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Seabourn Cruise Line is joining the list of lines getting in to expedition-style cruising. The Seattle-based company on Monday ordered two expedition ships for delivery in 2021 and 2022. |
Add Seabourn to the list of cruise lines getting into expedition-style cruising. |
The Seattle-based luxury cruise operator on Monday signed a letter of intent with a shipyard in Italy for the construction of its first two expedition vessels. |
Scheduled to debut in June 2021 and May 2022, respectively, the as-yet-unnamed ships will offer all-suite luxury accommodations and carry their own submarines as well as kayaks and motorized Zodiac boats for exploring. Measuring 23,000 gross tons, they'll hold up to 264 passengers a piece. |
“This is a groundbreaking moment for Seabourn and for luxury travelers, who will now find a new standard of authentic yet luxurious expedition adventures in new and amazing destinations few people will ever see,” Seabourn president Richard Meadows said in a statement. |
Seabourn is joining an increasingly crowded field of upscale cruise companies that offer expedition-style cruising — a type of cruising that involves small, often rugged ships with landing craft that can be used to visit remote and hard-to-access places such as Antarctica. |
Luxury line Silversea, one of Seabourn's key competitors, already is a major player in expedition cruising with four expedition ships, as is upscale, France-based line Ponant. Ponant already operates five expedition vessels and has six more on order. |
Luxury line Crystal Cruises also is getting into the expedition cruising space with a vessel on order for delivery in 2020, and Australia-based luxury purveyor Scenic Cruises is adding its first expedition ship later this year. |
Expedition cruise pioneer Lindblad Expeditions also is expanding in the space as is longtime expedition cruise seller Hurtigruten, a Norway-based company. |
A boom in bookings for expedition cruises increasingly is catching the attention of the world's biggest cruise companies. Seabourn's announcement comes just days after the parent company of cruise giant Royal Caribbean revealed plans to buy a controlling stake in Silversea. The move was seen, in part, as a way for the ... |
Seabourn's move, in turn, can be seen as a way for Seabourn's parent company, cruise giant Carnival Corp., to get into expedition cruising. |
Like many of the ships on order by its competitors, Seabourn's new expedition vessels will be built with strengthened hulls and other features that allow them to operate in the icy waters of Antarctica and the Arctic. Seabourn said they would meet PC6 Polar Class standards. |
Seabourn said it would announce more design and service details for the new ships beginning later this year. Details about itineraries and booking availability will be released in early 2019. |
Seabourn said the first of the two ships will sail in the Arctic in late summer 2021, with a full winter season in Antarctica to follow. |
There will be a fairground atmosphere as Sandy Show celebrates its 50th anniversary. |
The show, held on Saturday, August 20, will be a special event with entertainment for all ages, animal displays, apart from the fabulous exhibits in the horticultural, home and produce classes. |
The show, which marks 50 years in its present form, is being held at Sandye Place Academy from noon until 5pm. |
There will be free Punch and Judy shows, Michael Smith showing all types of owls, and Chris’s Animal Encounters will feature tarantulas, snakes, giant centipedes and other creatures. |
Young visitors can enjoy fairground rides for young visitors, along with a bouncy castle and face painting. |
Live music will be provided by local musician Stewart Clements. |
In the main hall will be prizewinning horticultural exhibits of vegetables, blooms, plants, fruit, floral art, along with scarecrows, home brewing, cakes, breads, preserves, artwork, handicrafts and photography. |
There are more than 170 classes to enter including 25 classes for young people. Local trade and charity stalls will be inside the hall as well as outside. Presentations of trophies will be at 4.30pm and are being made by Ruth Bell, Deputy Lieutenant of Bedfordshire. |
Schedules are available from Sandy TIC, High Street Crafts, Sandy Library. Visit sandyshow.org.uk for more information and to download entry forms. |
San Diego Reader: How long do you spend writing your sermon? |
Christopher Clark: Each sermon I’ll spend an average in study and preparation of about 20 to 25 hours. I typically go through and look at the block of text I’m being led to preach on. All the while I’m praying and letting the text speak for itself. I will go through and look at the original language in which it was wri... |
SDR: Can you think of a time when you gave a sermon that completely flopped? |
CC: One time I was preaching and the power went out — I mean everything went out — the lights went out, the electricity — I had no sound. Talk about a little intimidating! Everyone just stopped. So, I thought, where do I pick up from here? So I said, “All right, here’s what I’m going to do. I guess I’m going to get dow... |
SDR: What is your main worry as member of the clergy? |
CC: The biggest concern is that…among pastors in America, there are still too many of us that take the freedoms and liberties we have in this country for granted. We have removed ourselves from our necessary role in serving as our country’s moral compass. We have been overly concerned about being liked to the point whe... |
CC: When I die I am going to heaven because I put my trust in Jesus. I’m going to Him — along with those who also put their trust in Jesus. As the alternative, if they choose to turn away from Jesus, they will go to an eternal punishment. Call it hell, everlasting punishment, Hades, the second death, like a fire, whate... |
The sponsors of a Phnom Penh-based evangelical orphanage yesterday expressed interest in reopening the facility after it shuttered last year following the director’s arrest for molesting underage boys. |
“We can’t control what one person does, but we can make sure that we’re still ministering where there’s a need and it’s all about the kids,” Pastor David McGee from the Calvary Baptist Church told Texas TV news station KLTV yesterday. |
American Missionary Daniel Stephen Johnson, 36, ran the unlicensed Hope Transitions Orphanage with donations from the Texas church until a police raid in December 2013 resulted in his arrest and multiple children under his care alleging that he abused them. |
Following the completion of his one-year sentence earlier this month, Johnson was transferred to FBI custody to face further charges in the US. Johnson yesterday pled not guilty to fresh charges that he sexually assaulted an underage Cambodian boy, Oregon media reported. |
If convicted, he could face 30 years’ imprisonment. |
Discovery takes place in the hinterlands, where we don’t feel comfortable and things can get a little scary. |
That simple, but immensely valuable piece of human engineering. |
With it, you can take massive amounts of material, data or (using the visual funnel we call a lens) visual information and channel it in a way that makes it so much more valuable than when it was random, scattered and unfocused. |
But the funnel is not just a wonderful tool. It’s also a great metaphor for increasing our ministry effectiveness by widening our scope and narrowing our focus. |
This is one of the insights I’ve gained in the most recent decade of my life and ministry. When it comes to input, I draw from as many sources as I can (history, science, theology, the arts, and more), but when it comes to output, I’m constantly narrowing it tighter. |
For instance, I’ve moved from a general study of theology, to a more specific study of Christian ministry, to the narrower study and practice of pastoring, to the very underappreciated and highly misunderstood world of pastoring a small church. |
By widening my scope and narrowing my focus, I’ve increased the impact and effectiveness of my ministry exponentially. |
When we widen our scope, we’re also like the Apostle Paul when he told us “I have become all things to all people.” (1 Corinthians 9:19-23). |
If all we do is narrow our focus, we can miss a lot. But if all we do is widen our scope, we become watered down and anemic. |
Because Paul narrowed his focus to Christ and him crucified, he was able to broaden his scope and use an astonishing variety of new methods, without watering down his message. |
Unfortunately, there’s a temptation for all of us to fall into two equally problematic errors on the narrow/widen scale. |
On the one hand, we can narrow not just our focus, but our scope. When we’re narrow on both ends, we’re not a funnel, we’re a straw. |
If I was doing that with my research and teaching about small churches, I would only be reading small church materials, and the best I could do is parrot others. |
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WASHINGTON (AP) – FBI Director James Comey confirmed Monday that the bureau is investigating possible links and coordination between Russia and associates of President Donald Trump as part of a broader probe of Russian interference in last year’s presidential election. |
The extraordinary revelation, and the first public confirmation of an investigation that began last summer, came at the outset of Comey’s opening statement in a congressional hearing examining Russian meddling and possible connections between Moscow and Trump’s campaign. |
He acknowledged that the FBI does not ordinarily discuss ongoing investigations, but said he’d been authorized to do so given the extreme public interest in this case. |
“This work is very complex, and there is no way for me to give you a timetable for when it will be done,” Comey told the House intelligence committee. |
The hearing, providing the most extensive public accounting of a matter that has dogged the Trump administration for its first two months, quickly broke along partisan lines. Democrats pressed for details on the status of the FBI’s investigation, while Republicans repeatedly focused on news coverage and possible improp... |
Under questioning from the committee’s top Democrat, Rep. Adam Schiff, the FBI director also publicly contradicted a series of tweets from Trump that declared the Republican candidate’s phones had been ordered tapped by President Barack Obama during the campaign. |
Comey was the latest government official to reject Trump’s claims, made without any evidence, that Obama had wiretapped his New York skyscraper during the campaign. Rep. Devin Nunes, a California Republican and chairman of the House intelligence committee, also rejected it earlier in the hearing. |
Trump took to Twitter before the hearing began, accusing Democrats of making up allegations about his campaign associates’ contact with Russia during the election. He said Congress and the FBI should be going after media leaks and maybe even Hillary Clinton instead. |
Trump also suggested, without evidence, that Clinton’s campaign was in contact with Russia and had possibly thwarted a federal investigation. U.S. intelligence officials have not publicly raised the possibility of contacts between the Clintons and Moscow. Officials investigating the matter have said they believe Moscow... |
Monday’s hearing, one of several by congressional panels probing allegations of Russian meddling, could allow for the greatest public accounting to date of investigations that have shadowed the Trump administration in its first two months. |
The top two lawmakers on the committee said Sunday that documents the Justice Department and FBI delivered late last week offered no evidence that the Obama administration had wiretapped Trump Tower, the president’s New York City headquarters. |
But the panel’s ranking Democrat said the material offered circumstantial evidence that American citizens colluded with Russians in Moscow’s efforts to interfere in the presidential election. |
Both Republicans and Democrats, in their questions related to possible Trump connections with Russia, left the impression that Russian interference was the main threat to U.S. democracy in the 2016 elections. |
And the relatively small number of people without wealth who gained political office in America last year. |
Though Comey would not discuss specific evidence, he went far beyond his testimony from a hearing in January, when he refused to confirm or deny the existence of any investigation exploring possible connections between Trump associates and Russia, consistent with the FBI’s longstanding policy of not publicly discussing... |
Any lack of detail from Comey on Monday would likely be contrasted with public comments he made last year when closing out an investigation into Clinton’s email practices and then, shortly before Election Day, announcing that the probe would be revived following the discovery of additional emails. |
“Our ability to share details with the Congress and the American people is limited when those investigations are still open, which I hope makes sense,” he added. |
Associated Press reporter, based in Washington, D.C. |
Eric Tucker covers the Justice Department for The Associated Press (AP). |
Miss Manners: How much of their money can I spend on this meal? |
Plus: They already got married, now they are planning a bridal shower and another wedding. |
Or should you try to be cognizant of the cost and order one of the less expensive items, because it’s about the celebration, not the food? |
What are the “rules” for your significant other? Could they also order what they want, or do they need to be more cognizant of the cost because it is not their birthday? We also do the same thing for my friend when it is his birthday. |
GENTLE READER: When a host says, “Make yourself at home,” do you loll around in your pajamas, go through the drawers and help yourself to the contents of the liquor cabinet? |
Miss Manners apologizes if this seems an indictment of how you behave at home. No doubt you are fastidious, and, anyway, she isn’t watching. |
She only means to point out that such hospitable phrases are not to be taken literally. You both should order something you want that is within a reasonable range. No $1,000 bottles of wine, even if it is your birthday. That holiday does not come with the license to suspend the rules of considerate behavior. |
DEAR MISS MANNERS: We have a friend who had a destination wedding last year. Now the couple is having a bridal shower and another wedding in the state they live in. Is it right to have a bridal shower when you have been married for almost a year? |
GENTLE READER: This is not a wedding, but a rerun, and Miss Manners advises you to be wary of how far back your friend intends to rewind events. You might want to stop before she gives herself a high-school graduation party. |
DEAR MISS MANNERS: My mother has just transitioned to a lovely rest home. She was very excited about the beautiful new facility and gourmet meals. |
During her first stop at the restaurant, before she was served, the staff wheeled over an elderly, deaf man and asked if it would be all right if he joined her. Of course she answered yes, it being her first time in the restaurant. |
Mom is a lovely, vivacious woman, who is well-traveled and interesting. What should she do? She’s considered joining a table of ladies as soon as she enters the room. She is still jangled by her transition and leaving her beautiful home behind, and doesn’t want to cause any ill will. She’s brand-new and doesn’t want to... |
GENTLE READER: Of course. But neither does she want to be paired for life. |
Miss Manners supposes that you or she could solve this by telling a manager that she would like to move around for her meals, so that she could meet people. She can also tell the gentleman that she enjoyed meeting him, and hopes they will someday share another meal, but that being new, she wants to spend mealtime meeti... |
This article was published 7/3/2016 (1142 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current. |
Ben Sparrow has high hopes that Winnipeg will soon officially become a bastion of fair trade. |
Sparrow is the CEO of Sparrow Hotels that includes the landmark Norwood Hotel in St. Boniface, which is located at 112 Marion St. |
The St. Vital resident was a key player in the 4th annual National Fair Trade Conference that was held in Winnipeg from Feb. 18 to 20, and was also profiled in a video about corporate fair trade that was part of the 26th annual International Development Week in Winnipeg that was held between Feb. 7 and 13 — an initiati... |
Sparrow, 41, is a member of a steering committee that is striving to make Winnipeg a Fair Trade Town. The Fair Trade Town program is a global movement that recognizes municipalities that demonstrate a strong commitment to fair trade through community stakeholders. |
Ben Sparrow, pictured outside the Norwood Hotel at 112 Marion St., is hoping Winnipeg will soon be officially recognized as a Fair Trade Town. |
"We’re confident that in the next few months that Winnipeg will join cities such as Vancouver, Edmonton, Vancouver and Brandon in achieving Fair Trade Town status," Sparrow said. "We’ve met all of the requirements and we’re just waiting from an official declaration from city hall. We’ve been working at this for over 18... |
Sparrow said to achieve the status a city must meet several criteria, including having fair trade products readily available in stores and restaurants, and the city has to have garnered a certain amount of support from businesses, institutions and community groups. |
"The movement has gained considerable momentum over the last 20 years and the purpose is to recognize that the growers and manufacturers of commodities such as coffee, sugar, cocoa, spices, fruit and wine, as well as other products, have been susceptible to exploitation. Fair trade seeks to pay the farmers or growers a... |
"Today’s consumers want more information about the products they buy than ever before. This includes nutritional information, whether it’s gluten-free, whether it’s local and their purchase affects the people and the communities where it was produced." |
Sparrow said the underlying principles of fair trade match his values as a local business leader. |
"My objective as a business owner is to create long-term value for my shareholders. By creating a corporate culture based on strong core values we’re able to create a loyal customer base and loyal employee base, which increases sales and reduces costs. As an entrepreneur, I want to make a profit, but I also want to ben... |
"Our loyalty is to our customers, our employees and our community, as well as the people who supply products and services. We treat people as we wish to be treated. If you don’t have strong core values in the hospitality industry, it’s hard to provide a high level of customer service." |
In April, Sparrow will be part of a contingent that will tour farms and facilities that produce certified fair trade products in Peru. |
Sparrow Hotels also includes the Inn at the Forks and Mere Hotel, and it also provides food services at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights. |
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