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Q: Where can I get information on summer employment on a cruise ship?A: Cruise lines are busiest when children are out of school -- Christmas, Easter and in the summer -- so summer is a good time for employment on a ship, according to Mary Fallon Miller, author of "How to Get a Job on a Cruise Line." The book is available for $12.95, plus $2.50 for postage, from Ticket to Adventure, P.O. Box 41005, St. Petersburg, Fla. 33743, (800) 800-8466. It describes the jobs available and provides profiles of the major cruise lines, their ships, their facilities and programs offered passengers, whom to contact for jobs and tips for job seekers.

Simona De Silvestro stepped out of her hauler Saturday afternoon after an intense meeting with her race team, only to be greeted by a pleasant surprise. A green and white birthday cake covered with candles. De Silvestro, who was born in Switzerland, actually turned 23 on Sept. 1, but her week leading up to the Baltimore Grand Prix had been such a mad rush there had been little time for celebration. Even this moment wasn't exactly ideal. She had just wrapped up qualifying — finishing a respectable 12th, one of her best of the year — and was trying to squeeze in a quick interview before she ran to an autograph session.

Honduras held Switzerland to a 0-0 draw in Group H on Friday in Bloemfontein, South Africa, a result that knocked both teams out of the tournament. The Swiss could have locked up a spot in the second round with a two-goal win over Honduras. Honduras almost stole a win in the 71st minute, but goalkeeper Diego Benaglio denied a wide-open Edgar Alvarez with a brilliant one-handed save. In Durban, Portugal reached the second round after a 0-0 draw with group winner Brazil as two of soccer's most powerful offenses couldn't score.

Is there a better way to market your product than naming "East Bound & Down's" Kenny Powers your CEO?  That's just what K-Swiss did with its new YouTube marketing campaign.  The videos -- which in true Powers style are profane (cover your ears children!) -- feature cameos from Michael Bay, Matt Cassel, Jillian Michaels, and MMA Champion Jon "Bones" Jones, among others, who now apparently help Powers run the company.  K-Swiss now has a new slogan too: "Shut up and buy them.

THE SWISS HAVE a reputation and the Russians have a reputation, and how easy it must have been for Switzerland's aviation authorities to dump all the blame on a single Russian pilot when things went horribly wrong and a plane full of children had collided with another and crashed into southern Germany. Swiss: Competent, efficient, modern, like clockwork. Russian: Reckless, slapdash, emotional, probably drunk. This was the subtext of the script that went out around the world in the hours following the crash July 1, and a large part of the world bought it. News services began running articles about junky Russian planes, cataloging other Russian catastrophes.

On July 16, 2006, MARGARET BANZ SWISS age 93, of Essex, MD. Survived by three daughters Dorothea Kilner of Timonium, Kathleen Bazzarre of Longs, S.C. and Christine Bryant of Boca Raton, FL. Burial will be private. Memorial donations may be sent to the Hospice of Baltimore, 6601 N. Charles St., Balto. MD 21204

Leonard B. Swiss, 78, a retired lieutenant with the Baltimore Fire Department, died of complications after heart surgery Christmas evening at Johns Hopkins Hospital.A mass of Christian burial will be offered at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation, McCormick Avenue, Rosedale.Mr. Swiss lived in northeast Baltimore.The Baltimore native graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and attended the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy for a year before joining the Fire Department in 1938.

The movement to a monolithic European economy of 370 million people from Iceland to Greece took a setback when the voters of Switzerland, in the center, said no. By itself, this stops nothing. But it is symptomatic of growing resistance in many countries to the supranationalism of the leaders of government and business. Nationalism -- as cultural identity, security blanket, tradition and protest against gigantism -- is back.The Swiss vote went against the advice of almost all the Swiss leadership in government and business.

A Mass of Christian burial for Leonard B. Swiss, a retired lieutenant with the Baltimore Fire Department, will be offered at 9 a.m. tomorrow at the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation, McCormick Avenue, Rosedale.Mr. Swiss, who lived in Northeast Baltimore, died of complications following heart surgery Christmas evening at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was 78.The Baltimore native graduated from the Virginia Military Institute and attended the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy for a year before joining the Fire Department in 1938.

Two Swiss officials are scheduled to speak tomorrow at the Johns Hopkins University on how their country deals with the drug problem and whether legalization could work. Switzerland has closed Needle Park in Zurich, where police had allowed the sale and use of drugs.Roberto Balzaretti, first secretary of the Swiss Embassy in Washington, and Marcus Bechsel, an attache for science and technology, will speak at 7 p.m. in Room 3 of Shaffer Hall on the university's Homewood campus.The event is sponsored by the City Wide Coalition, which advocates dispensing drugs at nominal cost to addicts to eliminate dangerous open-air markets.

Annapolis-based iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, an intelligence firm for multinational companies, has agreed to sell itself to a Swiss company for an undisclosed amount. 3i-MIND, a threat-management software company based in Zurich, Switzerland, said Wednesday that it wants to combine its products with iJET's "risk management solutions and proven intelligence expertise. " Both firms are privately held. iJET, which employs slightly more than 100 people, keeps tabs on problems worldwide — ranging from travel disruptions to political unrest — and helps clients get their employees out of dangerous situations when necessary.

Honduras held Switzerland to a 0-0 draw in Group H on Friday in Bloemfontein, South Africa, a result that knocked both teams out of the tournament. The Swiss could have locked up a spot in the second round with a two-goal win over Honduras. Honduras almost stole a win in the 71st minute, but goalkeeper Diego Benaglio denied a wide-open Edgar Alvarez with a brilliant one-handed save. In Durban, Portugal reached the second round after a 0-0 draw with group winner Brazil as two of soccer's most powerful offenses couldn't score.

The company known for sharp knives now makes sharp shoes. Wenger, the Swiss Army knife people (wengerna.com), have a line of shoes - the Alps collection - that can take you from the mountaintop to base camp to town in style and comfort. My favorite Alp is the Shiltorn, a low-cut dayhiker with Euro good looks. The lightweight shoe has a seamless interior to reduce chafing, a mesh-paneled upper for better circulation and an insole that keeps foot odor under control. The sole is made of a proprietary material called Temposit that allows it to soften in summer weather and harden in cooler temperatures for better traction.

Ann Paszkiewicz of Fallston was looking for a recipe for a rice-cheese bake that she said was probably at least 35 years old. Mary Rollins of Martinsburg, W.Va., sent in this recipe from an old cookbook called Recipes Out of This World by the Women of St. Agnes Catholic Church in Charleston, W.Va. Recipe request Patti Kress of Osprey, Fla., said that while visiting Baltimore some years ago she had a wonderful Asiago cheese spread that she purchased at the cheese store in the Cross Street Market in South Baltimore.

As the bus lumbered up the snowy road, winding higher and higher toward the top of the mountain, my only thought was, "What has he gotten us into?" "He" was my uncle, and the bus was climbing to the top of Grosse Scheidegg, a 6,434-foot peak in Switzerland, where passengers would hop off the bus and sled back to the bottom of the icy road. At one point, the driver stopped to put chains on the tires before continuing to drive at a steep angle through blind twists and turns, making the idea of sledding back down (and possibly encountering the next bus)

You know, I've been ever so hopeful that the economic slump we're suffering through will turn itself around. That's the teeny, tiny optimist in me talking. But this week, I got news that just really depressed me. What in the world could ever sway my ever-so-sunny disposition, you ask? Swiss Lotto Netherlands e-mailed me to say: "CONGRATULATIONS!!!.....YOU HAVE WON 750,000 Euros "You have been awarded 750,000 Euros in the SWISS-LOTTO Satellite Software email lottery in which e-mail addresses are picked randomly by Software powered by the internet through the worldwide website.

General Electric Co. said yesterday that it had reached a deal to sell its reinsurance business to Swiss Reinsurance Co. for $6.8 billion in cash and stock, substantially completing the company's exit from the insurance industry. GE will register a $2.8 billion after-tax loss on the sale. Swiss Re also will assume $1.7 billion in debt. The deal marks the fifth sale of an insurance business by GE since 2002 as its chief executive, Jeffrey R. Immelt, pushes for faster growth. GE Insurance Solutions of Kansas City, Mo., had net premiums of $6.2 billion last year and assets of $41.5 billion as of June.

LOS ANGELES -- The Swiss may be sold on celibacy, but Bora's Boys, it appears, will be allowed to be boys when the World Cup comes to America this summer.U.S. national team coach Bora Milutinovic says he has no plans to follow Switzerland coach Roy Hodgson's lead and forbid his players to have sex during the month-long soccer championships.That was welcome news for the American players."Perfect," says midfielder Brian Quinn, a 33-year-old father of six."Sex is a big part of everybody's life, including the U.S. national team's," defender Alexi Lalas said.

BEIJING - He is the ultimate Swiss timepiece now. Gold, no less. Roger Federer has been pursuing a spot on the top platform of an Olympic victory stand for eight years and three Olympics, and it didn't seem possible that he had not yet made the climb. He has been the best tennis player in the world for long enough to have your son or daughter start and finish college, but the Olympics have always been his banana peel. Last night, it finally came to pass that dreams do come true, even for icons who have realized almost all of theirs.

A series to help you cook with the bounty of the season When Catonsville gardener Bill Richkus has a full range of summer vegetables ready all at once - from Swiss chard to onions to peppers - he whips up an easy stir-fry. It's quick and adaptable to what you have on hand. For the recipe, visit baltimoresun.com/backyardharvest