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The eight-day cruise from Dubrovnik travels to Korčula, Pucisca, Omis, Split, Hvar, and Mljet before sailing back to Dubrovnik. The trip includes seven nights in a classic cabin, shared transfer from Dubrovnik Airport or hotel to Dubrovnik Harbor included on the day of arrival and departure, guided city tours of Split, Hvar, Korčula, and Dubrovnik, a professional English-speaking Cruise Manager, and free Wi-Fi on board.
The cruise, departing on Sunday, is available on the High Season dates of July 22 and 29; August 5, 12, and 19; and September 2. One Low Season departure is available on October 7.
High Season is an additional $320 per person.
This eight-day experience begins in Dubrovnik and includes visits to Split, Trogir, Zadar, Zagreb, and Plitvice before coming back to Dubrovnik. The tour includes all transfers, accommodations in four hotels as per itinerary (or similar), breakfast and dinners, guided tours of Dubrovnik, Split, Zadar and Zagreb, and entrance to a number of historic sites and parks including the Franciscan Monastery in Dubrovnik and St. Donatus Church in Zadar, among others.
Dates include July 1 and 8; August 5, 12, and 26; and September 2, 9, 16, and 23, which are all in the High Season.
High Season is an additional $95 per person.
This six-day trip starts with a transfer from Dubrovnik Airport to the Adria Hotel for an overnight stay. Then it is on to several destinations such as Mostar, Sarajevo, Belgrade, and Zagreb. The trip includes all transfers, accommodations in 4 hotels as per itinerary (or similar), breakfast and dinner daily, local guides for sightseeing tours of Dubrovnik, Mostar, Sarajevo, Belgrade and Zagreb, and entrance to more famous sites and landmarks.
The High Season dates include July 28; August 4 and 18; and September 1, 8, 15, and 22.
High season is an additional $100 per person.
For more information, visit www.toursspecialists.com.
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The package covers beer, glasses of wine and cocktails that cost $12 or less. Also included are all non-alcoholic beverages, such as medium-sized bottled water, fountain soda, fresh juice, specialty coffee and tea, Gong Cha items, frappes at Coffee & Cones, milk shakes and energy drinks. Bottles of wine, one-liter bottles of water, cans of soda and bottled juices are not included but can be bought at a 25 percent discount.
Additionally, third and fourth guests in a stateroom may receive a free Unlimited Soda & More package. Guests who book now can also choose a refundable, reduced deposit of 10 percent of cruise fare for each guest.
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Hot damn! The men who graced the red carpet at the 2019 SAG Awards were quite dapper — while also playing with trends. Going bold and donning some daring colors, the year’s biggest actors stepped out on Sunday, January 27, at the Shrine Auditorium and Expo Hall in L.A. looking stylish and seriously handsome.
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New Party legislator Hsieh Chi-ta gesticulates during a press conference at the Legislative Yuan yesterday after the ruling and opposition parties reopened their negotiation channels. Hsieh had an argument with DPP caucus convener Chou Po-lun, center left, during yesterday's negotiations.
Opposition lawmakers yesterday blocked a DPP attempt to make the enactment of a referendum law a priority issue on the legislative agenda.
The opposition fears that a plan to hold a referendum during the year-end legislative race has become a DPP tactic to drag out the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant (核四) dispute.
Legislative Yuan speaker Wang Jin-pyng (王金平), who hosted yesterday's inter-party negotiations, said the opposition unanimously concluded that the law should follow due legislative process like any other, which means that substantive negotiations should be conducted before it is submitted to the legislature for final consideration.
"We are not going to single out the referendum law. All pieces of legislation get equal treatment. A bill can move on to the legislature when negotiations are complete," Wang said.
Following the Executive Yuan's announcement on Wednesday to resume the plant's construction, the opposition yesterday reopened the door to negotiations with the DPP, and the two parties held their first round of dialogue in more than three months.
The main purpose of yesterday's discussion was to arrange the agenda for the first meeting of the session on Feb. 20, when Premier Chang Chun-hsiung (張俊雄) will give the Cabinet's biannual policy address to the legislature. The legislature had refused to let Chang make the address last October, in protest over the Cabinet's decision to scrap the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant project.
But just as the tensions between the ruling and opposition parties are calming down, the referendum law is triggering a new conflict.
Opposition legislators considered the proposal by convener of the DPP legislative caucus Chou Po-lun (周伯倫) to prioritize the referendum law as a crude attempt to secure the support of anti-nuclear voters in the year-end election.
"We don't wish to see any political party use inter-party negotiations or even the legislature as a theater to vie for the year-end elections," said Hsieh Chi-ta (謝啟大), convener of the New Party caucus.
A total of eight proposals for the referendum law, raised by different legislators, are now available in the legislature, some of which have finished a preliminary review. The Executive Yuan has so far not submitted any proposal to the legislature.
The opposition insisted that the referendum law should not be linked to the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant project, saying that otherwise political instability would continue.
"The referendum law should only apply to a public policy that has not been implemented. A project that is already underway, such as the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant, cannot be scrapped arbitrarily," KMT caucus whip Cheng Yung-chin (鄭永金) said.
Shen Chih-Hwei (沈智慧), deputy convener of the People First Party caucus, said the DPP should stop arguing about the power plant and focus its strength on revitalizing the nation's economy and improving the unemployment situation.
"With the dispute over the Fourth Nuclear Power Plant just concluded, [the DPP] is now trying other ways to ... provoke combat. We don't want to see this happen, nor do the people," Shen said.
Boston College linebacker Luke Kuechly has won the Lott IMPACT Trophy.
Kuechly received the eighth annual award named for Hall of Fame defensive back Ronnie Lott on Sunday night at the Pacific Club. It honors on-field performance and personal character among defensive players.
The 6-foot-3, 237-pound junior from Cincinnati led the nation in tackles each of the past two years. Kuechly already has collected the Butkus and Lombardi awards as the nation’s top linebacker. He is an honor student.
The other finalists were Emmanuel Acho of Texas, Dont’a Hightower of Alabama, and Manti Te’o of Notre Dame.
Boston College will receive $25,000 for its general scholarship fund. Texas, Alabama and Notre Dame will receive $5,000 apiece.
AirPower is dead. Apple’s long-anticipated inductive charging pad for Apple devices has been canceled due to the fact that it didn’t meet the company’s own high standards, TechCrunch reported earlier today. The product’s cancelation was later confirmed by WIRED. AirPower, which in the months after its hyped announcement was labeled WherePower, is now officially Ne’erPower.
AirPower’s cancelation is an unusual blemish on Apple’s modern product record, particularly in hardware. Most of Apple’s new hardware products are announced with great fanfare, and go on sale in the weeks immediately afterward. AirPower was initially no exception; it was revealed at a buzzy fall hardware event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino back in 2017. Apple hedged it slightly then, saying AirPower would be ready sometime in early 2018. But a delay this long—and an eventual admission that it just can’t be done—is almost unheard of in Apple Land, where product launches are often as smooth and polished as a Jony Ive–designed stylus.
But the product’s #fail also underscores the challenges of trying to invent new standards, at a time when the tech industry is churning out new connected devices and the standards they run on at a breakneck pace. Apple’s AirPower was supposedly going to offer a new inductive charging standard, one that built upon the consortium-approved Qi standard. As Daring Fireball’s John Gruber described it back in September 2017, it was a kind of “superset of Qi with a layer of non-standard Apple technology on top of it to make it better.” And, assuming that worked, that Apple-made technology would eventually be shared with the wireless consortium behind the Qi standard, comprised of companies like Belkin, Philips, Anker, and Apple itself.
At that point in time, Qi was fairly well-established as a standard, though it wasn’t the only option for inductive charging. And for many consumers, the idea of using any type of wire-free charging mat, or plopping your phone down on an inductive Starbucks tabletop, was still a total novelty. But again, Apple’s pitch wasn’t that it was just going to offer another charging standard. It was going to do it better.
In this way, AirPower was supposed to be similar to Apple’s approach with AirPods, its $160 wirefree earbuds. Sure, AirPods work with Bluetooth, which means the Android lovers of the world can have a just-OK AirPods experience. But AirPods also have a custom-made wireless chip inside, proprietary Apple technology that makes using AirPods with iPhone or iPad so exceptional. For Apple, having people locked into iOS or macOS has never been enough of a push; it wants to control the way we plug in, the way we recharge, the way we ultimately connect.
A series of subdued hardware announcements from Apple over the past two weeks raised hopes again that, perhaps, this was AirPower’s time. But today, AirPower’s fate was sealed with a statement from Dan Riccio, Apple’s senior vice president of hardware engineering.
For the most part, Apple’s product release cadence has been so steady that it’s not uncommon to hear analysts and pundits say the company’s real prowess is not in computer design, but in manufacturing. And so the AirPower debacle may just be an anomaly.
Or, it may not be. Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern published a column and video highlighting the well-known and practically ludicrous problems with the butterfly-switch keyboards in Apple’s newer MacBooks. An Apple spokesperson said in a statement that the vast number of Apple’s MacBook customers are doing A-OK, but also acknowledged the keyboard problem and said, “for that we are sorry.” Today, Riccio offered condolences to the customers anticipating an AirPower release.
The era of waiting for AirPower may have ended; but for Apple, a new era of apologies might have just begun.
Israeli educator and bereaved mother Miriam Peretz. Photo: Ubub92 via Wikimedia Commons.
Israeli educator Miriam Peretz — a bereaved mother of two fallen IDF soldiers — was an eyewitness on Wednesday to the aftermath of the deadly terrorist rampage next to the British Parliament building in central London, the Hebrew news site nrg reported.
Peretz was visiting London on behalf of the Jewish Agency and was on her way to meet with Israeli Ambassador to the UK Mark Regev when she came across the scene of the incident, the report said.
Despite her close brush with Wednesday’s attack, Peretz plans to stay in London through Saturday. Her time in the UK is being filled with meetings with British Jews, including students.
“The Jewish community is very anxious and stressed,” she said.
“I’m also meeting with non-Jewish students who support Israel and oppose the activities of the BDS organizations,” Peretz added.
While Windows Mobile 6.5 platform isn’t apparently turning out to be a success on several handsets, Microsoft Corp. has decided to come up with a more user-friendly stopgap version of the operating system, version 6.5.1, before it upgrades the platform to the next-generation Windows Mobile 7.
Microsoft has only recently released Windows Mobile 6.5 - on October 6th - but the software maker has reportedly been working on an update which will incorporate features that were left out.
The new stopgap iteration will bring in a host of improvements, such as the inclusion of a rewritten, touch-friendly contact application, according to the reports from the tech blog DownloadSquad.
In addition, the company is also bringing several user interface (UI) tweaks, like check boxes, re-designed buttons, and radio buttons in a bid to significantly enhance the visual appeal to the overall looks of the operating system.
The release date of the updated version hasn’t been declared yet, though some unofficial copies of the build for some specific handsets are already been available in the wild.
This seems to be an indispensable move for the software giant, as a number of Microsoft’s partner companies have been replacing parts of Windows Mobile operating systems with their own.
HTC HD2, for instance, is not only including a significantly modified touch UI, Sense, but also is adding multi-touch capability into it.
Good to see Microsoft firing on all cylinders with Windows 6.5.1 almost out and Windows 7 Mobile in the pipeline. Microsoft desperately needs to up the ante and catch up with the rest of the competition. The iPhone, Blackberry and Android appear to have gathered significant momentum and Microsoft is the underdog for now.
Windows Mobile 6.5.1 fixing touch elements?
Windows Mobile 6.5.1 upgrade just around the corner?
HOUMA � Tenants in Houma�s two public-housing sites will be exempt from paying this month�s rent, the Houma-Terrebonne Housing Authority Commission decided Thursday.
The board took the vote during a special meeting to confirm what many residents had already been told.
�We�re going to lose money on this, but it is a necessity,� said Commissioner Brenda Belcher, who also lives in public housing.
Board members said they would consider exempting October�s rent, but that won�t be discussed until their next meeting. No meeting date has been set.
Both housing sites in Houma � Bayou Towers and Senator Circle � suffered severe damage from hurricanes Gustav and Ike. Repairs to Bayou Towers, a 300-unit high rise for low-income elderly and disabled residents, may take another 30 to 40 days, officials said. Many residents have moved back to the 217-unit Senator Circle site for low-income individuals and families, but some are without power because of water-damage to electrical wiring.
For information, contact the Housing Authority at 876-4755.
THIBODAUX � A seminar designed to teach contractors aiming to repair damaged roofs and other storm-related damage can attend a Thursday seminar to learn about �local rules and regulations.
The seminar is free. It runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Nicholls State University�s Student Union on the Thibodaux campus� Leighton Drive.
Topics include registration information, pricing and labor laws.
Registration is required. E-mail Peggy Sammons at prs6182@louisiana .edu or call 800-206-3545.
HOUMA � As many as 1,400 volunteers from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are in Houma today and Saturday to help clean hurricane-ravaged areas of the parish.
Volunteers will assemble at 1916 La. 311 at 7 a.m. Saturday and then be dispatched across the city to help begin the clean up and rebuilding process.
Some of the work anticipated includes removing mud from homes and debris from properties, placing tarps on roofs and providing other relief efforts as needed.
THIBODAUX � The Barataria-Terrebonne National Estuary Program�s Management Conference will be held at 9 a.m. Tuesday at Nicholls State University in the Plantation Room in the Student Union.
The meeting was supposed to be held earlier this month, but it was postponed because of Hurricane Gustav.
THIBODAUX � La Fete d�Ecologie, an annual celebration of the environment and culture of the Barataria-Terrebonne estuary system will not be held this weekend as origianlly planned.
It has been moved to Nov. 15 because of hurricanes Gustav and Ike. The festival will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve, 314 St. Mary St. in Thibodaux.
The festival will still host popular annual events like pirogue races and a castnet-throwing contest, traditional Cajun crafts and educational booths.
In addition, Gustav and Ike haven�t put the Cast Net King out of business. He�s the mythological man who lives in the swamp and emerges once a year to enter the castnet-throwing competition.
HOUMA � Wildlife officials have issued an emergency extension of the 2008 wild-alligator season because of hurricanes Gustav and Ike. It now runs through sunset Oct. 19.
The original season was set to end Sept. 25, but officials estimate only 50 percent of the 37,000 tags allotted have been used.
feels the need to publish letters on city issues from non-residents? I take particular offense at the tongue-in-cheek (or was it?) one suggesting a pullout from Southwest Philly by the police from someone living in the serenity of Broomall.
After I move to Bucks County, I hope you'll discard any letters from me on the out-of-control murder rate, disgraceful school-violence situation, lack of responsible parenting for those students, Milton's attempt at landing a reality show on Comedy Central, corrupt politicians, city wage-tax nightmare and the like. But I hope you'll still print my letter in September lauding the new all-time-low Pat Burrell will have set for hitting with runners in scoring position.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 22, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Judge Group, a leading global professional services firm, announced today the appointment of Vince Riggs, as Director of Judge's Detroit location.
Riggs brings over 10 years of experience in the staffing industry to The Judge Group, with expertise in the automotive sector. Prior to joining Judge, Vince grew his company's sales operations by successfully breaking more than 20 major accounts in the Detroit area in a four-year period, more than tripling the size of his branch. He has extensive knowledge of recruitment best practices, account management and leadership.
"The active interest that Vince has taken throughout his career in mentoring, training and professional development has directly led to his success in the staffing industry," said Brian Anderson, President of The Judge Group. "We are excited to have Vince bring his experience to Judge, especially his work with the automotive industry. His proven track record and leadership will do great things for our Detroit team."
As Director of Judge's Detroit office, Vince will work to advance Judge's influence within local markets, expanding current and new accounts in the areas of IT, Engineering and Judge's other professional services.

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