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You wake up Monday morning, pour yourself a glass of orange juice, and get breakfast ready for your clan.

Off to the office, you battle the traffic, thinking about how to tell your rebel employee that there have been complaints about his behavior.

You dread the meeting and yet know it can’t wait.

Pulling into the parking lot you feel a wave of frustration, seeing that someone has parked in your reserved spot and the rain is now coming down in buckets. Glad there is an umbrella on the back seat, you make a run for it hugging folders from last night’s homework close to your chest.

The demands for your time never stop.

By noon, it feels like this Monday has been a month long and you start to wonder what it’s all about, why you work so hard and why there are so many demands on you that just don’t stop. Then yo

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10.08pm: If you had Arab Spring in the drinking game … well you’re still sober, although he has referred to it but not by name.

But now it’s the two Is: Iran and Israel –

Let there be no doubt: America is determined to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and I will take no options off the table to achieve that goal. But a peaceful resolution of this issue is still possible, and far better, and if Iran changes course and meets its obligations, it can rejoin the community of nations.

and shortly after that:

Our iron-clad commitment to Israel’s security has meant the closest military cooperation between our two countries in history.

10.06pm: Did Obama just call for the end of the filibuster – the need for 60 votes out of 100 to end debate, or cloture – in the Senate? This is what he said:

A simple majority is no longer enough to get anything – even routine business – passed through the Senate. Neither p

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Today: Apple blows away any and all observers with a record-breaking quarterly earnings report, so here’s an attempt at some context for the incredible numbers. Also: Yahoo earnings and Google’s new privacy policy.

There are no words for what Apple just did, so here are a bunch of numbers

The final quarter of 2011 was a historic one for Apple, as the company had the highest earnings in one three-month period of any tech company in history, challenged the record for most profits in one quarter for any U.S. company, and subsequently took the title of most valuable U.S. company from the quarterly-profit record-holder, Exxon.

Here’s an attempt to process all the extravagant numbers Apple threw out Tuesday afternoon.

– Revenue: Apple reported that it hauled in $46.3 billion in the last three months of 2011, nearly double the $26.7 billion it pulled in during the holiday-shopping quarter of 2010. That is the biggest quarterly revenue for a

Counting the cost: The cruise group is expected to lose millions after the grounding of the Costa Concordia

Shares in the FTSE 100-listed Carnival Corporation – owner of the cruise ship which capsized off the Italian coast – fell as much as 23% today after it said the disaster could cost it at least $135 million (88.2 million).

The capsizing of the Costa Concordia came at the peak time for the cruise industry, with around one third of all bookings taking place between January and March.

Carnival today said it expects to lose between $85 million and $95 million in earnings for the year to November on the basis that the Concordia will be out of action at least that long.

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The State of Hawaii and Coast Guard will host a public meeting Tuesday about the security plan for when American Safari Cruises    American Safari Cruises Latest from The Business Journals American Safari Cruises plans to return to MolokaiCruise cancellations worry Molokai Chamber presidentCruise ship to skip Molokai stop for a third time Follow this company resumes port calls for Kaunakakai Harbor on Molokai.

The meeting, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at Mitchell Pauole Community Center in Kaunakakai, will discuss plans for the cruise liner to resume visits to the port on Jan. 2

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Doug and Heather Klof moved to Denver from Los Angeles via Portland in March as part of DaVita’s corporate relocation.

“I came to visit in February and fell in love with Denver,” said Heather Klof. “It was a very easy move for us and a good transition. We are happy here.”

Sam and Isobel Brooks and their 2-year-old son, Alex, came to Boulder County in August from New York, without jobs lined up.

“My primary reason for moving was to give my son a good environment to live in,” Sam Brooks said. “I had my heart set to come here, and nothing was going to deter me. It was going to happen.”

The two couples are among the 31,195 people the U.S. Census Bureau estimates relocated last year to Colorado from other states, after subtracting out those who left.

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