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Saturday, October 8, 2011
Hotels in Wexford
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Wexford has been described as the “sunny south east” as the weather does tend to be as good as you will find in Ireland but always be prepared for the typical, unpredictable Irish weather.
Lets take a look at some of the hotels in Wexford that you might consider for your next break..
Check out spa hotels Ireland and luxury hotels Ireland also.
Maldron Hotel Wexford
The Maldron hotel in Wexford boasts a great health and fitness club and Dolphin kids club as well as gym, great meeting rooms, 108 luxury guest rooms and all the mod cons that you would expect from a modern luxury hotel.
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Spa Hotels Ireland
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There are some great spa hotel breaks available now as many deals are being offered by some of the top class resorts for a relaxing break.
Carlton Hotel and Spa
The Carlton hotel and spa complex is located in the south of the country in Kinsale, County Cork and boasts a steam room, sauna, spa tub and indoor pool with full service spa.
(Check out Kildare hotels and castles in Ireland also)Parking is free for guests and all of the luxurious features that you would expect in a top class hotel with 128 bedrooms are laid on for your relaxing break.
Monart Spa
The Monart spa in Enniscorthy, County Wexford offers a very extensive range of treatments including dry flotation, facials, massage, body treatments, scrubs, wraps and Hamam and offers special offers regularly.
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Friday, October 7, 2011
Unemployment insurance in USA
Unemployment insurance in USA is managed by the states through the state trust funds. Here is a glimpse of what is happening.
..... spending on unemployment benefits fell by 24%, as fewer claims were filed and a temporary $25 weekly increase in benefits expired.
At the same time, businesses paid $12 billion more in unemployment insurance taxes in 2011. Many states have raised unemployment taxes on companies to replenish their depleted UI trust funds.
At the same time, businesses paid $12 billion more in unemployment insurance taxes in 2011. Many states have raised unemployment taxes on companies to replenish their depleted UI trust funds.
My view: An alternative to unemployment insurance is for the state to offer a low cost interest loan to unemployed people. They have to pay back the loan, but it will be at a low interest rate (and not the high rate of interest charged by the banks). Some of the loans will have to be written off, but a large part can be recovered from the lenders when they find their jobs in an economic recovery, or when they sell off their house in the future.
Beware of a new type of motor insurance scam
Here is a new type of motor insurance scams that target motorists - and not the insurance companies.
Mr X's car was hit by a van. He reported to an reporting centre. An agent of the workshop approached him and told him that the workshop can handle his third party claim - so that he does not need to lose his No Claim Bonus. Mr. X agreed and sign a few forms given by the workshop.
Six months later, the workshop told him that they could not proceed with the third party claim as the other party had a witness that Mr. X had turned into is lane. The workshop asked Mr. X to pay for the repairs at about twice of the estimated cost. If Mr. X did not pay, the workshop would get a lawyer to sue him. It seemed that the forms signed by Mr. X gave this legal right to the workshop.
Mr. X approached his insurance company to handle the claim, but the insurance company refused - as Mr. X did not meet the policy condition of getting his own insurance company to handle the repair in the first place.
Mr. X is now in a dilemma - having to pay for a claim that should be covered by the insurance policy and now having to pay for twice of the actual cost. Mr. X suspected that the workshop was acting fraudulently and was targeting him in the first place.
Lesson - always leave it to your insurance company to handle the repairs. Do not try to save on your No Claim Discount. It is not worth the unexpected trouble.
Mr X's car was hit by a van. He reported to an reporting centre. An agent of the workshop approached him and told him that the workshop can handle his third party claim - so that he does not need to lose his No Claim Bonus. Mr. X agreed and sign a few forms given by the workshop.
Six months later, the workshop told him that they could not proceed with the third party claim as the other party had a witness that Mr. X had turned into is lane. The workshop asked Mr. X to pay for the repairs at about twice of the estimated cost. If Mr. X did not pay, the workshop would get a lawyer to sue him. It seemed that the forms signed by Mr. X gave this legal right to the workshop.
Mr. X approached his insurance company to handle the claim, but the insurance company refused - as Mr. X did not meet the policy condition of getting his own insurance company to handle the repair in the first place.
Mr. X is now in a dilemma - having to pay for a claim that should be covered by the insurance policy and now having to pay for twice of the actual cost. Mr. X suspected that the workshop was acting fraudulently and was targeting him in the first place.
Lesson - always leave it to your insurance company to handle the repairs. Do not try to save on your No Claim Discount. It is not worth the unexpected trouble.
Unstable employment and fall in fertility
Lucky Tan wrote this article about the impact of unstable employment on the fertility rate. When people are unsure about their employment, they are reluctant to get married and start a family. In my view, the situation is worse in Singapore than in other countries, so we have one of the lowest birth rate in the world. This is a key reason why the measures taken by the Government to boost the birth rate during the past 25 years have failed to produce the desired results - as they do not address the underlying causes - the unstable employment and increasing cost of living.
Ignat Solzhenitsyn Joins North ... - Triangle Arts and Entertainment
The theme from?2001: A Space Odyssey launches a concert to remember later this month when the North Carolina Symphony, led by Maestro William Henry Curry and joined by renowned pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn, presents works by three of classical music?s leading lights.
?Zarathustra,? featuring blockbuster music by Strauss, Beethoven and Wagner, takes place in Memorial Hall on the campus of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Thursday, Oct. 27. The performances continue at Meymandi Concert Hall, in downtown Raleigh?s Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28-29. All three concerts begin at 8:00 p.m.
The evenings begin with some of the most famous opening notes in all of music, Richard Strauss?s deep and commanding tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra, most famously used in the opening scenes of Kubrick?s?2001: A Space Odyssey.
?Strauss?s tone poems are all unique,? says Symphony Music Director Grant Llewellyn. ?They?re all wonderful. This one is a very interesting blend of the intellectual and the visceral, and it?s intriguing to me to see Also sprach Zarathustra, with all of the philosophical implications behind the literature that inspired Strauss, with Solzhenitsyn?s name on the same program.?
Ignat Solzhenitsyn
The Solzhenitsyn in question is celebrated pianist Ignat Solzhenitsyn, son of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and recognized as one of today?s most gifted artists, enjoying an active career as both pianist and conductor. His extensive touring schedule has recently included concerto performances with major orchestras across the world, from Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington to London, Zurich, Tokyo and Sydney.
He is particularly well-known for his interpretations of Beethoven. ?Great Beethoven performances don?t come along all that often,? wrote the?Philadelphia Inquirer following a 2008 concert by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, which Solzhenitsyn led as principal conductor for six years. ?Under Ignat Solzhenitsyn, the group has been a revitalizing force with Beethoven, but now more than ever.?
Good thing for Triangle concertgoers, as Solzhenitsyn joins the North Carolina Symphony to perform one of Beethoven?s most beloved compositions, the tender and lovely Fourth Piano Concerto.
?[Here] the piano concerto once and for all shakes itself loose from the 18th century,? wrote American musicologist Milton Cross about the Fourth. ?Virtuosity no longer concerns Beethoven at all; his artistic aim here, as in his symphonies and quartets, is the expression of deeply poetic and introspective thoughts.?
The tender piece is a perfect balance to the evening?s rousing finish: Wagner?s stately Overture to?Tannh?user. ?Pure unadulterated orchestral power,? says Llewellyn of the Overture, a bold finish to any concert from the first of Wagner?s operas to be staged in the United States.
?Zarathustra? is part of the Symphony?s four-concert miniseries ?Piano Icons.? The miniseries, made up of programs from the larger Duke Medicine Classical Series Raleigh, showcases five world-class soloists as they perform the breakthrough works of music?s most accomplished pianist-composers.
Solzhenitsyn is followed in the miniseries by the incredible Louis Lortie playing dark and luscious masterworks by Liszt and Rachmaninoff on Nov. 11-12. Visit?www.ncsymphony.org/pianoicons for this exciting opportunity to save. ?Piano Icons? is presented in partnership with Fidelity Investments.
Regular tickets to the Duke Medicine Classical Series Raleigh performances of ?Zarathustra? on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28-29 range from $40 to $70, with $40 tickets for seniors.
Tickets to the Chapel Hill Series performance on Thursday, Oct. 27 range from $40 to $60, with $40 tickets for seniors.
Students receive $10 tickets at both venues.
Meymandi Concert Hall is located in the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, 2 E. South St., in Raleigh. Memorial Hall is located on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus, at 208 E. Cameron Ave.
Beyond the Stage
Pre-concert talks are held before Symphony concerts across the state. These engaging conversations offer a unique perspective on the evening?s featured composers, the chance to ask questions and hear the inside story on what to listen for.
For ?Zarathustra,? Dr. Letita Glozer of UNC-Chapel Hill will present a pre-concert talk at UNC?s Gerard Hall on Thursday, Oct. 27 at 7:00 p.m.
In Raleigh, Dr. Jonathan Kramer of North Carolina State University will present pre-concert talks in the Meymandi Concert Hall lobby on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28-29, at 7:00 p.m.
About the North Carolina Symphony
Founded in 1932, the North Carolina Symphony performs over 175 concerts annually to adults and school children. The orchestra travels extensively throughout the state to venues in over 50 North Carolina counties. The orchestra employs 67 professional musicians under the artistic leadership of Music Director and Conductor Grant Llewellyn, Resident Conductor William Henry Curry and Associate Conductor Sarah Hicks.
Based in downtown Raleigh?s spectacular Meymandi Concert Hall at the Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts and an outdoor summer venue at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary, N.C., the Symphony performs about 60 concerts annually in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and Cary metropolitan area. It also holds regular concert series in Fayetteville, New Bern, Southern Pines and Wilmington and individual concerts in many other North Carolina communities throughout the year.
For tickets, program notes, podcasts, musician profiles, the Symphony blog and more, visit the North Carolina Symphony Web site at?www.ncsymphony.org. Call North Carolina Symphony Audience Services at?919.733.2750 or toll free?877.627.6724.
Concert/Event Listing:
North Carolina Symphony
Zarathustra
William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano
Thur, Oct 27, 2011, 8pm
Memorial Hall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Fri/Sat, Oct 28-29, 2011, 8pm
Meymandi Concert Hall, Progress Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh, NC
Program Listing:
North Carolina Symphony
Zarathustra
William Henry Curry, Resident Conductor
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano
October 27-29, 2011
Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30
Richard Strauss (1864-1949)
Prologue: Sunrise ? Of the Inhabitants of the Unseen World ? Of the Great Longing ?
Of Joys and Passions ? The Dirge ? Of Science ? The Convalescent ? The Dance-Song ?
The Night Wanderer?s Song
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major, Op. 58
Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827)
I. Allegro moderato
II. Andante con moto ?
III. Rondo: Vivace
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano
Overture to?Tannh?user
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
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