILL.
Below is a summary of what I have observed actually happening in the U.S. in the past seven years, and quite frankly, the impetus for writing both NANO SURVEILLANCE and WATERKILL.
Is anyone else out there realizing that we have a White House that has systematically been drilling holes in our defenses?
What does one expect when someone keeps drilling holes in a dam wall? You drill enough holes and eventually the water pressure behind it causes the dam wall to collapse, flooding the valley below. This is what we have been witnessing for the past 7 years in our country, but due to ignorance, arrogance, or political correctness very few seem to be able to see, hear, appreciate or say what this means. Well I'm saying it. In the past 7 years I have heard, seen, and observed the following:
1) A decimation in our armed forces, both in the size and management of it. Many top officers have been forced to resign or retire in the past several years, leaving a weakened Pentagon and military to protect us.
2) A military where our fighter jets flying only a handful of daily sorties over Syria and Iraq have to wait for approval from the White House to hit a known target, and only after they drop leaflets saying "please leave your vehicles first" so that we can bomb them.
3) A White House that is silent at best for standing up and supporting our nations police officers. Yes, there is the occasional bad one, but the vast majority are doing their job to protect us. I've never heard the White House say this.
4) US. border patrol and ICE told to stand down and let anyone and anything cross the border.
5) FBI, NSA and CIA staff reductions and prevention of them using various communication tools/methods to more quickly act to prevent terror attacks from happening.
6) The continued allowance to have safe cities to harbor known illegal aliens/criminals against federal laws.
7) A White House that is silent on the state legalization of drugs, even though they violate federal law. In NH alone, 290 deaths have been caused this year by drug overdoes of Opioid drugs. This was reported just yesterday in NH, and is expected to reach 360 by year end. Another 70 are expected to die in NH alone by the end of December, due mainly to a Heroin problem. And this issue is rampant all around the country. But silence. Silence from the White House and silence from our own Governor. Is it that we have a White House that is just hip on "recreational" and "medical" drug use, or could it be we have a White House with a more sinister motive. The zombification of as many millennials, and others, as possible. So they are in effect, anesthetized to what's happening around them.
8) Constant race bating by the White House, where as a result, the country has turned back 50 years in race relations. Seven years ago, we were much closer to a single melting pot of people.
When putting all these pieces together, anyone with even just a few remaining active brain cells should be able to clearly see that we have a White House intent on destroying America, not "Changing America". And sadly, he's getting away with it. I pray for this country to survive one more year.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
Enter the Free Giveaway Contest for my New Book WATERKILL
Here's your chance to win a copy of my latest thriller WATERKILL.
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Giveaway ends December 12, 2015.
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Any large, longterm project can often have what I like to call the "family effect," which, in the most simple terms, means everyone involved becomes part of your extended family. Those you don't work with directly all day are like distant cousins, and those you spend all your time with become brothers and sisters. In some … Continue reading Production Day 14
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Production Day 13
Making a movie has an infinite number of challenges. Here's a list just off the top of my head: Time - You never have enough time. We do our best to give our crew and actors enough time to get everything done in the best possible way, but (in my experience) you never have enough … Continue reading Production Day 13
Production Day 12
Day 12 was filled with unicorns and werewolf kisses and the sweet smell of bacon as it lingers in your home after a particularly special breakfast. We're really moving now. We're knocking out scene after scene, and I'm trying to soak in every moment. Savor each take and set up. Day 12 introduced a new … Continue reading Production Day 12
Production Day 11
Day 11 was a good day. But let's be honest: even the tough days are good days. I woke up this morning reminding myself that even if it's a tough day - I'm making a movie. We had a major shift on our set today. Let me tell you the story. Many months ago, we … Continue reading Production Day 11
Production Day 10
We had a two day weekend on Friday and Saturday. These two days off allowed the crew to get some rest (or pick up a little extra work), and it allowed others to spend time with their families or sleep or do other things. I spent my first day off combing over footage, having phone … Continue reading Production Day 10
Production Day 9
The end of today marked the halfway point for Other Versions of You. Half of the film (probably more than half) is sitting on hard drives, waiting to be cut together into a conglomerate of goodness. We filmed all of our bar scenes today. This is a film that takes place in parallel universes, and … Continue reading Production Day 9
Production Day 8
Today was a breath of fresh air. We filmed at an incredible house (owned by the best people), and we knocked out a bunch of scenes. We weren't rushed. The light was gorgeous. We got ahead of schedule and stayed ahead of schedule. It was a real boost for everyone, and our last scene of … Continue reading Production Day 8

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An upgrade to Georgia's election night reporting system still requires a driver to hand-deliver results.
An interesting story in the Atlanta Journal Constitution about elections technology highlights the complexity and technical hurdles of vote tabulation.
In Georgia, centralized reporting of voting results requires poll workers to drive to a main office to upload the data to a secure computer. Georgia invested in a new computer for election night, but a roadway traffic jam could delay results from being posted. The $230,000 Election Night Reporting (ENR) system allows all 159 of Georgia's counties to post election results to a central location where residents can view the results, ajc.com reported. But the system was designed for reporting only, not tabulation, so a courier must physically drive the results to the main election office where a secure computer finishes the process.
"Underneath [the new ENR system] there are 159 individual elections going on with hundreds of thousands of moving parts, and all that has to be orchestrated into a very narrow period of time to collect that data and push it out," said Merle King, executive director of the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University. "So these things are not trivial to put together."
In neighboring Alabama, 85 percent of counties use a similar system and a county deputy drives the results to the main election office. Georgia first began updating its ENR system in 2002.
While Georgia's situation is not unique, the concept that road traffic can impact when voting results are announced is a factor that's rarely discussed.
Read the Atlanta Journal Constitution's story to learn more.


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Happy Wedding Wednesday!
Today I am sharing highlights from Day 5 of our honeymoon in Negril, Jamaica at the Couples Resort.
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Sporting my cheap straw fedora from Charlotte Russe, Marshalls cover up, Victoria Secrets bikini.
Guys! I sported an itsy bitsy bikini bottom. I was so nervous wearing it, Hubby didn't seem to mind! Definitely something I don't typically do but you only go on your honeymoon once!
Believe it or not, I have never made a tie-dye shirt. So when they offered a tie dye class I decided to go! What do you guys think? Did I do a good job? Haha.
Our shirts on the line as we ate lunch.
The resort also offered a free jewelry making class so I went and met some really nice people. This is how my bracelet turned out. What do you guys think?
Afterwards we just lounged around on the chairs, had a couple of drinks and just watched the water. It was SO relaxing.
They had real lime tree's there! No one else seems to find this amazing but me. haha.
We booked the glass bottom boat ride for that afternoon, we were the only ones to go on it, so we had our own private tour which was pretty cool! We saw all kinds of stuff, stingrays, coral reefs, etc.
These look so good don't they?! Well they were as hard as a brick. Yuck.
We watched the sunset as we waited for our night time snorkeling adventure. (Which by the way, was the most amazing experience of my life!)
After night time snorkeling we quickly showered and got dressed because that night their was lobster being served at all the restaurants.
We were expecting small lobster tails because it's included in the price of your stay, but they were actually really big!
Shortly after we ate we went to bed. It was a long day.


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Mercy Education Limited - 2012 Annual Report
Reflecting on the year just completed has underlined again for me the multiple challenges faced by Mercy Education in 2012 as well the willingness and efficiency of all involved in meeting those challenges to ensure that Mercy Education continues to be a viable, relevant and vibrant entity.
Mercy Education Limited - 2011/12 Annual Report
2012 has seen a significant change in the role and administration of Mercy Education. Until November of last year, Mercy Education was known as MSEI and conducted its business under State Legislation. However, the Mercy Sisters requested the Board undertake Governance responsibilities beyond Victoria, once the amalgamation across Australia and PNG had taken place.
Mercy Secondary Education Inc - 2011 Annual Report
In keeping with recent tradition I will attempt to capture the past twelve month's activities of the MSEI Board, under the headings as outlined in our current Strategic Plan.


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György Spiró
Novel, Magvető, 2015, 208pp
10.000 copies sold in Hungary
RIGHTS SOLD TO: Actes Sud (France)
Previous novel, Spring Collection has been sold to: Gutenberg (Bulgaria) Quaderns Crema (Catalan), Avain (Finland), Galaade (France) Nischen (Germany), Guanda (Italy), Sezam (Serbia), Kalligram (Slovakia), Acantillado (Spain), Dedalus (Turkey)
Diavolina, the maid who rose to be a physician, worked as a servant for Maxim Gorky, his wives, lovers, and the crowds of guests who constantly swarmed around the world-famous Russian author. She then became his nurse and his last love. In his latest novel, Hungarian author György Spiró conjures the world of Czarist Russia in its last years and the Soviet Union in its first from the perspective of this shrewd and discerning woman, including the disturbing parallels between the new autocracy and the old: revolutions, intrigues and, more than anything else, untold numbers of dead.
In 1921, Lenin drove Gorky from his homeland. Gorky settled in Italy.
Mussolini, who had just come to power, approved his request for a residency permit, saying that a man who was writing his memoirs could hardly pose a threat. Seven years later, after having made concerted efforts, Stalin compelled the ailing writer to return to the Soviet Union, where he immediately put him to work. Gorky, who was dangerously ill, attempted both to defy and fulfill expectations. Trusting in his own stature and strength of character, he sought to outwit the regime.
Every character in this novel is based on a historical figure, and even the most astonishing stories are true. As we read, we feel we are among the ever-changing circles of guests – artists, writers, intellectuals, scoundrels, and murderers – who over the decades frequented Gorky's many homes.
György Spiró was born in 1946 in Budapest. He is one of Hungary's leading contemporary authors, a writer, a dramatist, a trans- lator and a scholar of Polish literature. He is one of the most frequently played contemporary playwrights of Hungary. More on the author


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As I look forward to Tuesday, I wonder does school really have a place anymore?
After all, students can learn online 24 hours a day.
I see billboards advertising the virtues of virtual schools as I drive to work.
Many districts in Michigan have opened their borders and accept students from different communities.
So is the local public school still something that is important?
There is a passage in Ivan Doig's book The Whistling Season that has fascinated me and stuck with me since the day I read it many years ago.
Out beyond the play area, there were round rims of shadow on the patch of prairie where the horses we rode to school had eaten the grass down in circles around their picket stake . .
Forever and a day could go by and that feeling will never leave me. Of knowing, in that instant, the central power of that country school in our lives.
Everyone I could think of had something at stake in that school.
We all answered, with some part of our lives, to the pull of this small knoll of prospect, this isolated square of school ground.
Do community schools still mean something in the year 2013?
I think they do.
As I sit on this Thursday afternoon in my office, the girls high school swim and dive team is competing in its first meet of the season.
The Novi HS football team plays its first game tonight.
Teachers have been in all week working with each other, talking about lesson plans and students.
The high school marching band had its camp over three weeks ago.
Parents visited our elementary schools last night to meet teachers and talk to principals.
Our cooks and bus drivers and maintenance staff have spent countless hours getting our schools ready for the start of another school year.
Even with all of this activity I still ask myself, do schools still mean something? Do schools still ask of people to give something? Do schools still pull communities forward?
Again, I answer yes!
Schools connect a community. Teachers connect with students. Students connect with adults outside of their family. A love of learning and a passion for learning are passed on from one generation to another. Students begin to see, through the lives of the people in their school, that there are things to be passionate about.
For a student, schools become places where they learn that they are important. The adults in a school communicate to the students who attend that they matter. Teachers who take an interest in a student help that student understand that they are important.
Schools create places where students learn to fit in. Some students fit in with the athletic teams, others in the band. Some students connect through Quiz Bowl or Student Council or Safety Patrol. In community schools places are created and opportunities are presented for students to learn life lessons by connecting in a club or school activity.
Oh schools can falter. Schools can be places where students are bored or where they feel bullied or ignored or left out.
But community schools work hard to be places where students understand that they have a place, they have an opportunity to learn, and that they have adults who care about them.
Schools do mean something.
As this school year starts in my community, my hope is that we can continue to make schools mean something to every student who attends and to every family who trusts us enough to send us their children.


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Ports and Shipping Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe said it is important to get a Speaker who is not obliged to respond to the whims and fancies of a particular political group or political party, but someone who is truly objective in his approach to issues.
"It may be a fault of our system where the Speaker is elected from a political party. When he sits there, he obviously tilts towards the political party he represents. Although, we expect the Speaker in the British tradition to be impartial, it never happens. That has been our history," the Minister told the Sunday Observer yesterday.
Minister Samarasinghe said the present Speaker is partisan to the UNP and it was very obvious by the way he has acted so far. "But let bygones be bygones. We have to work with the Speaker as the Parliament is important." "I don't blame the current Speaker because he is an elected Member of Parliament from the UNP. He has to some extent to tilt towards the UNP. But he went overboard. That was the problem," he said.
Hopefully, with the formation of the Government that commands the majority in Parliament, we will go back to how Parliament functioned earlier, the Minister said.


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Glendon - a Harvard University law professor and a respected author on bioethics and human rights - rejected the honor in part because Barack Obama was invited to be commencement speaker and to receive an honorary degree.
In an April 27 letter to Notre Dame's president, the Rev. John I. Jenkins, Glendon wrote of her dismay that Obama was to receive the degree in disregard of the U.S. bishops' position that Catholic institutions "should not honor those who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles."
But the more compelling reason seems to have been Glendon's sense that she was being used to deflect criticism. As a mutual friend put it, "Father Jenkins thought he could use Mary Ann Glendon as a fig leaf."
In her letter, Glendon cited "talking points" issued by Notre Dame following criticism of the decision to honor Obama, including that:
(1) "President Obama won't be doing all the talking. Mary Ann Glendon, the former U.S. Ambassador to the Vatican, will be speaking as the recipient of the Laetare Medal."
(2) "We think having the president come to Notre Dame, see our graduates, meet our leaders, and hear a talk from Mary Ann Glendon is a good thing for the president and for the causes we care about."
Glendon, who is no mortal's pawn, decided she couldn't accept the award.
To non-Catholics, Glendon's act may seem of little importance, yet another feud within the church. Abortion, after all, is settled law and Obama is the duly elected president. Clearly, the American people have moved on.
Or have they? And should we? Is there really ever a time when we should be comfortable with the ratification of abortion? It has always seemed to me that the truest form of feminism, as in the earliest days of suffrage, would be to hold abhorrent the state-sanctioned destruction of women's unique life-bearing gifts. Out of material expedience, we've somehow managed to convince ourselves that life is a mistake.
While one may prefer to preserve the legality of individual discretion (my own reluctant, if withering, position), it is nonetheless consoling that there are still those who relentlessly defend life's sanctity. The alternative, after all, is far less comforting.
Increasingly, however, even Catholic institutions can't be relied upon to hold the fraying line between our humanity and materialism. Another Laetare recipient, the novelist and physician Walker Percy, told the 1989 graduating class:
"It is a disaster when only one kind of truth prevails at the expense of another. If only one kind of truth prevails - the abstract and technical truth of science - then nothing stands in the way of a demeaning of and a destruction of human life for what appear to be reasonable, short-term goals."
One needn't be a dedicated pro-lifer to understand the consternation Obama's invitation has caused. He is more radical than all previous presidents on the life issue, with his loosening of federal funds for abortion and embryonic stem cell research, as well as his campaign promise to pass the Freedom of Choice Act.
To his credit, Obama has left some Bush-era restrictions in place on embryonic stem cell research. Under new guidelines, federal funding may be used for research only on surplus embryos from fertility clinics, not on cells or embryos created just for research.
Nevertheless, his abortion stance is in direct conflict with Catholic teaching. And no place symbolizes Catholics in America quite the way Notre Dame does.
Offering this backdrop and extending the school's imprimatur to Obama constitutes a wink and a nod to abortion. Why not throw a pig roast in Mecca? That was Glendon's point. By her symbolic gesture of self-denial, she demonstrates that faith is an act, not a motto.
Obama might consider following Glendon's lead. Although he supports choice, the president also recognizes the moral complexity of those decisions. Out of respect for pro-life Catholics and their beloved institution, he should politely bow out.


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A Vessel Full of Tenderness is the title of the lesson for Week05 of LifeBook by Pauline Agnew. I didn't think I would enjoy this lesson as much as I did, because I wouldn't normally paint flowers in a vase, though I like to feature whimsy flowers in my art. I'm not sure I did this lesson "right" as it looks nothing like what we were supposed to paint but I sure had fun with the process! I realize it's very busy and perhaps not so easy on the eyes, so proceed at your own risk.
I added the raffle ticket and some stamping on the background for a more "mixed-media" feel. Underneath all that paint there's an old map, but I'm afraid I managed to completely obliterate it with all this paint on top.
I'm happy with my efforts, but's it's becoming increasingly evident that I'm never going to be a "great" painter, nor am I aiming to be. I just like playing with textures and colours!


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I seem to exist again. It's been a long, strange trip. On Tuesday, my blog disappeared completely and my dashboard page on Blogger showed that my blog did not exist. It was Kafkaesque. I didn't feel any different, but, apparently, my four years of blogging had vanished with just a few traces left in Google Cache.
As I was beginning to think that I had been singled out by a cruel universe, I heard that other blogs had had their identities erased: Viking Pundit, Stolen Thunder, and Fausta. As we commiserated with each other in the virtual limbo in which we now existed, we also sent many plaintive emails to Blogger asking what had happened. We got form letters back telling us to look for an answer on their useless help page and that they would look into this. It was impossible to hear from any human being. Their status page kept telling us that they had, at one time, had server problems, but had now fixed those already. Everything was hunky-dory in Bloggerland.
Then I found out that someone named Sam had hijacked my URL and set up a blog with nothing on it except my name. The plot thickened. Angrier emails to Blogger went off.
So, what would you do if you had a blog problem and weren't getting any help from Blogger? Exactly.
I reached out to my friends in the blogosphere to tell them what happened to me. And they responded by putting up posts telling of my plight. I am so grateful to Michelle Malkin, Glenn Reynolds, The Anchoress, Kim at Musing Minds, Lorie Byrd, The Sensible Mom, Joanne Jacobs, Don Singleton, Ed Driscoll, Enlighten NJ, and, of course, my husband, for publicizing my plight. Duane at The Forest for the Trees even set up a special Helping Betsy blog to recover my template. Wow. I'm sure I'm forgetting some of my other blogbuddies who put up posts to help me. And, check out the post at Political Humor telling the alternate history of the blogheist. I can laugh about it now. This is a good sign.
I got dozens and dozens of emails from people all over expressing their dismay at the blognapping and offering help. All sorts of bloggers offered me the opportunity to guest blog and/or to help me start up a new blog. It was wonderful and helped to assuage the depression I was feeling. Thank you so much for all your messages. I really appreciate all the warm fuzzies that you guys sent me.
Then, today, I got a message from Blogger saying that they had recovered my blog and that somehow I had gotten caught up in some massive "automated spam prevention system" action that had thought that my blog was spam. Huh?! Then, the kicker was that they weren't yet ready to give me back my URL but would try to negotiate with the blogjacker who had put up a false Betsy Page using my URL. Huh?! The guy had just appropriated my URL yesterday and they had to ask him pretty please to give it back? Fortunately, after about five hours, they decided that, since all the content and comments had been deleted on the fake Betsy page, that they would kindly restore my URL to me. Thank you.
Google, I think we have a problem. If you're going to start deleting blogs and then take four days to figure out and correct what happened, you're going to lose more and more people. DJ Drummond expresses what a lot a people are thinking about Blogger at this point: they are interested in seeing how Google and Blogger address these problems that they have been having. You may think that we have no reason to complain since we're getting the service for free. But, presumably, Google is not in the blogging business out of charitable impulses. They hope to make money from Blogger. And they will not be able to if they have these sorts of problems. I know that I'm going to be looking into other options.
Thank you, everyone, for all the support in my blogless days. I really appreciate it.


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This time of year often has me reflecting, looking back and looking forward. While I am not a fan of resolutions in the traditional sense, I do like setting goals or intentions for the year to come.
In 2010 my goal for Treating Trauma was to explore self-love and healing after trauma. I did (with the help of guest blogger Darlene Ouimet of Emerging from Broken ) in the following posts:
Shame and Self-Blame After Trauma
Overcoming Negative Self-Talk
What's Love Got To Do With It? Self-Love and Healing
Learning to Love Yourself After Trauma
Learning to Love Myself ~The Beauty in the Broken
Love Yourself with Gentleness and Compassion
Overcoming Shame through Connection
Self-Care and Trauma Survivors
Does Self-Care Mean Others Don't?
Self-Care of Your Multiple Selves
Self-Care and Child Parts
Self-love is a topic so central to trauma therapy, I am sure I will revisit it in different ways in the future. My last few posts listed above began to address a topic I intend to explore further in 2011: therapy issues for those with dissociative disorders.
I am also interested in writing about therapy in general, the nuts and bolts of what the process involves.I also intend to write about the therapy process, exploring in-depth the meaning of concepts such as transference, the therapeutic frame, boundaries and resistance. You may have heard these used, but what do they really mean, especially within the context of trauma therapy?
I also welcome reader requests. One thing I so value about blogging is how we inform and inspire each other to further deepen the conversation about trauma and healing.


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Photo Caption: L to R Alison Vickers, Matthew Denney, Paul Arnold
Accountancy practice Bevan & Buckland is pleased to welcome Matthew Denney as the newest senior member of their continuously expanding team. Matthew joins Bevan & Buckland as Tax Partner, a position that will see him put his 16 years of experience working at the 'Big Four' accountancy firms to excellent use.
Matthew qualified and practiced as a barrister-at-law before moving to a private client tax role at KPMG, it was here where he qualified as a Chartered Tax Adviser. From 2006 to 2015 Matthew worked at PwC in Swansea establishing invaluable relationships in the business community. Latterly, Matthew spent a year in London working with private equity and high net worth individuals.
"I am delighted to have joined Bevan & Buckland. I have advised families and their businesses on the various tax issues they face during their lifetime for over 16 years, and after an exciting year in London, it is great to be back in Swansea," said Matthew.
With a private client and owner managed business background, Matthew has vast experience looking after individuals and their businesses throughout their entire life cycle, whilst his private equity expertise brings valuable insights when dealing with transactions on behalf of his clients.
Matthew added, "I am proud of the great businesses we have here in West Wales and passionate about establishing long term relationships with my clients. I am looking forward to bringing the best of the firm and myself to the marketplace and building new relationships in the business community."
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text: Hello, I am in my mid twenties and I have always felt 100% gay as heck. I never have had romantic feelings for men (still don't) and I never was attracted to men in the slightest. If anything when I was young I wanted to look like some celebrity men so women would like me. When I was younger I hooked up with some guys when I was extremely drunk (black out) because there were no gay girls around and I also was just curious. After hooking up with two different guys it re confirmed just how of a lesbian I was. I was just picturing hooking up with a girl the whole time and I didn't enjoy it at all. Anyways, flash forward I am dating a woman I absolutely love and am super attracted to. Also I started becoming extremely involved in fitness, bodybuilding, obsessing with it. After becoming obsessed with looking super muscular, I started to become more physically attracted to some mens physiques. I never got this before, only would be jealous of their physique. Now when I see some muscular men I become attracted but also wish I had their physique. This confuses me because I still wouldn't want to have sex with a man when it came down to it but I just get pleased by how muscular someone can be that it can turn me on. I also a long time ago bought a strap on and became obsessed with that too. It made me almost obsessed with dicks because I wish I had one myself. But I don't want to have sex with one, I just really admire some of them. So what does this all mean? I honestly feel ashamed I have these feelings, I just love women so much and have never experienced feeling sexually attracted to a mens phsyique till now?


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Capital: Florida
Population: 66. 110
Surface: 10. 417 km 2.
It distances of Montevideo: 98 km
The department of Florida was created on July 10, 1856. It was a head office of the First Native Government and of the Representatives' Room that our independence declared. The declaration of independence did to itself in the Meadow of the High Stone place forced for the maximum national holiday.
Florida occupies the tenth place in the ranking of thickness of the interior of the country 81 % of the population there is located in urban areas of the following way Florida (58,6 %), Sarandí Grande (10 %), Casupá (4,3 %). His foundation is tied to the priest Santiago Figueredo.
The Chapter of Montevideo established in 1773 a stay that lacked economic meaning for the neighbors. In 1809, before the orders of Figueredo of a population founded in a more prosperous place, the zone was used for the creation of the town of Florida, the last population founded by Spanish on these grounds.
His denomination of " Altar of the homeland " is due to the fact that on August 25, 1825 in the high stone of this department there took place the declaration of independence of the ORIENTAL REPUBLIC OF THE URUGUAY.


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I haven't talked to Dad yet this morning (hopefully he's getting some rest!) but I figured I could share about yesterday. Mom's coloring was SO much better when I got to the hospital yesterday morning. She had sparkle in her eyes again and had lots of moments when her personality peeked through yesterday. Over the course of the day (of course always when a doctor or other medical staff came to evaluate her!) she was pretty coherent and often even pretty much her normal self about 40% of the time. The other 60% is a totally different story! Sometimes the changes are gradual slipping or regaining of clarity, while typically they are sudden, abrupt and flip on and off like a light switch.
The "good" spells are SO good that when my neurologist came to evaluate her yesterday afternoon she was doing so great he was ready to write her discharge papers because her MRI had also come back clear. We convinced him this was not nearly full-time state and that she was still too non-ambulatory to even get to the restroom yet. He was genuinely surprised (and so was she, I can't imagine the horror!) to hear us describing the full situation. I'm so thankful he finally understood the need for further testing! I hate that my Mommy briefly got excited that she was going home and we had to squelch her joy.
The current thoughts are that it was a TAI, some weird seizure disorder (given her age, how they can manifest, and the sporadic nature of symptoms), or even the possibility of a strange migraine manifestation has been suggested. Within a matter of minutes of posting that Mom's MRI was clear and they were saying no stroke, I heard FIVE different stories of similar strokes that were not found until a second MRI several days after the event, so I'm still not ruling out this possibility either! The simple truth is that we do not know what is going on right now! There are many more questions than answers. I rest in the realization that while we don't, God does! Please join us for praying for wisdom and clarity for our doctors, along with continued healing for mom and peace for all of our family.
Fairly early yesterday morning, mom had a swallow study done. She has a slightly slowed swallow reflex but a good ability to clear her throat or cough, so she is now allowed tiny sips of regular, non-thickened liquids (no straws as this shoots too much liquid to quickly into the mouth) and very soft solids (applesauce, tuna salad, pudding, etc.). She loves milk shakes (served by tiny bites on a spoon) as much as I did! :D
They will come back today for speech evaluation. I'm not quite sure what to expect. Sometimes she is SO clear, so in control, so "normal" (and seems to have a sense of when medical staff are there, or even tends to do better with very short-stay visitors in the room than the norm we are witnessing). More typically, we either hear non-sense words/phrases, or interesting sentences like when she wanted help with her with her bedpan and tangled sheets yesterday (I finally figured out!), it was, "Can't you? It's hard sitting on lions!" or a sudden outburst of "Mark's wittle, wittle...I need, I need...hug NOW!" To calm her down we gave her hugs and put a pillow in her arms to hold. I THINK she was talking about a friend Mark who had been to visit a couple hours earlier (but his little kids are in college now!) or confusing my husband with my brother-in-law's name and wanted to see my kids (her grandchildren). When I asked her if she was talking about my littlest and mentioned his name she said, "OK?" as if she was being informed of what she meant, but wasn't at all sure.
Speaking of speech, she will be glad to know that her singing voice is still beautiful! Took her ST by amazing surprise yesterday. :D
When we were talking about the clear MRI an hour or so after the neurologist had come and gone and after a nutrition lady had been there talk about menu. Mom was expressing her relief that the doctor had said the MRI had shown no signs of stroke, but perhaps it had been a "mushroom soup" (TAI or "mini stroke" or "almost stroke" as my neurologist put it.) She wanted to be sure her brother and my brother both knew that.
I did have her talk briefly to both my brother (her son, though she called him by her brother's name) and my two youngest kids, yesterday, after she settled and cleared from the "hug NOW" episode. She did amazingly well with Dan (my brother) and got a couple of pretty clear sentence out to my youngest. She got about a full sentence out to our 11-year-old, but by the second, she was really deteriorating so I took the phone back as she was obviously quite frustrated and I'm sure our daughter was getting pretty scared and confused. I hate talking on the phone since my strokes, so while it was good for her to hear a few beloved voices, I can really grasp her anguish when she was trying to say hi to our daughter.
At her PT (physical therapy) and OT (occupational therapy) evaluations, she was already able to get sat up (took about 5 minutes to accomplish the goal, but she did it!) on the edge of the bed, without even needing to hold on to anything for support once she was well positioned with her feet flat on the floor. She couldn't tolerate more than a few minutes upright, but she did manage a few, so this was big progress. I think it was well into my second week before I could manage the same, but still needed to hold on to something for support even well after I graduated from the rehabilitation hospital! She still has a hard time even with the bed being elevated to upright (she can't tell me if this causes pain, nausea, dizziness, or just what, but obviously something quite unpleasant!) so this feet was truly impressive.
They also managed to get her to a standing position for about 30 seconds, the two therapists obviously supporting her body weight, but they did it. After this she was nearly crying and couldn't get more than "I... need..." out but was obviously wanting to lay back down as quickly as possible. Today the goal is to try to work on getting her upright in a chair for a bit.
After that, her coloring wasn't nearly as good for a couple of hours. I told her she had worked hard (wow, had she ever!) and that it was OK to rest for a while now. I think she napped for all of three minutes after that. I told my dad I think she wanted to be sure she didn't miss anything exciting! She spends much of her day just staring at the ceiling, but has a very hard time sleeping much, at least during day hours. Dad got praise music playing in her room yesterday and she loves that. She also loves bright and pretty things and the Christian t-shirts I've worn these past two days.
If anyone wants to send her colorful cards, she is in Renown Regional Medical Center, room Sierra 193, Elizabeth (Betty) Camp. She got really excited when the speech therapist put her dietary instruction "card" on her wall yesterday, so we know she would love more cards! If you come to visit, she would LOVE the company, but please keep visits fairly brief (10 minutes or so is a good window to shoot for, it seems) and please remember that I am highly reactive to latex, so no regular balloons in her room (Mylar are great!) or I will not be able to be there any more. I think I will try to take her some pretty roses from my garden today before they all freeze (if I can figure a way to carry them in with my cane).
Mom wants to know what every sound out in the hall is, what anyone is saying near her, lots of confusion and questions, like when another patient's nurse call button goes off, when a linen cabinet opens across the hallway, when dad is quietly explaining the situation to a concerned friendly visitor, she wants to know every single detail, again and again, as if for the first time. We try to talk to her as much as possible, but can't typically hold much of a conversation because it is rather one-sided. I'm still learning how to phrase things because a question like, "Would you like me to pull your blankets up or are you comfortable?" will likely be answered with, "Yes." (Pull up her blankets? She's already comfortable? What should I do?) I think I will try reading a book to her this afternoon and see how that goes.
Cognitively, she seems to fully understand about 90% (maybe more!) of what is being said to her or going on around her. When it comes to following specific instructions like, "Tap your toes of your right foot, this foot [tap her knee], on the floor" there seems to be about 80% understanding, or at least ability to follow through. Simple decisions like if she would rather try peaches or pears for lunch are agonizing and nearly crisis choices still. Thinking back, she was starting to feel panicked over minor choices (take this into the house or leave it in the car?) as early as Thursday evening. She described it then as "hitting the wall" and that she was just "too exhausted to make any decisions".
Yesterday morning she could not move her arms much at all. By the afternoon she was able to get a hand up to rub her own nose or forehead a few times. In fact, she keeps rubbing hard at her forehead then carefully inspecting her fingers as if she expects to see something (like blood maybe?) there, but she cannot tell me why. (She was also NOT able to get her hand up several times.)
She wiggles around and wants to ask for things, but is frustrated over what she cannot express. Yesterday something was really upsetting her with her socks. She could not tell me nor even answer enough yes or no questions that we ever figured it out. Eventually she seemed the most settled with one sock on and one off, but I still don't think I got it right! She eventually gives up and says, "Never mind." Heartbreaking!
When drinking, she clamps down with her teeth and will not always let me get the cup back from her "little sip" before flooding herself. I hate the panic on her face as I try to coach her through opening her teeth and letting go of the cup. Yesterday afternoon she decided she was going to hold her own cup, but I insisted on holding it with her. She was able to get her hands up to her lips but not able to control water flow AT ALL yet. She also would not let go of the cup when I tried to take it back and panicked with each hand that I eventually pried off. I figure all this is being amazing therapy for me too!
She is in a lot of pain. Yesterday she shuddered and sighed and moaned as she tried to shift in the bed. I asked her what was wrong and she cried out in frustration, "I just hurt so much!" I told her the nurses could help with that and we got morphine ordered (I think they gave it to her 3 times Sunday too). She could never tell us exactly where she hurt (best guesses are upper back/shoulders and probably legs too), but she did settle down quickly and seemed much more comfortable within moments of getting the morphine in her IV. Whew!
I know she was having a hard time again by last night and Dad said they had promised another dose with her evening medicines. According to my dad on the phone last night, about 8:30, just ONE therapist got her out of bed for the bathroom and she could get there and back with a walker already! I'm excited and stunned. As our oldest reminded me, "God still does miracles!"
Re-post of paragraph last night: For those wondering, yes, my parents have asked that I still have my stroke-a-versary party at the Renown Rehabilitation Hospital this coming Saturday. I was set to cancel, in light of my mom's unfolding and unplanned journey, but I think that they would be quite disappointed if I did. (Rick said he would back my decision either way, but I'm excited that my parents want me to go ahead as I felt I "should" cancel but really didn't want to if we could still pull it off!) Best case, we hope to have my mom already moved over a settled into that facility before my open house and she gets to attend as a resident guest!
Satan's like a roaring lion. Praying for strength as we are learn to sit on lions! It IS hard, but through Christ, all things are possible.


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The New York team that typically doesn't do much talking has been doing a little more of it lately. And a guy who plays a position that rarely generates many headlines for the things he says is saying some things, too.
Giants punter Steve Weatherford has responded to comments from Cowboys owner Jerry Jones regarding his team's intention to "beat the . . . asses" of the defending Super Bowl champions.
"I don't know, you can let him blow smoke all day," Weatherford told Evan Roberts of WFAN. "I guess that's the only thing they have to cheer about down there right now. I've got a ring on my finger."
Of course, Jones has three. But it's been 17 years and counting since the Cowboys acquired their most recent piece of hardware.
Still, Weatherford doesn't think other members of the team will be joining him in calling out the Cowboys for calling out the Giants.
"I think everybody on the team — with the exception of me — will keep their mouth shut," Weatherford said. "I always have a good time. I try to fit the mold of the New York Giants and I do consider myself a classy guy, but it's all in good fun. I'm not going to attack anybody's character or anything like that, but I think it's good to talk a little trash every once in a while. It makes Sundays a little more interesting."
It definitely does, even if too much of it could make the game feel like pro wrestling.


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GPS co-ordinates: 48.721784,-3.967001
By car
Take the D69 to Brest, Quimper, and the South; the N58 will take you to Morlaix, and from there you can take the N12 to Rennes. The D786 takes you to Perros Guirec.
By taxi
Taxis are generally available at the terminal when the ship arrives. If there are none, our staff at the information desk will be happy to book one for you. The fare to the town centre is about 8 euros. If you want to book a taxi yourself, some local firms are:
- Taxi Chapalain Emmanuelle (Roscoff): 0618352236
- Gui home (Roscoff): 0640700128
- AB Taxis (Roscoff): 0607679090
- Taxi Le Pors (St Pol de Leon): 0298670000
By bus
There is no bus service between the terminal and town centre but a regular service runs between Roscoff and Morlaix taking around 35 minutes. Further details can be found on the Viaoo website (Ligne 29).
By train
Trains from Roscoff to Morlaix take 30 minutes by SNCF. From Morlaix you can take TGVs to the rest of France.
By foot
It is approximately 15 minutes walk from the terminal to the town centre and 20 minutes from the terminal to the train station.
Check-in advice
Please allow the following check-in times. Your departure time will be printed on your e-ticket.
|Type of booking
|Minimum check-in time
|Standard ferry or holiday booking
|45 minutes
|For disabled passengers or passengers with reduced mobility
|60 minutes
|Travelling with pets
|90 minutes
|Group bookings (10+)
|90 minutes
|When carrying dangerous goods
|60 minutes


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When an athlete takes up track and field at the age of 17 and within four months becomes the national junior champion of Moldova, word has a way of spreading to college coaches in the United States.
So University of Kansas throws coach Andy Kokhanovsky wasn't the only one to contact Nicolai Ceban before the Junior World Championships in Eugene, Ore., in 2014.
"Then, after the competition, coach Andy approached me and we talked," Ceban remembered. "For somebody to talk to me in Russian at a competition in the USA, so far away from home, that was a very unexpected connection."
Kokhanovsky, in his 13th season on Stanley Redwine's staff, is from Ukraine. He had competition in pursuit of the young thrower.
"Other schools were talking to me," Ceban said.
But they weren't talking to him in Russian.
"Because of that trust we developed when he spoke in Russian to me, for some reason I believed him more," Ceban said.
He remembered what Kokhanovsky told him.
"He told me I have big potential," Ceban said.
The coach was right about that and has helped Ceban reach it. A senior, Ceban earned second-team All-America honors in the shot put and placed second in the Big 12 outdoor championships last spring.
Kokhanovsky might have had a more difficult time predicting an even more prestigious honor Ceban recently garnered.
He was named the male winner of the Robert E. Frederick Senior Scholar-Athlete Award. Volleyball player Madison Rigdon was the female winner of the award named after KU's late athletic director, admired for his down-to-earth personality and dedication to physical fitness and sportsmanship.
"If all the students were as easy to work with as Nicolai, I wouldn't have a job," said tutor Laura Jacobsen who, along with associate AD/student-athlete support services Paul Buskirk, was praised by Ceban for guiding him on the right path to achieve his academic goals. "He's a great athlete. He's a great student. He's a great guy. He really is."
Ceban is at the Big 12 outdoor championships now, so he won't be marching down the hill for graduation, but he expects to finish with a 3.85 GPA in his final semester and intends to stay in Lawrence to pursue an MBA from KU and to work out with Kokhanovsky in hopes of qualifying for the 2020 Olympics.
All international students, even those from English-speaking countries, must undergo testing at the Applied English Center to see how much extra work they are required to do at the center.
Thanks to seeking out English tutoring in high school, Ceban needed just two semesters of extra help in that area.
"In the Applied English Center process, they have to learn very quickly," Buskirk said. "The pressure for them to become proficient in English is very steep. Nicolai has done a fabulous job and is a super bright young man."
Ceban has so enjoyed his experience at KU that he said he hopes to spend the rest of his life in the United States.
"I think so," he said. "I got the education that I wanted, and I think I can be a valuable resource here. I think it would be a very smart choice to apply all the knowledge and the skills I gained here, rather than some other place. Everything that has happened here connected me in a very strong way. It would be hard not to be part of this after making those connections."
He didn't always feel so connected. He said that, during his freshman year, he was so focused on making the cultural transition and improving his English that the newness of it all was exciting and kept him too busy to become homesick.
"It was hard for me the second year that I was here," Ceban said. "I was missing my family. I was missing my friends and I felt somehow alone in some ways. So I just became very focused on track and field and school. In some ways, I think it helped me. I would have this anger in me and I used it to get better in the gym and get stronger."
Ceban grew up speaking Russian and Romanian and, because his high school offered French, not English, he sought out a tutor.
"She gave me private English sessions once a week for two hours from her home for two years," he said. "She was very demanding. I needed three days in advance to prepare for the lessons. It took so much time to do all the work she wanted me to do."
Still, there is nothing like immersion to learn a language, so it took him time for English to slow down after he enrolled at KU.
"It was hard for me to express myself, to use the right words, and also difficult to understand people when they talked very fast," Ceban said.
He managed it so well, as well as building his body, refining his throwing technique and handling the demands required of an economics major, that he climbed all the way to the top of the athletic department's senior class.
So impressive.
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When actor Richard Thorncroft receives a phone call from the Isle of Mann police, it's one gig that the down-on-his-luck thespian can't turn down. We caught up with Mindhorn's Clive, co-writer Simon Farnaby, to ask what happens when the Six Million Dollar Man meets Bergerac on the Isle of Mann.
How did Mindhorn come about?
Well, Julian and I were friends and we discovered a shared love for these 1980s shows like Bergerac. I was a big fan of Bergerac when I was a kid, I just loved it when I was only about 8 or 9 years old and Julian loved The Six Million Dollar Man. And there were other shows like Magnum PI and Knightrider or The Sweeney and Inspector Morse.
You always remember the actors that played these roles. They're defined by them and we thought that it would be funny to do something about an actor and his relationship with this type of character. But we didn't really know how to do it until I had this vision about a phone call to the police where a suspect asked to speak to a fictional detective. It's a bit like the police on Jersey being receiving a call and someone saying "I'll hand myself over but I'll only speak to detective Jim Bergerac!" And they say "Don't you mean John Nettles?" and they go "No, I want to speak to Bergerac!"
And Mindhorn has this great backstory?
We thought what if he had something slightly sci-fi about him like The Six Million Dollar Man? What if he had a bionic eye that could see the truth? These shows always had great title sequences, in The Six Million Dollar Man the title sequence was about five minutes long and explains his whole background and how he became a bionic man. So we had a lot of fun with that sort of thing, how Mindhorn was a secret operative behind The Iron Curtain but they captured him and did a secret experiment on him but before they had a chance to kill him he escaped and went home to the Isle of Mann.
But you don't really rely on the parodying Mindhorn for the narrative.
We realised quite quickly that Mindhorn is a story about the actor Richard Thorncroft rather than the fictional detective. You see little flashes of Mindhorn though. But what Richard is doing is really a despicable thing. He takes a murder case and he tries to relaunch his career out of it in a very selfish, vain way. But he sort of learns the truth about himself. The great irony is that there's a huge gulf between the fictional character and the actor. While the fictional character can see the truth, the actor can see anything but that. He's all blindspot.
It's a very British take on character comedy rather than American?
We love those sort of comedies like Zoolander and Anchorman but really we're slightly more grounded than those. So we were influenced by that and we found that sort of stuff very funny but we knew we were going to be more like the Mickey Rourke film The Wrestler which was quite big for us. It's about a guy who used to be this amazing, famous wrestler and now works on a supermarket meat counter. Although that's sort of a tragic film, it's also really funny. There's a scene in The Wrestler where he's in a village hall with a lot of other wrestlers and they're all selling dvds. We had that kind of image for a while with ex fictional detectives at conventions selling memorabilia from different tv shows at little stalls.
Can you tell us about your role as Richard's nemesis, Clive?
When Richard left the Isle of Mann to go to Hollywood and he thought he'd never go back. He left a girlfriend behind, Patricia (played by Essie Davis) and when he goes back to the island, the woman who was the love of his life has shacked up with his stuntman, Clive. He's been replaced by his stand-in. Clive is really the opposite to Richard and even in the way he parades about with his top off. He's very Dutch and the Dutch accent is very louche, very relaxed, very laid back, like nothing bothers him. While Richard's very anxious and worries a lot about his status.
But Clive's very relaxed demeanour belies a more ruthless side.
You also have an amazing cast of theatre and tv greats.
Actors quite like to send themselves up, it's quite nice to be able to play themselves and Sean Foley actually knew Kenneth Brannagh. We wrote in Kenneth Brannagh, the scene where Richard Thorncroft goes to an audtion with him, was almost the first thing we wrote in the script. But we never thought we'd get him we thought we'd have to replace him with someone less theatrically famous, but thankfully we did! A lot of it is about success or failure really, you have that threat, we're all only two steps away from being Richard Thorncroft!
What's next for Mindhorn?
If people go to the cinema and there's a demand for it we will do more. But we don't want to do any more than a few rough ideas so if people don't go to the cinema to see we'd just have to shred our notebooks anyway. But we'd love to do more!
Simon Farnaby and Julian Barratt's ink black but oh so funny fictional detective Mindhorn comes to cinemas on May 5.
To read our full review click here.
Interview: Actor and comedian Simon Farnaby talks creating Mindhorn
5th May 2017
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Chapter 88 – Schools and Schoolmasters
Herds of Sperm Whales are usually quite large, but smaller groups of 20-50 are called schools, or, according to the fisherman, a harem; and the head bull is the schoolmaster.
Chapter 89 – Fast-Fish and Loose-FishA Fast-Fish belongs to the party fast to it; a Loose-Fish is fair game for anybody who can soon catch it. In other words:
"What are the Rights of Man and the Liberties of the World but Loose-Fish? What all men's minds and opinions but Loose-Fish? What is the principle of religious belief in them but a Loose-Fish? What to the ostentatious smuggling verbalists are the thoughts of thinkers but Loose-Fish? What is the great globe itself but a Loose-Fish? And what are you, reader, but a Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too?"
Chapter 90 – Heads or Tails
According to the Laws of England: "all whales captured by anybody on the coast of the land," the head of the whale goes to the King, and the tail goes to the Queen. And as with a whale, nothing is left. Obviously, this is unfair.
Chapter 91 – The Pequod Meets the Rose-Bud
Speaking of unfair: The Pequod encounters the French ship, Rose-Bud, carrying two dead whales; Stubb goes aboard to speak to the first-time captain through an interpreter, and it is apparent he has no knowledge of whaling. Stubb is able to convince him to release the two dead whales for their own safety, and he graciously complies. As the Rose-Bud sails from view, Stubb cuts into one of the whales to retrieve what the other captain and crew did not know about: ambergris.
Chapter 92 – Ambergris
Ambergris is the soft, waxy, and highly fragrant and spicy substance found in "the bowels of sick whales" and used in perfumes, candles, hair powder, and pomatum. Whaling is a stinky business.
Chapter 93 – The Castaway
Meet Pippin, nicknamed "Pip," a jolly young black hand aboard the ship who takes the place of an oarsman injured at sea. The first time in the harpoon boat, Stubb urgently orders the crew to cut away their Fasted whale because Pip jumped into the sea after being tangled in the line; but the second time he jumps, Stubb keeps going and leaves him alone in the lonesome, desolate ocean until the Pequod picks him up. His mates believe the experience causes his madness; but Ishmael calls it wisdom.
Chapter 94 – A Squeeze of the Hand
As the whale "cools" the spermaceti becomes lumpy and must be manipulated by squeezing the substance into a soft and slippery condition, which Ishmael overly enjoys, especially when mistaking his mates fingers and hands for the lumps. Ishmael gives more terminology on parts of the whale and how they are managed, and then mentions the blubber room, where many blubber-room men loose their digits to their own spade.
Chapter 95 – The Cassock
Uh, I had to research this. Never mind.
Chapter 96 – The Try-Works
Is this kinda like the Try-Pots where they serve chowder morning, noon, and night?
Pots and furnaces are used to boil the blubber down to oil, but in the process, which Ishmael describes the stench as that found in a funeral pyre, causes him to lose his orientation, and he hallucinates from the smoke and odor.
Chapter 97 – The Lamp
The whaling ship is like "some illuminated shrine of canonized kings and counselors," because whalers have easy access to oil for their lamps.
Chapter 98 – Stowing Down and Clearing Up
Recap: 1. "…the great Leviathan is afar off descried from the mast-head; 2...he is chased over the watery moors; and 3. slaughtered in the valleys of the deep; 4...he is then towed alongside and beheaded; and 5. his great padded surtout becomes the property of his executioner; 6. he is condemned to pots; and 7. his spermaceti, oil, and bone pass unscathed through the fire." And now Ishmael presents the final step of "decanting off his oil into the casks and striking them down into the hold." Since the oil is a great cleaning substitute, the decks are white and clear; but it isn't long before the process begins all over again.
Chapter 99 – The Doubloon
Return to the gold coin Ahab nailed to the mainmast: all have an opinion about its image of three mountain peaks pictured with a volcano, a tower, a rooster, and the sky showing the sun entering the zodiac Libra. Manxman predicts the Moby-Dick will be raised in a month and a day.


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The commonwealth of Puerto Rico has agreed to pay more than $35 million in back wages to nearly 4,500 workers in a settlement reached with the Labor Department.
The agreement to restore unpaid overtime wages to workers at Puerto Rico's Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is part of a consent judgment approved Friday by a federal judge in Puerto Rico. It's one of the largest such settlements in Labor Department history.
Labor officials say the commonwealth is taking steps to ensure future compliance with wage and hour laws. It is installing a new timekeeping system and hiring more staff to reduce overtime needs.
The Labor Department says workers were given too much compensatory time off instead of earning overtime pay for working more than 40 hours a week.


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TALLAHASSEE FLA, (franchisesportsonline.net)- The Florida A & M University Rattlers have had an eventful homecoming weekend. They played the Hampton University Pirates Saturday at Bragg Memorial Stadium. The stands were packed with 26,044 fans wearing orange and green as all the Rattler fans were excited for this big homecoming game against the Pirates. The Rattlers finished off this exciting week with an even more exciting 31-14 win over Hampton University Pirates.
The Rattlers started the game fast and didn't hold back after that. The first drive for the rattlers ended up as a touchdown. Ryan Stanley found his big guy an offensive lineman Louben Polinice for a 19 yard TD. Stanley finished the drive 4-5 with two carries as well.
The defense played a big role in this win as well as the offense. The rattlers defense only let the Hampton pirates get in the red zone twice the entire game. The defense forced a fumble which was recovered by Braxton Brown and got two interceptions tonight.
The offense was also on a role, every time they got the ball they were hungry to score. Ryan Stanley finished the game off 18-31 212 yards and 2 TD. Stanley hasn't turned the ball over since he has been named the starting QB.
The running backs had a nice game. Devin Bowers had 18 carries for 74 yards and Hans Supre had 10 carries for 44 yards and a TD.
Kareem Smith was all over the field whether it was on special teams or even on offense. He finished the game with 6 catches for 86 yards. He also had 3 punt returns for a total of 54 yards and a long of 35 yards.
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Braxton Brown 6 tackles 1 tackle for loss
Orland Mckinley 5 tackles
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This is an amazing portrait drawn by 29-year-old Portugal-based attorney Samuel Silva (he says art is just his "hobby") based on a photograph by Russian photographer Kristina Tararina. Silva's medium of choice is standard Bic ballpoint pens on paper and this particular portrait uses eight different colors
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Paper, but more specifically handwriting, will likely always be with us, and that's a good thing. It's a smoother path from your brain to the printed word, it saves you from task-switching overload, and it possibly makes the best to-do list.
By committing your thought to paper, you're also doing more to lock it into place. … Berninger told the Wall Street Journal in Oct. 2010 that as your hand executes each stroke of each letter, it activates a much larger portion of the brain's thinking, language, and "working memory" regions than typing, which whisks your attention along at a more letters-and-words pace.
… paper as a medium that allows for deeper thought and focus. By its nature, it's a single page that you pick up and give a key position to, and you can see exactly how much you have done with it.
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This is what you find as a front cover for the present issue of Novum Magazine. It really makes me catch the issue as early as possible.
And here's the video, showing complicated, but inspiring, work process and efforts that goes into it.
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Augmented Reality (AR) blends pre-programed 3D images or animations with live capture video of people or places, then projects the resulting "virtual interaction" on a screen – making it look like you are seeing a leatherback sea turtle there, right in front of you!
We are currently using Aurasma player for iOS devices or androids, and desktop/webcam applications.
How To
1. Download Aurasma on iphone or android
2. Open app on device, search for Canadian Wildlife Federation and click FOLLOW.
3. Print or display on your screen the Turtle marker
Agile Abigail
Rev it Bev
Cruisin' Christie
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