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Skanstulls Hostel
Skanstulls Vandrarhem is a modern, stylish hostel in Sodermalm in the heart of Stockholm. Next to the Skanstull metro station, the Sofo area boasts a diverse range of galleries, restaurants, bars, shops and cafes. We are also within walking distance of the Old City, the Globe and the Royal Castle.
We have private rooms and dormitories plus a range of facilities including internet access, a kitchen and a book exchange. Towels and linen can be rented or guest may bring their own. Sleeping bags are not allowed.
Check-in: 15:00-20:00
Please contact us in advance for late check-in. Luggage storage is available.
All cancellations must be done at latest 6pm 2 days before arrival, or a charge of one nights stay will apply.
We are a no-smoking property.
Please note: All our private rooms are without windows!
We try to maintain a happy and positive atmosphere so that everyone will enjoy their stay. It is not allowed to play high music or other activities that can disturb the other guests. Use common sense :-)
NOTE: At arrival after 8 PM, you need to contact us at least one day before.
Availability & RatesTo view availability and prices please select dates and click 'Update Dates'
Hostel Facilities & Policies
- Adaptors
- Board Games
- Book Exchange
- Breakfast Not Included
- Child Friendly
- Common Room
- Credit Cards Accepted
- Free City Maps
- Free Internet Access
- Free WiFi
- Hair Dryers
- Hot Showers
- Internet Access
- Key Card Access
- Self-Catering Facilities
- Laundry Facilities
- Linen Not Included
- Security Lockers
- Luggage Storage
- No Curfew
- Non Smoking
- Reading Light
- Safe Deposit Box
- Taxes included
- Tea & Coffee Making Facilities
- Tours/Travel Desk
- Towels For Hire
- Washing Machine
Cancellation PolicyThis property has a 2 day cancellation policy. Failure to cancel within this time will result in a cancellation charge equal to the first night of your stay.
Must-Read Hostel InfoThis property has specific Terms & Conditions.
Please note:
For same day bookings, please book earlier than 4 pm. Later bookings will not be guaranteed.
Check In:
The reception is open 8am to 8pm every day.
LATE ARRIVAL is possible, but if you arrive later than 8pm, you need to contact the property at least 24hrs before.
Please note, when arriving late, payment must be done for the first night in advance by using PayPal - contact us by e-mail or phone.
If you arrive earlier than 3pm you can leave your bags in our luggage room.
All cancellations must be done at latest 3pm the day before arrival. In case of late cancellation or failure to check in, the amount of the first night is charged and any remaining nights cancelled.
If you check out before the agreed day we charge you for the coming night.
Payment upon arrival/check in.
You must use clean bed sheets – you are welcome to bring your own, or rent from us .
(50 SEK). Towels are also available (15 SEK).
No sleeping bags allowed.
No pets.
All areas of the hostel – including the rooms – are smoking free.
All private rooms are without windows.
Skanstulls Hostel is open 365 days a year from 8am – 8pm, no hostel membership is needed.
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Skanstulls hostel is located near Skanstull subway station.
Youï will find us on Ringvägen 135 (the road crossing Ringvägen/Östgötagatan).
Youï will arrive to the central station and change to the subway system at T-centralen.
Take the green line in the direction of Skarpnäck, Farsta or Hangsätra and get off at Skanstulls subway station. Walk approximately 100m to Ringvägen 135. Journey time is 15 minutes.
If you are travelling by bus you will arrive at the city terminal on top of the central station.
Walk to the subway system at T-centralen. Take the green line in the direction of Skarpnäck, Farsta or Hangsätra and get off at Skanstulls subway station. Walk approximately 100m to Ringvägen 135. Journey time is 15 minutes.
There are two big and several small harbours in Stockholm.
If you arrive to Värtahamnen, go to the nearest subway station. Take the subway to the central station and then follow directions as above for train.
If you arrive to Statsgårdskajen, go to the subway station (Slussen). Take the green line in the direction of Skarpnäck, Farsta or Hangsätra and get off at Skanstulls subway station. Walk approximately 100m to Ringvägen 135. Journey time is 15 minutes
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'Stay in a hostel with a hotel standard for budget price'
Skanstulls hostel is centrally located in Södermalm in Stockholm, only a block from Skanstulls subway station. Stockholms nightlife, with many caffe's, bars and restaurants is just around the corner in the area called Sofo.
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By Chris Harris
Arsène Wenger and the Club's medical staff are leaving no stone unturned as they try to get to the bottom of Cesc Fabregas' ongoing hamstring problem.
The Arsenal captain was forced off during the second half of Tuesday's defeat in Braga with a recurrence of the injury that has dogged him for some time.
Fabregas' hamstring has already kept him out of four of Arsenal's 14 Premier League games this season and he is set to miss at least a couple more. Wenger's concern is obvious and he wants answers.
"We have analysed his body and it is not fatigued and he is not tired," explained the manager.
"He is a guy who just has a little bit of a hamstring problem but where does it come from? Does it come from his back, from the fact that he is naturally not flexible?
"We are investigating as much as we can. The problem [is] before when you were injured you waited at home and when you could play again you played again – today you can have ten scientists around you but you still get injured.
"We will consultant every specialist we can. But at the end of the day it doesn't stop him from being injured."
Wenger admitted after the midweek defeat in Braga that he had "gambled" by fielding Fabregas from the start. But the Frenchman insists that he has not taken unnecessary risks with his captain's fitness.
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"We had a chat before the game on Tuesday and he felt perfectly alright. All the data we had was positive so it's difficult to say to a player 'I know you're fit, I know you feel good but you don't play'.
"On the other hand if you look at the number of games Cesc played, you can see he played more games than last year and the year before."
Fabregas' importance to the Arsenal side is obvious and Wenger admits that the responsibility the Spaniard shoulders may have an indirect effect on his well-being.
"I think he has more pressure on his shoulders than before," said the manager. "Pressure to do well, pressure to deliver, to be the captain. He feels responsibility to win things that's for sure.
"I don't know if that has an influence but it's difficult because you can have psychological reasons or physical reasons – it's difficult."Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Eugenie Reich was working as a journalist for New Scientist in September 2002 when Bell Laboratories released a remarkable report: Jan Hendrik Schön, a rising wunderkind at the laboratory, had apparently been fabricating the striking results he'd been publishing in materials science and nanotechnology. Schön's feats had brought him fame, promotions, prizes and prestige; now he would leave the field in disgrace, guilty of 16 charges of scientific misconduct.
Fascinated both by Schön and by the scale of his apparent deception, Reich left her job and dove into the story, interviewing 126 scientists and journal editors in her efforts to understand the nature of his misdeeds and their implications for the research enterprise. Her findings are published in Plastic Fantastic: How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World (Palgrave Macmillan, $26.95).
American Scientist Online managing editor Greg Ross interviewed Reich by telephone in June 2009.
Who is Schön, and what was the nature of the fraud?
At the time he was exposed as a fraudster, Jan Hendrik Schön was a 32-year-old German staff scientist working for Lucent Technologies at Bell Laboratories. The fraud had involved a number of breakthroughs in the area of organic and plastic electronics that involved making electronic devices out of materials related to plastic. Schön had supposedly built a large number of such devices and measured, among other things, transistor characteristics showing that they worked as effective electronic switches. But the report released in September 2002 showed that probably many of these devices had never even existed, and certainly they didn't work anything like he had said.
Do we know why he did this? How he expected to get away with it?
Well, Schön himself has not spoken in great detail about what happened, and his statement after the case came to light was basically that there had been a number of mistakes made in his work; the statement was very passive, and Schön didn't take responsibility. He didn't own up to deception on the scale on which it had happened. So this was a topic for my book, to try to discover how it had happened and how he had got involved in it. I believe I did find out why; I paint a picture of him as a basically very polite, amiable, almost well-meaning type of person who wanted very much to fit in with the demands of science. From the very beginning of his time as a scientist, even as a graduate student, he was in the habit of altering his data to fit in with other scientific literature and to conform to the hypotheses both of other scientists in the literature and of his own colleagues. So I think that's how he got into it, as an attempt to conform, which is not something you can do in science, because science is often full of conflict, and often your results won't look the way that they're expected to.
Given that he hasn't been completely forthcoming about what he did, do we know, even today, the full extent of the deception?
By looking at his data, it's possible to map out how his fabrications became worse over time, because Schön did generate irregular data. He would do things like republish the same data but with changes made to it, so that by going through his papers in enough detail—and this is something that I entertained myself by doing—you can compare different publications with the same data set and see the fabrications or manipulations actually being introduced. And this is the type of forensic work that was started already by the investigation committee, because that's how they detected some of the examples of fabrication. So already they had made a start on establishing the extent of it, but they didn't look at his entire body of work. I did, and I convinced myself that he was already fudging and manipulating data during his time as a student. He probably was outright fabricating data within the first year of starting his postdoc at Bell Laboratories in 1998—so four years before he was exposed he was probably already fabricating data full-scale.
It seems that one reason he was able to get away with this for so long is that he withheld his original data from his colleagues.
That's true. He shared the outcome of his analyses and he shared some data. In fact, if a colleague asked for data, Schön would produce data, often bewilderingly large amounts of it. The problem was that it wasn't real, and also it would be the product of an analysis or the results of his analysis that he would share, and not the unprocessed raw data in the form that had come off the instruments. And so they had a lot of tolerance for assuming that any processing he had done had been done correctly.
He was publishing these results at the time, wasn't he? Why didn't the journal review process catch some of this?
Well, I did see the reviews for some of Schön's papers, and what I found was that they tended to be extremely positive, and very often Schön's results would fit well to the expected results for the field. In one case in particular he had mimicked results that were very well known in organic electronics by a pioneer in the field and translated it into the context you would expect for his devices. He had actually been quite clever in the way he had done this, so that it was a recognizably impressive result to people in the field of organic electronics, which these reviewers were, or in some cases in the field of superconductivity. They would recognize the form of the data as something you would definitely expect, and often it would be very beautiful data, because he had less noise to deal with than other scientists taking real data, because he was fabricating it to look very compelling. So I think the reviewers were seduced by the appearance of the data. Although they did ask a number of difficult questions, they didn't oppose publication.
How then did the fraud finally come to light?
Schön actually slipped up in the end. He had always been republishing the same data sets in different papers. He had a quite impressive output—he sent 17 papers to Nature and Science over a four-year period. Those are the leading journals that most people would be happy to get one paper in in a year, and he was doing so much more than that. It came to light that he had duplicated data between different research papers when the context for the data would be different. So he was representing different experiments using exactly the same data sets. Some of the noise that he had introduced to make them look a little more realistic was identical, which was not something you would expect to happen in nature and was really a sign of human artifice. So when people noticed that for the first time in April 2002, it was really curtains for what he was doing. It was the end of the show, because there was no way that that could have happened by chance.
It sounds like he was tripped up by his own carelessness. Do you have the impression that a really careful fraudster could get away with this?
I definitely think a careful fraudster would go much further. Schön was really exposed because of some of his own carelessness. It was also a product of the way he was doing it, which was that he was always trying to show the textbook result. He just showed the textbook result too many times. So if he'd been a bit more meticulous, he'd have had to introduce more noise and maybe more outliers into his data to make them more realistic, and that would have slowed down his output and made his fraud possibly less damaging. I think that a more meticulous fraudster would have got a lot further, and I don't think they would have been exposed in the dramatic way that Schön was. Certainly there would have been problems with the reproducibility of his data, because that's not something that a fraudster would be able to second-guess, even someone who was very meticulous. But the reproducibility problems that did exist in Schön's data were not sufficient for him to be outed as a fraud; they simply led people to think that he must have a very clever method that he wasn't sharing with others. So I think things would have stalled in that situation for many months, and possibly years, longer than they did.
Ostensibly science is designed to detect exactly this sort of thing. Has looking at Schön's story shaken your confidence in the scientific enterprise?
It definitely shakes your confidence, because you worry that there are undetected frauds that could be using some of the same tricks, perhaps combined with other tricks that we don't know about, to get away with this. Although it came to light in the end, it only did so because a number of people took personal risks that we should hope scientists would not have to take in order for science to make progress. People really need to stick their necks out in order to make the self-correction process of science happen. It doesn't happen by itself.
Where is he now? What's he doing today?
The only time I spoke to Schön was in 2006, very briefly by phone, and he was working at an engineering company in southwest Germany, and I don't know what's happened to him since that time. He did get another job, not in science but in industry, after this. I was told that he got it through a colleague who had known him as a Ph.D. student.
Do you think there's any chance that he might someday return to science?
Well, he's been banned from working in science for eight years by the German research foundation. He would not be able to raise money or to be funded to work in science. After that, it's very hard to say. He would need somebody to give him another chance, and that person would be taking a risk for their own lab and their own institution if they did so.
What was your overall impression, having spent so many years reporting this? Did you come away with a different impression than you expected?
I started out very fascinated by Schön, almost sympathetic toward him in that I really wanted to know his side of the story. And the one thing I became convinced of is that he had deliberately done this, and it had been a protracted campaign of misleading other people, basically fabricating data that exceeded their expectations and then passing it off as real on a repeated basis, without any kind of compunction about doing so, as far as I could tell. I was fascinated by what he had done, but I was really disenchanted; the idea that he might somehow have made mistakes, or been misled himself or confused himself into doing this, which I had started out with, was completely lost. I came to the conclusion that he had known exactly what he was doing.
You can find this online at http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/an-interview-with-eugenie-samuel-reich
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5.1 Institutional frameworks and principles, and role of official statistics (EFTA)
Institutional framework of EFTA Statistical cooperation
• The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) is an intergovernmental organisation for the promotion of free trade and economic integration to benefit its four Member States: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland. Since the beginning of the 90s, EFTA has progressively developed a statistical cooperation policy with Eurostat.
• For Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, statistical cooperation with Eurostat is provided for in the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) which gathers the 3 EFTA countries and the 27 EU Member States into a single market.
• Statistical Cooperation between Switzerland and Eurostat is governed by a bilateral agreement.
Objective of EFTA Statistical Cooperation
The EFTA Statistical Office (ESO) was created as a liaison office between Eurostat and the EFTA national statistical institutes. ESO's main objective is to promote the full inclusion of the EFTA States in the European Statistical System (ESS), and thus provide harmonised and comparable statistics supporting the general cooperation process between EFTA and the EU within and outside the EEA Agreement. The cooperation also entails technical cooperation programmes with third countries and training of European statisticians. ESO is located on the premises of Eurostat, the Statistical Office of the European Union, in Luxembourg.
5.2 Statistical programmes, and coordination within statistical systems (EFTA)
Annual European Economic Area (EEA) statistical programme
A specific EEA annual statistical programme is developed every year by the EFTA Statistical Office in consultation with the EFTA National Statistical Institutes. The EEA annual statistical programme is based on a subset of, and in parallel with the annual statistical programme elaborated by the European Commission.
Switzerland/EU annual statistical programme
A specific annual statistical programme is drawn up every year in the framework of the agreement in the field of statistics between Switzerland and the EU.
5.4 Management and development of human resources (EFTA)
European Statistical Training Programme
EFTA attaches great importance to quality and comparability of European statistics and therefore supports Eurostat in the design and implementation of an ambitious European Statistical Training Programme (ESTP). In 2012, the EFTA Secretariat will fund the organisation of three ESTP courses respectively on Geographic Information Systems (Norway), User-friendly dissemination of statistics (Norway), and Data analysis and data modelling (Switzerland). These courses are provided by EFTA National Statistical Institutes and open for participation of statisticians from EFTA and EU Member States. In return, EFTA statisticians will be invited to participate in all ESTP courses supported and financed by the European Commission (Eurostat). Other applicants may be admitted to the courses depending on the availability of places.
5.7 Technical cooperation and capacity building programmes (EFTA)
Technical cooperation
EFTA technical cooperation programmes and activities are governed by a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the EFTA Secretariat and Eurostat. The MoU's overall objective is to avoid gaps or overlapping in technical assistance toward countries where the European Union is also active, through direct involvement of the four EFTA States in statistical programmes run by the European Commission. EFTA's involvement in technical cooperation programmes under the MoU gives priority to countries that have concluded declarations on cooperation or free trade agreements with EFTA. In 2012, support will be mainly granted to economies in transition in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia (EECCA), Western Balkans and Mediterranean regions (Medstat). EFTA cooperation will give priority to global assessments of national statistical systems in light of the revised European Statistics Code of Practice as well as seminars and study visits on socio-economic statistics, applied statistical methods and management of technical assistance in statistics.


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It's been a while since we brought you Xbox Live Arcade news, other than announcing the Ascend: New Gods closed beta signups and that fun little Zombie Driver HD interview and contest we held last month. But XBLA games remain a passion of mine, and our Xbox 360-owning readers who have embraced digital downloads likely feel much the same.
Okay, GDC starts on Monday but a little consumer gaming event called PAX East is taking place right now. And on the first day of the show, a little publisher called Capcom made a couple of announcements that had pretty much the whole console gaming world abuzz. This summer, Capcom will release both a remake of NES platforming favorite Ducktales as well as a collection of the Dungeons & Dragons arcade games, both for XBLA and other digital platforms.
Read onto find out why folks in the know are so stoked for these titles!


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Chinese legislators have decided to go the route of most nations by passing the nation's first law which makes use of drugs an illegal activity. The bill says owners and managers of discos, bars, nightclubs and other entertainment venues are responsible to report drug takers to the police or face punishment. Police are authorized to search people and their luggage for illegal drugs at key public places such as train stations, long-distance bus stations and border crossings. The law does allow drug users to undergo recovery programs within their own communities rather than being imprisoned. Among the drugs listed in the law are opium, heroin, and marijuana.
Making drug use an illegal activity is a sure-fire way to increase the number of people residing in jails. China has an opportunity to go in a direction other than the American model which emphasizes punishment rather than assistance to those using drugs. This particular law which places responsibility on owners of establishments opens a pandora's box of corruption as these individuals will soon be engaging in illegal payments to police in order to avoid being arrested. China, welcome to the world of jails and corruption.


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My name is Charles Feldman. I am 60 years old and I am in recovery, living with paranoid schizophrenia. I was in a songwriting group once at my mental health center, where I wrote songs viewing mental illness from a topical point of view. Years later, I was looking at the lyrics of one of my old songs, where I wrote: "I do not live, but merely exist." Things have changed for me so much that I found it hard to believe that I ever felt that way. I still get anxious and depressed at times, but I now feel that these are part of normal life, and that the important thing is my spiritual search, along with my advocacy work and my relationships with family and friends. That, I feel, is recovery.
Growing up, my main concern was that I felt that I did not know what to say to people, socially. In high school, I would read anyone who was countercultural, like R.D. Laing who thought there was personal growth through schizophrenia. I now joke that I am one of the few people who chose to develop schizophrenia.
One day in a college encounter group course, the leader gave us an exercise to do. He said we should all give ourselves a piece of advice. The advice I gave myself was: "Don't blow it." Later that evening, I went to a lecture, and the speaker said at one point: "Don't blow it." I thought he said that because of what I had said earlier in the day, which I thought he somehow knew about.
From that point on, I started feeling that people I met, and even people walking by me, were saying things and making gestures referring to me, that had hidden messages. I withdrew from school. When I got back home, my psychologist asked to see me. I saw him, and this psychologist, who had told me there was no such thing as mental illness, told me he was putting me in the hospital. I thought the hospital might be a place where I could get some understanding, so I agreed to go. Once there, I thought all the other patients were agents implanted to make it look like it was a hospital. I watched TV for the first time in a long time, and I thought even the newscasters were talking to and about me.
After a few days, I saw a psychiatrist. I told him what I had been told, that there was no such thing as mental illness. He raised his voice back at me and said: "There is such a thing, I've seen it!" From that point on I felt he was part of the conspiracy against me.
Six years later, my parents found me an apartment, telling the landlord that I was a writer and that I was just moving into town. I still didn't realize that my new medication was working. I told my new nurse that I didn't want to keep taking it. She went and got my new psychiatrist who asked me how things had been going for me in the past few years. When I told him that things had not been too good, he suggested I try the medication. So I did. I started going to a day program, and going to a therapy group. I noticed that when people would get angry one social worker, she would not get angry back at them, but would respond with empathy. I had never experienced this before. I went on to do mental health advocacy both at work and volunteering. A few years ago, I found a spiritual home. I have learned to meditate, which I couldn't do before. This has given me something that therapy, day program trips, the consumer movement, and other advocacy, could not give me. It has given me some peace of mind and purpose in life.
I now work doing mental health advocacy and support at a drop-in center. I can see people daily on the road to recovery. They feel that peer support has made a great difference in their lives. Being able to talk with their peers, and be open about their mental illness, gives them a freedom that they say they never had before. My peers and I credit things like medication, work or volunteer work, peer support and a place to socialize, spirituality, and finding or having a place to call home as the grounds of our recovery.


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Paul from MN writes:
I was surfing the web and came across a free computer operating system called Ubuntu. It says it is as good or better then the standard ones – claiming it cannot be infected by spyware, viruses, or be hacked.
Have you heard of it and what are your impressions of it?
Ubuntu is an operating system, similar to Microsoft Windows or MacOS, which is provided free of charge as an alternative to paid operating systems. Ubuntu is based on Linux, and is an open source operating system, meaning it's developed in public and anyone can see or modify the code which makes it work.
Ubuntu is available at http://www.ubuntu.com/ and can be installed over your current operating system or along side it.
Ubuntu's interface (pictured below) is both similar to and different than windows, although there is a fantastic walk-through tour of the operating system available. Click on the image below to take a look.
So why would you want to use Ubuntu? Here are three reasons:
1) Ubuntu is free and efficient. Microsoft Windows costs upwards of $200 for a full version ($99 for an upgrade), and this cost can go up a lot if you have multiple computers. Ubuntu is also very efficient, so it can run well on computers with much less CPU and RAM power than an equivalent Windows machine.
2) Ubuntu, by nature of being a Linux variant, is extremely virus resistant and secure. The way Linux operating systems are designed make them very hard to infect with a virus, and to date no Ubantu viruses have been found. The operating system is also designed in such a way that programs are more isolated and can run in a very secure way great for certain financial and business related needs.
3) Ubuntu is highly customizable. Ever wish you could have the task bar not show up in your company PCs and only have 2 programs load? In Windows that is a complicated process, and the task bar still remains. On an Ubuntu system, you can hire a programmer to customize the OS however you wish. Part of being open source means the entire code – everything that makes Ubantu work – is public, so someone with technical knowledge can edit it for a company's specific needs.
Why wouldn't I want to use Ubuntu? This boils down to two common complaints:
1) Ubuntu is not compatible with most software that will run on Windows or MacOS. There are many equivalent programs, which will give you similar functionality, but if you want to run Microsoft Office you're out of luck (though Open Office is a fantastic alternative and will run just fine on Ubuntu). This will become less of a problem as more programs are put into the cloud and run off of websites, but it still poses a problem if you expect your current Windows software to be compatible on Ubuntu.
2) Ubuntu is different. While it's not harder to use then a Windows PC (once you become familiar with how things operate), it is different. These differences pose a steep learning curve, and without technical knowledge, things like "sudo" in an instruction book will sound more like a misspelling than an actual command you need to type in. (The Sudo command functions much like runas: administrator in Windows – which lets you run a program as another user, usually the "Root" – which is the superuser in Ubuntu. It has access to all files/system processes).
So should you try out Ubuntu? That's a more difficult question to answer than you would imagine. For a business, Ubuntu has some unique advantages – including security (if kept updated/patched like any operating system) along with customization, which lets you run basic web terminals with lower end hardware. For home users, it could allow you to give a basic web browsing PC to a child using a much older computer which can no longer run the most up to date Windows operating system. Ubuntu is also a fantastic environment for anyone who wants to learn programming, and since a large portion of servers/back end systems use a variant of Unix and C, the concepts and principals learned in Ubuntu will transfer over well.
Would I replace my new computer's operating system with Ubuntu over windows 7? Not unless I needed something only Ubuntu offered. Would I setup a secondary hard drive or my old PC with Ubuntu to learn and use? Quite possibly.
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OGDEN, Utah -- Legendary Weber State football head coach Ron McBride announced today he will retire at the end of the 2011 season, following seven years as head coach at Weber State and nearly 50 years of Division I coaching. He will coach the Wildcats in their final two games of the 2011 season.
"I've coached all over the country over the last 50 years, and it's been a great ride," said McBride. "Football has really been my life. The reality is that it's all about the players, so the reason I've come to this decision is that I looked at the program, and all the kids are in the right classes, the program is right where it needs to be, and I just feel like they need a new voice at the top.
"The only thing that is important to me right now is the success of Weber State. We built this program. With what we had in mind, everything is in place, and now we just need somebody to take it to the next step."
Coach McBride turned 72 in October 2011. He is currently the sixth oldest active head coach in Division I football. Penn State's Joe Paterno, Albany's Bob Ford, Appalachian State's Jerry Moore, Kansas State's Bill Snyder and Florida Atlantic's Howard Schnellenberger are the five head coaches older than McBride.
"Today is a day where we celebrate a coaching legend," said WSU Director of Athletics Jerry Bovee. "Coach Mac has done some great things here at Weber State, and we would like to thank him, and his family, for all the hard work that he has put in. Where we go forward from here will be determined another day. Really, today is a day that needs to be what it is, and this is Coach Mac's day."
McBride will coach the Wildcats in the final two games of the 2011 season, including the final home game set for Saturday, Nov. 12 at 1:30 p.m. against Northern Arizona at Stewart Stadium.
He holds a 41-38 career record in his seven seasons as coach at Weber State. He is 32-21 in Big Sky Conference games. In his 20 seasons as a Division I head coach McBride holds an all-time record of 129-101. Mac has been coaching at the Division I level since 1965.
Coach McBride was named the ninth coach in Weber State history in December 2004, marking his return to the state of Utah as a head coach. In his six seasons since joining the Wildcats Coach Mac has posted a 38-32 overall record at Weber State and is 29-18 in Big Sky Conference games. He has also led the Wildcats to the NCAA FCS Playoffs two times and brought WSU its first Big Sky trophy since in 40 years.
In his first season with the Wildcats (2005) he led the Wildcats to a 6-5 record after winning just one game the previous season. In his first game as head coach Weber State set a new attendance record at Stewart Stadium. That season also included a 28-23 win at No. 6 Eastern Washington.
In 2006 the Wildcats posted a 4-7 record and the 'Cats were 5-6 in 2007 but finish the year winning five of their last season games.
The highlight season for Coach Mac came in 2008 when the Wildcats came out of nowhere to win the Big Sky and post a 10-4 record. WSU was 7-1 in the Big Sky and advanced to the FCS playoffs for the first time since 1991 and only the third time in school history. Sophomore quarterback Cameron Higgins was named Big Sky MVP. The season included a 45-28 win over Montana, the first victory over the Grizzlies in ten seasons. The Wildcats defeated third-ranked Cal Poly in the first round of the playoffs before losing to Montana in the second round. The ten wins were the most for Weber State in 21 years.
McBride's 2008 squad produced 12 players who earned First Team All-Big Sky honors - the most by any team in league history for one season. Eight other players earned second team or honorable mention honors. In addition, 10 players earned Second or Third Team All-America honors.
The 'Cats had another strong year in 2009 where they finished 7-5 overall and 6-2 in Big Sky action, finishing in a tie for second in the league standings. They also advanced to the FCS playoffs for the second consecutive season.
In 2010 Mac led the 'Cats to their third-straight winning season for the first time in 12 seasons. Weber State was 6-5 on the year with a 5-3 record in Big Sky play. They defeated Montana for the second time in the three seasons and also had a wild four-overtime win over Northern Colorado.
Coach McBride came to Weber State after spending two seasons as an assistant coach at the University of Kentucky under his old colleague, Rich Brooks. McBride coached the inside linebackers at Kentucky for the 2003 and 2004 seasons.
Coach Mac is known for his success in revitalizing the football program at the University of Utah. He had three different stints at Utah, twice as an assistant, before becoming head coach.
His first taste of Utah came in 1977 when he followed Wayne Howard from Long Beach State to Utah. McBride was named Offensive Coordinator and Offensive Line coach for the Utes for five seasons under Howard and one under Chuck Stobart. McBride then left the Utes to join the staff at the University of Wisconsin where he was offensive line coach for the Badgers.
When former Weber State assistant coach Jim Fassel was named head coach at Utah in 1985, he summoned McBride to coach the Ute offensive linemen, which he did for two seasons. In 1987 McBride left to become assistant head coach and offensive line coach at the University of Arizona under Dick Tomey.
Following the 1989 season, McBride returned to Utah when he was named head coach of the Utes. During his 13 seasons as head coach of the Utes, McBride guided his teams to an overall mark of 88-63. Those 88 victories are still the second most wins by a coach in Utah football history. He took the Utes to six bowl games, a noteworthy feat considering Utah had played in just three bowl games in the previous 97 years and hadn't played in one since 1964. In 1994 his team won a then-school record 10 games and attained the highest post-season ranking at the time, in school history climbing to No. 8 in the USA Today/ESPN poll and No. 10 in the Associated Press poll. That team concluded its season with a 16-13 win over Arizona in the Freedom Bowl. His 1999 squad beat Fresno State 17-16 in the Las Vegas Bowl and his 2001 team beat USC 10-6 also in the Freedom Bowl. McBride also excelled in the in-state rivalry games, rebuilding the rivalry with BYU. His Utes won six of its last 11 games against the Cougars, after losing 16 of the previous 18 games. Under coach Mac, Utah also dominated Utah State, posting an 11-2 record against the Aggies.
A native of Los Angeles, California, McBride was an all-city football and baseball star at South Gate High School. He played football at San Jose State from 1959 to 1962 and served as team captain his senior year. He later played professionally with the San Jose Apaches for the USA League.
His coaching career began in 1965 when he served as the freshman team coach at San Jose State and also served as the defensive coordinator and linebacker coach. In 1966, he left to become an assistant coach at Piedmont Hills High School until 1968. He then returned to the collegiate coaching ranks, serving as an assistant coach at Gavilan Junior College from 1969 through 1971. His long association with Wayne Howard began in 1972 when he became the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach under Howard at the now-defunct football program at UC Riverside. In 1974, Howard took McBride and most of the staff to Long Beach State where they coached for three seasons before coming to the University of Utah.
Coach McBride has sent a steady stream of players into the NFL. Since taking over the ranks at Weber State, Coach Mac has had five players drafted into the NFL. After his first season with the Wildcats, two of his Wildcats, Paul and Pat McQuistan were selected in the 2006 NFL Draft. Paul was a third round selection of the Oakland Raiders and Pat was selected in the seventh round by the Dallas Cowboys. In 2008, David Hale was selected in the fourth round by the Baltimore Ravens. In 2009, J.D. Folsom was drafted in the seventh round by the Miami Dolphins and in 2010, Tim Toone was selected with the last pick of the draft by the Detroit Lions and was known as "Mr. Irrelevant". In addition, Marcus Mailei signed with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2009 and was a member of the New Orleans Saints Super Bowl championship team in 2010. In 2008 Dimitri Tsoumpas was selected with the second overall pick in the Canadian Football League draft by the Calgary Stampeders.
In his days with the Utes McBride coached notable players like Jamal Anderson who played for the Atlanta Falcons. Running back Mike Anderson was the 2000 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year for the Denver Broncos. Kevin Dyson was the first receiver taken in the 1998 NFL Draft and was a starter with the Tennessee Titans in the 2000 Super Bowl. Luther Ellis was an all-pro and two-time Pro Bowler defensive lineman for the Detroit Lions. Steve Smith is a four-time NFL Pro Bowler and a three-time All-Pro selection with the Carolina Panthers. Jordan Gross was selected with the eighth pick of the 2003 Draft by the Carolina Panthers and is a three-time Pro Bowl selection.
In April 2008, Coach McBride was honored by the Utah Football Coaches Association and given the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to football in the state of Utah.
In March 2010 he and his wife Vicky celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. Mac has four children: Danny, Mike, Kelly, and Jill. McBride's son-in-law John Baxter, who is married to daughter Jill, is the assistant head coach at Fresno State University.


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'Game of Thrones' Season 4 Trailer: "There Is Only One Hell!"
It's here! After a few tantalizingly brief Vines, 'Game of Thrones' has finally unsheathed a proper trailer for season 4, in advance of its April 6 premiere. We saw all the usual fan favorites, from dragons to some devastating action sequences, but what standout moments really got our heads spinning? Check out the first 'Game of Thrones' season 4 trailer for yourself right here!


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ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter 115, March 7, 1996
Yukon Installation Underway
ARSC's 88PE, liquid cooled, 128Mb/PE, 300Mhz CRAY T3E has been plumbed, electrified, and named. It is: yukon.arsc.edu. UNICOS/mk 1.4.1 will be installed next week, and user test codes will start running soon after that.
ARSC T3E Press Release
----------------------------------------------------------------------- Arctic Region Supercomputing Center Installs CRAY T3E System ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Fairbanks, Alaska -- The Arctic Region Supercomputing Center (ARSC) at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) received a new high- performance computing system on February 26, 1997, complete installation will be done by mid-March. According to ARSC Director, Frank Williams, "The CRAY T3E system enables ARSC to provide scientists and engineers with more powerful computing resources. Some of the world's foremost faculty and students are discovering new arctic region knowledge in geophysics, marine sciences, natural sciences, and engineering using ARSC facilities." The new system is a CRAY T3E massively parallel processing (MPP) computer from Cray Research, the supercomputing subsidiary of Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI). The system consists of 88 processors, each with 128 Mbytes of memory, or double the per-processor memory of the older CRAY T3D system. Improved architecture of the CRAY T3E supercomputer makes it three-to-four times faster than the CRAY T3D system. The Center's operation of the CRAY T3D system will be phased out over the next few months. The new CRAY T3E supercomputer, named Yukon after Alaska's largest river, will support the research and development efforts of scientists from the academic community, federal research agencies, the state of Alaska, private enterprise, and the Department of Defense. Over the next month, researchers from sciences such as geophysics and astrophysics will move their computing activities over to the new CRAY T3E system. For example, the increased memory and speed permit enhanced modeling of the polar oceans and ice cover to include input from the various continental rivers. Currently, scientists are unable to follow the flow from each river once it enters the ocean. Greater computing capabilities will allow 'tracing' of each river's flow after entering the ocean providing increased information on the contribution of each river and the possible environmental impacts. Another CRAY T3E-related project teams ARSC with the UAF Geophysical Institute, the Alaska Volcano Observatory, and the State of Alaska Seismology Office to develop a parallel version of a 3D seismic modeling code. Information gathered from existing seismic surveys and naturally occurring events are used to construct a high-resolution numerical model of the geological structure of the mountain range and surrounding areas. This model will predict the results of possible earthquake events throughout Alaska. The CRAY T3E system, combined with ARSC's sophisticated Silicon Graphics visualization resources, make ARSC an important asset to scientists seeking to perform such high-end, detailed simulations. ARSC continues to operate an eight-processor CRAY Y-MP large memory vector supercomputer with 8GB (1 GigaWord) of globally addressable memory. This machine, named Denali, has been in operation since January 1993, and serves the same user community as the CRAY T3E system. The CRAY Y-MP supercomputer remains a workhorse for scientists and engineers. In addition, connected to these CRAY supercomputers, via local ethernet, FDDI, and HiPPI networks, will be a new SGI Onyx-2 Infinite Reality visualization supercomputer, an SGI high performance Onyx XL, and over 40 additional SGI workstations located in ARSC labs across the UAF campus. The three visualization labs, the ARSC Video Production Lab, and the ARSC Training Lab are undergoing significant hardware improvements in 1997 to keep pace with user needs and advanced technology. An integrated digital video/audio recording studio will be built around the SGI Onyx-2's high-end video output, upgrading essential multimedia capabilities of ARSC. In operation since 1992, ARSC continues to support computational research, science, and engineering--with emphasis on the high latitudes and the Arctic. ARSC provides scalar-vector and massively parallel processing (MPP) talent and related resources--high-performance computing, networking facilities, training, and technical support--to federal and state agencies, the academic community, and commercial affiliates.
OSC, PSC, and ARSC co-sponsor Parallel Computing Conference[ For the complete announcement, see: http://www.osc.edu/pcomputing/ .
Guy Robinson and Don Morton will both be presenting papers. Don is a frequent contributor to this newsletter and annual ARSC visiting researcher; and Guy, of course, is ARSC's new MPP specialist. ]
------------------------------------------------------------------------ Parallel Computing: The T3D And Beyond April 2-3, 1997 Columbus,Ohio ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sample Session Topics: * Lattice QCD on the Cray T3D/E * Parallelization of the RMATRX codes for atomic physics calculation * DNS-based Fluid Flow Simulation on the T3D * A T3D Implementation of an SPMD Code for Adaptive Finite Element Methods Learn more about: * What your colleagues are doing. * How to select the best parallel architectures for your science. * How the DoD/MRSC are promoting parallel processing. * The future direction of parallel processing. Sponsored by: * Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center * Arctic Region Supercomputing Center * Ohio Supercomputer Center The three centers are a part of PhAROh, a National Science Foundation (NSF) Metacenter Regional Alliance. The PhAROh MRA is a natural alliance between centers with similar and compatible computational facilities and operational philosophies. All of the centers have Cray T3D systems and share documentation and information resources through e-mail and WWW applications. By pooling resources, the PhAROh MRA centers effectively share developing expertise and understanding of the T3D environment, share code porting strategies and performance analysis tools, and co-develop outreach training and remote user service programs. Partial funding for the conference is provided by the NSF through the Metacenter Regional Alliance Program.
Accessing a Single T3D PE Through NQS
We had a frustrated T3D user a couple weeks ago -- a grad student who, in the wee hours of the morning, couldn't get NQS to run a simple 1 PE job which was part of his benchmark suite. The same script and program had worked as expected for 8 and more PEs.
Here's an NQS script which reproduced the problem:
#QSUB -q mpp #QSUB -l mpp_p=1 # Request 1 PE from NQS #QSUB -l mpp_t=600 #QSUB -l p_mpp_t=600 #QSUB -s /bin/ksh cd /tmp/baring/IO TARGET=cray-t3d ./iompp 125 -npes 1 # Tell mppexec to run on 1 PE
Here's what happens when I submit this:
denali$ qsub io1.tst.qsub nqs-181 qsub: INFO Request <4754.denali>: Submitted to queue <mpp> by <baring(1235)>. denali$ cat io1.tst.e4754 mppexec: MPP JOB PE limit exceeded
This is exactly the same error message mppexec gives if you try to exceed your interactive PE limit. Why would it occur in a batch job, on a request for only 1 PE?
It is actually impossible to allocate only one PE on a T3D. There are 2 PEs per node, and, at the minimum, you get 1 node. mppexec is smart enough that when you request 1 PE, it will essentially disable the second PE on the node you are given, your program will run on the other PE, and it will look like you have actually obtained a single PE. mppexec, however, has allocated 2PEs from the system, which is what you do see in mppview.
The above NQS script specifies:
#QSUB -l mpp_p=1
NQS looks at this, and correctly puts the request in the m_8pe_24h queue (the smallest ARSC queue that will hold the request of 1PE). However, NQS interprets the 1PE request literally, and, in its own allocation system, reserves 1PE (not a whole 2PE node) for the job.
When mppexec gets the request:
./iompp 125 -npes 1it knows to allocate 2PEs, checks with NQS to make sure that does not violate the request, and gets the message that, yep, it is an attempt to grab more than requested, and aborts with the error message.
It is like trying this:
#QSUB -l mpp_p=2 ./iompp 125 -npes 4except that the error is hidden.
The fix is to ask NQS for 2PEs.
#QSUB -l mpp_p=2But to ask mppexec to execute on only one PE:
./iompp 125 -npes 1as before.
Good news on the T3E: you may request and receive exactly one PE.
Newsletter News
After its three month vacation, this newsletter is back as the "ARSC T3E Users' Newsletter". It will continue to carry T3D articles, but will focus increasingly on the T3E.
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Quinoa Salad with Pineapple, Broccoli, Mint
Quinoa Salad Recipe with Pineapple, Broccoli and Mint- fresh!
Spring is beckoning. I can feel it. And my winter-stiff body is aching to stretch and move and shed the yearly inertia that descends like a bear with the shrinking daylight. My brain is flickering awake. My taste buds are tiring of the heavy, creamy comfort foods that sustained me (thank you, lovely spuds, lasagna, and mac and cheese, I love you with all my heart).
I'm craving lighter, cleaner tastes.
Not to mention, missing my warm weather jeans. You know the ones. That stack in the back of the closet you haven't fit into since December, when you began wondering if the laundromat medium heat setting was shrinking your favorite Levi's. The jeans you have to lay down to zip, doing your best imitation of Jane Fonda's pelvic tilt, sucking in your breath and praying to the zipper gods. Your skinny jeans. You know what I'm talking about. You have two sets of jeans, right? Winter. And summer.
So here's what I'm thinking. Quinoa to the rescue.
Vegan. Versatile. Easy. Fresh. Light. This new quinoa salad with pineapple and broccoli and fresh mint is all of the above. And maybe, just maybe, it'll be the first step to fitting into those skinny jeans.
By Karina Allrich
Quinoa Salad with Pineapple, Broccoli, and Mint
This light and lively salad is perfect for Spring. Make it for a picnic, or a lovely vegan lunch. I made the dressing mild, but if you prefer it spicy, feel free to add more ginger or some red chili pepper, to taste.
Rinse the quinoa thoroughly in cold water, using a fine sieve. Cook 1 cup quinoa in 2 cups water. I use a rice cooker to do this. Easy peasy.
While the quinoa is cooking, prepare your salad ingredients and make the dressing.
1 cup diced pineapple
2 cups broccoli, blanched *see how to blanch broccoli, below
2 medium carrots, sliced into matchsticks
4 scallions (green onions), sliced
A handful of soybean sprouts (or mung bean sprouts)
A handful of fresh cilantro and mint leaves, rough chopped
Sea salt and pepper, to taste
For the dressing:
1/4 cup pineapple juice
Fresh juice from 1-2 limes
1/4 cup rice vinegar
1/4 cup olive oil or avocado oil
2 tablespoons organic low sodium gluten-free Tamari
1 inch ginger, grated
A dab of agave, to taste
For garnish:
Lime slices
Chopped roasted cashews
When the quinoa is ready, scoop it into a large bowl and fluff it with a fork. Allow it to cool.
Make your dressing.
In a large glass measuring cup, whisk together the dressing ingredients. Taste test. If you prefer a dressing that has more fat, add a little more olive oil. Sweeter? Add a touch of agave, to taste. More citrus? Add more lime juice. More of a vinaigrette? Add more rice vinegar. More ginger? You know the drill.
When the quinoa has cooled, pour in the dressing and toss lightly. Add the pineapple, broccoli, carrots, scallions, soybean sprouts, fresh cilantro and mint. Gently combine the ingredients. Taste test for seasoning adjustments. Add some sea salt and pepper, if you desire.
Cover and chill to let the flavors mingle and get happy. Before serving, taste test and adjust seasoning. I usually add a squeeze of fresh squeezed lime juice and a little extra chopped fresh mint leaves before serving.
Cook time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
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A trainer sprays iodine on the tummy of a dolphinIt seems too good to be true that eight days have passed since the dolphin hunters have seen their banger boats. It's been very quiet around Taiji this past week and I imagine some of the fishermen have left town to spend time with family outside the Wakayama Prefecture. However, Mr. Private Space is still hanging around the Fishermen's Union biding his time until he can kill again. This morning, his ever-present cell phone, complete with a little dangling charm, was perched in front of his face like usual. I wonder who he spends so much time talking to and texting with. It's a bit strange to think that these men can text. We perceive them as hideous barbarians that have no education and absolutely no personal skills. Yet there's someone out there that cares enough about Private Space to text him all the daylong.
We like to think of the Japanese people as uneducated and uninformed but stop and think about where the majority of your electronics come from and this perception is no longer the reality. I'm a professional photographer and the equipment that I use on a daily basis back home in the United States comes from the country that I am calling home for the next three months. Where would I be if the studio I work in wasn't complete with a Canon Mark 1DS, lenses, filters, and all of the necessary accessories that are involved in being a professional? If the United States alone boycotted Japan, where would that leave us? According to my online research, a few of the major items that the United States imports from Japan each year include cars, yellow corn, penicillin, and artificial human body parts. Consider the products you use in your daily life and take time to find out where they come from. What you discover might surprise you. Some of the top Japanese companies are staples in the typical American lifestyle such as Nintendo, Casio, Canon, Nikon, Epson, Sony, Bridgestone, Honda, Nissan, and Subaru. I live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest where no one is truly considered a local until they drive a Subaru, a car imported from the country that kills dolphins.
A barbaric statuewelcomes visitors to theWhale MuseumWhile I can see the potential, I'm personally torn on the issue of boycotting. It would be like telling Americans to stop shopping at Walmart, it seems like too much to ask. On the other hand, we have the power to effect enormous change. If consumers as a whole were willing to make small personal sacrifices by determining which companies they will support and adapting their buying habits, it is quite possible that such mass public pressure on Japan could once and for all stop this madness. The most important thing anyone can do, boycott or not, is to become a conscious consumer. Be aware of what you're purchasing, where it comes from, and what toxins may be inherent in the products you buy.
Here is your opportunity to become a Cove Guardian. To join us in Taiji (voluntarily, and completely at your own cost and risk), write to us at email@example.com. We will get back to you, but please be patient. We cannot keep an eye on the Cove and answer e-mails at the same time. Contributions to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to keep our official presence here are needed and welcome. These contributions cover the costs for transport, telephone, equipment, supplies, food, and lodging for the official Sea Shepherd representative. We will remain here through the end of March and will return for the next season in September 2011.
Thank you to the citizens of Japan who are weighing these issues and beginning to take a stand to solve them. Thank you to everyone who is on the frontlines of this war. This is a war to save ourselves from ourselves. Without your calling and writing Japanese embassies and your own governments, there will be no change. Keep it up! Every time dolphins are pushed into the Cove, let them have it. Every time there is blood in the water, let them have it. Make good consumer choices. Inform everyone you know about the tragedy here and how it is linked to the captive dolphin trade. All who patronize a dolphin show have blood on their hands.
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Dolphins perform in their holding pens atDolphin Base
Nicole, who will be assisting me during the next three months, will share her experiences while in Taiji on her blog.Rupert Imhoff, who is also assisting with this campaign, has started a YouTube channel of video taken during his time in Taiji.
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|Maine Sail
I have actual experience..
I own a Catalina with in mast and love it. I will never go back to a traditional main configuration but I'm cruising not racing. In 5600nm I have not had one jam. The system has worked flawlessly. You do need to understand how to use an in mast furler but the learning curve is very easy. My sail has also held up very well and has a nice shape..
|To each his own. Oviously there are pro and con's for each method. We all have different need as sailors, no right or wrong. What do we want out of our sails, convenience or performance or both. I had Hunter 25 wth a loose footed main that had jiffy reefing loved it. Now a Beneteau 32 with in mast furling. It jammed on me once, headed down wind rolled it up from the clew best I could a lashed to the mast with a spare halyard. Love it. With less time on my hands for sailing with a growing family I op for the in mast furling I'd rather be sailing in 20 seconds. 10 for the furling jib and 10 for the furling in-mast main. As far as reefing just as easy I'll be it a little longer. Do you want performance well this isn't the right set up for you or even close. Would I sail on your boat Hell ya. Peace and happy sailing. Great Topic, enjoyed it.
Just some thoughts - but i have a Jeanneau DS40 with inmast and single hand and love it and would not change - i am not a beat the whip racer trying for that last knot - but once i figured it out we get what i consider good performance out of it.
you do have to learn to bring the sail in under pressure to keep it tight - but we reef easily and any can sail with as much or little main sail as we want -
i have been to the bahamas and constantly down the keys on the ocean side without an issue -
i am not a purist nor do i care to be but an practical enough to know what works for me and at 61 yo i like the fact that i can sail the boat from the cockpit
just my thoughts
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|SD, you still have to haul that sucker up the stick every time you want to use the main. Lets see you do that in under 90 seconds and no sweating allowed. Modern in mast furling is so simple and so reliabe it seems almost rediculous to be arguing, especially for coastal cruisers.
|We were out on a C&C 38, and had to reef the main. With two people, we could reef the main in under 90 seconds. It was setup with a reefing line and a tack hook. I doubt you could do much better on a mast furling system, and a slab reefing system is far less likely to have problems.
1st hand experience
Just for the record, my comments were just that...............I'm not an owner but have chartered & crewed with a number a boats w/ mast furling systems.
I would never choose / buy one.
As I said before & GT/SD have stated real life problems. Having a sail jam in high winds is no picnic & BTW why do things like that always happen at the worse times.
I was out on a private Jenneau yesterday 43DS with in mast furler....the owner is a "fan" for the benefits & acknowledges that he has given up sail shape & controls to get it...............sailmakers are trying to compensate so he plans to factor that into his replacement sail.
I also have been on a Hunter 36 with it and chartered boats with it. All the negatives don't come close to outweighing the benefits. I would love to try an in-boom system............curious what the costs are.
My system of choice is a beautiful full main sail (and lighter mast) with all the bells & whistles plus a lazy jack / stack pack. Bet I can sail faster plus handle my sail easier than the in-mast guys.
|I would go with a Boom-furling main before a in-mast-furling main. One of the real risks I see with in-mast-furling is that the sail must be unfurled to take it down. If an in-mast unit jams, then you may be left with sail up and no real way to take it down. Also, the problems can be much harder to solve, since the jam is as likely to be the masthead section as the lower part of the in-mast unit. Lastly, most in-mast units have problems with sail shape and weight aloft.
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Could you post some of the owner lists where these posts regarding in-mast furlers are? I would like to read them,
I have been on two different boats where we had the main jam while trying to roll it in, in light winds yet. The skippers were experienced with in-mast furlers too. Some of the newer in-mast spars have a sail track along side the opening for the furling main allowing you to use a standard sail once you remove the furling sail.
They are convenient for a lot of people, and a lot of charter boats have them, so they must work OK for most people. I would say poor performance, shorter sail life and extra weight aloft are the big negatives for me.
Gene T
Could you post some of the owner lists where these posts regarding in-mast furlers are? I would like to read them,
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|I see people with in-mast furlers wishing to change them all the time. Lots of offers to swap rigs with conventional systems on various owner lists. In-boom is very nice and can offer almost as much sail area as conventional mains do. BUT it is very expensive to convert, and some systems still have problems. As far as in-mast systems go the sails blow out quickly if the boat is sailed in windy areas. Some owners do like them and end up relying on large headsails to make up the difference in lost sail area.
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When I was at the PaleoFX conference, we were given mostly meat to eat. I was grateful for the food, but I really like vegetables and fruit. So I went to a co-op and got some celery. I was chomping on the celery stalk as I walked through the conference hall and someone actually said to me, "Whoa, vegetables!" as if I'd committed some Paleo crime. There was such a vibe of carbs-are-the-devil at the conference that Dr. Emily Deans … Continue reading


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I don't know about you but I have an ongoing love affair with Instagram. Talk about the best app ever! Although I have been cheating on Instagram lately with one of my new favorite apps Picfx. I love that I am able to add awesome light affects to my pictures with Picfx and then share it through Instagram and use the different filters to change the colors. Talk about the perfect twosome! If you have never used Instagram or Picfx, I suggest you get on that ASAP!
Here are a few of my favorite new discoveries/projects which I of course needed to capture through Instagram.
I was browsing blogs this past weekend and came across this awesome jewelry store called Alimonda. They have such fun, trendy jewelry that is completely my style. This made it hard for me not to purchase every last thing on their site. After long consideration, I narrowed it down and chose my two favorite pieces which I am wearing above, the middles and long necklace. Love, love, love is the only way to describe these pieces! I bought my A (for baby Aidan) at Von Eshna. Now I have a silver and gold A to keep close to my heart. I love that I am able to wear these three necklaces together. The difference in lengths is just perfect for layering.
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Have you all heard of the magical place that is called Homegoods. If you haven't then you are missing out! The price is always right and they have fabulous, unique pieces. I could go there everyday and find a new, must have item for my home. I found this cute wooden giraffe figurine there, which just so happened to be the perfect addition to baby Aidan's room. My bathroom was lacking some wall art, so where did I go, you got it Homegoods! Did I find something? Now that's a silly question. Of course I did! Are these pieces not just fabulous!
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so they have plenty of ventilation.
If you use the red, they do not know you are there. Just don't make the mistake that I made one night. I was working on a dozen hives and went back to the house to get something and switched back to white light. I went back into the apiary with it still on white and had bees bouncing off my head. It took a few seconds of wondering why they were reacting so much to me before I realized I was using while light.Try it it is fun.Jim
Quote from: Steel Tiger on July 05, 2013, 03:08:49 AMso they have plenty of ventilation. Keep proper ventilation even if you do not have beetles
Yes I should have mentioned to ventilate the top :?
Lower entrance is necessary because all rubbish fall on floor.
Plus the incoming foragers are not walking over any mites that happen to fall off the bees.
In New Hampshire, I would close the screened bottom. You just don't need that much ventilation and it's going to make it harder for the bees to keep the brood at 95F in your climate.
Two days ago I put the entrance reducers back.....I've went down a few times to see if any bees where using the new entrances yet.
even in NH we have hot spells. yesterday got to 96 and it's suppose to stay in the 90s for the next few days.
The only really good reason I could see to going with a top entrance is to keep the entrance away from the skunks. That problem can be solved by hive stands, or using a mid entrance.
Yep, it sucks when you get package bees and the supplier does not say whether they are top or bottom entrance bees