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The Nicholas Robinson Gallery on West 20th Street recently closed its doors for the last time, Gallerist has learned. A small operation that, since 2007, has put on well reviewed shows from McDermott & McGough, Jason Polan, Ron Gorchov and John Copeland, it was ultimately overrun by the costs of doing business in Chelsea, according to former director Christine Højer.
"It's in response to very difficult economic conditions," she said. "It's a young gallery and we have a very big overhead, so it's too much of struggle, really." The reasons for the closure were almost self-explanatory, said Ms. Højer adding that she had nothing to do with the decision to close the gallery, and had already left by the time that decision was made. "It's not like we're closing because we've made $500 million and we don't need to work anymore."
The decision to close the gallery was made around Christmas, and artists were informed of those plans shortly after that.
Former employees there are are currently in the process of returning works to their artists. Ms. Højer said she could not speak about the future because she doesn't know what it holds for Mr. Robinson, or for herself.


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In the opinion of the survey, this property appears to meet the criteria of the Seattle Landmarks Preservation Ordinance.
Built in 1915, the building was purchased by Elmer J. Hungerford in April of 1928. John H. and Mabel Maule resided in the building through 1970. Mr. Maule was born in Medford, Oregon and worked as plant superintendent for Shell Oil Company's Harbor Island terminal. Mr. Maule retired in 1952 and died in July of 1957. Beacon Hill is a long north-south tending ridge located southeast of downtown Seattle and stands 350 feet at its highest point. The hill's steep topography deterred substantial Euro-American settlement through the early 1880s. Then, development of the area was stimulated by the introduction of streetcar lines in the 1890s, its proximity to Seattle's main industrial area to the west, and the regrading of the hill's north end in the early 1900s. Originally acquired by the City in 1898, Jefferson Park was integrated into Seattle's Olmsted system of parks, and the Olmsted Brothers prepared a plan for the park in 1912. The first public golf course west of the Mississippi opened at Jefferson Park in 1915. Jefferson Park has exerted a profound positive influence on the development of the Beacon Hill neighborhood. Because of its proximity to the International District, Japanese and Chinese families moved to Beacon Hill starting in the 1920s. World War I and II stimulated a surge in housing development associated with wartime industry. The construction of Interstate 5 in the 1960s and Interstate 90 in the 1980s sliced through the neighborhoods and contributed to Beacon Hill's relative isolation. Today, Beacon Hill is an ethnically diverse working class community, which has a mixed Asian, Chicano, African American, and Caucasian population.
Built in 1915, this Arts & Crafts style, single-family dwelling stands on a trapezoidal shaped lot. The building is oriented to Nineteenth Avenue South on a flat site 5' above street level. This 870 square foot, one-and-a-half story house with a full daylight basement features an almost square plan, measuring approximately 27' by 30', with a 7' by 27' recessed front porch. A poured concrete foundation supports the wood frame, coursed shingle-clad superstructure. Asphalt composition roofing covers the side gable roof and shed roof dormer. Overhanging eaves and gables with exposed rafters, purlins, decorative braces and bargeboards define the roofline. Wood sash 1:1 windows provide day lighting for first story spaces with single-lite fixed wood sash windows in the dormer. A square oriel window projects from the side facade. A direct flight of stairs leads to the front porch. Brick piers support smaller battered wood piers carrying the extended roofline over the porch.
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City of Seattle. Survey of City-Owned Historic Resources. Prepared by Cathy Wickwire, Seattle, 2001. Forms for Ravenna Park structures.
Tobin, Caroline. (2004) "Beacon Hill Historic Context Statement."
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Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) -- Seven Republican candidates faced off on Monday in the first debate in New Hampshire, which holds the first primary of the 2012 election.
Michele Bachmann, Herman Cain, Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, Tim Pawlenty, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum addressed issues ranging from the debt ceiling to abortion rights.
Front-runner Romney was expected to be a target of the other debaters, seeking to bring him back closer to the pack, most of who trail him by double digits in most polls.
Here's how CNN's analysts and contributors saw the debate:
Cornell Belcher, Democratic strategist and CNN contributor
On Pawlenty, who had been critical of Romney the day before on his health care reform plan while governor of Massachusetts but backed away from the opportunity to continue his criticism during the debate:
"I think the Pawlenty thing was a big deal because of this: As much as we don't like -- we say we don't like negative campaigns, the truth of the matter is, if someone occupies the space that you want to occupy, and they're ahead of you, I'm sorry, you have got to make that person -- you got to cut that person and make them bleed.
"Now, do you take a hatchet to him the first-night debate? No. But you have to make them bleed because you are never going to get ahead of that person unless you cut them and you make them bleed.
"Pawlenty was served up an opportunity to sort of start that bleeding tonight, and he looked punk. He could not back up what he has said aside when he was standing on the stage with Romney. He looked tentative and he looked weak. I think he missed a prime opportunity to make this guy bleed."
Gloria Borger, CNN chief political analyst
On Bachmann, who announced during the debate that she had filed the necessary papers to run for president:
"I think she sort of stepped out of Sarah Palin's shadow tonight. She was clearly one of the best-prepped candidates here. She let people know the depth of her experience on the intelligence committee, for example.
"She spoke very succinctly. And she was positive and, you know, there wasn't a lot of sort of smiling, laughter, uplifting kind of statements coming out of this debate. And I think she was sort of the positive candidate coming out of this. So I think she did very, very well for herself."
David Gergen, CNN senior political analyst
On winners and losers in the debate and on Gingrich, who last week saw most of his senior advisers desert his campaign:
"I did think there were three winners tonight: Romney, who helped himself the most. Gingrich, who remained in the race.
"But Michele Bachmann, I thought, was the biggest surprise, because she was -- I don't think the country knew her well. She was pithy. She spoke in a much more cleaner sentences. She sprinkled interesting facts into it. And she introduced her biography. The 23 foster children, she said that twice."
Dana Loesch, Tea Party activist and CNN contributor
On the debate's best performances:
"I think Michele Bachmann did incredibly well this debate, and I think that this was the first time that even people who are grassroots conservatives, people who are very familiar with her, who have been seeing her across the country at different events, this was the first time that they've been able to see her in this setting, actually going up against other people who are also trying to claim that same super-conservative mantel.
"So it was -- it was -- I think she performed very well. I think she answered very well. She really held her own, and I think that this was a very good debate for her, and she was one of the individuals, I think Romney and Gingrich were others, that came out on top.


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LA's 'Shani' returns with the beautiful 'Sade' esque ballad 'Changing Tides'
These days, it's rare enough to find an artist you truly love, be it an actor, musician or director. It's even more rare, however, to find one who is naturally skilled in all three sectors and manages to produce a delightful result every single time. That's right, in this article, we're talking about American artist


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Azerbaijan, Baku, Oct. 5 / Trend K. Zarbaliyeva /
The participant of the Baku International Humanitarian Forum, ex-President of the Republic of Croatia Stjepan Mesic has visited the Azerbaijani Defense Ministry today.
Mesic met with Azerbaijani Minister Safar Abiyev and exchanged the ideas on cooperation in various fields, the Ministry told Trend.
Abiyev informed the guest about the tense military situation in the region as a result of Armenia's aggressive policy.
The military-technical cooperation was also discussed.


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Making Decisions
Discussion Guide for Married Couples
PURPOSE: To reflect on how we make decisions, and how the decisions we make impacts our relationship.
We start each discussion guide with several questions. It's best if these questions are answered by both husband and wife either in the visiting room or by mail. By answering the questions and sharing our feelings, we are able to have an understanding between us which will help us to make decisions more quickly that are acceptable to both of us.
- Name one decision I made recently that affected our relationship and how do I feel about it now?
- Am I comfortable making decisions with you and what are my thoughts and feelings about my answer?
DECISIONS: Our lives are full of decisions. Who we are today is the result of our past decisions – both good and bad. Some of our decisions will affect us for only a short time, but others will affect us for years to come, some for the rest of our lives, some may determine how we spend eternity.
One of the goals of our decision making is to maximize our strong (good) traits and minimize our weak (undesirable) traits. We should strive to use our decision making process to help each other become more the person God created us to be.
Just as athletes train to improve their skills, so can we improve our decision making skills both in calm times and under stress. The difference is sort of like the difference between catching a ball hit right at you or one that is going over your head. "Practice makes perfect".
Making Decisions
Following is part of a Marriage Encounter presentation given by Paula and Reggie, while Reggie was serving time at a Federal Prison Camp.
REGGIE: As our marriage partnership continues to grow, we realize there are many aspects of our individual lives that must be merged into that partnership. One thing that we've had to work on is our decision making process. Paula and I try to consult one another whenever possible, before making serious decisions that involve the kids, finances, our future, etc. However, this is not always possible, since she can't call me if an important decision must be made immediately. In these cases we discuss the decision after the fact and in most cases I agree with her decision. But that doesn't happen 100% of the time.
Not long ago, Paula decided that it would be a good idea if she placed both our names on the tithing list at her home church. When she told me, she was bubbling with enthusiasm that she had done this "for us". I have to tell you that I was definitely less enthused. I tried to understand how that made her feel more like a family, but I was a member of another church before my incarceration, and my loyalties remain there.
I explained to Paula that in the prison environment, I don't get the chance very often to make my own decisions, so when the opportunity arises it's important to me that I can help to make those decisions. When the opportunity is denied me, I feel like part of me is not valued. I worry that I might be losing my ability to make decision, so it means a lot when she respects my opinion on the topic.
PAULA: It was then that I realized how important the decision making process is in our marriage. To me, making so many decisions alone had become a chore. I was excited about this decision because I envisioned Reggie and I going to church together when he is out. I knew his faith had grown stronger since he's been incarcerated, and I thought we were on the same wavelength regarding spiritual matters.
I tried to put myself in his shoes, and I suddenly could see that I was being selfish. I wanted everyone at my new church to see Reggie when he came home. This wasn't a decision that had to be made immediately. I had to let go, and trust that God would help us with this decision. Most of all, I needed to listen to Reggie.
REGGIE: And I needed to listen to Paula. We finally decided to wait to make the decision after I got home. I offered to go to Paula's church, and she agreed to go with me to my old church.
Now our decision making process is more defined. We discuss and pray about the issues which must be decided upon, and then act on them accordingly. Of course, this is not always possible. We each trust the other's judgment, and if decisions have to be made without the other's input, we accept that. I have learned never to say "I told you so". But that doesn't keep me from saying, "Haven't we discussed this before?"
PAULA: As we discuss more topics and share our feelings we gain basic understandings which help us to make mutually agreeable decisions. We can see how God is working in our marriage.
REGGIE: I have always been a very head strong and free-willed individual, always taking great pride in my accomplishments. But prison is a very humbling experience, which has allowed me the chance to look deep inside myself, find my flaws and allow God to change them. The changes haven't always come easily. I have come to realize that the more I'm willing to give up of myself, the more love I have to give to Paula and God.
PAULA: Reggie and I believe that God has a plan for us. He is the center of our relationship and of our marriage. And we know that through Him all things are possible.
REGGIE: I'll close with this admonition to the husbands here today, from the Apostle Paul. In his letter to the Ephesians, Paul writes: "Husbands, love your wives as Christ loved the church and gave His life for her."
Questions for Couple Dialogue
- What important lessons have I learned from this exercise and how does that make me feel?
- What positive steps can we take to help our decision making process go smoothly so that each of our needs are met?
- What decisions do we need to work on now?
- When making decisions, how can I be more sensitive to my spouse's input?
Scripture Reading
1 King 3:5–14
"At Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon during the night in a dream, and God said, "Ask for whatever you want me to give you."
Solomon answered, "You have shown great kindness to your servant, my father David, because he was faithful to you and righteous and upright in heart. You have continued this great kindness to him and have given him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
"Now, O Lord my God, you have made your servant king in place of my father David. But I am only a little child and do not know how to carry out my duties. Your servant is here among the people you have chosen, a great people, too numerous to count or number. So give your servant a discerning heart to govern your people and to distinguish between right and wrong. For who is able to govern this great people of yours?"
The Lord was pleased that Solomon had asked for this. So God said to him, "Since you have asked for this and not for long life or wealth for yourself, nor have asked for the death of your enemies but for discernment in administering justice, I will do what you have asked. I will give you a wise and discerning heart, so that there will never have been anyone like you, nor will there ever be. Moreover, I will give you what you have not asked for–both riches and honor–so that in your lifetime you will have no equal among kings. And if you walk in my ways and obey my statutes and commands as David your father did, I will give you a long life."
Steps in Making a Decision
Often the only way we are going to lessen the stress in our life is to make a conscious decision. It may be a decision to slowdown or set priorities so we don't continue to make everything of equal importance. It may be a decision to change our attitude or our job. Perhaps the decision is to re-evaluate our expectations. For some people it might be a decision to move or a decision about losing weight. It may be any number of things.
If you have identified some issues for which you need to make decisions, here are 6 steps to help you through the process:
- QUIET TIME. Most of us know the truth and most of us know the answers. What we need to do is be quiet and listen. Stop and think. Clear your mind. Be quiet and listen to yourself.
- JOURNAL. Each day write about the issue you are trying to clarify. How do you really feel about it? Is it a real issue, or have you created an issue? What is going on? What can you do about it? Make a list of your options. Anytime you write about something, it becomes much clearer to you.
- CONSULT WITH WISE PEOPLE. This does not mean to be mindless or to automatically assume when somebody tells you something that they are right. Rather, it means to get input from other people. If you think they have some insights to share, seek them out, get the input, put it in your mind, process it, think about it, journal about it, be quiet, and the truth will reveal itself.
- PRAY. Ask God or your Higher Power to give you wisdom and some insights. You will find that in prayer it is not so much that an answer is given, but that your fear is taken away so you can recognize the answer you have known all along. Prayer changes no one as much as it changes ourselves.
- MAKE A DECISION, ACCEPT THE CONSEQUENCES, AND DON'T LOOK BACK. Your decision may be to postpone making a decision for a certain length of time. This is an acceptable decision and can be very healthy. However, some decision needs to be made if there is ever going to be change.
- ACT ON YOUR DECISION. Outline the necessary program or practice which will enable you to get results from your decision. This may mean taking definite steps to change your life, your behavior or your attitude, or forgiving someone or asking for forgiveness, or some other course of action. As Ernie Larsen often says in his books and seminars: "If nothing changes, nothing changes." There's a lot of truth to that very simple statement. We are where we are because of what we have done. If we are not willing to do something new, there isn't going to be any change.
Help Us with This Decision
Dear Lord, we have an important decision to make and neither of us seems to be able to determine what the right decision should be. We have taken time to examine all the options and their consequences, and we still feel terribly confused and uncertain. O Lord, don't let us go on floundering in this way. You promised that you would help us if only we would ask. You promised that you would always instruct us and direct us in the way we should go. We believe in your promises, dear Lord, and we believe in your wisdom. You know what choice is best for us, Lord. So guide us and show us the way, give us the strength, the confidence, and the wisdom we need not only to make the right decisions but to also have the ability to accept the decisions we make.


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What makes great software? Great software is a tool that helps you as an individual succeed. Great software helps your organization succeed. In order to compete in today's technologically demanding environment, software is expected to be smarter and faster than ever before. Additionally, very high expectations are made on features like interoperability, platform availability, and extensibility. Growing organizations need to be confident that software is scalable and can grow with them. What was considered cutting edge just a short while ago, now constitutes minimum baseline expectations.
Configurable and accessible from anywhere
For example, good software might incorporate the most commonly requested features across the industry (one-size-fits-all), but great software is engineered to be highly configurable to provide you with the best solution possible. And good software would, of course, run on your preferred hardware, but great software runs on your PC, your tablet and even your smart phone.
The overall user experience of today's best software is expected to present not only easy-to-use workflows, but also provide ways to manipulate data in fresh, clever, and advanced new ways. Using things like events, triggers, calendars, organizers, and to-do lists, great software works for you proactively.
Reporting and integrations
Good software should provide stock and customizable reports. Great software also provides interoperability opportunities to integrate with any existing database reporting tools. For example, running 3rd-party reporting tools across an open database. Good software integrates with other leading software, but great software also provides custom interfaces to provide the best integration opportunities possible.
Great software has great support! When it comes to enterprise-level software, the support you receive from the company is just as critical as the software itself. At Collective Data, we provide the support, help, documentation, and training that minimizes learning curves and maximizes productivity and user confidence. We are driven to provide a user experience that lets you confidently manage and analyze your data in ways that are familiar to you. In addition, we provide fresh new ways to keep you on top of your game.
Make sure you look into how the company will be able to provide support you before you make a decision. You can often tell how well they will support you based on how responsive they are to your requests before you are a customer. A company that is quick to respond and goes above and beyond before you've paid them anything says a lot about them as a company.
Performance and scalability
For example, the Collective Data software server incorporates a new primary/secondary multi-server model, that allows the software to scale to the future needs of your organization. It delivers highly scalable performance … and that without the need to expose additional ports (something that your IT folks will appreciate!). Configurable multi-threading technologies are being incorporated into the Collective Data system which will further bolster the performance and responsiveness of the software.
As your company grows, you want to know how the software is performing, and how to tune it. For example, Collective Data's Performance Monitoring feature provides a window into our server that tells items such as:
- How many requests are being executed concurrently
- How many licenses are being used
- How much memory is being used
- Errors and exceptions
And, we can even set it up to email you that information periodically if you like.
Both sparse long-term logging and dense short-term logging are important to have as well. For our fleet management software, logging supplements our auditing features (if purchased) to help give you a clear picture of what is going on with the software.
The reliability of great software should be excellent to say the least. If some exception should occur, great software should be tolerant of exceptions and also provide exception reports with "call stacks" that give the development team the information it needs to address the problem as quickly as possible. The Collective Data server software has developed some best-in-class self-monitoring and recovery features. You can even optionally configure our software to email an exception report to our development team automatically… so it is possible that we can identify and correct exceptions before you even know there was a problem.
In order to create great software, the company's development team must be comprised of highly skilled and dedicated engineers that are leveraging the best and most appropriate technologies. At Collective Data, our engineers are working for you and your organization to succeed.
As you look for a fleet maintenance management software system, be sure to challenge the companies you are evaluating with some of the elements I mentioned above such as configurability, customer support, scalability, and reliability. You'll be happy you did!


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Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Before I Fall
Mean girls. Every high school has them, right? In this book, one of our mean girls goes to a party and ends up dying in an accident. When she wakes up, she starts to relive the last day of her life. She goes to bed again and wakes up to the same scenario. Again. As I was reading, I kept waiting for her to just do some kind of Pollyanna moment where she feels bad for all the things she did, but that doesn't happen. She keeps making mean girl mistakes and stumbles through her days, slowly realizing that the smallest thing she does can have a ripple effect on the people around her.
The book is a little like the movie Groundhog Day, but a whole lot deeper. As our character goes through her days, she starts to get that her friends may not be the people she thought they were, and the girl who they had been bullying for years may have more worth than she ever knew.
The point I took away from this book is this: You never know how the smallest thing you do (or don't do) will effect someone. Events spiral out like a pebble on the surface of a pond, and everything and everyone is connected.
I think of this book as I watch the local news about bullying legislation and hope that changes can be made in the way bullying is handled in schools.
For my part, I will try to tell everyone about this book, and Jay Asher's 13 Reasons Why and hope my suggestion might be a pebble that ripples out to help someone else.
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Friday, October 22, 2010
Wearing purple to stop the bullying.
Let me say that at that time, it was hard to see beyond the kid who used to chase me home every day after school, or the kids who took delight in stealing my jacket in graphics class, or goosing me in the stairwell. I hated it. Misery was my middle name.
Getting through school and into your real life is the best success. That is the message I have for kids. It does get better. The people that are around you now that make your life hell, won't be there forever. The light at the end of the tunnel doesn't have to be a train. It can be focusing on your dreams and seeing past it. Success is the best revenge. Let me tell you. You won't even remember those kids names, and if you concentrate on you and what you want, you will find your way past it all.
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Sunday, October 10, 2010
How many of you were bullied as kids? I know I was. It was horrible. Listening to the news and glancing over magazine covers makes me think about how hard it is to be a kid who maybe doesn't have the newest clothes, or for what ever reason doesn't fit in. I can still remember one girl that my classmates razzed even more than they did me, and I wonder what became of her. They called her horrible names because they said she smelled funny. As for myself, I recall not wearing the latest clothes and being shy. A complete target for kids who liked to pick on me. When I think back, it was a miracle I made it out of junior high school in one piece.
Were you bullied as a kid? How did you get through it? I would love to hear from you.
Were you bullied as a kid? How did you get through it? I would love to hear from you.
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Wednesday, October 6, 2010
What are you reading today?
My nightstand.
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Kim Derting comes to The Woodlands.
Every dead thing has a signature. What if you could hear it? Sense it? Violet Ambrose can. She senses the echos they leave behind, and the imprints they leave on their killers. Soon Violet finds herself wrapped in a mystery, with a serial killer threatening all that she holds dear. Can she use her unique power to stop him, or will he find her first?
This was a great book! Loved it. It was original and kept me guessing every step of the way. Meeting the author last summer was a blast! I can't wait to see what her next book will be!
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Cruise Tourism – the very mention of Word – Cruise makes blood rushing in my brain. Everyone inn my group knows how much I live being on a cruise – travelling on the ocean waters and visiting multiple locations that the ship docks at.
Well, Singapore tourism board has some really amazing plans for the Indian Tourists visiting Singapore and then moving on to neighbouring locations via Cruise Tourism.
Our team recently met GB Srithar, Regional Director – India, Middle East and South Asia (IMESA), Singapore Tourism Board, and Lim Si Ting, and Raymond Lim, Area Directors, STB, and in the meeting they briefed us on the STB's approach towards developing Cruise Tourism among Indian Travellers.
The article on the meeting was featured recently in a B2B magazine dealing primarily with travel – namely Travel n Hospitality. A detailed report is also attached below for your reading.
Cruise tourism is not a new phenomenon, and over the past decade it's taken a new lease of life and is growing extremely rapidly. Cruising refers to an act of going on a trip on a ship that is meant relaxation voyages.
The cruise ship industry is booming and ships are getting bigger, better, more exciting and more experience-driven. In 2019, 30 million passengers are expected to cruise, up from 17.8 million a decade earlier. In Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore, the cruise industry is experiencing double-digit growth as cruise lines set their sights on the neighbouring destinations and consumer markets in this part of Asia. With its tropical climate and calm waters, Singapore is ideal for year-round cruising. The region is culturally rich and diverse in destination offerings.
Indian tourists are a big chunk of visitors to Singapore and also Singapore is home to a large and emerging India middle class, which makes it a promising source market for cruise ship deployments.
In a bid to promote cruise tourism among Indian travelers, GB Srithar, Regional Director – India, Middle East and South Asia (IMESA), Singapore Tourism Board, and Lim Si Ting, and Raymond Lim, Area Directors, STB recently organised a small meeting. In the meeting they briefed us on the STB's approach towards developing Cruise Tourism among Indian Travellers.
Why do you think that Indian should start their cruise experience from Singapore ?
Singapore is located strategically in Southeast Asia, where its excellent air connectivity and world-class port infrastructure make it an ideal hub for cruising in the region. Every year, we welcome new cruise brands and ships to our shores, adding to our vibrant pipeline of deployments.
What are your strategies for Indian travelers?
We are adopting a two-pronged marketing strategy for the Indian outbound cruise market: firstly, to raise awareness and promote cruising as a hassle-free holiday option to the Indian travellers; and secondly, to establish Singapore as their favourite cruise holiday destination, including presenting Singapore's varied tourism offerings for pre and post cruise experiences in the city. Cruising holidays can appeal to diverse Indian travel segments like families, working millennial, weddings, MICE and those gathering for celebrations.
India continued to be the top source market for VA (visitors' arrival) in the cruise segment for Singapore. Around 1,60,000 cruise passengers from India sailed out of Singapore's shores in 2018 with a year-on-year increase of 27 per cent from 2017. An interesting highlight was the average age of an Indian cruiser 37 compared to 46.7 years for a global cruiser and 45.4 years for an Asian cruiser. Also the average stay that an Indian tourist logged was 2.9 days. The future of cruise tourism for both Singapore and the India tourists is bright. The significant development is the rising demand from India's Tier 2 cities travelers along with a growth in travellers seeking for premium and luxury services.
How you are working to popularize curise tourism in India?
STB organised a Cruise Forum with the theme "Growing Cruise Connections, Achieving Together" in New Delhi recently. We are trying to build a healthy relationship between our travel trade partners, cruise line operators and cruise professionals.
We are also planning to put more efforts in promoting cruise as new venue for weddings, celebrations and MICE. We are looking forward to tap the new segment of festivals like Diwali, Christmas and New Year, and promote Singapore as a Cruising Capital.
We are also looking forward to partner with more Indian travel agents to provide them with the essential training, resources and support to sell more cruise holidays in India.
You mentioned that there is a big upward surge in the number of Indian cruise tourists. How do you plan to cope with the increasing numbers?
Yes, we already can see a big numbers coming into Singapore and opting for cruises. We have been working with the leading cruise liners to increase the capacities and also to introduce new facilities.
STB, Genting Cruise Lines and Changi Airport Group, has partnered to promote Genting Dream and is expected to bring in 600,000 overseas visitors and more than S$ 250 million in tourism receipts.
In association with the cruise lines and Changi Airport, STB is planning to provide facilities at the airport itself. As soon as the tourist lands, his luggage is transferred to the cruise line while he/she goes on the city tour and shopping in Singapore. Once done with his land tourism, he/she can come to the ship and check into the room where his/her luggage has already reached.
Ships are getting bigger, like Genting Dream, with over 3,300 passenger capacity is double its predecessor SuperStar Gemini's capacity and Royal Caribbean International's recent announcement that Asia's largest ship, the Quantum of the Seas, will be refreshed and upgraded, before it returns to Singapore between November 2019 and April 2020 for a six-month deployment, are some of the changes planned in the shipping sector.
What kinds of activities are offered on a cruise?
A cruise holiday offers diverse offerings from zipline to foam parties and caters to a wide range of travellers. We are committed to provide exceptional hospitality services, varied culinary experiences and modified itineraries.


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Back in the 1960's and 70's, there was a popular TV program called StarTrek, which was later made into a hit movie Star Wars, actually several. Its motto was about "Space – the Final Frontier"
I read recently about plans to put a person on Mars, which referred again to "space, the final frontier".
Yet, what if Humanity's Final Frontier was about inner space, rather than outer space?!
Our search for knowledge has understandably led to physical exploration, and thus discovering and exploring such frontiers as the New World, the Wild West, the depths of the sea, and, in the last fifty years, "outer space"
Yet, it may be time that we advanced as a civilization by exploring and understand our Inner Space" rather than just being fixated on Outer Space.
By doing this, we might improve work life, companies and leadership. This is how Herb Kelleher, founder and long-time CEO of Southwest Airlines, once described how he was making SW Air a great company:
"We care about employees in the totality of their lives, not just at work. People can go out and buy Boeing aircraft and put up ticket counters, but they can't buy our Esprit de Corps."
This is about exploring our inner existence – the realms and power of the Mind, the Heart and Human Spirit, including
- Our Higher Purpose – in serving the world, beyond just making a living
- Human Spirit – and its role in Life and Work, not just Mind
- Oneness – how we're all intricately connected
What frontier(s) most fascinate you?


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Thermochemical plastic recycling
If it isn't economically feasible to recycle plastics mechanically or chemically, thermochemical recycling may offer a sustainable solution. TNO is developing technologies to thermally recycle plastics through pyrolysis so that they become, as new building blocks, a suitable raw material for existing industrial sites.
Thermochemical recycling renders waste plastics suitable for reuse as a raw material in the chemical industry. The result of the pyrolysis process is a new raw material that can be used in a so-called cracker (or its purification train). In a cracker, a petroleum fraction is converted primarily into ethylene and propene, the basis for the two most common types of plastic: polypropylene (PP) and polyethylene (LDPE or HDPE).
Thermochemical recycling of plastic
With thermochemical recycling, the building of polymers actually begins all over again. On the one hand, the process requires a high temperature, more expensive units and more energy. On the other hand, it is more robust and suitable for mixed and contaminated plastic streams. This method will certainly also play a role in the future. After all, there will always be a need for a mix of plastics and foils that cannot be recovered via mechanical and chemical routes.
The most important application of thermochemical recycling is plastics for the food industry. Because thermochemical recycling produces monomers and building blocks, and thus returns to the beginning of the production process, these plastics must have the same composition as the 'virgin plastics' made of fossil raw materials. TNO is developing technologies to make this possible, with the benefit of reducing the amount of fossil raw materials needed in the production process. However, continued use of the existing, tried-and-tested crackers and infrastructure presents a challenge.
Recyclable composites
In the public-private partnership Brightsite, we also build industrial demos at a laboratory and pilot scale in order to help companies to achieve their sustainability and safety objectives. One of the developments is the MILENA process whereby various streams of biomass and plastic waste can be converted into building blocks for industry.
The research is based on the technologies that TNO has developed over the past two to three decades for the processing of biomass in Petten (the Energy Transition business unit). Using the valuable experience gained there, we are now optimising the technologies for plastics, household waste and mixed flows. In addition, we have a good overview of other technologies that can possibly be used for this purpose.
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Thirty-Something Pockets
Part 2 – I Think I Wore This Before
Part 3 – Dance Like No One's Watching
Part 4 – I Must Be Getting Old, Because I Can Have Fun Sober
Don't worry, I'm not about to start rambling about financial stability or anything like that. These are a different kind of pockets…
In case that wasn't clear, a certain facetious little question did creep into my thoughts more than once: am I too old for this? Am I too old to wear this dress? Am I too old to go to this thing? Am I too old for this sort of fun? What gets to me most is not the question, but the fact that I let a certain kind of social pressure, a judgemental, narrow-minded attitude infiltrate my thoughts. Funny, I never really wondered, "Am I too young for this?", no matter what age I was.
We're growing, we're learning and we're changing as a society in my little corner of the world, but the fact remains, there still is a considerable percentage that tends to jump from "you're too young for this" directly to "you're too old for it". And if you're over 25 and a woman, your life should officially be over, all you should concern yourself with is your job and your family. What, no family yet? Shame on you, it's this kind of behaviour that caused it… and don't you try and tell me that you're happy with your life, that's simply unacceptable.
Ok, quick rant over. I may know who I am and what my values are, but that's not to say I am immune to any sort of self-doubt or pressure, so said insidious question did cross my mind. But since my answer was a determined, loud "NO!" followed by a shoulder shrug and "Who gives a damn, anyway…", I was pleased to notice there were so many others sharing my opinion. The event attracted an eclectic crowd, and age was just one of the temporarily irrelevant matters. People who would normally have nothing to do with each other and would never socialize openly found a common ground for a few hours or for a few days, and that was terribly interesting to observe and analyse.
As we kept moving through the crowd we kept discovering various pockets of thirty-something year olds, who were just as comfortable and having as much fun as we did… as everybody else did, the much younger and much older ones alike. Sure, there were many mixed groups, but it was amusing to notice those grouped by generation, and then analyse and compare. What? A girl has to keep busy between acts or when she takes a break to catch her breath.
Some things transcend age, I'm reminded. I see teenagers half my age sing to some of the songs that were trendy when I was in my teens, or even to older songs; fine, so the songs are now remixed by popular DJ's, there's a contemporary sound that reflects the artist's interpretation, but they're easily recognizable. But even in that crowd it's all about the individual, and there also are many blank stares when some refreshed oldies liven the night.
It's a sea of countless contradictions that seem to coexist without many issues, and I cannot help noticing some of them. Aside from their personal creations, young artists discover music older than they are, and they manage to breathe new life into it. Then there are the older ones, those who have managed to remain relevant in that fast-paced, youthful industry, some of which I actually remember since I was a school girl. It's interesting to remember and compare, just as it's a pleasure to hear some of their earlier songs and notice they are still appreciated. Sometimes age has nothing to do with it….
To be continued…


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As I type this, Lilith Fair's official site is crashing like any web coverage devoted to Tiger Woods' return to professional golf at this year's Masters. And for good reason. The all-female touring festival featuring the likes of
Loretta Lynn, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, Tegan and Sara, Cat Power, Janelle Monae, Ke$ha, UPDATED now that the site is working: Court Yard Hounds, the Gossip, Ceci Bastida, Sarah McLachlan, Martina McBride, Sia, Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae, the Rescues, Katzenjammer and scads hopefully more take over Cruzan Amphitheatre on Tuesday, August 10. Tickets go on sale Saturday, March 27. We'll update you when the official roster for the show is set.
If that date sounds familiar, it just so happens to be the day before Korn, Rob Zombie, Lamb of God and Five Finger Death Punch dirty up Cruzan for the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival in the same spot. Make sure you mark your calendar carefully, folks. Lilith on Tuesday, August 10, and Mayhem on Wednesday, August 11. Who's going to both?
Get the entire Athena-sized list of Lilith Fair performers after the jump.
Lilith Fair 2010:
A Fine Frenzy, Anjulie, Ann Atomic, Anya Marina, Ash Koley, The Bangles, Beth Orton, Brandi Carlile, Butterfly Boucher, Cat Power, Ceci Bastida, Chairlift, Chantal Kreviazuk, Colbie Caillat, Corinne Bailey Rae, Court Yard Hounds, Donna Delory, Elizaveta, Emmylou Harris, Erin McCarley, Erykah Badu, Frazey Ford, The Go-Go's, Gossip, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Heart, Ima, Indigo Girls, Ingrid Michaelson, Janelle Monae, Jennifer Knapp, Jesca Hoop, Jill Hennessy, Jill Scott, Julia Othmer, Kate Miller-Heidke, Kate Nash Katzenjammer, Kelly Clarkson, Ke$ha, La Roux, Lights, Lissie, Loretta Lynn, Lucy Schwartz, Marina & The Diamonds, Martina McBride, Mary J. Blige, Meaghan Smith, Melissa McClelland, Metric, Miranda Lambert, Miranda Lee Richards, Missy Higgins, Nikki Jean, Nneka, Norah Jones, Priscilla Renea, The Rescues, Rosie Thomas, Sara Bareilles, Sarah McLachlan, Serena Ryder, Sheryl Crow, Sia, Sugarland, Susan Justice, Suzanne Vega, Tara MacLean, Tegan and Sara, Toby Lightman, Vedera, Vita Chambers, The Submarines, The Weepies, Ximena Sarinana, and Zee Avi
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The name Datça comes from Stadia, a name of the city of Cnidus. Stadia developed into Tadya, Dadya, Dadça, and then Datça.[3]
Both the town and the peninsula of Datça were called Reşadiye[4] for a brief period in the beginning of the 20th century, honoring the penultimate Ottoman Sultan Mehmed V Reşad, and some maps may still refer to the peninsula under this name; today Reşadiye is the name of one of the quarters of the town.
The long and narrow Datça Peninsula, whose outline follows the undulations of small bays and coves facing south or north all along its length which reaches near 100 km (62 mi), corresponds almost exactly to the Datça district, with the addition beyond its isthmus of a small panhandle in the direction of the south-east. The isthmus itself is only several hundred meters wide.
The extreme end of the western tip of the district and the peninsula, the locality called Tekir, is the location of the ancient city of Knidos. There is an ongoing debate on whether or not this location was the original site of the ancient city, a number of sources claiming that until the mid-4th century BCE, Knidos was halfway along the peninsula, near the present-day district center.[5]
The peninsula's eastern end is marked by the fjord-like indentation of Bencik Cove, 1.5 km in length, at the end of which the narrow isthmus where it joins the mainland is found. This point is a natural curiosity which offers a wide view of the Gulf of Gökovain the north and the Gulf of Hisarönü in the south and is called Balıkaşıran (literally, the place where fish may leap across) and is also often used for the portage of small boats. According to Herodotus, during the Persian invasions in 540 BC, the Knidians had sought to dig a canal at this spot as a defensive measure and in order to transform their territory into an island. But an oracle was consulted who reportedly said "If the gods had so willed, they would have made your land an island. Do not pierce the isthmus." Whereupon they surrendered to the Persians.
The quarters of the city of Datça are Reşadiye, Eski Datça 'Old Datça' and İskele 'quay', separated by about a mile from each other. Reşadiye was the original administrative core when the town was renamed Datça and turned into a district center in 1928, before it was moved to İskele quarter. The center town is crossed by the short course of the Datça Stream (Datça Çayı in Turkish).
The Datça district has nine villages scattered along the peninsula. These are; Cumalı, Emecik, Hızırşah, Karaköy, Kızlan, Mesudiye, Sındı, Yakaköy, Yazıköy. Historically, apart from small coastal patches, Datça Peninsula has two fertile areas along its length. The whole of the eastern half is bare, mountainous and scarcely inhabited. The western part is also mountainous, rising in places over 1,000 meters, but has towards its western end on the south side a considerable extent of well-watered land reaching to the coast at Palamutbükü locality and supporting a group of villages known collectively as Betçe (the five villages). These are; Mesudiye, Sındı, Yakaköy, Yazıköy, Cumalı. The village of Mesudiye, very near the sea shore has a jetty owned by the community of villagers. The village's bay is called Hayıtbükü. Palamutbükülocality, more to the west, also has a little pier which allows boats to moore. Palamutbükü today is a holiday village with a long beach.[6]
The second and larger area of good land is in the middle of the peninsula southwest of the median isthmus dividing the two halves and centered on the town of Datça. The region's promising potential was noted already in the 1880s by the hydrographer Thomas Abel B. Spratt in the following terms:
The plain and valley of Datça is very fertile, having fine groves of olive and valonia, and of almonds and other fruit trees, with abundance of water, if properly utilized.[7]
A point of note on the general settlement pattern of these villages is that the locations chosen were never in the immediate coastline, but always at a mile's distance or more from the sea and at a relatively safe altitude on the slopes of a hill. The reason was from times immemorial was the fear of pirates, advantaged as they were by the intricate geology of shores of southwestern Turkey and of the many islands and islets that are its natural extensions, in an environment not unlike that of the Caribbean Sea. Piracy remained a serious security problem well until the beginning of the 20th century and especially during the weakening of the Ottoman Empire and the issue often necessitated foreign intervention.
Forest Fires
At around 10 PM, 29 August 2012, a forest fire raged through the town of Emecik, Datca, reducing 75 hectares of forested land to ash. The fire broke out near Karaincir Resort in Emecik, quickly growing out of control with the aid of wind gusts. It took 300 firefighters, 28 water pumpers, 13 water tankers, 8 ranger vehicles, 10 ground teams and 6 bulldozers to bring the fire under control. According to Özkan Şahin, the Marmaris Forest Ranger Chief, this has been the 10th forest fire in the past two weeks. The fact that it had spread from some point near the roadside and reached the seaside within five minutes indicates the possibility of arson. He continued to say that quantities of gasoline might have been spilled at intervals between these two points in order to allow the fire to advance at such a high speed.
Datça Peninsula is a prized location for tourists visiting Turkey, especially by sea, because of the beauty of its many coves and larger bays, which are favored ports of call for those undertaking the celebrated Blue Cruise along Turkey's spectacular southwest coast. Boats (usually gulets) depart either from Bodrum or Marmaris, or from Datça itself for these tours.
The road from Marmaris to Datça may still be a little bumpy in some parts, and winds along a fauna that gradually but strikingly differs from that of the mainland.
Apart from the traditional settlements, there are also a dozen recently constructed vacation villages in the peninsula. The balance between preserving the natural way of life and fauna and investing in large-scale infrastructures for the tourism industry is a vividly ongoing debate for Datça, as for the entire region of southwestern Turkey. The inhabitants of the Datça peninsula have shown themselves clearly opposed to gigantism and are in favor of developing the tourism potential of the region through family pensions and inns and small hotels well integrated into their environment, while governments in the past displayed approaches to the debate in mere foreign exchange entry terms.
Notable natives
In Turkish literature, Datça is associated with the poet and the accomplished translator (notably of Shakespeare) Can Yücel who spent the last decades of his life in Datça and is also buried here.


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Recommendation: wait for the next UTC meeting to discuss this.
There is a general consensus that a DOT REPH character should be encoded. It seems that the comments of the Govt. Of India are the result of a misunderstanding, and that the concerns with regards to the keyboard layout can be accomodated in a sufficiently adequate manner (noting that this is a rare character).
Recommendation: create a formal proposal for the encoding of a DOT REPH character, to be acted on the May UTC meeting. This proposal should concentrate on justifying the need for the encoding of a separate character, explaining the similarity with <RA, VIRAMA>, and discussing the keyboard layout concerns.
Recommendation: change the DUCET in the Unicode Collation Algorithm (UCA) so that it accomodates the needs of the Malayalam language with as little tailoring as possible.
L2/08-277R was already approved at the August UTC meeting and is in PDAM 7. No modifications are requested at this point.


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I first met Liliane during Princess Half Marathon Weekend last year when she was running her first Disney race dressed in the most amazing Merida costume! We have kept in touch this past year and I have been lucky to spend some time with her over other race weekends. Not only is she an inspiring runner, but she's an amazing person. Enjoy the story of her first half marathon and the people she helped along the way 🙂
Flying for work about once a month, I have been carried on wings often throughout the United States and to many exotic destinations. Nothing however has been as exhilarating a journey as earning my very own wings at the Tinker Bell Half Marathon at Disneyland in Anaheim last month.
I started running eleven months ago when I did participate in my very first runDisney race, the Mickey and Minnie Mouse Royal 5K at Walt Disney World. I loved the experience and next thing I knew I signed up for the 10K held during the Disneyland Half Marathon weekend in August. My son is living in Los Angeles and running a little race while visiting seemed only natural. Cranking it up a notch I run the Tower of Terror 10-Miler in Orlando this October and eventually decided that the best way to celebrate the upcoming anniversary of my first race was to sign up for the Princess Half Marathon which by now is only three weeks away.
The world seemed perfect when I was invited to speak on a panel at the Los Angeles Times Travel Show. Living in New York, which is currently blanketed by yet another snowstorm, I was eager to let Elsa's world go and enjoy both my son and 82F. So how can one top this? You guessed it, run the Tinkerbell Half Marathon.
The race was of course sold out and I will be forever grateful to John Watkins and the Special Olympics Southern California Association for inviting me last minute to be part of their team. I am proud and humbled to have been part of a team that raises money for such a great cause. Every dollar raised through the Tinker Bell Half Marathon changes the lives of people with intellectual disabilities through sports training and competition. We all love Disney and runDisney but I strongly recommend you look into being part of a team that raises funds for a charity you care about.
Once in Anaheim I was thrilled to see the many happy faces on all running days. Many multigenerational families participate in the 5K and 10 K races and I love seeing the innovative costumes.
And of course there was Expo. Package pick up at the lower level of the show was a breeze and I really don't understand why anybody would stand in line on the first day if after a couple of hours it is so easy to just walkup and get your bib. The race shirt and bag was available at the upper level and there too I did not have to wait more than five minutes when I checked in on Saturday morning. Plenty of shirts in all sizes were available and it was easy to exchange sizes if needed.
And now to the fun part of Expo: Shopping! Runner's apparel in all the colors of the rainbow was tempting everywhere. Long and short sleeve T-shirts, performance T-shirts, tanks, fleece hoodies and lots of high-tech gadgets called my name. I really liked what I saw and loved the official merchandise. I did splurge on the "I did it" plush Mickey and regret that I did not buy the pink "Coast to Coast" t-shirt.
Studio 365 had a booth at expo and I loved the Tinkerbell hairdo but I am glad I did not go for it as some runners reported to me that it was uncomfortable sleeping with and that it pulled real hard giving them a major headache which is certainly no fun while running.
As always there where quite some interesting sessions scheduled throughout the three-day expo and it was good to be able to meet with Jeff Galloway, the official runDisney training consultant for advice on how to best prepare for the half marathon challenge.
I did not get a lot of sleep prior to the race but the fact that I had just flown in from the East Coast worked to my advantage. I felt ready to go when I boarded the special shuttle from my good neighborhood hotel to join my team for a pre-race group picture.
Soon it was time to line up at corral D. Tinker Bell made an appearance and off we went sprinkled with a good dose of pixie dust. The race gets off to a real early start at 5:00 AM near Paradise Pier Hotel.
From there, the course heads on a loop around the roads that wind around the edges of the park. Next we followed Harbor Boulevard south all the way down to the entrance of the park. Inside Disneyland we passed all major attractions such as Fantasyland, Matterhorn, Space Mountain and Sleeping Beauty's Castle.
Running down Main Street U.S.A. and entering the castle was simply amazing and at Disney's California Adventures I was mesmerized to see that the Water Colors show was up and running for us in front of the ferries wheel.
The first three miles where a feast for the senses and when the 5K split came through (13:58) I decided it was time to pick up the pace. I sure had been lingering a little too much for picture taking. Characters where everywhere in the parks and it was thrilling to run backstage. Who can resist Jack Sparrow? Who does not want their picture taken with Darth Vader?
Eventually we excited the park and made our way through Downtown Disney with guests and cast members cheering us on.
For the next seven miles we left the Disneyland Resort and run in the streets of Anaheim before eventually making our way back down Harbor Boulevard toward Disneyland. Local music bands and cheerleader groups offered support along the route.
Running the Tinker Bell Half Marathon was incredibly exciting. Running through the parks was gorgeous but I truly enjoyed running through the streets of Anaheim. I appreciated the efforts of the school marching bands and the spectators encouraging us with their signs everywhere.
At mile 12 I started laughing, seriously I felt so great that I could not stop laughing. I felt as if the world around me did not matter anymore. I suddenly realized that I was about to complete my first half marathon and it was a great feeling. I stopped listening to my timer, no more run, walk, run. I just kept on running.
Eventually I reached the finish line (2:52:14) and when I got my medal it suddenly dawned on me that I had just achieved the first part of the Coast-to-Coast run. And what a feeling that was!
I loved the experience and the race was very well organized. There were plenty of water and first aid stations every few miles and post race we were handed water, PowerAde, a banana and a runDisney snack box. I personally don't care for the snacks inside the box and would prefer a simple sandwich.
Last but certainly not least it was time to meet up with my team and take a post race picture. I loved being part of a team and the Special Olympics team will always have a special place in my heart.
Over 15,000 runners participated in the half marathon race and I was one of them finishing. My report however would not be complete without acknowledging the winner of the race, Melissa Hernandez from Oxnard, California, who finished the race in 1:25:40.
Hernandez's win capped a weekend of race events that included a new Disneyland 10K and a Never Land Family Fun Run 5K as well as several kids races.
As for me I celebrated with a nice breakfast and a drink at the Rainforest Café. The eggs benedict were absolutely fabulous.
So what is next? As I am finishing this article I am relaxing from my first non-Disney race, the Brrrooklyn Half Marathon. It sure earns the name. It was freezing and I doubt I'll do it again. Running at 10F is really not my idea of fun. The cold and the lack of entertainment along the route made me finish the race in 2:48:35 but I'll trade the gain in time for both the warmth of California or Florida anytime. Most importantly I missed my runDisney friends. I can't wait for the Princess Half where every mile will be pure magic!
For more information about Special Olympics Southern California click here.
Link to SOSC page: http://www.sosc.org/page.aspx?pid=224
Link to SOSC 2014 Tinkerbell Race page http://www.kintera.org/faf/home/default.asp?ievent=1078811
For upcoming runDisney races check out www.rundisney.com
Liliane Opsomer is the co-author of the "Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids", a guidebook that provides detailed planning and touring tips for a family vacation. The book has also a Facebook page with daily tips. She is passionate about travel, Disney, and hobbits. Liliane also started recently her own blog.
Find Liliane here: Unofficial Guide to Walt Disney World with Kids * Blog * Facebook


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Did we miss some kind of memo that made it cool to smell like your food without the pleasure of actually eating anything? Because Burger King apparently feels the need to jump on the fast food scent train, announcing that it'll bestow 1,000 bottles of Whopper-scented cologne upon the world on April 1. [More]
The Only Abs You'll See From Abercrombie & Fitch Now Are On A Cologne Bottle
Gone are the days of college dorm rooms papered entirely in panels from Abercrombie & Fitch bags, with abs, golden, undulating abs as far as the eye could see. After announcing last year that the company would be phasing out the ubiquitous stomach muscles in its ads, now the only six-packs you'll see are on a bottle of the brand's cologne. [More]
Bruce Willis To Debut "Manliest Scent In The World" This Week
Have you been sitting in the hot tub, trying to enjoy your bottle of Whitesnake wine but felt that you were lacking a cologne to match your macho sexiness? Well, yippee-kay-yay mothertrucker… Bruce Willis has come to save the day with his new signature scent. [More]


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This week were were given a photo from Design-Seeds.com. Now, admittely, colour challenges aren't my favourite, but I tried my best. Here is what I came up with.
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For IT leaders engrossed in the latest implementation or training, self-reflection can sometimes seem like a luxury. Quiet introspection, however, is the impetus behind any dynamic action and is one of the key elements of effective leadership. In this year-end edition of Quick Takes, four IT leaders reflect on the most impactful lesson they learned in 2017.
John W. McGuthry, vice president for Information Technology Division and CIO, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
The lesson I learned this year is to fire myself and hire a new me every three to five years.
Many of the assumptions that were derived about our environments constantly transform and thus our environments must also constantly evolve. However, sometimes we become emotionally tied to our past decisions and are unable to change.
By firing myself, I am able to separate myself from my past initiatives and assumptions. The newly hired me is permitted to challenge all of my past assumptions and make new decisions without the emotional connections to the past. Without the new me, my current position may lose its excitement and appeal. This realization occurred to me through a conversation with one of my long-time friends.
This friend called me a few months ago and told me that they wanted to pursue a new opportunity. My friend has been in their current position for just over four years. My friend has been very successful in implementing several key initiatives that have significantly changed the organization. We discussed the new opportunity thoroughly. However, I noticed my friend referred to their current position as a job and the new position as an opportunity. So, in order to be fair in our discussion, I suggested that we label both positions as opportunities.
After discussing all the differences between the two opportunities, my friend finally confessed and told me that the current position is not exciting and has lost its appeal. After a few minutes of uncomfortable silence, my friend knew exactly what I was going to say. Rather than saying it, … we shifted the conversation and created a list of what was exciting about the current opportunity almost four years ago.
- Meeting key stake holders and understanding where the organization could improve
- Meeting customers and listening to their feedback
- Identifying and correcting outdated practices
- Selling changes and opportunities
- Motivating the team to change
Then we discussed how much of that is done in the current opportunity. After very long discussion, we determined that my friend unintentionally turned their current opportunity into a job. My friend had made the assumption that all of the initiatives that could be completed had been completed and that there were no new worthwhile initiatives left in that organization. My friend could not see beyond their past assumptions.
We built the following plan to reignite the current opportunity:
- Say good bye to yourself … it has been great working with you.
- Hire a "new self" that is not tied to the past four years.
- Let the "new self" be free in the organization to pursue new assumptions and opportunities.
Sreelakshmi Kolli, vice president, IT, Align Technology
The biggest IT lesson we learned this year was to challenge the status quo, as we continue to grow and innovate at a quick pace. Due to Align Technology's rapid growth, we needed to be nimble and adaptable to capitalize on evolving customer needs, shifting market forces and business models.
For IT, this translates to agility, speed and execution at the global and regional level. We could not be hesitant to try new ideas, new technologies or new ways to prototype and iterate quickly as we learn more. IT can often be viewed as just the foundational structure of a company, but IT more than ever, is leading the way in which we leverage new technologies to scale the business — and quickly.
Evolving our IT organizational structure, while balancing investments in global technology platforms and execution processes that provide the flexibility needed for local control and business intimacy within our geographical regions, was key to driving change. We focused on scaling expertise by bringing in talent with the right skill sets while also harmonizing the experience and insight they bring with the existing team's experience and business acumen.
The teams needed to instill a mindset toward learning from new and evolving practices and not solely on existing practices to support the new way of doing things. To make a leap to the next level of growth, one needs more than a few incremental changes. Making foundational changes to support consumer and customer engagement and transform enterprise processes, while executing various challenges with constraints, leaves us little choice but to approach programs in a new way to influence and showcase the ability of technology to simplify and scale.
Vennard Wright, CIO, Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission (WSSC)
One of the most critical things I learned this year was that I don't have the luxury of not remaining current in my firsthand knowledge of technology trends.
My IT career has afforded me the opportunity to work in many different areas, ranging from application development to systems administration. However, as my career progressed, I gradually transitioned away from being hands-on technical to instead delegating those duties to someone else.
As a result, in previous senior IT leadership roles, I deliberately assigned the responsibility for staying abreast of new technologies and operations to a chief technology officer, enterprise architect or some other member of my management team and opted to focus on longer-term outcomes instead.
I chose this approach because of the constant battle between tactical and strategic priorities that we must fight as IT leaders, which becomes even more daunting as tectonic shifts in the technology landscape are introduced into planning.
However, I've learned through experience that keeping the two separate is no longer an option. Instead, I take active steps to become intimately aware of advancements in new technologies, such as augmented reality, artificial intelligence and robotic process automation, so that I can make plans to evaluate and/or incorporate them into our strategic roadmap as they make sense.
This approach is certainly more demanding and time consuming, but it has allowed me to take full ownership of our future direction and to argue the pros and cons of various approaches during meetings with potential vendor partners or with my management team.
I've come to terms with this reality only in the past year, which means I must be a lot more deliberate about the number of projects I commit to, which also helps our industry partners to focus their technology offerings as they seek to do business with us. In addition, it helps me choose which areas I must seek deeper education in, both for myself and for my team.
In the long run, I feel we'll become a much more mature organization as a result.
John Lutz, vice chancellor for information technology, Vanderbilt University
Reflecting on this year, I'm struck by how much we've taken our focus outside of IT. The greatest returns on our time have come from getting around to the other side of the table and focusing on the business problem our customers are trying to solve.
For example, we're closing in on the finish line for a migration of our legacy HR and financial systems to the cloud. While there is plenty to do to get the technology right, collaborating with other executives to stay focused on the business processes and change management is the real key. If we had started with the specifics of the technology, our work would have been much harder and the business — the university— wouldn't be able to reach its fullest potential.


text: Alexander Gustafsson (Esther Lin/MMA Fighting)Alexander Gustafsson vs. Glover Teixeira Booked for UFC Fight Night 69 in Berlin José Youngs March 30, 2015 Events, News, Spotlight It looks like two of Jon Jones' previous victims will meet this summer across the pond. On Monday morning, Kimura.se broke the news that light heavyweights Alexander Gustafsson and Glover Teixeira had officially been booked for the headlining act on the recently announced UFC Fight Night 69 in Berlin. UFC President Dana White would later confirm the fight during an appearance on MMA Crazy TV. Teixeira (22-4) will enter this bout riding a career worst two-fight win streak, with his most recent outing being a one-sided unanimous decision to former NCAA wrestling national champion Phil Davis in the co-main event of UFC 179. Prior to this setback, the Brazilian knockout artist saw his 20-fight win streak snapped at the hands of current Jones in their title fight at UFC 172. He was originally scheduled to return against Rashad Evans earlier this year before an injury forced him out of the bout. He will enter this bout 19 stoppage wins, including 13 by way of knockout, and a UFC record of 5-2. Gustafsson (16-3) was last seen on the receiving end of a violent first round knockout at the hands of current number contender Anthony Johnson at UFC on FOX 14 in January. This setback not only cost Gustafsson his rematch with Jones but also marked his third loss in his last three bouts. To date his last win came against in his Jimi Manuwa in the main event of UFC Fight Night 37 in March 2014, earning both Knockout and Fight of the Night in the process. He will enter this bout with 10 career knockout victories and a UFC record of 8-3. UFC Fight Night 69 is currently scheduled to take place on June 20 at O2 World Berlin in the Germany. No other bouts have been announced.


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Alcohols, Epoxides and Ethers
By James Ashenhurst
Epoxides – The Outlier Of The Ether Family
Last updated: May 21st, 2019
In this post we discuss a special class of ethers that has unusually high reactivity due to their ring strain – epoxides. Here's a summary of what we'll talk about here:
In the last post, I wrote that ethers were quite possibly the most boring functional group of all, at least from the perspective of reactivity. This got some friendly flak from an inorganic chemist in the crowd, but for our purposes, it's true. We only cover one reaction: how to cleave ethers with strong acid.
To review, here's what this reaction looks like for several different ethers. Since an "ether" is a functional group with an oxygen connected to two carbons, this also includes cyclic cases such as the five membered and three membered cyclic ethers below.
In this reaction, we protonate the ether oxygen with strong acid [making a good leaving group] and one of the adjacent carbons is then attacked by a nucleophile [I- in this case] leading to the rupture of the C-O bond and formation of the alcohol and alkyl iodide shown above. Opening up a cyclic molecule is akin to taking off a belt: by opening up the "buckle" [i.e. breaking the C-O bond] we go from a "loop" back to a "strip". It is the same with cyclic molecules – see how the second and third examples open to give linear products.
By the way, that first example is the answer to the quiz at the bottom of the last post. The second example shows the cyclic ether tetrahydrofuran (THF), which you've probably seen in other contexts – as an organic solvent, for instance. The third example shows a class of molecules you've likely seen before but might not have thought of as an ether – the three-membered cyclic ethers we call "epoxides" [or sometimes, "oxiranes"].
Epoxides Are The Outlier In The "Ether" Family
If you think of ethers as a generally staid, stable, and placid family of functional groups, epoxides are definitely the outlier.
What makes epoxides so unusual – and interesting?
The interior bond angles of epoxides are about 60°. Contrast that with the "ideal" bond angle of 109.5° for tetrahedral carbon, and you'll appreciate that like cyclopropane discussed earlier, they possess considerable ring strain. This ring strain – about 13 kcal/mol – has the effect of making them"spring-loaded" if you will, toward opening.
[It's important to keep one thing in mind when drawing epoxides, especially with respect to their position on rings. The two C-O bonds must always be on the same "face" of the ring [i.e. making a "cis" ring junction]. The "trans" ring junction version is too strained to exist]
Let's look at some examples of how epoxides are more reactive than "regular" ethers.
First of all, they react with acid under much milder conditions than, say, diethyl ether. For example, treating an epoxide with aqueous acid [H3O+] will open an epoxide to provide a 1,2-diol [often called a "vicinal diol" or a "glycol"]. Under the same conditions that open the epoxide, diethyl ether is inert [as are most ethers].
[We'll explore this reaction of epoxides in more detail in subsequent posts].
Secondly: unlike the vast majority of ethers, epoxides can also be cleaved with base. For example, treatment of an epoxide such as ethylene oxide with sodium hydroxide in water similarly leads to formation of a vicinal diol [this is "ethylene glycol", by the way, a common component of antifreeze].
Other nucleophiles besides hydroxide ion can be used to open ethers – we'll talk about that soon.
The key point to absorb here is that epoxides are not typical ethers, and thus deserve their own discussion.
Let's back up a bit.
I mentioned that you'd likely seen epoxides before, likely when you covered the reaction of alkenes. There's two important ways to make epoxides from alkenes, one "direct" and one "indirect". Let's review the first method.
Treating an alkene with a "peroxyacid" (that's a carboxylic acid containing an extra oxygen) leads to direct formation of an epoxide. A popular peroxyacid for this purpose is m-CPBA [m-chloroperoxybenzoic acid], although other peroxyacids of the general form RCO3H also find use. We talked about this reaction in more detail here
There's a second way to make epoxides via a two-step process that I don't believe we've covered here before. Starting with an alkene, if one adds a halogen (such as Br2 or Cl2) and water as solvent, we make a species known as a halohydrin. Treatment of a halohydrin with strong base (such as NaH or NaOH) leads to deprotonation of the OH to give O- , which then displaces the adjacent halide via SN2 reaction to provide the resulting epoxide. [why deprotonation and not SN2? see note]
Note that stereochemistry is important here! SN2 reactions proceed via a backside attack, leading to inversion of configuration. If the halohydrin is "locked" in position (as part of a ring, for example) and the alkoxide [O- ] cannot approach the backside of the C-Br bond, then the SN2 cannot occur and therefore an epoxide will not be formed. Instructors love to ask questions like this, so be alert!
This post has given us a little taste of the properties, reactions, and synthesis of epoxides, but there are many more details to explore here. For example, if you are very observant, you might have noticed an odd thing about the reactions of that cyclohexane epoxide from the acid and base slides: it gives a different product depending on whether H3O+ or NaOH is added!
This isn't a typo! This represents the actual pattern of reactivity of this epoxide. Isn't it strange that NaOH and H3O+ should lead to different products. Why might that be?
One hint: this is a consequence of the fact that these reactions go through different mechanisms. Mechanisms that – believe it or not – we have seen before, in one form or another. However, this dichotomy of mechanism is a prime source of confusion for students on this topic, and again, one that tends to be heavily tested on exams.
We'll start to delve into this mystery in the next post – as well as explore the reactions of epoxides in greater detail.
Next Post – Opening Of Epoxides With Acid
[By the way: you might ask – why doesn't NaOH just do a backside attack on the C-Br bond in the first example? The answer is that acid-base reactions tend to be fast relative to substitution reactions, because there is very little atomic reorganization required. Secondly, once the alcohol has been deprotonated, the intramolecular SN2 reaction [forming the epoxide] is faster than the intermolecular SN2 forming a new alcohol, because the proximity of the O- to the C-Br gives it a higher "effective concentration". ]


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LOS ANGELES -- The Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. film studio has dropped its plans for a sequel to the hit thriller "Basic Instinct," and actress Sharon Stone is suing producers, saying they reneged on a $14 million commitment to her, Daily Variety reported on Thursday.
The decision to pull "Basic Instinct 2," originally set for a 2002 release, from the studio's development slate was revealed during a media conference in New York on Wednesday by MGM chairman and CEO Alex Yemenidjian, the entertainment trade paper said.
"Unfortunately, it's not going to happen," Variety quoted Yemenidjian as telling investors. He declined to explain the reasons publicly.
His official pronouncement of the project's death came the same day as a lawsuit filed in Los Angeles by Stone, who was attached to reprise her role as Catherine Trammel, the icepick-wielding author and suspected murderess with a penchant for going pantiless.
The lawsuit alleges that "Basic Instinct 2" producers Andy Vajna and Mario Kassar had a verbal agreement with Stone guaranteeing her at least $14 million for her commitment to the sequel, even if the movie never got made, Variety said.
The suit claims that under her "pay-or-play" deal, Stone stood to gain as much as 15 percent of gross receipts if the film were released. The original 1992 movie, which co-starred Michael Douglas, grossed $400 million worldwide.
Under the agreement described in the suit, shooting was to have begun by the end of last year but was pushed back to Feb. 15, 2001, Variety said. The suit alleges that Stone rejected other offers on the basis of the producers' commitments, but that they denied in December having a contract of any kind with the actress, Variety said.
Vajna and Kassar declined comment on the lawsuit, the trade paper said.
In addition to the $14 million, Stone is seeking a share of gross profits if the film is ever produced, regardless of its title or who plays her role. According to Variety, Stone's usual asking price is around $6 million per picture.
The sequel may have foundered over last-minute efforts to find an actor to star opposite Stone.
In March, a source close to the production told Reuters that Stone, who had the final say over her leading man, failed to give her approval to Benjamin Bratt, the former "Law & Order" star who reportedly had the backing of the project's director, financiers and producers.


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"If a transvestite doesn't say I'm gay and I'm proud and I'm a transvestite… nobody else is going to say it for them."
– Marsha P. Johnson
Malcolm Michaels, Jr. left his home in Elizabeth, New Jersey to transform into "Black Marsha" on the train into New York. Survival after a permanent move there in 1966 was difficult. At times she waitressed or panhandled, but mostly she worked the streets. Along the way Black Marsha became Marsha P. Johnson. When she was asked by a judge what the "P" stood for, she retorted "Pay it no mind" – which was the philosophy of her incandescent life. Marsha was memorably present at the Stonewall Riots in 1969 where any number of actions have been attributed to her legend – including shimmying up a lamppost to drop a heavy weight that shattered a police car's windshield. In the early 1970s Marsha, along with her friend Sylvia Rivera, co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.) – one of the first transgender rights organizations in the country. In spite of her influence and popularity, Marsha's life was by no means easy. Breakdowns, religious visions, health scares, numerous threats by disgruntled johns, and run-ins with the law served as a dark counterpoint to her buoyant personality and unabashedly colorful attire. Naturally theatrical, she appeared regularly with the flamboyant performance group, the Hot Peaches Review, and was photographed by Andy Warhol as part of his "Ladies and Gentleman" Polaroid series in 1974. In spite of all she had endured, Marsha was a bright light of love and acceptance in a world that was anything but welcoming. She was a survivor. So when her body was found floating in the Hudson River after the 1992 New York Pride Parade – a death the authorities hastily declared a suicide without any forensic evidence to support the claim – her family and friends were outraged. Subsequent private examinations of police reports, sealed records, and interviews have revealed clues that point to possible foul play and hints of a cover-up. A re-opened investigation changed the cause of her death to "undetermined." The mystery of what – or who – took the life of Marsha P. Johnson remains unsolved.
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Gender Female
Sexual Orientation Straight
Gender Identity Transgender
Ethnicity African American Black
Nations Affiliated United States
Era/Epoch AIDS Era (1980-present) Post-Stonewall Era (1974-1980) Stonewall Era (1969-1974)
Field(s) of Contribution
Social Justice
Social Sciences
US History
Commemorations & Honors
Belated New York Times Obituary Published (2012)
National LGBTQ Wall of Honor at the Stonewall National Monument Inductee (2019)
WorldPride Mural Project and Stonewall 50-WorldPride NYC 2019 Mural Dedicated to Queer Liberation Featuring Johnson and Others (2019)
Marsha P. Johnson State Park (East River State Park) Renaming (2020)
Google Doodle Commemorating Johnson's Posthumous 2019 World Pride Grand Marshal Status (2020)
Bust Erected in New York City's Christopher Park Near the Stonewall Inn in Her Honor by Community Activists and Artists (2021)
Upcoming Greenwich Village Monument Honoring Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera