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Solved! Go to Solution.
Hi there,
what is the issue ?
Noise ?
It's better to run the fan at 100 % and save the CPU, other than the alternative.
Did you load the PC Doctor S/W ?
Is there a fan in the case ?
If you open the case, does it exhibit the same issues ?
How is the fan in the power supply functioning ?
Good Luck,
The issue is, the fans (CPU and rear Case fan), should not be running at 100% all the time. The fans are really loud and disruptive.
What exactly would I be looking for in PC Doctor software? I would think that the fan speeds are OS independant.
Yes, there is a fan in the case. The power supply fan is running fine. Opening and closing the case makes no difference. Tried different fans from a functioning unit, not change.
One of our M55 (8811 D1U) systems started the same problem the other day.
At first I thought it was a bad bearing because the fan was so loud. Then I realized that it was on high speed all the time. It isn't any cooling problem but it is so loud it interfers with normal function of the office. (we have four people working within 8 feet of the front of the unit). Everything else is normal. (no dust clogs; plenty of room around the unit; PS and drives all seem OK.)
I was going to replace the fan with a spare from the closet but it's that odd 90mm size and I had none. I couldn't even figure a good part number for it from the lenovo/IBM support pages but now I'm curious whether it could be a MB problem or, as I type this, I have a strange feeling I better check to see if any upgrade from 'patch Tuesday' might have caused this. (I kinda doubt it)
Could the PWM circuit be fritzed somehow on the MB? The way I understand PWM, even if I clip off the 4th wire, the fan defaults to 100%.
2 Questions:
1. Anyone else working on this issue have ideas?
2. What's a good P/N for the 90 mm fan? (I assume the more common 92mm ones won't fit so well)
Hello wsgraham,
according to HMM, P/N for fan is 39M0470
You can find HMM here:
Good luck
Had the same problem on a ThinkCentre. What fixed it for us was unpluggin the box, popping out the CMOS battery and waiting 1 minute until the power completely discharged. Plugged the PC back in, then put the CMOS battery back in and configured the system time in the BIOS and then exited and let it reboot. It did a scan for a bootable device, found the disk and booted into Windows. Fan problem was gone.
Well, I put a new fan in and when I tried to start it up, the hard drives spun but didn't sound like they were loading anything and there was no signal to the monitor. Rechecked connections and made sure cards were seated but no luck. Sounds like maybe a surge caught the system and the fan was just a visible symptom. Since it was the cpu cooling fan, I didn't bother to reboot with the bad fan. Duh!
check that the thermal sense cable is plugged into the system board. We had replaced a system board for a video issue and the cable was laying under some other cables and the tech missed plugging it back in. Once it was plugged in the high speed fan issue was solved.
The connector plugs into the system board close to the main power connector.
How many RPM are 100% fan speed? The fan in my M58p constantly runs with 660 RPM and I think it is too loud. Is this speed okay or is it the same problem as with you?


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Looking to try a meal delivery service, but need it to be 100% gluten-free? We FINALLY have an answer…Diced.
Diced was created by Tinsley Meloy's who was diagnosed in 2008 with Celia Disease. She, like myself and many others out there had to learn to how cook and survive in a whole new world; the gluten-free world. Diced was created out of her desire to create a successful, gluten-free lifestyle to make the gluten-free world easier to navigate and tastier to eat.
Diced is based out of Brooklyn, NY and everything is prepared in a 100% gluten-free facility so there is no need to worry about cross-contamination! Amen! Seriously, knowing that was a huge thing for me as I have noticed recently that I've been getting ill after even the smallest amount of cross-contamination.
Here is how it works: Visit MyDiced.com and check out their Weekly and Core menu options. Choose your meal(s) –> trust me you'll want to order more than one! Then click the checkout button when you are ready to purchase. Meals are delivered next day (Monday-Friday)!
Tinsley and the awesome team over at Diced kindly provided us with three meals (of our choice) to sample. I can't even begin to express how excited I was to try this service. We've talked about trying other services in the past however none were 100% gluten-free and didn't want to risk it. Bryan and I went through the list and picked the Takeout Style Chicken and Broccoli with Rice, Quinoa Chili, and Salmon Nicoise Salad. Bryan doesn't normally eat cooked fish (he's much more of a sushi guy, so the last one was really for me), however he loved it! All of the meals were beyond easy to make…they come with recipe cards with pictures for you to follow. Everything is pre-measured out and neatly packaged. These meals are perfect for those that are in need for a quick and easy dinner on busy nights. I normally plan out a weekly menu, so this took some of the guess work out of it for me. I will 100% be purchasing meals from Diced again.
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Google is set to release their own shared cloud storage solution, says the Wall Street Journal. Their insiders have said that Google will soon launch called "Drive" will rival Dropbox in functionality, being able to "store photos, documents and videos on Google's servers so that they could be accessible from any Web-connected device and allows them to easily share the files with others." It sounds like it will have some overlap with Picasa, Google Docs, and Youtube, but at this time nobody has all the particulars.
The new service, expected to launch in the coming weeks or months, will be free for most folks, businesses included. Google will only charge those who want to "store a large amount of files", so there will be a premium service with more capacity. If Google does release this one, we would certainly expect it to hit Android devices soon after. Could this be the big thing at Google I/O this year?
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Buyer, Be Waryby Kuki, CruiseMates Cruise Director
That's why it's important to get an honest perspective of what you are likely to find when you cross the gangway and board the ship. Carrying unrealistic expectations onboard with you can easily diminish your enjoyment of a cruise.
Nothing will put a damper on your cruise more than stepping onboard thinking you're going to find perfection. Even on the ultra-luxury cruise lines there are areas you'll likely think can use improvement.
Aside from specialized cruise lines, such as sailing ships, etc., there are generally three levels of cruise experience -- budget, premium and luxury. It's only natural that your expectations will rise as the price goes up. The most noticeable change as you step up the pricing ladder will be the level of personal service you experience. On the luxury cruise lines, there's probably no request the staff won't rush to fulfill. On the budget line, however, the answer may be, "No, we can't do that."
Much of this has to do with simple numbers--the staff to passenger ratio. The luxury lines employ more staffers per passenger to cater to their guests, and devote more time and money to training them.
However, even on these luxury lines, the training does not include development of psychic skills. Regardless of which cruise line you're sailing, if there is something special you want, or have a problem you'd like dealt with, you have to ask. Becoming aggravated over a situation because "they should know" (what you want) will do nothing but raise your stress level. On ships, rely on the laws of buoyancy, not clairvoyance.
Researching before you book is a must. Read all the reviews (both professional and firsthand "average passenger" reports) that you can get your eyes on. Then after examining all the positives and negatives in everything you've read, make your decision--and discard all the information you've read. After all, we cannot expect our cruise experience will be the same as everyone, or anyone, else's. We all have different tastes, and different things that will please us.
The various cruise lines have different areas of strength and weakness. Once you've made a somewhat educated choice for your vacation, it's wise to walk onboard prepared to enjoy the particular strengths of that ship, or line.
If you choose your cruise based on simply finding great prices, and think the cruise line will adapt to what you are looking for in a cruise experience, you'll likely come home disappointed.
You have to weigh your options carefully, and once the choice is made, be willing to adapt to what that ship offers. That's the most likely road to success for enjoying your cruise vacation. Well, that and taking me along!


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In the Media
The research and expertise of the RRC and its staff has been featured in many newspaper, magazine, and journal articles. In this section you will find links to recent media clips, press releases highlighting findings from our research and media information on RRC staff (downloadable as PDFs where available).
RRC in the Media
- Michael Ungar and Amarnath Amarasingham of the Resilience Research Centre comment on youth radicalization in the National Post Dal News, May 25, 2015.
- Dal prof celebrated for outstanding service to social work. Dal News, November 29, 2012.
- New study explores Spaces and Places to learn about youth resilience in Labrador. Dalhousie School of Social Work Newsletter, September, 2012.
- Helping vulnerable youth through the living arts. Dal News, November 3, 2011.
- Dr. Michael Ungar awarded Killam Chair. blogs.dal.ca, Dalhousie University Faculty of Health Professions. October 3, 2011.
- Resiliency is the heart of the matter. Dal News, June 27, 2011.
- Overcoming odds. Dal News, June 10, 2010.
- Dal's Resilience Research Centre to host second international conference. Dal Media Centre, June 9, 2010.
- Dal Social Work Professor Wins Top Short Story Prize. Dal News, June 30, 2003.
- Helping teens to find their way. Dal News, May 26, 2009.
- Why are a few youth behaving violently? Dal News, November 2, 2007. Dal News, November 2, 2007.
- The beginnings of resilience: A view across culture. Education Canada, 47(3), Summer 2007.
Media Information on Centre Staff
Staff at the RRC are available for interview on a number of subjects pertaining to resilience, youth, and community. These include:
- The benefits of risk taking for children and youth.
- How to engage children at school.
- Design of social services (child welfare, corrections, and mental health).
- Parenting teenagers.
- Resilience and what it takes for children and youth to thrive.
- Delinquency, domestic violence, and other concerns for our children.
- Children and social consciousness.
- Bullying.
- Families across cultures, immigration, and refugees.
- Urban spaces and places for youth.
- The need for spaces to play.
- Community resources for teens.
- Developing a sense of social connection in teens.
- Preventing or reducing youth involvement with crime and gangs.
- Understanding girls' involvement in crime.
- How villages can raise teens.


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(CBS News) Australian billionaire Clive Palmer unveiled plans Tuesday to build a replica of the Titanic.
The legendary ocean liner sank more than a century ago, claiming 1,500 lives.
Aussie billionaire launches plans for Titanic replica
"Titanic II" will look just like the original, right down to the dinner menus and costumes. But the new ship will have one significant difference: it will sail with modern safety and navigation equipment.
Its maiden voyage of is set for 2016.
CBS News' Elaine Quijano spoke with Palmer in New York recently about his vision for the ship. Palmer said, "It's about people all across the world their concept of what Titanic means to them -- the experience of respect, of love, and of a different time, perhaps -- where women were treated differently by men -- maybe it was before things happened in the 70s."
Asked if this qualifies as a luxury experience, Palmer said, "Depends what class you're in, I guess. We've got first, second, and third class. And for me, it's a luxury to sit in third class, to have some Irish stew, to jig around at night. I can never do that. I'm always traveling first class everywhere, so I want that experience. I hunger for that experience."
Watch the video above for a look at the plans and Palmer's talk about his vision for the ship.


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Marathon Durandal Vs Tycho is getting a new facelift with new concepts of the guns ect., which will be shown later in the post but first I'd like to talk about the games new features. First I'll talk about the pfhor. So, the pfhor will first of all be getting a revision of there look while also getting new guns/weapons ect. they will aslo be getting stronger and have more devisions for example a trooper,assualt trooper,genaral,ect.
Oh, and also zombie pfhor wich tycho may have something to do with 'hint'. As for the gameplay we hope to include jumping/crouching and a tad faster paced gameplay. And we will be creating a whole new line up of guns for Marathon Durandal Vs Tycho. As for the graphics in the game we are going to replace most if not all of the sprites textures ect. in the game if possible.
We hope this is most badass Marathon game ever! Here is some of the gun concepts so far we should be able to update soon.
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ACPIPMTR(4) NetBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual ACPIPMTR(4) NAME acpipmtr -- ACPI Power Meter SYNOPSIS acpipmtr* at acpi? DESCRIPTION The acpipmtr device driver provides support for ``power meters''. These are sensors that approximate the current power consumption of the system. Alternatively, a power meter may measure also the power gain when the system is connected to an external power supply. The available information (namely, the power consumption) is made avail- able through the envsys(4) API and the envstat(8) command. SEE ALSO acpi(4), acpibat(4) HISTORY The acpipmtr device driver appeared in NetBSD 6.0. AUTHORS Jukka Ruohonen <firstname.lastname@example.com> CAVEATS The acpipmtr driver is experimental. NetBSD 8.1 December 22, 2010 NetBSD 8.1
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About Andrew S.
This is just another illustration of how behind in technology the law is.
Under the third party doctrine, any information exposed to third parties is not subject to 4th amendment protection. Basically, the Supreme Court held that the government did not need a warrant to obtain the phone numbers people dialed, because they had to reveal the phone number to the phone company.
That has evolved into, the 4th amendment does not protect any information you put online (including email), because you expose it to your ISP or other service providers.
Kagan indicated she'd be willing to scrap that rule in her recent concurrence in the GPS tracking case, however, it hasn't happened yet. Until it does, this bill is entirely constitutional...
That's the beauty (horror) of the third party doctrine. Basically, the Supreme Court has held that there are no 4th amendment rights in anything someone exposes to a third party.
The fourth amendment doesn't protect anything on the internet, because it is all exposed to ISP's, service providers, etc.


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Sudanese woman sentenced to death for her faith
A court sentenced a pregnant, Christian Sudanese woman to death by hanging Thursday after she refused to renounce her faith, a decision Amnesty International called "abhorrent."
Meriam Ibrahim, 27, was convicted on charges of "apostasy" — the crime of abandoning or renouncing a religion. The court also ordered Ibrahim — who married a Christian man in 2011 and is eight months pregnant — to receive 100 lashes for "adultery" because her marriage is considered void under sharia law. The couple has a child, a 20-month-old boy, who is currently in detention with her.
"The fact that a woman has been sentenced to death for her religious choice, and to flogging for being married to a man of an allegedly different religion is appalling and abhorrent," Manar Idriss, Amnesty International's Sudan researcher, said in a statement. "Adultery and apostasy are acts which should not be considered crimes at all. It is flagrant breach of international human rights law."
Court officials gave Ibrahim three days to recant Christianity and return to Islam. When the deadline expired Thursday, Ibrahim told religious clerics in court in the capital of Khartoum, "I am Christian," NBC News reported. Ibrahim's lawyer said the verdict will be appealed within 15 days, CNN reported.
Amnesty International says Ibrahim was raised as an Orthodox Christian, her mother's religion, because her Muslim father was absent during much of her childhood.
However, the court considers Ibrahim to be Muslim. In Sudan, Muslim women are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith. Children must follow their father's religion.
The embassies of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands in Khartoum released a statement expressing deep concern over the ruling.
"We call upon the government of Sudan to respect the right to freedom of religion, including one's right to change one's faith or beliefs, a right which is enshrined in international human rights law as well as in Sudan's own 2005 Interim Constitution," the statement said.
Contributing: The Associated Press


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European Discoverer With 3 Day Aegean Cruise Moderate B Summer 2019
Tour Type: CostSaver
Brochure Type: Europe Costsaver 2019
On day 17 you have the opportunity to take a 3-Day Aegean cruise aboard a Celestyal Cruise ship around the magical Greek Isles. Excellent on-board facilities include a plunge pool, casino and library.
Sightseeing Highlights
Brochure Type: Europe Costsaver 2019
On day 17 you have the opportunity to take a 3-Day Aegean cruise aboard a Celestyal Cruise ship around the magical Greek Isles. Excellent on-board facilities include a plunge pool, casino and library.
Sightseeing Highlights
- Amsterdam See the historic city centre
- Athens City tour with a Local Specialist. Visit the ancient Acropolis, Parthenon and see the Temple of Zeus
- Barcelona City tour with a Local Specialist. See Sagrada Familia Cathedral
- Biarritz Visit the seaside resort
- Black Forest See this beautiful forested region
- Dover See the White Cliffs
- Florence Visit the Renaissance city
- Heidelberg View the castle
- Innsbruck See the Golden Roof and Hofburg Palace
- Liechtenstein Visit the capital, Vaduz
- Lucerne Visit the Lion Monument
- Madrid City tour with a Local Specialist. See Plaza de Espana
- Monaco View the Old Town
- Pamplona Orientation of this famous city
- Paris City tour with views of the Arc de Triomphe, Eiffel Tower and Champs Elysees
- Pisa View the Leaning Tower
- Rhine Valley Cruise the romantic Rhine
- Rome City tour with a Local Specialist. View St. Peter's Basilica, the Colosseum and the ancient sites
- Schaffhausen Stop to view the Rhine Falls
- South of France Drive through Provence
- Tours View the cathedral
- Venice Cruise by private boat to St. Mark's Square. Visit a glassblowing workshop
- 27 Buffet breakfasts
- 3 Lunches on-board cruise
- 3 Dinners on-board cruise
- Audio Headsets Provided throughout your holiday to enhance your included sightseeing experiences
- Luxury air-conditioned coach
- Overnight mini cruise - Ancona to Patras and Patras to Ancona
- The services of a Local Host if you stay at Costsaver's recommended London hotel
- Return ferry from Dover to Calais
- Cherry-picked hotels, all tried and trusted
- Variety of Optional Experiences
- City orientation tours
- An expert Travel Director and separate driver
- All hotel service charges and tips, baggage handling fees and local taxes
- London airport transfers are available to purchase, conditions apply. See link below for airport transfer page
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- 31 Days
- Escorted
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|Day 1
|Arrive London (2 Nights): Time to relax after hotel check-in.
Ibis Earls Court
|Day 2
|London Free Time: Enjoy exploring London today. See the sights, visit a museum or go shopping - the list is endless and the choice is yours.Full Breakfast
|Day 3
|London - Paris (2 Nights): Greetings from your Travel Director this morning before you travel through Kent to the port of Dover. See the White Cliffs as you board the ferry to Calais in France. Travel past the poignant battlefields of the Somme and arrive later in Paris.Buffet Breakfast
Novotel Pont de Sevres
|Day 4
|Paris Orientation and Free Time: Admire the sights on your sightseeing including views of the Eiffel Tower, Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysees. The rest of your day is free to explore the city or visit one of the museums or attractions. This evening consider a night out at a Parisian Cabaret.Buffet Breakfast
|Day 5
|Paris - Tours - Bordeaux: Drive through the vineyards of the Loire Valley and stop in the lovely city of Tours for free time. Later travel to the picturesque city of Bordeaux where you will dine tonight at your hotel.Buffet Breakfast, Dinner
Ibis Centre Meriadeck
|Day 6
|Bordeaux - Biarritz - Pamplona: This morning travel to the glamorous seaside resort of Biarritz. Take in views of the ocean from the promenade before heading for the Spanish border. Pass through the verdant hills of Navarra to Pamplona, famous for its annual bull run.?Buffet Breakfast, Dinner
Abba Reino de Navarra
|Day 7
|Pamplona - Madrid Sightseeing (2 Nights): Traverse the splendid landscape through Rioja to the capital, Madrid, where this afternoon your Local Specialist shows you all the sights including the Royal Palace and Plaza de Espana.Buffet Breakfast
Melia Avenida America
|Day 8
|Madrid Free Time: Today is free to explore on your own or perhaps consider joining an Optional Experience to Toledo. This vibrant city has much to offer - from fine museums to excellent shopping - there is something for everyone.Buffet Breakfast
|Day 9
|Madrid - Barcelona Sightseeing (2 Nights): Cross the Spanish Meseta and pass Catalonia's sprawling vineyards en route to Barcelona. On arrival your Local Specialist shows you the sights including the Ramblas and the Sagrada Familia.Buffet Breakfast
Exe Barcelona Gate
|Day 10
|Barcelona Free Time: Enjoy a full free day to explore the city or perhaps join an Optional Experience to nearby Montserrat to see the mystical Black Madonna.Buffet Breakfast
|Day 11
|French Riviera
|Barcelona - French Riviera (2 Nights): Head back into France and through Provence towards the French Riviera. Drive along the coast to the celebrity hotspot Cannes which is famous for its annual film festival and where you will have a two-night stay. Buffet Breakfast
Amarante Cannes
|Day 12
|French Riviera
|French Riviera Free Time: Enjoy a full day of relaxation on one of the most beautiful coastlines in Europe.Buffet Breakfast
|Day 13
|French Riviera - Monaco - Pisa - Florence: Explore Monaco's Old Town this morning before following the spectacular coastline into Italy. In Pisa view the famous Leaning Tower before arriving later at your hotel near Florence.?Buffet Breakfast, Dinner
|Day 14
|Florence - Rome (2 Nights): Experience the sights and delights of Renaissance Florence this morning. Learn about the quality and workmanship of one of this city's historic industries at a demonstration of Florentine leathercraft. Enjoy an orientation of this city as well as free time to explore before leaving and travelling to Rome.Buffet Breakfast
Ergife Palace
|Day 15
|Rome Sightseeing and Free Time: Admire the landmarks with your Local Specialist including the Colosseum and the ancient sites of Rome. Visit St. Peter's Basilica. Afterwards shop or perhaps explore the Sistine Chapel.Buffet Breakfast
|Day 16
|Bay of Naples
|Rome - Bay Of Naples: Drive south from Rome to the scenic Bay of Naples. Don't miss an Optional Experience to the spectacular Amalfi Coast. Dine tonight at your hotel.Buffet Breakfast, Dinner
Grand La Panoramica/Pompei Resort
|Day 17
|At Sea
|Bay Of Naples - Ancona - At Sea: This morning you may consider joining our expert for an Optional Experience to the excavations of Pompeii, the perfectly preserved Roman town which was engulfed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. Later travel across Italy to the port of Ancona to board your overnight ferry to Greece.Buffet Breakfast, Dinner
|Day 18
|At Sea - Patras - Athens (4 Nights): Arrive in the port of Patras in Greece and continue by road to Athens.?Buffet Breakfast
|Day 19
|Embark Piraeus - Mykonos: Board your ship in Piraeus harbour and cruise to stylish Mykonos. Enjoy a few hours here before the cruise continues. (Breakfast is included at the hotel.)Buffet Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
|Day 20
|Kusadasi - Patmos: Arrive early this morning at Kusadasi and enjoy an included Shore Experience to the incredible ruins of Ephesus. Sail to Patmos with time to perhaps visit the Fortress Monastery of St. John.Buffet Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
|Day 21
|Heraklion - Santorini: We arrive in Heraklion this morning and have the opportunity to explore Crete's Minoan culture and heritage at the Palace of Knossos, before continuing to the island of Santorini for an included Shore Experience to the spellbinding village of Oia.Buffet Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
|Day 22
|Return Athens (Piraeus): Disembark early this morning and rejoin the trip. Admire the sights with your Local Specialist including a visit to the Parthenon, Acropolis as well as the Temple of Zeus. In Patra board your ship for overnight cruise to Ancona.Buffet Breakfast, Dinner
|Day 23
|At Sea - Ancona - Bologna: Arrive in Ancona and travel to Bologna. Enjoy lunch aboard your Adriatic ferry.Buffet Breakfast, Lunch
Best Western Plus Tower
|Day 24
|Bologna - Venice: Head north through the Emilia Romagna region to magical Venice. Cruise by private launch to St. Mark's Square. Enjoy a glassblowing demonstration at a traditional workshop. Spend time afterwards exploring.Buffet Breakfast
Best Western Airvenice
|Day 25
|Venice - Innsbruck: Travel through scenic mountainous landscapes including the majestic Brenner Pass into Austria before arriving in Innsbruck. Your orientation includes views of the Golden Roof and Hofburg Palace.Buffet Breakfast, Dinner
Bon Alpina
|Day 26
|Innsbruck - Vaduz - Lake Lucerne (2 Nights): Visit Vaduz, capital of Liechtenstein, then drive through scenic alpine landscapes to lovely Lake Lucerne. Dine tonight at your hotel.Buffet Breakfast, Dinner
|Day 27
|Lucerne Orientation and Free Time: Travel into the heart of Lucerne where your orientation will reveal the Chapel Bridge and Lion Monument. Afterwards consider taking an Optional Experience up Mount Pilatus for spectacular views over the Alps.Buffet Breakfast
|Day 28
|Lake Lucerne - Heidelberg - Rhineland: Marvel at the mighty Rhine Falls at Schaffhausen before crossing the border over into Germany. Pass through the Black Forest and make your way to the university town of Heidelberg.?View the imposing red sandstone castle towering above the city before making your way to the hotel.Buffet Breakfast, Dinner
NH Bingen
|Day 29
|Rhineland - Rhine Cruise - Amsterdam: This morning relax aboard your cruise through the Rhine Valley. See the famous Lorelei Rock and see medieval castles and vineyards. Then continue to the Dutch border and make your way to lively Amsterdam.Buffet Breakfast
Ibis Schiphol
|Day 30
|Amsterdam - London: Drive back into France to Calais where you board your ferry back to Dover. Arrive later by coach in London.Buffet Breakfast
Ibis Earls Court
|Day 31
|Depart London
|Depart London: Say farewell to your traveling companions as you prepare to fly home.Full Breakfast
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|Paul Bunyan Woodsman
The Paul Bunyan Woodsman award patch is not for uniform wear and should only be affixed to a blanket or backpack.
Paul Bunyan Woodsman requirements
Study the Scouts BSA Handbook and the Camping merit badge pamphlet, and demonstrate to your Scoutmaster or other qualified person the following:
View the change list (history) of these requirements. The text of these requirements may be locked. In that case, they can only be edited by an administrator.
Please note any errors found in the above requirements on this article's Talk Page.
See also
|Scouts BSA portal
|Venturing portal
|Varsity Scout portal


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Strategic Planning Priorities and Goals
Please Note: Priorities are numbered only for tracking purposes. Numbering does not represent any level of prioritization.
Priority 1: Refine ASU's mission and identity as an emerging global research institution.
Goal 1A. Pursue Appropriate Carnegie Classification Based on Role and Scope
Goal 1B. Continue to Promote Teaching and Learning Endeavors That Are Integral to a Global
Research Institution
Goal 1C. Continue to Promote the Transformation of ASU Into a Research‐Intensive Institution
Goal 1D. Promote Outcome‐Based Decision Making
Goal 1E. Increase Undergraduate and Graduate Enrollment of Well‐Qualified Students
Priority 2: Create a service and support culture that is focused on student learning, retention, and
academic success.
Goal 2A. Support Student Learning as the First Priority to Establish Arkansas State University as a
Premier Learning‐Centered University
Goal 2B. Review Relevancy of General Education Program
Goal 2C. Continue to Develop a Culture of Assessment to Enhance Learning Outcomes
Goal 2D. Enhance Student Persistence and Academic Success
Goal 2E. Manage the Use of Financial Aid to Help Attract and Retain students
Goal 2F. Provide Opportunities to Better Understand Student Needs
Priority 3: Create learning experiences through student engagement, service to our region, and partnerships with our community.
Goal 3A. Increase Service‐Learning and Community Engagement Opportunities
Goal 3B. Enhance Community Outreach
Goal 3C. Promote Safety, Environmental Responsibility and Stewardship
Priority 4: Create a collaborative decision‐making environment that is based on effective shared governance, open communication, and mutual respect of all members of our teaching and learning community.
Goal 4A. Develop a Sense of Campus Community
Goal 4B. Create Transparency in Planning and Decision Making
Priority 5: Adopt policies and models that continuously promote, grow and reward all modes of effective teaching and learning experiences.
Goal 5A. Support and Reward Multiple Modalities of Teaching and Learning
Goal 5B. Refocus on Excellence in Teaching and Learning
Priority 6: Increase our diversity and expand our globalization.
Goal 6A. Prepare Students for Global Citizenship
Goal 6B. Develop a Service Environment that Supports the Needs of a Diverse ASU Community
Goal 6C. Attract, Employ, Retain, and Advance Greater Numbers of University Faculty and Staff from Underrepresented Groups
Priority 7: Continually improve our institutional efficacy and alignment of resources with our priorities.
Goal 7A. Enhance Recruitment and Retention Initiatives of Faculty and Staff
Goal 7B. Maintain Current and Strategically Plan for Future Infrastructure Needs
Goal 7C. Expand Resources and Refine Budget Procedures
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The brown marmorated stink bug is expected to cause, well, a stink this year when large numbers of them begin nibbling on crops and infiltrating homes.
Entomologists are predicting an onslaught of the invasive species based on the amount of overwintering bugs counted in the autumn.
"Most entomologists indicated that the population of brown marmorated stink bugs that were seeking shelter in the fall of 2012 was significantly higher than the population seeking shelter in 2011," said Tom Ford, a commercial horticulture educator from the Penn State Extension office in Cambria County. "As a rule, unless you have some significant event that impacts the over-wintering adults you should have a very robust number of mature brown marmorated stink bugs that will be laying eggs this spring and summer."
The insects are emerging from their winter hiding places, and if you've spotted one recently, chances are it was on its way to find a mate.
While the bug doesn't sting or bite humans, it can destroy crops and can be impossible to keep out of homes.
"From an agricultural perspective, farmers and growers need to be very vigilant and should monitor their crops weekly in the growing season," Ford said.
April Ochs, whose family grows fruit on its Drums farm, said stink bugs "really hasn't been a problem here."
Dave Gross, a farm worker at Maylath's Farm and Orchard in Sugarloaf Township, agreed but said employees will be on watch for the bug, which arrived from Asia and was first spotted in Allentown in the late 1990s.
"Last year they weren't too big of a problem but they might be this year," Gross said.
Maylath's grows apples, one of the fruits favored by the stink bugs.
"We will try to take care of the apple trees the best we can," Gross said. "There are sprays and stuff for stink bugs but we try not to use them. If we do, it would be a last resort."
Stink bugs ruin fruit when they sink their tiny jaws into it, said Mark O'Neill from the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. While the fruit is still safe to eat, the blemish caused by the bite makes it unmarketable, he said.
"You can eat it if you cut away the mark. Farmers can't sell it because of the blemish," he said.
Gross described stink bug damage as a black circle, and said consumers aren't likely to purchase an item that appears anything less than perfect.
According to O'Neill, stink bugs wreaked havoc on apple and peach orchards in the southern part of Pennsylvania in 2010. Other Mid-Atlantic states reported similar devastation, according to information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which launched a coordinated nationwide effort to study stink bug behavior.
"The goal is to really reduce the level of populations of the brown marmorated stink bug" by deploying sustainable controls such as traps, biopesticides and natural enemies, said Tracy Leskey, an entomologist for the USDA's Agricultural Research Service's Appalachian Fruit Research Laboratory in Kearneysville, W.Va.
With abundant food sources and few predators, the insect quickly traveled to 39 states. And while they tend to favor apple and peach trees, they also dine on vegetables and ornamental plants.
Leskey, a nationally recognized expert on stink bugs, noted that farmers in the greater Hazleton area and other northern parts of the state haven't been bothered by the bug.
It's not to say, however, that it can't happen.
Scientists are still learning about the new-to-the-continent bug's biology and behavior, and are studying landscape factors that impact the spread of the bug, Leskey said.
Sharon Telesky from the Penn State Cooperative Extension's Luzerne County office in West Pittston cautioned that it is easy to confuse the brown marmorated stink bug with its look-alike, the native brown stink bug.
"If you really want to get up close and personal, how to tell the difference is to look at their eyes," Telesky said. "The brown marmorated stink bug has red eyes."
The invasive species has a brown-gray underside; native stink bugs' undersides are yellowish-green.
They earn their name from the pungent odor they emit as a self-defense mechanism.
"The biggest harm they do, is if you squash them in your house, people say they leave an odor," Telesky said.
The bugs will enter a house in the fall through cracks and crevices to find a place to overwinter in a sleep-like state. It's virtually impossible to keep them out, she said.
"You would have to seal off your whole house and never open a door or a window," Telesky said.
Getting rid of them is difficult, she said. Stores are marketing baited stink bug traps but the extension doesn't recommend them because they might lure more bugs into the home.
One way to remove stink bugs is to secure a nylon stocking over the outside of a vacuum cleaner nozzle with a rubber band, and stuff the end into the nozzle. Vacuumed bugs are trapped in the stocking, which can be removed and disposed of.
If a stocking isn't used, vacuum bugs must be disposed of immediately. Otherwise, the vacuum cleaner will take on the bugs' odor.
For more information on the stink bug, visit the USDA's website, www.stopbmsb.org.


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Vaccinations and Increased Prevalence of Autism/ASD
Numerous parents have reported the onset of autistic features shortly after their child received an MMR vaccination. Repeated research has failed to support such a causal link.
Concern was raised about the impact of the mercury present in the vaccine as a possible cause. Again, research has not supported this view. However, there is continuing research into this hypothesis.
Another factor being considered is the possible coincidence of the timing of the vaccinations and the developmental delays being identified – with both occurring around the 18 to 24 month time frame.
As recently as 10 years ago, the accepted rate of autism/ASD was four to five in 10,000. Since then the recognition of ASD is such that it is now widely accepted as being present at a rate of one in 165 individuals. You will hear some variation in the rate, but that tends to depend on whether the whole spectrum is being included or just autism, the most classic interpretation of this set of disorders.
Although there is some debate about the reasons for the increased prevalence of ASD, it is clear that a combination of improved diagnostic tools, better trained physicians, a more attuned and persistent population of young parents and broader media exposure has contributed to an increased identification of individuals with ASD.
Researchers such as Christopher Gillberg have revisited earlier diagnostic/prevalence studies and reexamined the data using today's diagnostic criteria. They report that the rate from those earlier studies would now match those of more recent studies using these new criteria. On this basis, the rate of incidence has not increased, but our ability to identify has.
There continue to be questions about whether there are other factors affecting an increased incidence rate, but there is no conclusive evidence to support other explanations.
Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI)
There is widespread evidence that intensive intervention, as early as possible, is the best possible approach to increasing the development of skills in children with autism/ASD. There are many ways to provide intensive intervention, with the most commonly practiced approaches including Discrete Trial Training and significant levels of one-to-one structured teaching.
All successful interventions are based on the principles of Applied Behavioural Analysis. This means that time is taken to analyze the antecedents of behaviours, to evaluate motivators or reinforcers for behaviours and then to develop a strategy to teach alternative, adaptive behaviours. Reinforcing or rewarding the desired behaviour is central to positive, structured behavioural teaching.
Some children are not identified as having an ASD in their earlier years. This in no ways means that it is too late for them to learn. Individuals with autism learn throughout their lifetime. The principles of ABA are used to develop an appropriate structured teaching strategy, which is both age-appropriate and suited to their abilities.
Alternative Therapies
There are many other intervention strategies that have been used to assist individuals with ASD to learn and adapt to their surroundings. Although structured behavioural teaching has been seen to have the most universally positive impact, the idiosyncratic features of ASD also means that a variety of other interventions can be helpful. What is clear is that there is no single approach that works equally well with all individuals with ASD.
Geneva Centre for Autism strives to provide information in an unbiased manner so that families can make informed choices about the intervention strategies they wish to pursue.
Causes of Autism/ASD
At present there is no conclusive cause of autism/ASD. However there is considerable research which points to genetic roots. This seems to be the most enthusiastically pursued option for finding answers to the autism question.
Other causes under consideration, but unproven, include pre-natal or post-natal viral infection, or environmental assault to a compromised central nervous system. Research is also occurring in the study of brain structure abnormality.
Genetics of Autism/ASD
Research into the genetic links to autism/ASD has received very significant funding in recent years. The National Institutes of Health and the Autism Spectrum Disorders - Canadian-American Research Consortium are leading the way in this area.


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Air NZ's top 9 picks for Gisborne
Magical start to new day in Gisborne
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There is a certain magic to the new day in Gisborne. For as the most easterly city in the world you can be sure that if you are watching the sun rise here you are one of the first people on earth to greet the new day.
The best spot to do this is undoubtedly on a stretch of white sandy Gisborne beach with the sun rising over the Pacific Ocean.
Locals recommend Wainui Beach, just a short drive from the city and a favourite spot for walking, swimming, surfing, fishing and horse trekking.
It is also the site of a historic sperm whale grave which commemorates the 1970 stranding of 59 sperm whales that lost their sense of direction, became stranded in the shallows and eventually died.
With an early start to the day, you are set to use every minute in this glorious city.
Our top 9 highlights include:
Maori culture – with Maori forming half of the region's population, the Gisborne area is an excellent place to experience Maori culture. In some communities the Maori language is spoken as a first language and there is a wealth of Maori art including kapa haka (performing arts) to appreciate
Tairawhiti Museum – this award winning museum and art gallery reflects the ancient and recent history of the region and includes Maori artefacts from the 1300s when the earliest Maori explorers came to Eastland.
Surfing – a haven for surfers, six of New Zealand's protected surf breaks are located on the Gisborne coast line
Wine – Gisborne is the third largest wine region in the country and is world renowned for the distinctive flavours it produces
Feed stingrays – see and feed wild sting rays by walking out on the reef at Tatapouri
Rere Waterfall and Rockslide – take a dip in this picturesque swimming spot or take the more adventurous option and boogey board down the 60 metre rockslide
Eastwoodhill Arboretum – this is the largest collection of exotic trees in the Southern Hemisphere and can be enjoyed on foot or in open backed jeeps
Festivals – the weather and beach setting make Gisborne a popular spot for festivals and events including Rhythm and Vines, New Zealand's largest New year's eve celebration
Air New Zealand flies between Gisborne and Auckland and Wellington connecting it with 24 destinations on the domestic network. For information and to book flights to Gisborne, visit www.airnewzealand.com
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COLLEGE STATION - If you've got grasshopper problems now, you're probably going to continue to have them until this fall, said a Texas AgriLife Extension Service entomologist.
Grasshoppers are long-lived; they're with us most of the summer, and growers are still battling them, said Dr. Allen Knutson, AgriLife Extension entomologist, Dallas.
Some producers have already had to re-treat two or three times to protect crops, Knutson said.
And because grasshoppers thrive in hot weather, the problems they pose to crops will likely get worse before they get better, he said.
"As we get into the hot, dry summer, more and more of their wild host plants -- weeds and wild grasses - dry up, and that forces them into our crops, especially irrigated fields," he said.
High grasshopper populations are tied to drought for a number of reasons, according to Knutson. The first grasshopper hatch was earlier than normal because spring warmed up sooner than normal. And because many areas had a dry winter, a fungus, Entomophthora grylli, that usually causes high grasshopper mortality was not as prevalent in many areas.
He noted that if producers in a particular area didn't have an early grasshopper population boom, they're unlikely to see one later in the summer. Though grasshoppers live two months or after they reach the adult stage, they are homebodies, rarely travelling more than a few miles from where they were hatched.
More information on the current Texas drought and wildfire alerts can be found on the AgriLife Extension Agricultural Drought Task Force website at http://agrilife.tamu.edu/drought/.


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One of the most encouraging signs from the Nov. 6 election were the decisions by voters in Colorado and Washington state to legalize the recreational use of marijuana, just the latest examples of average Americans having a better grasp of economics, the U.S. Constitution and common sense than government officials.
Federal officials spend more than $40 billion a year prosecuting the drug war, according to a recent Wall Street Journal column by University of Chicago economists Gary Becker, a Nobel Prize winner, and Kevin Murphy. That war does little more than enrich drug traffickers, who benefit from the Prohibition-style policies that drive up the cost of illicit drugs and, thus, increase profits and reward the most ruthless cartels.
The time is right for the current administration to heed this reality check.
Furthermore, drug-war policies have inflated both prison populations and prison budgets, the economists explain. These policies also wreak havoc on inner cities: "Many factors explain the high dropout rates, especially bad schools and weak family support. But another important factor in inner-city neighborhoods is the temptation to drop out of school in order to profit from the drug trade."
The drug war also has resulted in increasingly militarized police departments, with a resulting erosion of civil liberties as authorities treat a social issue as if it were a military campaign. Unfortunately, federal officials seem unlikely to follow any sensible advice.
The president is gearing up to fight the will of voters in Colorado and Washington, just as he has been fighting California voters who approved, overwhelmingly, the Compassionate Use Act of 1996 (Proposition 215). "Marijuana use in both states continues to be illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act," reported the New York Times. "One option is to sue the states on the grounds that any effort to regulate marijuana is pre-empted by federal law."
This should confound liberal voters, who tend to support efforts to decriminalize marijuana, and conservative voters, who want the federal government to respect the states-rights provisions in the 10th Amendment.
Unfortunately, Republican and Democratic administrations alike have stepped up the drug war, convinced that they can stamp out drug addiction and its related ills by throwing government money at them. But the "war on drugs" hasn't worked any better than the "war on poverty" or any other government-sponsored war on social ills. It hasn't worked any better than the original Prohibition, intended 90 years ago to stamp out alcohol use.
"A study published in 2010 in the British Journal of Criminology found that, in Portugal, since decriminalization, imprisonment on drug-related charges has gone down; drug use among young persons appears to have increased only modestly, if at all; visits to clinics that help with drug addictions and diseases from drug use have increased; and opiate-related deaths have fallen," Becker and Murphy wrote, rebutting the idea that ending the drug war will lead to societal mayhem.
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Part Time Chef/Cook
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- 01 Nov 2018
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We currently have an exciting opportunity for a Chef/Cook to join our team.
We're looking for an experienced Chef/Cook to work 25 hours on a part time basis.Main responsibilities
You will look after lots of hungry people, contributing to the efficient running of the kitchen. Responsible for producing a variety of dishes for the restaurant and meeting room areas to the highest standard, whilst ensuring the kitchen runs smoothly, safely and hygienically.Ideal candidate
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Hot is Hot. this was taken in Fallujah, Iraq
Hot is Hot. this was taken in Fallujah, Iraq
The thing about traveling is, you never want it to end and you can't wait to get home.
I answer to Roy, Chief, or Sarg.
04 R-1150-RT current bike. 94 R-1100-RS74,383, Sold, 78 R-80/7, K.I.A by a D.U.I
Thanks for putting up with 130 degree temps and IEDs and clueless politicians.
You're are what makes the US great!
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Nothings changed. It's nearly JULY and too DAMN HOT HERE TOO!
We have a GPS workshop this Saturday at 7:30 AM. Then I am off to Greensboro for a weekend party and camping. It cannot be any worse than Bloomsburg was.
Jerry Dockery
309 N. 3rd. Ave.
Kure Beach, NC 28449
2009 R 1200 RT,1996 R1100RT, 1985 K100RS...too fast to believe.
I'm currently in Charlotte, NC. Temp was in mid-90's today. But with the low humidity, mid 20's I believe, it felt just fine. And wile my bikes and my Darian suit are back home in Illinois, I wouldn't have any problem wearing it all day here. Nice place. Great weather.
'09 BMW 1200 GSA, 2013 BMW 700GS, 2000 Goldwing SE, '09' V Star 950, '09 Honda Rebel,
'77 Honda 750A. Holding at six til I get new garage built - need more room for more bikes!
Be safe, have fun.
'09 BMW 1200 GSA, 2013 BMW 700GS, 2000 Goldwing SE, '09' V Star 950, '09 Honda Rebel,
'77 Honda 750A. Holding at six til I get new garage built - need more room for more bikes!
Yesterday my boys and I were riding and the highest temperature my bike displayed was 106.3 F. Not sure how accurate it is, but it felt it regardless.
Warmest temperature I've ridden in so far this summer was last week on the ALCAN between Whitehorse and Watson Lake.... 88 degrees.... above zero. Very uncommon, and we had three days of temperatures in the 80s.
Kevin Huddy
The Outpost, Silver City, Montana
Traveling/Touring I wear a Camel-Back. When I stop for gas I buy a 20>32 oz size bottled water and ask if I can get ice from the soda pop dispenser to fill the Camel-Back. About every 15 minutes or so I take a swig or two of cold water. The hotter it is the better it tastes. To keep the water cold blow back thru the bite valve so that the tube has no water in it to get warm. Ride Safe
Cave Contents: 1980 R100RT/Ural Sidecar, 2004 R1200CLC, 2006 HD FSXTI
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Rode the RT about 300 miles in South Carolina and North Carolina yesterday. It was hovering around 100. I work in the oilfields on the North Slope of Alaska where it drops below -60 in the winter. Give me the +100 any day. Nothing wrong with a little heat.
To ride or not to ride; No question about it!
My gear that I had on was: Lower gear, Simson Carbon X full length under garmet, Jeans & Olympia mesh Cordura pants. Upper gear, wicking t-shirt, Simson Carbon X full length under garmet, 26 to 78 layer kevlar vest, t-shirt, Olympia mesh Cordura jacket & Olympia Hi-Vis vest. The last two hours I was also wearing rain gear. My wicking t-shirt was a little wet from sweat on the lower half.
I rode home today with the same gear on & same temps. & drank a little less water.
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My Bengali friend says- "At certain points during the phase of the moon, believe it or not Bengalis are vegetarian :-) "
A lot of emphasis is put on vegetarian dishes, and interesting combination are used to make wholesome vegetarian meals.
This dish is perfect for breakfast with Luchi's or served at the start of a meal with other fried vegetables!
1 tsp turmeric
1/2 tsp salt
2 medium sized eggplants, cut into 1/4-inch-thick rounds
1 tbsp all-purpose flour
mustard oil
1. Rub the turmeric and salt unto the eggplant rounds, and sprinkle a little water over to moisten them. Dust with the all-purpose flour.
2. Heat the mustard oil in a shallow frying pan until smoking. Allow to cool slightly, then add the eggplant rounds in batches, turning them once they are golden brown on one side, and frying until golden brown on the other. The finished eggplant should have a soft center and crisp skin.
3. This must be eaten straight from the pan :P AND I MEAN IT!
There are two ways in which to judge whether your eggplant is suitable for this dish. The eggplant should not be too firm when pressed, and when tapped with your fingernails, there should not be a hollow sound.


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I sure agree with Larry and Karen Moore (see August 1 SJR) as to the sadness of closing the Indian Creek camp/picnic areas with no public hearing and providing no alternative.
The US Forest Service is now printing topographical maps that were printed by US Geological Survey. If you purchase the new Poison Canyon 71/2 minute topo, you will see several startling changes – again without any public input.
One - it appears the information they are putting on the maps is inaccurate. Roads and cabins are in the wrong location. Yet the inaccurate information is not consistent as if they had a wrong datum, it is simply random inaccuracy.
Two - roads are left off, roads to springs are left off, roads are marked as closed, roads that are two tracks are marked as graveled improved. Roads that are well used are left off, roads that are not drivable are left on. Roads that are well and often used for hunting and camping are marked as closed.
Three - the symbol showing a mine shaft, tunnel or test pit have been left off. A piece of history, again without public input, is removed.
This does fit with the recent move by the U.S. Forest Service personnel to collapse and cover over the mine entrances throughout South Cottonwood, North and South Elk and the Big Notch - even some that were current and legal claims were collapsed with equipment still inside the tunnel. I am sure this is done in the name of safety and removing the "ugliness" of mining.
The Pueblo Ruins sites were left off the topo quads when the maps changed from 15 min quads to 71/2 min quads. How many people remember or know that?
Therein lies the plan.
As in the book 1984, when they rewrote all the history books and in a short time no one knew the difference. With the U.S. Forest Service now printing and changing the official maps with no public input, in a short time no one will know you used to be able to drive to your favorite camping/hunting/relaxing spot or that there used to be a road on a map. You will go only where big brother and his environmental organization friends want you to go.
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Behind the Scenes: The Cruise Staffby Kuki, CruiseMates Cruise Director | November 15, 2005
I couldn't just go from being a virtual Cruise Director to a real Cruise Director overnight, so I began with a day of training, working as a junior social host onboard the Carnival Liberty.
I was very excited, because I was going to do my training with the staff of a legend in the Cruise Director business, Carnival's John Heald.
As a passenger, I've spent countless days on various ships enjoying the energy and antics of Cruise Directors and their staffs. Watching how an enthusiastic cruise staff can bring out a lively passenger response to various event on the ship is something I have always found fascinating. I wondered how easy it would be to convince normally reserved people to shed their shore-side inhibitions and participate in some unusual, occasionally embarrassing antics. Just what does it take to convince a judge, or doctor, or grade school teacher to stand up on a stage and take part in some silly games, or pass spoons on a string through their pants?
It looks so easy when you're on the sidelines, watching the cruise staff reacting with quick retorts and funny jokes as they interact on stage with passengers. I'm sure most of us think this has to be one of the most fun jobs on the ship, playing with passengers. But, as with most things…there's always more to the story.
Behind the Smiles
After you've worked a deck party late into the night, you have to have the ability to get up early the next morning for several staff meetings through the day,then host your next scheduled event with energy and a smile on your face.
Most of us don't even consider the social skills necessary for this job. And it's a job that has few breaks when you're so visible throughout the day on the ship, in your cruise staff shirt. You're called upon to interact with passengers constantly, even when you're not hosting official events. And imagine what kind of disposition you'd need to listen to passenger complaints with a smile on your face, and to show some real interest.
Many passengers actually think the cruise staff have the same ability to deal with problems as the ship's officers and even the Captain. Unfortunately, they don't -- they have to climb the ladder, just as passengers should, to the actual authorities and department heads, in order to get things done. The one advantage they do have is access to those in authority.
Within two minutes after I donned my Cruise Staff shirt,a passenger was telling me that a clock by the pool wasn't working properly, and requested that I fix it. Not being a certified clock mechanic myself, I was going to call the Captain and tell him to repair the clock, but I thought better of making this my first active duty onboard. I'm sure my cruise staff career would have been short-lived, and my shirt taken away post haste.
It's All Fun and Games
It seemed pretty straightforward. All we had to do was ask people to pick up the trivia sheets and pencils,then have slides projected on the screen, and at the end, show the slides once again with the identities of the celebrities. Afterwards we awarded prizes to the winners based on their own honesty counting their scores.
But who researched and put together the pictures on DVD that would go up on the screen? The answer:Brent did, in conjunction with the audio-visual crew on the ship. One might think that it's not really difficult, because the ship can use the same pictures over and over, from one cruise to the next. However, this isn't entirely true. Brent had received some feedback from the previous day's trivia suggesting that the questions should be more difficult (or obscure), so he did some new research,found new pictures to use, and had to make the DVD to be used. I personally could identify only a few of the faces shown.
I think it's important for us to understand that what appears to be a very simple morning pool-side activity actually requires time, research, and work to prepare.
Finding Hairy Men
Butch's easy-flowing, relaxed banter during this entire event impressed me, as he encouraged all those gathered around the pool to participate and cheer on the participants they quickly chose to be their favorites.
Next up for my day "on the job" was working the Ice Carving Demonstration with Stephanie at 1:45 p.m. This was a demonstration by the professional ice carvers from the galley, and after providing some brief commentary, Stephanie and I were able to chat a bit while the ice was being carved.
Stephanie explained that it had been some time since she had hosted the Ice Carving Demonstration, which led to our discussion of how John Heald likes to rotate the hosting of all events and activities among the cruise staff. This is necessary to make certain they are all capable of filling in wherever necessary.
When I was first told I'd be hosting the Ice Carving Demonstration, I thought they might just hand me some knives and an ice pick. Luckily that wasn't the case, as I most certainly would have demonstrated how to make a huge block of ice turn into ice chips.
At 4:30 p.m., Stephanie and I were together again hosting Geography Trivia indoors in the Cabinet Lounge. I am admittedly not a big trivia buff, and rarely attend these events, so I was somewhat shocked by the large turnout when close to 100 people showed up to participate.
Trivial Pursuits
During the course of the day, while I was hosting these activities with some members of the cruise staff, Becka was teaching guests how to build towel animals, and Dominika was hosting another trivia contest earlier in the day.They were also preparing for bingo, and dance lessons, and later that night, teaching and leading dances at the late night Deck Party.
After trivia, I was able to return to my cabin to relax with a nap, prepare for dinner in the dining room, attend the evening show, and spend time enjoying the ship's casino and lounges for the remainder of the evening.
The real members of the Cruise Staff were not so fortunate. They still had to assist with John's TV show, have meetings to review the guest comment cards from the previous cruise, and then prepare for the evening's activities and shows.
I learned quickly that this is a job for very special personalities. These are all high-energy "people" people, who learn quickly that working on a ship comes complete with lots of work, lots of fun, and little time to sleep.
While they all seemed like young kids to this old cruiser, I learned that Assistant Cruise Director Brent Mitchell had been working for Carnival for more than four years, Assistant Cruise Director Dominika Zaremba had been employed by Carnival for almost nine years, Assistant Cruise Director Butch Begovich for two years, and Social Hosts Stephanie Soyka and Becka Meads more than three years each.
That is indeed a long time at sea, working hard to make cruises fun for guests, and satisfy them week after week.
The Master's Final Days
It appears likely that John Heald will retire in June 2006, and his departure will displease many passengers who so enjoy cruising on ships he's working. John says that the day he leaves and has to find his permanent land legs will be one of the most difficult days of his life. No question, it will also be a most difficult day for all those Cruise Directors, assistant cruise directors and social hosts who have learned so much about the cruise industry from him.
With this experience working just one day as cruise staff, I did learn one thing about myself: I have a natural talent and ability to be the ideal cruise ship passenger.
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Lack of Trust
Not everyone can register an aircraft in the U.S. For starters, in most cases you have to be a U.S. citizen, as defined by federal statutes and FAA regulations. Under applicable statutes and FAA rules, a corporation isn't considered a U.S. citizen unless its president, two-thirds of its board of directors, two-thirds of its "managing officers" and three-quarters of its owners are U.S. citizens. Similar rules apply for limited liability companies. A corporation or LLC owning a U.S.-registered aircraft that flunks these requirements will either have to make some management or ownership changes or find another way to register the aircraft.
One such way, which FAA regulations specifically permit, is to use an "owner trust." Trusts originated in Britain during the Middle Ages as a way of circumventing the legal rules governing ownership of property. The trust made it possible for one person-the trustee-to hold legal title to the property (and assume the attendant liabilities) for the benefit of the real owner-the beneficiary. In this way, a property owner could put someone else in charge of his property (while he was fighting in the Crusades or rotting in the Tower of London) without that person becoming the owner in all respects. Similarly, an owner trust today allows an aircraft owner to register the airplane in the name of the trustee-usually a trust company in the business of doing this-while remaining the owner for all practical purposes.
Owner trusts also serve to maintain the confidentiality of an aircraft's true owner. So if you look up a tail number on the FAA Web site and find, say, the Wilmington Trust Company listed as owner trustee, you'll have to dig a lot deeper to identify who really owns the aircraft.
Surprisingly, the FAA itself seems to have figured out only recently that the real aircraft owner/operator is not the trustee and might also not be a U.S. citizen. Even though non-citizens have for years operated U.S.-registered aircraft-by a lease, for example-the FAA began to object to owner trusts with non-citizen beneficiaries earlier this year and issued a memo last February rejecting the use of foreign law to govern owner trust agreements. Then, also in early 2010, the FAA's Aeronautical Center Counsel's office circulated a draft opinion prohibiting the use of non-citizen trusts when the aircraft was leased back to the non-citizen beneficiary or an affiliated company.
Aviation attorneys were soon led to believe that the FAA had introduced a moratorium on the review, approval and use of non-citizen owner trusts. This sent a wave of panic through the business jet industry, not only because it would compromise aircraft transactions already in the works, but also because it might retroactively invalidate registrations of aircraft held by existing owner trusts, potentially grounding airplanes worldwide.
Ducking from a swarm of negative comments, the FAA published a written denial that any moratorium was in effect on issuing opinions covering non-citizen owner trusts. It also said no movement was afoot to challenge the registration of aircraft held by existing owner trusts. But the agency added that it was "conducting a more comprehensive review of non-citizen trusts to ensure compliance with existing law and determine whether any improvement should be made." Rumors began to circulate of a mysterious FAA "special investigation unit" charged with tracking down and perhaps extinguishing illicit non-citizen trusts.
This may seem like a worthy cause, especially if you fear that lax aircraft owner trust regulations might lead to the next 9/11-style attack. Rather than fretting over supposed problems like the governing law of owner trusts, however, the FAA would be well advised to examine the definition of "U.S. citizen." Under that definition, a U.S. corporation that appoints a foreign national as president can inadvertently invalidate the registration of any U.S.-registered aircraft owned by it or any of its subsidiaries-something that actually happened to both Coca-Cola and Citibank, companies not generally viewed as clandestine fronts for pernicious offshore interests. Call the foreign national a chief executive officer and name a U.S. citizen president and you've solved the problem.
Similarly, a corporation with less than 75 percent of the voting interests owned or controlled by U.S. citizens is also not entitled to register an aircraft in the country. Thus, in the case of a corporation with publicly traded securities, non-U.S. citizens could come to own more than 25 percent of the voting securities on any given trading day-even if it's an apple-pie company like AT&T or Boeing-thus automatically invalidating the registration of any U.S.-registered aircraft owned by the corporation or its subsidiaries's.
Issues like this don't seem to be on the FAA radar screen. Instead, the agency's review of owner trusts continues unabated. Meanwhile, the business jet industry has apparently rested complacent ever since the FAA disclaimed any owner trust moratorium, in part because the focus has shifted to the agency's latest bombshell, the re-registration of all U.S. aircraft. But make no mistake: the owner trust issue has not gone away and big changes may be in the offing.


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I don't think Ann Coulter thought this one through.
Contrary to all the blather you always hear about how lawless street protests and civil disobedience are part of the American tradition — "what our troops are fighting for!" — they are not. We are an orderly people with democratic channels at our disposal to change our government.
The very reason we have a constitutional republic is because of a mob uprising. Soon after the American Revolution, Shays' Rebellion so terrified and angered Americans that they demanded a federal government capable of crushing such mobs.
For nearly 200 years, Americans understood that they lived in a country capable of producing bad politicians and bad policies, but that it was subject to change through peaceful, democratic means. There was no need to riot or storm buildings because we didn't have a king. We had a representative government.
Well, Americans haven't always been as docile as she's making out. The Whiskey Rebellion, the pro-French mobs of the 1790's, the New York draft riots, the labor upheavals of the Gilded Age and afterward, the suffragette protestors of the Progressive Era, Coxey's Army, the numerous and sometimes overlapping movements of the 1960's…public uproar has been woven pretty deeply into the fabric of American life, and it's always been a source of divisiveness. Witness, for example, the contrasting attitudes of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson toward Shays' Rebellion. Washington: "Are they nuts?!" Jefferson: "Oh, sweet! A revolt!"
What really surprised me, though, was this sentiment: "This is what our Constitution was designed for: to use the force of the federal government to uphold the law when the states couldn't (Shays' Rebellion) or wouldn't (segregationist Democrats)." A die-hard conservative pundit cheering on the "force of the federal government." You don't see that every day.


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DevCon5 is a conference where both front and back end developers are familiarized with disruptive technologies that enable UX/UI and back end mobile development. While this is Riak's first year at DevCon, their distributed database, Riak, is already a key tool for backend mobile developers looking to provide "always on" user experiences. Due to Riak's redundant, fault-tolerant design, Riak also provides a consistently fast mobile user experience that can easily scale and support highly concurrent access. It is currently used to power mobile applications like Voxer, Bump, and Rovio. For more information on how mobile applications and platforms can use Riak, download "Mobile on Riak: A Technical Introduction."
In addition to sponsoring, Riak UX/UI Lead Designer, Sarah Drasner, will be speaking at DevCon5. Drasner's talk, "CSS Animations to Tell A Story" will be a deep-dive into creating scalable web graphics for maximum impact, while telling a broader story of emerging tools that allow for less operational complexities and amplified impact. Like Riak's flagship product Riak, Drasner will discuss how technologies are shifting to meet emerging business requirements, while minimizing immediate operational burdens and enabling ease of scale.
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Facing the nearly floor-to-ceiling windows in their office, Rajiv Maheswaran and Yu-Han Chang can catch a glimpse of Staples Center.
To see the future of the NBA they only have to swivel their heads. Whiteboards inside their office are filled with algorithms in shades of red, blue and green. Programmers sit clustered around computers inputting lines of complex code.
What resembles gibberish to anyone without a degree in computer science could help NBA teams find optimal ways to grab rebounds and defend pick and rolls through a proprietary software system developed by Maheswaran and Chang. The researchers from USC's Viterbi School of Engineering are the NBA's newest go-to guys, distilling the oceans of analytical data that will be available league-wide for the first time this season through motion-tracking cameras placed in every arena.
"You have to have a particular degree of creativity just to know what is possible," said Maheswaran, who has degrees in math, physics and electrical engineering. "It's 1,000 times more information than anyone had before."
As the cursor flitted across his laptop screen, Maheswaran displayed a dizzying array of visual tools that teams could use to tweak lineups and position players for favorable outcomes. One depicted a basketball court overlaid with shaded green squares, the darkest squares showing the most likely spots where a rebound would fall given the shot taken. Another showed players' success rates in pick-and-roll combinations.
Even the biggest proponents of advanced statistics concede that these insights are only one component of a team's decision-making, just like game film and traditional player evaluations.
But the system Maheswaran and Chang have licensed to the Clippers and three other NBA teams through their start-up company, Second Spectrum, could influence the way their clients play and even construct their rosters.
The Golden State Warriors used similar analytics last season when their defense yielded a staggeringly high percentage on three-pointers. Assistant general manager Kirk Lacob, a Stanford graduate and son of Warriors majority owner Joe Lacob, said the team checked its defensive rotations, lineups and fatigue metrics and made tweaks accordingly. Lo and behold, teams no longer shredded the Warriors' perimeter defense.
"Did it make 100% of the difference, 50% of the difference, 20% of the difference?" asked Lacob, whose team uses a Palo Alto-based data processing company called MOCAP Analytics. "I don't know the answer. The most important thing is it did help us identify a problem and then eventually correct it."
Statistical analysis in the NBA has lagged roughly a decade behind its use in Major League Baseball, popularized by Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane and his "Moneyball" approach. One reason is because baseball is slower and more situational than its free-flowing counterpart, whose analytics are largely based on emerging technology.
Golden State, Dallas, Boston, San Antonio, Houston and Oklahoma City were the first NBA teams to use the motion-tracking cameras, developed by STATS LLC, starting with the 2010-11 season. Last season 15 teams used the system, with the Lakers and Clippers among the holdouts.
The NBA recently decided to pay for every team to have the system so that a complete data set would be available league-wide and selected information could be distributed to fans via NBA TV and NBA.com. Some teams will put a sampling of the data on their scoreboards, such as how many miles a player has run in a game.
It all starts with six tiny computer-vision cameras strategically placed in the rafters of each NBA arena that record the movement of every player, referee and the ball 25 times a second. The data is electronically transmitted to STATS to be categorized into passes, dribbles, shots and rebounds, among other groups. "It has potential to unlock a lot of the secrets of our game," said Steve Hellmuth, the NBA's executive vice president of operations and technology.
Teams can access relatively simple information such as the number of passes into the post in 60 to 90 seconds while games are in progress. More complicated statistics are available postgame after the data is processed through sophisticated algorithms. Although many of the numbers will be available to all 30 teams, customized reports generated by specialized providers such as STATS and Second Spectrum can be viewed only by the teams requesting them.
Several teams, including the Clippers, have also hired employees to help sift through the information. "Every team is going to have their own formula that they will create that works for their team in scouting and everything," Clippers Coach Doc Rivers said. "We don't know our formula yet, so we'll have to figure that out."
Lakers assistant Kurt Rambis, who will largely be responsible for the team's defense, said a thick packet of data may yield only a handful of numbers coaches pass on to players.
"You can't give players a boatload of information and expect them to implement it out on the floor; it just doesn't work that way," Rambis said. "[But] let's say that whenever your opponents take contested twos, their field-goal percentage is 25%, then you go, 'Hey, this is what we want these guys to be doing. These are factual numbers.'"
Players are conflicted about the value of data — such as which players prefer to shoot after only two dribbles.
Said Clippers point guard Chris Paul: "If I just guard him and after two dribbles I stop and he takes a third and I say, 'Hey, man, you're only supposed to take two dribbles,' then what? It's cool, but you have to play."
There's also the geek-fatigue factor. Lakers center Chris Kaman said he was often overloaded with stats last season when he played for Dallas.
"It got a little bit annoying," Kaman said, "hearing about it all the time — this number and that number, and every day the coach was talking about numbers." Such as? "Points per possession, per second half, per first quarter, you know, this guy guarding this guy in this game or these five guys did good against these guys but not these guys," he said. "There's everything."
Including analytics related to injuries. The Lakers will be able to track Kobe Bryant's accelerations and decelerations upon his return from a torn Achilles' tendon, as well as how much load he's putting on his legs during games. That information could help the team's trainers implement practice plans that keep him spry the rest of the season.
Analytics can also show teams what players do that's not reflected in the box score, information that could be used in contract negotiations.
Golden State coveted forward Carl Landry in free agency last year, Lacob said, despite what some might consider ho-hum conventional statistics. The metrics employed by the Warriors showed that Landry graded out well in situations they valued, including the way he scored and the types of rebounds he snagged.
"I think what you're going to find," said Brian Kopp, senior vice president of sports solutions for STATS, "is teams that say, 'This is the type of player we're looking for and I want to find the guy who's on a $5-million contract instead of a $15-million contract that gets to 90% of that output.' "
Maheswaran, 39, and Chang, 35, hope more teams leave the number crunching to them.
The duo has worked together since 2005, eventually forming the Computational Behavior Group at USC. They have completed projects for the Department of Defense and the National Science Foundation involving the movement of vehicles, geo-tagged social media and mobile devices. "It's great that we can transition from detecting enemy targets and tracking them to tracking our favorite players on the court," Chang said.
Maheswaran and Chang won best paper at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference last year after pinpointing the relationship between the location of a shot and the odds of an offensive rebound: For every foot away from the basket that a player stands, the chance of an offensive rebound decreases by 1% until the three-point line, where it suddenly improves. They also determined that 90% of all missed shots can be rebounded within 11 feet of the basket.
The vibe in their downtown Los Angeles office can be more cheeky than geeky.
Programmers like to shatter the monotony of a coding shift by grabbing a volleyball and taking aim on a full-sized basketball goal that descends from the massive windows. This invariably leads to shouts of "Duck!" and "Look out!" when an errant shot threatens an unsuspecting co-worker's desk.
It's probably a good thing Maheswaran and Chang haven't compiled analytics for their employees.
Then again, it's still early in this game.
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This collection of rare, abstract Tantric painting from the 17th century originates in French poet Franck André Jamme's journey to India twenty-five years ago when he first searched in vain for the source of these intensely beautiful and concise works.
While they invoke the highly symbolic cosmology of Hindu Tantra, these contemporary, anonymous drawings have evolved into a distinct visual lexicon used to awaken heightened states of consciousness. Like musicians playing ragas of classical Indian music, tantrikas draw in a concentrated state of mental rapture, repeating and subtly reinterpreting melodic structures of line and color. When complete, the drawings—made in tempera, gouache, and watercolor on salvaged paper—are pinned to the wall to use in private meditation.
Possessing an uncanny affinity with a range of 20th century abstract art, the paintings also have a magnetic, vibratory beauty that inspires acute attention even in the uninitiated. Jamme has written brief, luminous texts that further open readers to their subtle magic and enrich the space for boundless contemplation. Drawing on a unique body of knowledge accumulated over two decades, Jamme has assembled a singular and revelatory collection, in which East and West, the spiritual and the aesthetic, the ancient and the modern converge.
I have noticed in the Tantric works how the simplicity of their conventional, geometric forms is complemented by the infinite complexity of their particular execution: water stains, flaws in the handmade paper, fragments of unrelated text combine to make each work not only unique but somehow perfect. . . . It's not just a desire for the antique or a nostalgic patina that makes the incidental marks so important, it's precisely that ideal forms—forms plumbed from the depths of the mind, of the soul—need to co-exist with randomness and the emptiness of chance. How is it that a symbol of god alone is so dull, but when juxtaposed with a smudge or a smear it comes alive?
What makes this art so amazing?
Well, I think its main particularity is that it is first of all a practice. First for the "artist" himself when he paints a piece, and then for the people who are later going to work on seeing this image, to meditate on it and its meaning—and what is more, through this meditation, finally to make the divinity herself appear. I don't know if there are many other arts that have those qualities. And, on the other hand, this has not killed the aesthetics, the grace of these things. Tantrism is too free, too open for one not to see, to accept, to appreciate, even to revere the beauty of these paintings.
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