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Cayman sevens in action
This Saturday and Sunday November 11th and 12th the Cayman Islands National Sevens team sponsored by bmobile will participate in the NAWIRA sevens in Barbados.The squad has been selected after several weeks of training and from the Maples and Calder National Sevens Academy, as well as the on perfomaces at the Cable and Wireless Summer Sevens Series.
Last year the bmobile team finished seventh overall in the tournament and hopes to finish in the top three this time around. Cayman finds itself in the same pool at Jamaica who won last years tournament, Mexico who play in the World Sevens Series, Bahamas who defeated Cayman last year and the Dominican Republic who Cayman beat handily last year, so it is a tough pool.
The Bmobile Cayman side has to win one of it’s first two games to have a chance of moving into the cup rounds on Sunday as they play first Jamaica and then Mexico followed by Bahamas and finally Dominican Republic.
Sun, Sea 'n' Stars: 10 Top Beaches
Where are the A-list planning to hit the sands this winter? Ian McCurrach tells you where to lay your towel for a bit of celeb-spotting in the sunshine, from the Caribbean to Australia's Gold Coast20 November 2006 1. South Beach, Miami
Not since the days of Frank Sinatra and the Rat Pack have celebrities flocked to Miami in such droves. Cruise down Collins Avenue and keep your eyes peeled for the likes of Madonna and Sarah Jessica Parker who recently both crashed at the swanky Ritz-Carlton, where tanning butlers can be relied on to apply sunscreen in those hard-to-reach places. Lounge in the lobby of the Mandarin Oriental where Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes spent a couple of romantic nights. Hotel bar hopping usually guarantees celebrity sightings. Down a mojito at The Delano, a favourite hangout of Jamie Foxx, then shimmy along to The Setai where Nicole Richie and Mischa Barton regularly hold court.
Secret Agent Man: A Getaway
Q is waiting for me as I warily push open the rusty door of the abandoned hangar. I take a seat at a table loaded with spy gear, and he gets right to the point. "The situation is damned serious," he says. Of course. In my line of work the situation is always damned serious. An onlooker might mistake me for a testosterone-challenged middle-aged man living out an adolescent secret agent fantasy. True, I am paying Munich adventure travel agency Mydays to take part in its "Agent Training" weekend on a former Soviet air base, a vast Cold War ghost town 40 miles north of Berlin. But that's just a cover. Q soon explains the real reason I, Agent 001, am here. "Your job," he says, pausing for effect, "is to save the world." Needless to say, he has brought along a bunch of cool weapons and vehicles that I'll need to do it.'Praise Bush and the Iraq war'
THE lights were down in the giant amphitheatre of Cornerstone Church, Texas, as last weekend's Feast of the Tabernacles got into full swing. An orchestra, backed by a several hundred-strong choir, is belting out biblical hymns. Centre stage, two camouflaged figures embrace, one dressed as an Israeli soldier complete with machine gun, the other his US army counterpart.George Bush may be facing defeat in the upcoming mid-term elections from an electorate alarmed by Middle East wars and ballooning federal spending, but one corner of the country remains firmly behind him - the Christian right.
.Defining retirement goals
Did you know that most people spend more time each year planning their vacations then they spend planning for retirement? Vacations are fun and so is the planning process. When do I want to take my vacation? Where do I want to go? How long can I stay? What do I want to do while I am there? How will I get there? How much money will I need? I have just started writing this column and I am ready to start planning my next vacation. What if you applied your vacation planning techniques to developing your retirement plan? The first step is when do you want to retire? When I ask this question, the answer is usually tomorrow or as soon as possible. You need to set a date. Goals should be specific. It is difficult to judge success when the goal is vague. So set a date or age and realize that things are flexible; nothing has to be written in stone.