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Virtual Cruise -Sapphire Princess - LA/Hawaii/LA
Sapphire Princess - Day 1 - Feb. 26
My somewhat odd, but for sure certainly pleasant adventure begins today. Mrs. Kuki and I are now onboard the Sapphire Princess, bound for Hawaii, sailing roundtrip from San Pedro, Calif. I�ll be sailing this identical itinerary in late April on board the Crystal Symphony, and will be writing a Virtual Cruise from that ship as well. I invite you to sail along in the comfort of your homes and offices, and hope you enjoy as much I believe I will.
We flew to LAX this morning from Phoenix, Arizona on Southwest Airlines. I�m Canadian, and Southwest does not fly from Canada, as a result it has been several years since I flew them. Our flight was delayed out of Phoenix by an hour and a half, but the crew onboard were so terrific and entertaining, they made up for the delay.
A couple of lines, out of many, that gave me good chuckles:
The flight attendant, during the safety instruction - �if we loose pressure in the cabin oxygen masks will drop, if you�re traveling with a child put their mask on first. If you�re traveling with two children, pick the one with the most potential�.
Pilot - �We�re honored to have pilots from 4 different airlines onboard today. I�m sure you�re asking why they are onboard. It�s simple, on Southwest their luggage flies free.� In fact, I had seen a couple of crew tags from other airlines on some carry-ons as they made their down the aisle, so this wasn�t just a line, but a bit of humorous poke at the other airline pilots.
Kudos to Southwest for keeping me laughing for my 1 hr. 18 minute fight; wish I could fly them more often.
From LAX to San Pedro we took a taxi. It�s expensive at $70. But our driver was the Mario Andretti of Albania. It took us 20 minutes in heavy traffic to get out of the airport, and 9 minutes from there to San Pedro. The trip had more in common with a thrill ride at a theme park than it did with a taxi ride. And I thought I drive fast! Wow!
Arriving at the ship at approximately 2:00 P.M. the check in process was very fast and seamless. We were onboard about 15 minutes later.
We had requested and have been assigned to early traditional seating for dinners. As it turns out, on Sapphire Princess early traditional dining is lunch.
Early seating is at 5:30 P.M.! As we�re heading west, we gain hours during the cruise, so by the time we reach Hawaii we could be having dinner at noon.
Late seating is scheduled for 7:45 P.M. I�m not certain if that�s the norm on Princess these days, or if it�s been adjusted for the age demographic on this 14 night sailing. I�ll check on that later, and advise.
We�ll give this a try, because we want to dine with members of the CruiseMates group. I�ll just have to pretend that I�m from Europe where the tradition is to have the major meal of the day, mid-day.
I�m thinking the good thing about eating that early is we�ll have an appetite to make good use of the 24 Hr. Horizon Court for snacking later in the evening. They just better not be having any of the shows in the showroom pre-dinner, or we�ll be watching the entertainment, and miss breakfast.
In the end, if the early seating does not work for us, we do certainly have the option to switching to �Anytime Dining�.
In today�s report I�ve just had some fun �poking fun�. We�re delighted to be on the ship; from what I�ve seen so far she�s in great shape, and in the coming days aside from telling stories, I�ll try and share some good information, as well as pictures.
Last edited by Kuki; March 26th, 2012 at 01:37 PM.
How are all the CruiseMates getting along - anyone playing any dirty tricks yet?
Anyone show up in a Kuki mask?
Holy Moly $70 for the cab ride taking the same trip 3/26/11 guess wewill buy the tranaferr for $40 r/t per person
2nd seating
On Sea Princess in November, 2nd seatimg was at 8:30pm
Yes, a Hotel near San Pedro (Crown Plazq) said a taxi ride was about $65 from Airport.. think I'll take the bus
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Sapphire Princess - Day 2 - Feb. 27
This is our fifth time cruising to Hawaii from the mainland. We�ve done this or similar routes in the winter, spring, and fall, and each time the weather and waters have been a bit choppy, so at least based on our experience, this seems to the norm in the Pacific for the first couple of days.
Mrs. Kuki and I are in an aft facing cabin on the stern (C753), thus during the night we certainly felt the motion of the ocean. I did take a Bonine, motion medication prior to sailing because I do most of my writing late in the evening, after returning to the cabin, and starting at a small computer screen while it�s moving around the room does encourage you to want to lay down. However with the Bonine all was well, and I�m suffering no ill effects from the motion.
We held our first CruiseMates group gathering this morning; a scheduled informal gathering to get people to meet early in the cruise. Of course, being the moron I am, I had forgot to adjust my watch for the time change from Mountain to Pacific time, so that move screwed up the plans for some in the group. About 25 of the group, must have been mind readers, and showed up for my messed time. Unfortunately we had disbanded too early for others who did show up at the �correct� time, who I heard from earlier so I owed some a sincere apology.
The ship has also sort screwed up some of our future plans. I had requested that our CruiseMates group cocktail party be scheduled for tomorrow, Monday Feb. 28 as to avoid a conflict with the ship�s Welcome Aboard Party, and first formal night� which are normally held the first full sea day of the cruise� which is today.
Unfortunately, the ship has designated tomorrow as the first Formal Night instead, with the Captain�s Welcome Aboard Party. To the best of my recollection, in over 60 cruises, I�ve never seen a Welcome Aboard Party, and Formal Night scheduled for the 3rd night of the cruise. If this were a shorter cruise, it could be a combined Welcome Aboard/Sorry to see you leave party.
Combining that change with the change to 5:30 P.M. for early dining, made the requested 5- 6 P.M. cocktail party schedule a bit awkward, so I�ve arranged to begin our cocktail party at 4:30 tomorrow� or, just after breakfast.
It is a bit awkward planning such events for a group, because you�re trying to accommodate both those with early and late traditional dining, as well as those in the group who are using �Anytime Dining�, without conflicting with dining times, show times, as well as other shipboard activities.
However, I did work with the ship�s assistant group coordinator to assure everyone in our group received invitations to tomorrow night�s (morning) cocktail party. If people don�t toss it out before looking, along with the other �ship spam� they get in their mailboxes, we�ll get the entire group together tomorrow.
Today�s high temperature was in the mid 50s F, making people�s presence on the outside decks quite sparse. This led me to want to spend some time in the afternoon in the cabin, possibly watching some television. Unfortunately, on Princess, as with many cruise lines, television programming is pretty weak. We get that �wonderfully exciting� CNN International for news coverage. This makes sense for ships sailing in some areas of the world, but on a cruise from the United States to Hawaii, it does give one pause. I do have to give Princess a bit of credit. There are a couple of channels offering complimentary �recent run� movies, and no channels offering over priced pay per view movies.
I do know that the main television provider for many cruise lines is a company called MTN, and they do offer a package which includes the U.S. broadcast of CNN, ESPN, For News, and MSNBC, as well as some U.S. network broadcasting. Unfortunately Princess has obviously not chosen to purchase those services, which are available on Carnival, a corporate sister, within Carnival Corporation.
The good news is we got notices in the cabin today that they are replacing all in cabin television sets with flat panel sets tomorrow. So, we�ll have much better quality televisions to watch the bad programming.
This afternoon and early evening the ship did show the Academy Awards show, via satellite, in the Fusion Lounge, and Churchill�s Bar. That may be why they moved Formal Night to tomorrow night. But they may have missed a nice opportunity to turn Formal Night into a bit of a Gala Academy Awards Party.
Today they held the �Traditional English Pub Lunch� from 11:30 - 2:00 P.M. in the Savoy Dining Room. I didn�t attend, but I was told the attendance was exceptional.
This event may have created some problems in the galley, as tonight they were late opening the doors for our traditional early seating. And service in our dining room was very disjointed this evening. Last night at our table of 8 we were very impressed with meeting our likeable and seemingly professional wait team. Tonight they were struggling to get orders correct, and served in a timely manner. With late seating scheduled for 7:45, our dinner, and the messy service seemed quite rushed, and as we left the dining room at 7:40 it appeared the problem may have been spread throughout the dining room, as there were still tables finishing, or waiting to be served dessert. Hopefully we�ll see them get back on track tomorrow evening, or it could be a long cruise, or require a request of a change to �Anytime Dining�.
Last night at dinner our waiter offered to sell the Princess Coffee Card to the people at our table, explaining that the purchase included a �coffee mug�. One of our CruiseMates showed the coffee card she purchased earlier in the day, but explained no mention was made of the �mug� promotion. The waiter told her if she were to bring her receipt with her to dinner tonight, he would get the mug for her. A very kind offer, with the exception of asking to see her proof of purchase; she had the card, so why not believe she didn�t get the promotional mug.
The story got worse tonight. She did bring her receipt to dinner tonight, and the waiter went off to bring her the mug. He brought a small thermal shoulder water bottle bag in its place because he said they were out of mugs. She was a bit disappointed, but accepted the helpful nature of his attempt.
Then a minute later he returned to the table with another server, asking for the bag back, telling the guest she had to get the mug from the bar where she made the original purchase. Their excuse was each bar selling the cards was responsible for the inventory. I asked why someone couldn�t take her receipt and the coupon to the correct bar and fetch her promotional mug, but my question was greeted with no response. I was less than impressed with that type of service!
After dinner we saw the act of hypnotist Matthew Fallon in the Explorer�s Lounge. It was build as �Hypo -tainment�. The act was cute, but as with any hypnotist, very dependant on getting good volunteers from the audience.; tonight�s was somewhat lacking..
To put an exclamation point on the day, when I returned to the cabin to post today�s installment of the Virtual Cruise, I got an error message stating the Internet Caf� was undergoing maintenance, and to try again later. Later went on for some time, delaying this posting.
Of a positive note, I did see more of the ship�s public areas, and the ship appears to be in great shape. Hopefully the rest of the operation will begin to redeem itself tomorrow.
It�s now the next morning, Feb. 28. I awoke and immediately tried to connect to the Internet, but was still getting the �under maintenance� message, so I thought I would go up on deck to try again; still the same message. I�m wondering if there is indeed maintenance going on, or if I�m getting the Internet Caf�s version of � your call is important to us��. If so, I�d much prefer just seeing a �No Service Available At This Time� message.
As I was already on Lido Deck, I thought I would try the Horizon Court buffet. It should have come with an error message too. Pre-prepared fried eggs laying under heating lamps were cold, with the yolks congealed, rather than runny.; bacon was so overdone it cracked into tiny pieces when I tried to pick it up with the tongs; bagels and breads totally cold.
They do have a small area to place orders for freshly cooked eggs. If I have an interest in eggs at a later date, I certainly know a visit there is going to be required.
Seems Princess really is struggling a bit to get this cruise started to the level of food and service I�ve come to expect of the cruise line.
The good news is we�re enjoying �picking at it� with the fun company of our CruiseMates buddies.
Our table of 8 for dinner is having a great time already. Already LOTS of laughs. They must have known, as they placed us in a corner, so we wouldn't be disturbing the Dining Room
So sorry for the wonky service so far - but nice to hear they are replacing the TV sets. I was on Sapphire just about a year ago and our service was excellent the entire time - no complaints at all.
Here is the problem (and I often try to impart this information to cruisers having problems).
Having worked on a cruise ship I do know this much - no single job on the ship other than head of guest services or the hotel manager knows ANYTHING about anything else happening on the ship outside of his own department.
Now, I am not trying to transfer blame to the nice lady with the coffee card. I am just saying it is basically a waste of time to ask a waiter to fix your free coffee mug problem.
That waiter lives downstairs and only comes to the passenger decks to serve people in the dining rooms (and lido, natch). He has never been to a bar on the ship the entire time he has been onboard, it isn't his job. Nor does he know anything about the coffee mug program other than what he was told to tell you guys in the dining room that night.
The waiter tried to help, he went out of his way to try to find a suitable replacement gift. And in the end he got over-ruled and embarassed for it. That is "bad service" by the cruise ship, yes, but you can't expect personalized service like you would get on Seabourn on a ship like that.
The lady should take her coffee card to a bar and request a mug. If that does not work, go to guest services and tell them. You need access to problem solvers to fix problems on cruise ships, and basically a waiter is not in any position to go outside of his own realm to fix anything.
But I give him credit for trying.
You know - Princess takes great pride in the fact that they even show popular shows like the Academy awards on their ships. On our cruise we watched the entire World Series. Not long ago it was often not known until the last minute of you were going to be able to see something important if it was happening during your cruise - except the World Cup, of course. Somehow that always gets shown on every cruise.
Of course they moved formal night so not to clash with the awards show, can you imagine how many complaints they would have gotten from the people who couldn't watch the "song of the year" awards and eat their filet mignon at the same time?
Just to let you know, I am enjoying your cruise!
Thanks for the updates. Hope it gets warmer and I'm sure the service will improve as the second night is normally when everybody is in the mdr while the first night some folks are resting from getting to the ship.
Out of curiosity does Sapphire Princess have your account activity and balance on the TV as Sea Princess did not but Golden did.
Now if they could only train cruise crew as they do for Submarines or Canadian Navy (multiple duties)
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Sure she won't pursue the silly mug, and no doubt it will be stored in the back of her mind as we have more and more fun.
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Kuki, I'm enjoying your cruise too, I hope it gets warmer!
Say hello to "Cruwysie" for me (Donna & Wayne from Ont.)
We just got off the Sapphire Princess on SATURDAY the 26th. It was a 7 day cruise to Mexico. Yes they were replacing all of the TV sets with new flat screen ViewSonic TV sets. We had a great time. Now we are enjoying your cruise.
Sapphire Princess - Feb. 28
By 10 A.M. the internet service was back up and running, and I was able to submit yesterday�s update.
As I was on deck waiting, about 9 A.M. I witnessed someone ordering a Diet Coke. I am die hard Diet Coke addict, but my ears perked up listening to the order, because even I can�t drink that stuff that early in the morning.
By 10 a slight bit of sunshine broke through the clouds, but the temperature outdoors still couldn�t have been above 50. Yet, there were some hearty souls who were determined to enjoy their �Hawaiian vacation� and were out by the outdoor pool, and in the pool, in bathing suits. And you thought I was kuki!
There was actually quite a busy schedule of events today for those who like to keep busy. A Bridge lecture in the morning; a �Scholarship @sea� lecture entitled �The Pacific War: Head to Head Comparison of the Imperial Japanese and American Navies, Leaders, Ships and Aircraft and Weapons�; BrainBuster Trivia; Ballroom Dancing; another enrichment lecture on the island of Kauai; Ukelele lessons� and those were only in the morning. I spent the day, doing what I do best� nothing.
At lunch there was an Oriental and Sushi Buffet set up at the Calypso Pool. Not entirely favorite type of cuisine, but the folks around me seemed to be enjoying it immensely. Later, of course, there was �Afternoon Tea�, which Princess does very well.
This afternoon we got together with most of the members of our CruiseMates group for our complimentary cocktail party in the Wheelhouse Bar. The Wheelhouse is my favorite bar on this ship. It�s very clubby, with a very nautical and British atmosphere.
One thing about group cruises; pretty much everyone shows up when the drinks are free. A very nice time was had by all, and we got in a very pleasant hour of socializing. About half the group has sailed with us before on prior CruiseMates group cruises, and about half were people I hadn�t met, but was delighted to meet. Several new folks commented that they�d been reading my CruiseMates articles and blogs for years, and that made me feel pretty good, as not one suggested I should be doing something else.
Those with late lunch dinner seating headed off to the Dining Room at 5:30. Oddly we sat until 6 P.M. until our dinner orders were taken. The service was a bit quicker tonight, and we managed to be done dinner and dessert by 7:30.
The CruiseMates folks who we dine with do really like the personality of our waiter, but truthfully the service continues to be spotty. If we didn�t have several tables of CruiseMates from our group nearby, I�d have likely switched dining assignments by now.
We�ve enjoyed the entrees, but I�ve been less excited by some of the offerings in the other courses, though this evening I ordered a couple of extra pasta with veal strips to share as side dishes with my entr�e, to share with the table. And it was delicious.
I�ve really been rooting for things to improve in the area of food and service; to showcase why Princess is considered a Premium Brand. We�re only three nights into the cruise, but so far, I�m still just rooting, rather than marveling.
After dinner tonight there was a production show in the Princess Theater, and the showroom was so full, quite a few people, including our dining mates couldn�t get in. This is a shortcoming I�ve noted before on the Grand Class ships; an ill designed theater.
Princess does attempt to combat this problem by having it�s entertainment repeat during the cruise, using the ship�s large Explorer�s Lounge as an alternate venue for the �headline entertainment�.
If there�s a act or show in the Princess Theater that you really want to see, be sure to head to the Theater as soon as you finish dinner, if you have early seating, and a half hour or so early if you�re show-time is prior to dinner. Failing that, look for it in the Princess Patters (daily newsletter) for when it will repeating.
I�m actually feeling bad that to date my daily reports have taken a fairly negative tone. I really want to love the ship, but �the ship� is making it difficult to do so.
Tonight the seas are acting up once again. We have pretty solid �sea legs� by now, so even being in a stern facing cabin, it�s not having any ill effects on us. However it is dangerous to be close to any man peeing standing up (just contemplate the visual to get the joke) .
I normally do my writing late at night upon returning to my cabin, and then post. Unfortunately, other than the first night, the Internet connection has not been cooperating, so please accept my apologies for the delay.
Rough seas will always make the Internet connection more spotty since it makes it harder to lock in that satellite signal.
It sounds like your sailing is fairly rough, but it should smooth out as you get closer to the islands - hopefully.
It has been a pretty cold winter on the West Coast (but not as bad as the east coast) and there have been a lot of cold fronts moving through one after another. The mountains ringing Phoenix were topped with lots of snow last Sunday.
On my transatlantic crossing on Norwegian Epic last June, 7 days from Southampton to New York City, it was miserably cold every single sea day, including the morning we "steamed" up the Hudson. It literally did not warm up until we were in our berth in NY City, in JUNE! My point is that the weather on the open seas can be cold.
I certainly hope your food improves. I would like to hear you say you loved something as well. Are you going with the simpler dishes (steak) or the more complex ones (Lobster Thermador)? What is the exact problem - served cold? Bland? Or just not good quality ingredients. You know some things can be fixed. I always thought Princess food was a bit on the bland side, but many people say they like it left simple so they can spice it up themselves.
Have a word with Maitre D' if you feel the waiter is somehow ruining your food (bringing it cold, especially). You're the group leader, after all .
RD.. of course we have seen Donna and Wayne several times. I'll pass on your regards.
Once the internet service becomes a bit more reliable, I'll start posting pictures as well.
I think this our 5th time sailing this, or a similar route to Hawaii. We know from experience the first couple of days the seas are bit choppy; usually the last couple of days on the return trip too. No complaints about that at all.
I described the Dining Room service earlier as disjointed, and that's really the best word I can think of to describe it. For example, two people may be served their appetizers, while the other six face a gap before getting theirs. Then, when more food does arrive we're telling the waiter who ordered what.
I do like to give the Dining Room a couple of days to "get their act together", so we'll see what happens tonight at dinner. The CruiseMates nearby have a different waiter, and as yet I've heard no complaints about their service. I haven't asked, but I will.
I'm really just a meat and potatoes kind of guy. As I said the entrees have been fine, and steaks quite tasty. The hot soups and pastas have been delivered cold, with the exception of our shared pasta dish last night.
Princess's pasta used to be one of the best things they served, in my opinion, so perhaps my standard for them to reproduce is high.
Here's a link to some early pictures from this cruise
CruiseMates Cruise Community and Forums - Kuki's Album: Sapphire Princess
Thanks for posting the pictures...I do recognize some of the gang,and glad you are enjoying the cruise. Sorry you seem to be having spotty service and food issues...let's hope they get their act together soon...Ray and Helen must be thrilled to be back with the gang again..regards to all!
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What you describe at dinner is TOTALLY unacceptable cruise ship service. I am not one to make a scene, but the first time it happened I would have remained behind at the end of the meal to explain to the waiter that keeping track of orders and bringing them all together and serving them to the right people is MINIMAL service. Frankly, the second time it happened I would talk to the Headwaiter about training his staff.
I have always been one to rave about shipboard service, and point out that stuff like that does NOT happen on board ship. I certainly hope that it improves for you.
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We are book on this cruise on March 26th, so we are finding this very interesting. Also your comments about the dining room, we were on the Celebrity Mercury last fall and had the same issue. It was almost 30 minutes between the time we finsh our soup and the main course came. We do not know what's happening. We were making comments that we could wait to get back on a Princess ship as we have done 5 cruises with Princess and all the other ones were great.
Keep posting.
We too are on the March 26th sailing. I hope all these problems get worked out of the Hawaii cruise before we set sail. I am also hoping for calmer seas and nicer weather.
I am hanging on ever word and checking back every day to read your posts. I am way too detail oriented about travel. I am taking notes like there is a final exam at the end of the cruise. Thanks for getting me prepared.[/COLOR]
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Thanks Kuki for your daily reports, we were wondering whether to cruise Hawaii via California with those 4 days at sea, or to do it from Hawaii on NCL and I'm thinking the more you diss this cruise the better doing it from Hawaii sounds.
Cruisin' ain't what it used to be ! and that's a shame.
I just investigated this price comparison. Now I like the NCL option, too. You see a lot of Hawaii in the seven day cruise (in port every single day).
The longer cruises are for people who like days at sea - and believe or not the cost of a 17-day cruise is comparable to the 7-day NCL option after you figure in flights and the hotel you need to book if you want to see anything on Oahu (like Honolulu).
Figure about $4250 for two people for the NCL option (from L.A.) - while a 17-day mainland cruise is about $4000 oceanview (more for balcony).
But I like the actual Hawaii itinerary better with the NCL option - as long as you fly in early and get the hotel in Honolulu.
Sapphire Princess - March 1
I�d noticed yesterday in the Princess Patters that they are offering a �behind the scenes� tour of the ship for $150 per person (CHOKE). Frankly, I can�t imagine what they could show me on the ship that is worth $300 for a couple (unless there happened to be some lap dances involved).
Yet, this morning I did see what appeared to be a tour group wandering around the ship, with about a dozen participants.
As of today we could tell we were getting nearer to Hawaii. The skies were getting bluer and less cloudy, and by afternoon the sun was warmer, and many passengers reacted by venturing outside.
The cruise line must assume we �more elderly� folks onboard wake up earlier in the morning than the younger �late night party crowd� on other lines. Maybe because we retire earlier, or maybe it�s because we have to get up more frequently to use the washroom; but in either case, Princess begins their activity schedule quite early. By 9:30 A.M there�s Trivia contests going on, and by 10:30 A.M. line dance class. At 1:00 P.M there�s passenger involved �game shows� and at 2:15 in the afternoon they are already hosting Karaoke.
I am far from being a morning person; though I may be awake by 7:30 A.M. I don�t gain consciousness until 11, and no one can expect to see me at the Jackpot Bingo at 11:15.
For anyone who wants to keep busy throughout the day, the day time schedule is jam-packed with choices, including more �Enrichment Lectures�, movies on the big screen in the Princess Theater, and even knitting classes.
For the �vegetables� like me, it�s quite easy to spend the day outdoors poolside, by the Dolphin pool and people watch, while visiting with CruiseMates as they happen to pass by, spending time relaxing on our balcony staring out of the ship�s wake mindlessly, and making time to fit in an afternoon nap while �watching� an in cabin movie. Today was my kind of day because I managed to do all of those things, and not do all the other things.
For some people an itinerary such as this, with 5 sea days in a row would drive them a bit crazy. For me, it�s the best; allowing the hassles of life on land to dissipate and temporarily disappear from my mind, and simply enjoy relaxing.
The nice thing - on this ship you can do either; stay quite busy, or act like me.
Now it�s time to tell you a bit about our cabin, Caribe Deck, cabin 753, an aft cabin, facing off the stern of the ship. C753 is a �standard� size balcony cabin, not a mini-suite. However, due to it�s location on the corner stern it has an unusual balcony design, with curved railing. It is not a wrap around balcony, but it is deeper than many of the other balconies within the same category.
The Caribe Deck standard balcony cabins are amongst the most desired on the ship by those in the know. And that�s because the Caribe Deck cabins on the sides of the ship are deeper than those on Baja or Aloha Decks, plus half the balconies are covered by the ship�s superstructure, and half of the balcony is open. In C753 the entire balcony is covered, and the superstructure above extends several feet past the end of the balcony, making the balcony itself quite shaded. However, the big benefit of this cabin, aside from the large balcony and the incredible views of the wake, is they are also very private.
I�d forgotten how tiny the showers are in these cabins. It appears Mrs. Kuki and I have grown with age (a nice way of saying expanded). Years ago the two of could share the shower space. Today, not only is that impossible, if I want my feet washed I have to stick them out beyond the shower curtain, and ask her assistance. As well, the bath towels are about big enough for someone who can fit in the shower. The really nice thing about the shower is it has great water pressure, and plenty of hot water.
The cabin is equipped with a comfortable Queen sized bed, complete with good quality sheets, covered with a comfy white duvet, and the tiniest �cheap� and uncomfortable pillows I can recall seeing since I was in Sheriff Joe Arpaio�s tent jail in Arizona (Google Sheriff Joe to understand reference).
Another comparison to jail house amenities might be the toilet paper. It�s so thin, if you hold it up to the light it�s totally transparent. The wrapping on the roles says 2 layers, but I�m assuming one of the layers is the wrapping.
The cabin itself is in wonderful condition, decorated nicely, plenty of closet space, and certainly completely functional, even for a 14 night voyage.
Finally, some great news to report� today service and food during dinner were as good as I expected of Princess when I stepped onboard. It took until our 4th day, but the service was well paced, and every course, from appetizer through dessert was extremely tasty. As a matter of fact for my entr�e I chose the Veal Cordon Bleu, which I don�t recall seeing on a cruise ship menu before, and it was delicious. We didn�t have to orchestrate service for the wait staff, and we even had time between courses to chat a bit with our waiter. Just hoping this is the service level we receive and remember for the next 10 nights.
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Conducting a three-party conference call
When you make a three-party conference call, one participant (initiator) initiates a conference call with two other participants. The initiator first calls the other two parties and then connects the calls to form a conference, so that everyone can speak with everyone else.
1 Making a three-party conference call
- While conducting a call with the first party, press the R key on your telephone.
Note:If you are using a FRITZ!Fon without an R key, the R key is not displayed until you conduct a call (soft key). The key directly below the corresponding symbol functions as the R key.
- Enter the external telephone number or ** and the internal number of the second party.
- When the second party accepts the call, enter R3. The three-party conference is set up. Any party can hang up. The two other parties remain connected.
2 Interrupting a three-party conference call
- If you want to interrupt the three-party conference call, enter R2. You are now speaking with the first party and holding the second call.
- If you now want to switch back and forth between the parties (toggle), enter R2.
- If you want to restore the three-party conference call, enter R3.
- If you want to continue the active call and end the other call, enter R1.
- If you want to end the active call and continue the other call:
- End the active call.
- Wait until your telephone rings and pick up the receiver.


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Dodgers place Clayton Kershaw on bereavement list; reinstate Hanley Ramirez from the DL
LOS ANGELES -- The Los Angeles Dodgers today placed left-handed pitcher Clayton Kershaw on the bereavement list and reinstated shortstop Hanley Ramirez from the 15-day disabled list. Ramirez played a combined 12.0 innings at shortstop, while going 3-for-6 with a double and three RBI at the plate in two rehab games this weekend for Single-A Rancho Cucamonga. The 29-year-old was injured during the championship game of the World Baseball Classic after going 5-for-22 with two homers and three RBI in eight tournament games for the Dominican Republic and underwent surgery on March 22 to repair the ligament in his right thumb. Prior to the WBC, Ramirez appeared in six Spring Training games, going 5-for-15 with four RBI.
By rule, Kershaw must remain on the bereavement list for a minimum of three games, but no longer than a maximum of seven games.


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This time, the challenge is this: Given a list of integers and a single integer argument output a parenthesized expression that sums to the individual integer provided, with the basic arithmetic operations (+, -, /, *)
For example:
1 parenthesize([1, 20, 2], 11) => (1 + (20 / 2))
2 parenthesize([1, 2, 3, 4], 10) => (1 + 2 + 3 + 4)
In order to make things interesting, we'll be running this one as a round of Code Golf. That is, you're looking to do this in the smallest number of characters (not counting whitespace).
-- The function signature is not added to the count, and it must have 2 and only 2 parameters (the list of numbers and the integer)
-- It must be a single top-level function (nested helper functions are fine)
-- "import" and "import ... as" are acceptable
-- Your function must handle the case when the expression is not parenthesizable.
-- There must be outer brackets on every expression e.g. (5 + 4 + 3), (6 * (2 + 1))
-- Order of arithmetic operations are PEDMAS or BODMAS/BIDMAS basically anything in BRACKETS first then DIVISION then MULTIPLICATION then ADDITION then SUBTRACTION
-- And for those wondering, the Simown constraint is in effect.
Any questions leave a comment here and we'll get back to you. Remember, you have 2 weeks to complete this challenge before the next one is posed.
And as always, please post your solutions in spoiler tags as a courtesy to those who are still working on it.
That's it! Happy Challenging!
This post has been edited by Simown: 19 January 2013 - 02:29 PM
Reason for edit:: Fixing some terminology


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Police determine missing actor Lawrence Street is safe
At 10:30 a.m. MDT today, Denver police contacted Lawrence Street and determined that the visiting New York actor/choreographer, missing for four days, is safe.
Street was located and interviewed by a Denver police officer who determined that Street has willingly been in Denver since July 9 of his own volition. While in direct contact with the officer, Street then telephoned a Louisville police detective and also confirmed with them that he is OK. The Louisville Police Department has closed the missing person case and no further action is anticipated.
Street came to Colorado to choreograph "The Wizard of Oz," the debut production for the new Colorado Repertory Theatre in Louisville. Friends in New York and CRT company members have been fearing for Street's safety since he was last heard from in Denver early Sunday morning.
"They have had face-to-face contact with him," confirmed "Wizard of Oz" director Margaret Ann Gates Morrow. "I spoke with the detective and he is safe."
Street was in the original Broadway company of "Urinetown," and also performed on Broadway in "South Pacific."
Louisville Chief of Police police Bruce Goodman released a timeline of the frightening saga, which turned to relief when, early this morning, Street changed the outgoing message on his cell phone voice mail to say, "Friends and family – I am safe and I'm just going to get some help."
Here is the entirety of Goodman's statement:
On July 11, at 0630 hours, Margaret Morrow came to the Louisville Police Department to report Lawrence E. Street of South Plainsfield, N.J., was missing. Ms. Morrow explained that he had been staying with her at her residence at 529 McKinley Park Lane, in Louisville, while working as the choreographer of a local theatrical production.
On July 9, at 2000 hours, Mr. Street and a companion left the McKinley residence to attend a social function at 817 S. Vance St., Denver. At approximately midnight, the companion returned to Louisville, but Mr. Street remained at the Vance Street residence. On July 10, 2011, at 1224 hours, Ms. Morrow received a text email from Mr. Street stating that he had become sick, was safe, and would be returning to Louisville.
On July 11, the officer telephoned Mr. Street, left a message that people were concerned about his welfare, and asked him to call the Louisville Police Department. Based upon information provided by Ms. Morrow (unknown how she learned of it), the officer then contacted Union Cab, and they confirmed they picked up a fare matching Mr. Street's description on July 10 at 0500 hours, at 817 S. Vance St., and dropped him at Colfax Avenue and Monaco Boulevard, in Denver.
On July 12, at 1930 hours, Elizabeth Ann Goodrich and Lorinda L. Jones came to department to express their concern about Mr. Street's absence. The officer asked them to acquire any personal information possible about Mr. Street that could aid the police in locating him, e.g., relatives, close friends, credit cards, etc. After speaking with the women, the officer telephoned Mr. Street's cell phone and found the message box full.


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Hi Yogi
This has to do with GRsync, Mount, & Umount.
A brief history. I was never able to PUT a file from my computer to a Remote Computer. The only way we could get my data on a Remote Computer was to use the Remote Computer to FETCH the data.
E.g. Computer A (my office) TO Computer B (in house) always failed for some reason. But Computer B FROM Computer A always worked without errors.
OK - An IT guy stopped by my house the other day and got everything working just fine. Sorta.
This is from my Linux computers in the office, using GRsync to an external Hard Drive connected to my wife's Windows XP computer in the house. This part was working fine, and still is working, but I have created a new problem.
To start with, in order to get GRsync to work, naturally you have to mount the remote Hard Drive.
Mounting the shared folder from the external hard drive worked like a charm.
The shared folder, 2015OffSiteStorage appeared in the /mnt folder on my computer, so was accessible to GRsync and synced perfectly with the external drive at the house.
I also use GRSync to copy to my local USB hard drive, I've never had a problem with anything local.
HERE is where my new problems began.
I have a 1 terrabyte drive IN a computer up here in my office, using only about 100 gigs for an OS partition. I created 750 gig partition I named DataStorage, and inside this I created a shared folder named 2015OnSiteStorage, so far so good.
The umount /mnt/2015OnSiteStorage or unmount /mnt2015OffSiteStorage always gives the error message, the above names, not mounted according to mtab. I can see they are mounted, and if I open a shared file copy on my desktop and copy to it, it appears in the /mnt folder as well, so it's live and synced. This is confusing enough.
But here is the problem I am writing to ask you about.
I manually move both of the above named files to trash so they are NOT in /mnt, and the /mnt folder is empty.
OK, I Mount the folder 2015OnSiteStorage, then use GRSync to copy files to it. They appear in this folder on the expected computer. But here is the surprise. I open the external hard drive on the remote computer down at the house, and there is the 2015OnSiteStorage folder, using up almost all of the space on that hard drive, since it was a large file, and this is only a 200 gig drive.
How can RSync write to a folder not named in the path?
Since I can't unmount, I moved the 2015OnSiteStorage folder from /mnt to TRASH.
When I ran GRSync to copy the files I place in 2015OffSiteStorage, I found it also copied the files to my 1 terrabyte drive. These computers have DIFFERENT IP address, and I use the IP address to Mount the folders.
I called my IT guy and he said what is happening is totally impossible.
I gave him a copy of how I have GRSync set up, ever button turned on or off.
And the information from several codes he had me type in Terminal.
I was looking on-line and found several folks who have had this problem in the past.
GRSync or RSync writing to ALL of their mounted shared folders, even when they are unmounted.
Do you have any idea of what's going on here?
Yes I know I should be using NSF for the Linux to Linux, but must use CIFS for Windows machine.
I've tried using the / behind file names, this just produces a second folder inside the first.
This is what I use in Terminal to mount the remote hard drives over the LAN to /mnt.
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.12/2015OffSiteMirror /mnt -o username=gary,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777
sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.14/2015OnSiteMirror /mnt -o username=gary,file_mode=0777,dir_mode=0777
They mount just fine, but as I said, won't unmount using umount.
umount /mnt/2015OnSiteMirror Always says it is not mounted by mtab.
My Destination in GRSync is /mnt/2015OnSiteMirror/
or the alternate session /mnt/2014OffSiteMirror/
It does not matter if I manually remove to TRASH the folder in /mnt I don't want written to, it still gets written to.
Thanks Yogi


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Tested and worn by top-ranked professional golfers, Polo Golf for men and Ralph Lauren Golf for women define heritage excellence in the world of golf. With a sharpened focus on the needs of the modern player but always rooted in the rich design tradition of Ralph Lauren, the Golf collections combine state-of-the-art performance wear with luxurious finishing touches for collections that travels effortlessly between the course and the clubhouse.
The RLX Golf collection is ultramodern, graphic and dedicated to performance-given design. From progressive fits and sophisticated styles to the most technologically advanced fabrics available, RLX golf is the ultimate in functional luxury.
Polo Ralph lauren is proud to sponsor Tom Watson, Davis Love III, Jonathan Byrd, Morgan Pressel, Luke Donald and Webb Simpson.
The listed company, Polo Ralph Lauren Corporation, founded in 1967 has its headquarters in New York City.
Starting out with men's ties, and then in 1968, the first Polo men's collection in a New England-style was launched, with the first branch opening one year later. In 1971, the first stand-alone store opened in Beverly Hills, California. 1972 saw Ralph Lauren introduce the Polo Shirt with its signature polo rider logo embroidered on the chest. The first collection was available in 24 different colors. Today the company is a fashion empire which redefines the concept of the American style over and over. It is no longer possible to imagine the fashion world without Ralph Lauren.
The brand stands for characteristic fashion with a touch of New England, sports and cowboy, according to the statement of company founder and owner Ralph Lauren. In 1974, the fashion brand supplied the wardrobe for the actors of the film "The Great Gatsby" and thereby gained prestige and publicity. Over the years, numerous other Polo stores were opened in the US, and other retail spaces were added in Europe and Asia.
In 2000, the company started Internet sales and in cooperation with television transmitter NBC founded RL Media, which was responsible for online sales and the website polo.com. In 2007, Polo Ralph Lauren was among the largest retailers in the US with a turnover of 4.2 billion. In the late 70's, the company consisted of the Polo by Ralph Lauren men's collection in the mid-price segment. In 1971, the product range was extended by the first women's collection under the name Ralph Lauren. In 1987, the collection was again expanded by a Polo Golf collection for men, and in 1990 for women. Three years later, the highly-priced RRL collection followed with Western fashion for men, since 2010 also available for women. In 1993, Ralph Lauren launched the Polo Sport line for men, and in 1996 the female counterpart. Both lines were discontinued in 1996.
In 1998, the Polo RLX collection for professional athletes was launched, and further sports collections for men and women followed. In 1996, the denim collection launched, which is today known as Denim & Supply. This was then followed by the Blue Label collection for women, and the Black Label collection for men. Moreover, Polo Ralph Lauren is known for its business men's collection, and additional collections have been produced but were discontinued after a few years.
Polo Ralph Lauren is sporty fashion with a luxurious character. Sports elements are combined with sophisticated style, as well as high quality materials which guarantee a perfect fit. The range of the typical polo shirt is complemented by comfortable chinos, elegant casual shirts and noble sneakers. The brand Polo Ralph Lauren offers a lifestyle for stylish and fashion-conscious women, men and children. The garments are the ideal companion during sport and leisure.
Simple designs in an American style for a special lifestyle.


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The Artificial Intelligence Research and Development group explores new ways of addressing critical business problems by applying leading edge AI techniques, including machine learning, natural language processing, knowledge representation and reasoning.
In collaboration with leading universities such as Stanford, MIT, and Carnegie Mellon as well as our clients, we are presently focused on three classes of problems:
Inquisitive Virtual Agents
Today, a range of chatbot technologies are generating tremendous interest related to providing customer service. Most of these frameworks essentially enable natural language queries to be matched to documents that address them. Our research addresses two critical business needs:
Scaling Agent Content
With thousands of products and services in constant flux, businesses frequently lack ready documents to match queries in a chatbot. We are developing new approaches to mine repositories of past customer-agent interactions to accelerate the process of extracting and preparing the content necessary for chatbot customer service interactions.
Advanced Service Dialogs
Many queries do not match a specific, pre-existing document to be served by a chatbot. Instead, they call for an agent to have a diagnostic conversation. We are developing approaches to extend commercial chatbot technologies to enable the more complex dialogs required by specific use cases.
Intelligent Risk Monitoring
From an oil company investing in a new refinery to Accenture undertaking a complex project, identifying, assessing and mitigating risks is critical to success. Increasingly these risks leave data traces that can alert us to possible challenges. By developing models of different project categories and their associated risks, we then analyze a combination of structured and unstructured data sources to provide project managers with risk alerts.
Collaborative Content Synthesis
Whether its retailers identifying new product trends, hospitals preparing claims for insurance companies, or procurement professionals developing profiles of potential vendors to countless other examples, we find an important underlying theme: The recurring need to examine vast quantities of content, identify relevant portions, and assemble them into a specific artifact, such as an insurance claim or vendor profile. Today's largely manual approaches cannot scale to the rapid growth in content.
By combining technical approaches including machine learning and natural language processing, and rethinking the best ways for people and systems to work together, we are developing systems that wade through enormous repositories to identify relevant content, and rely on human expertise to confirm the relevance and tune the models.
Driving business value
We believe AI is the future of growth and entirely new sources of value. Our group is dedicated to developing new classes of intelligent services rather than researching incremental improvements to underlying AI algorithms.
Man-Machine collaboration
AI technologies are not a 1-1 replacement for human capabilities. They each have their unique strengths. Far from simply eliminating repetitive tasks, AI should put people at the center, augmenting the workforce by applying the strengths and capabilities of machines so people can focus on higher-value analysis, decision-making and innovation. Our focus is on designing intelligent services that rethink the way core business processes are addressed by making the most effective use of both AI and people.


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AS soon as this spring's vegetables began to appear, I wanted to revisit a favorite dish, a risotto that features asparagus front and center.
I had the opportunity last year to see it made by the chef Mario Batali. (Mr. Batali is a frequent guest on "The Best Recipes in the World," a television show of which I am the host and The New York Times is a producer.)
Almost every cook believes (incorrectly) that risotto must be stirred constantly while you're making it. So it was with joy that I discovered that I could follow my own tendency to walk away from the simmering rice for minutes at a time and still get great risotto. You need to stir no more than occasionally. For example, after each addition of liquid and then once or twice more before that liquid evaporates.
This risotto is notable because it contains sufficient quantities of fat and is finished with a puree of asparagus, which heightens both color and flavor. It is served quite loose and soupy: the creamy brothiness is lovely.
Start with asparagus no less than a quarter-inch thick. Peel the stalks first. Don't forget the butter. And remember not to stir too much.
Asparagus Risotto Adapted from Mario Batali
Time: 45 minutes
1 pound asparagus, peeled, trimmed and cut into one-inch-long pieces, tips reserved
4 to 6 cups chicken or vegetable stock
2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
3 tablespoons butter
1/3 medium red onion, diced
1 1/2 cups Arborio rice
1/2 cup dry white wine
Salt to taste
1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese.
1. Bring a pot of water to a boil. Add half the asparagus stalks and cook until quite soft, at least 5 minutes. Rinse quickly under cold water. Put cooked asparagus in a blender or food processor and add just enough water to allow machine to puree until smooth; set aside.
2. Put stock in a medium saucepan over low heat. Put oil and 1 tablespoon butter in a large, deep nonstick skillet over medium heat. When it is hot, add onion, stirring occasionally until it softens, 3 to 5 minutes.
3. Add rice and cook, stirring occasionally, until it is glossy, about 2 to 3 minutes. Add white wine, stir, and let liquid bubble away. Add a large pinch of salt. Add warmed stock, 1/2 cup or so at a time, stirring occasionally. Each time stock has just about evaporated, add more.
4. After about 15 minutes, add remaining asparagus pieces and tips, continuing to add stock when necessary. In 5 minutes, begin tasting rice. You want it to be tender but with a bit of crunch; it could take as long as 30 minutes total to reach this stage. When it does, stir in 1/2 cup asparagus puree. Remove skillet from heat, add remaining butter and stir briskly. Add Parmesan and stir briskly, then taste and adjust seasoning. Risotto should be slightly soupy. Serve immediately.
Yield: 3 to 4 servings.


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Hello, I would like to ask a question regarding a switch case of mine. I am new to Java(have dabbled in c++ a little though.)
In one of my classes I have a method designed to take a character as a parameter and return a string based on the appropriate case.
The problem is the string that is always being returned is the default "INVALID", could someone point me in the appropriate direction? I checked the java tutorial but it didn't offer me much help, is there a problem with comparing integer literals / character literals on the same switch test condition?
private String GetNumber(char number) { String numberString = null; if(Character.isLetter(number)) { Character.toUpperCase(number); } switch(number) { case 'A': numberString = "Ace"; break; case 2: numberString = "two"; break; case 3: numberString = "three"; break; case 4: numberString = "four"; break; case 5: numberString = "five"; break; case 6: numberString = "six"; break; case 7: numberString = "seven"; break; case 8: numberString = "eight"; break; case 9: numberString = "nine"; break; case 1: numberString = "ten"; break; case 'J': numberString = "jack"; break; case 'Q': numberString = "Queen"; break; case 'K': numberString = "King"; break; default : numberString = "INVALID"; break; } return numberString; }


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ECO:nomics: Your Next Car Will Drive Itself
J. Christian Gerdes, who works on the technologies required for driverless vehicles, and Sunil Paul, who's smartphone app company connects drivers with passengers looking for a ride, talk WSJ's Joe White about the future of personal transportation and it's carbon footprint.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
I ... Chris disparaged tell us what you're doing it scampered up around autonomous driving and ... driving to college ... Sauron Tynan is shining Friday connected to create a robotic race ... so we are ... a brief refueling fires in a way that makes me deeply apologetic in from and is proud ... of that the reason we're doing it is to Sichuan understand ... how we get in on time as car to drive limits of its capabilities like the best human drivers ... to race for Knight is an outstanding deal leaves the friction between the high road to go that's ... where the harness the same capability to the state ... it's our ultimate objective is to ... drive as well as the very best human drivers and eliminate any accident they can physically be avoided and call ... Sunil Paul tell us about SideCar and and and and ... what you're doing with the company ... now thank you ... ALM sidecar is a new company ... we leverage the platform of smartphones I Phones and reds ... to create this ... new capability of use and right match ... it would only allows the everyday writers and everyday drivers to connect up with ... with each other ... on a platform ... I'm yet to get around the city and were in nine cities ... from us ... the book the underlying resources are leveraging as the hours in which cars normally sit around waiting for people to drive ... it ... as read most of the time right most cars sit around for ... more than ninety percent of the time ... despite last night was waiting for their masters ... it will get that that I think what people want to know because they've they've seen the publicity around the Goebel self driving cars on them some people may have seen ... videos of Audi's car the climb like the goddess of which I think your group work with ... it ... aam ... but tell us ... how far away are we from ... um commercially available ... viable ... um self driving car and I guess the one that's been one ask the question specifically around the technology ... to recover summit human factors and that just on the technology how far away are we sure lower Many faction and hung in the mid three year time horizon so for a car that would ... drive myself in limited circumstances such as ... those that are carrying to begin with would be France's a freeway said a ... traffic jam Sanaa Rio so ... here below the posted speed limit ... for awhile and hard to maintain its position in the lane ... I could adjust distance you could ... do something else which is not necessarily ... on yet defined as to how much you take your attention off of the road ... ah but so many factors can talk about these systems in a very short time frame about three years about three years ... to ... affect ... them ... Melanie get to the human factors side which is that ... one of the issues is as I understand from from looking at this and that's really not soft it is one of them is this liability ... and now it's pretty simple if if if if ... the driver ... is inattentive and causes a crash the drivers probably at ... fault ... aam ... what's your of what would you make of the stated that the most of the legal issues and and some human factors issues around the self driving car ... I think the manufacturers right now are trying to see ... how much can you introduce without changing her ... so friends and are still in in control the car you're still ... responsible ... the car can actually provide some these assistant features during a traffic jam ... totally irresponsible for laundering surroundings making sure ... everything's okay now clearly there's ... there's a limited benefit ... to dive in terms that if you have to pay attention ... than what's the point then maybe you my one and I can just go ahead and drive ... and ultimately if the car is doing good job of driving itself ... and in you begin to smell feel very reliant on it ... what's the fermented from sneaking out the cell phone ... it ... is you're talking to people about this technology ... aam ... what is it that that either the company is that you work with more people than you encounter ... as you talk about this in a public about ... what is it that people want from a self driving car ... I think he would like the ability to just let the car drive into something else to somewhere within and because they whether that be ... on the in text hinges in some ways pull out of the driving ... situation seems to be a very desirable ... feature and of course that ... raises all these issues once you ... do think the driver fully out into ... the loop ... can you get them back if the car sees the situation they can handle ... it as a safety critical situation I think it's highly unlikely he would design a system ... that someone says your wheels fairness ... of buyout but the other hand you know you do have enough time ... to to say the understand what's going on I found myself in the middle of you know Thanksgiving day parade I was not programmed for this ... round and India will pull over to the sign that says additionally this this class of issues when Kenyan transfer control back to the driver in a free app to get


text: Hi! I started this thread http://www.head-fi.org/forum/thread/514995/pictures-of-headphones-worn/120#post_6969033 some weeks ago because I was tired of all the pictures of UNWORN headphones. Unfortunately, it was locked because some very bad head-fiers posted (almost) nude pictures of WOMEN. Anyway - since I think such a thread could be fun, even without (almost) nude women, I try once more. The first contribution should be harmless, just little Babo listening to Alban Berg Quartet on his T1's: <<


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We were on scene at the perfect time. The sun still 20 minutes from breaking the horizon. Just light enough to see a cast only halfway to its target.
Quiet, except for the sudden interruption of a school of hungry snook popping and slurping doomed baitfish at the surface of the shallow water.
Before long and to the right I could make out ripples when tails broke the surface as the redfish school moved onto the flat to feed.
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Reds in a school become fiercely competitive and we were cheering as twice as many as three reds tried to eat one incredibly freighted Zara Spook. Spoons and topwaters were inhaled with gusto. Before long 19 reds from 4 to 12 pounds came boatside for pictures and freedom.
Redfishing is on here in Southwest Florida. Beautiful dark copper red bulldogs looking to crush your favorite lures.
We had just pulled away from the intersection when suddenly someone yelled from a passing vehicle "Hey! Yer boats afar!! Yer boats afar!!" "What?" I yelled back. Too late, they had already long passed us in a jacked up Ford pickup with huge "Crackerlicious" and "Rednecks Need Love Too!" decals in the back window. Bob turned to me and said, "Yer boats afar?" What the heck? Suddenly we both screamed in unison "THE BOAT'S ON FIRE!!"
And it was. The two of us ran in five different directions at once trying to figure how to put it out. Bob yelled, "Fire Extinguisher!" as he threw coffee at the fire. I countered, "In the Boat!" "****" !
We had been hauling a few things for my sister, some of which made using the rear view obsolete. The overflow went into her boat, but nothing more than a few boxes of curtains and clothes. Ashes from Bob's ever-present God awful cigar had somehow ignited as we rolled along, windows down.
Luckily, a small smothering tarp saved the day without much damage or loss of life from a huge fireball of exploding gasoline, fiberglass, and metal shrapnel.
Point is no extinguisher in the tow vehicle. Are you traveling without a spare? Going long distances without a bearing kit and the knowledge to replace a set along the highway?
Otherwise call the flatbed tow company, at 3 in the AM and hope you have insurance coverage or some hundred dollar bills handy. Murphy's Law especially applies to boaters that tow.
Heading to Matlacha or Pine Island? Make sure your lights are tip top for safety and also the many sheriffs that patrol this narrow corridor will be glad to give you an autographed memento of your burned out bulb visit.
We see lots of smaller flats style boats towed locally with no rear tie-downs or strap hold down. This is a disaster waiting to happen. One emergency use of the brakes and the boat can and will fly off the trailer and quickly become a 2,000 pound, gasoline loaded projectile sliding down a traffic choked road tow chain hooked or not.
If your baby has been sitting this summer and the cooler weather and fantastic fishing is stirring your soul spend a few hours this weekend looking everything over. Change that water separating filter right away and add fresh ethanol treatment to your tank(s).
Check all electronics on the boat and trailer. Make repairs now, not 25 miles offshore. Buy that spare tire, and the jack that you've been putting off. Grease the wheels and check for bearing wear. Maybe purchase a new set of LED trailer lights and swap out those old conventional taillights.
Have a watertight container with any and all fuses, spare bulbs and a small toolbox with essential tools. Carry large plastic lawn bags. Makes great emergency raincoats, fishbags, and a wad of plastic makes a great emergency drain plug. (I know).
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Gedung Kesenian Jakarta is a heritage building from Dutch colonial days, where artists regularly perform traditional and modern drama, concerts, and musicals. Built in 1821 its construction is in neo-renaissance style and was called the Theater Schouwburg Weltevreden or the Pasar Baru Theater since it is located just across the popular Pasar Baru shopping center.
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- The Jakarta Art Center Taman Ismail Marzuki
TIM, located at Jalan Cikini Raya is dedicated to the advancement of the arts and culture in its multiple forms. Here are performance theaters, cinemas, exhibition halls, galleries, archives, restaurants and cafes and there is also a planetarium as well as the Academy for the Arts. Dramas, musical, films, recitals are daily performed here.
- Setu Babakan Betawi Cultural Village
Setu Babakan or the Babakan Lake is located at Jagakarsa. The area is specially earmarked for the preservation and advancement of Betawi
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This project will obtain spatial and long-term pollutant load information from the Root River watershed in Southeast Minnesota. To accomplish this, the Fillmore Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) will assist the MPCA with water quality monitoring and annual pollutant loading calculations. Approximately 25 grab samples will be collected/site/year at 5 sites within the Root River watershed (totaling 125 grab samples/year). Annual load calculations for each site will be determined using the FLUX32 model.
The AgBMP Loan Program provides needed funding for local implementation of clean water practices at an extremely low cost, is unique in its structure and is not duplicated by any other source of funding.The AgBMP loan program provides 3% loans through local lenders to farmers, rural landowners, and agriculture supply businesses.
Peer Engineering, Inc. (Peer) will evaluate and recommend to MPCA groundwater monitoring staff prospective sites/locations for the installation of groundwater monitoring wells to evaluate contaminant/pollutant concentrations from various sources. Peer will oversee the installation of monitoring wells by retaining a state drilling contractor or preparing bid documents to retain well driller through the Department of Administration. Superfund staff will assist in the project by providing oversight of contractual requirements and provide technical assistance as needed.
This project will identify and compile existing nitrate data from groundwaters and surface waters in the Lower Mississippi Basin (LMB) generally and focus on the Root River Watershed. The purpose is to investigate the quantity and quality of existing nitrate data, and to organize it for use in comprehensive watershed strategy development (including assessment, TMDL computation and identification and study of nitrate sources and delivery mechanisms).
This project will support a civic engagement cohort that will be offered in southwest Minnesota to foster partnering and build capacity of local government, organizations, and residents for effective civic engagement in water protection and restoration. This project will also build networks and the skill set of local resource professionals to do effective civic engagement work for water restoration and protection. The cohort will be administered through the Minnesota River Board (MRB), established in 1995 with a goal of focusing water management efforts on the local level.
This project will build network and the skill set of local resource professionals to do effective civic engagement work for water restoration and protection in Southeast Minnesota. The cohort will be administered through the Southeast Minnesota Water Resources Board (SE MN WRB) which is an area wide Joint Powers Board (JPB) established to help improve and protect the water resources of the area through coordinating local water planning efforts. This JPB has successfully administered water quality grants in the past that have positively impacted the water resources of this region.
This project will complete a pollutant source identification and subwatershed information report and support the development of a Draft Restoration and Protection Plan (RAPP). It will also support the devlopment of a Implementation Plan that will identify target areas for BMP implementation for bacteria reductions.
This project will study the geologic controls on nitrate transport in southeast Minnesota's karst landscape and will also provide datasets for other projects over time.
The consultant LimnoTech will support response to Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) comments the peer review process, United States Environmental Protection Agency and public notice. They will then revise the TMDL document as needed and attend internal and external project meetings.
The goal of this project is to finalize the Lake Pepin Watershed phosphorus total maximum daily load (TMDL) report by using the existing information and documentation prepared under previous contracts to prepare one TMDL report that addresses the impairments on the mainstem of the Mississippi River. Information developed to date for draft TMDLs on the Minnesota River mainstem will be documented for later use by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency.
Ninety percent of the land in Mower County is used for agriculture. The County ranks 10th and 13th in the State for corn and bean production, making much of the land vulnerable to erosion due to the planting of row crop. As a result, streams and ditches in the county see high sediment loads.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities.
Lake Monitoring: Lakes are monitored for nutrients, clarity and other information to provide the data needed to assess the aquatic recreation use support.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, fieldwork, data management, and interpretation expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities.The ambient groundwater monitoring network describes the current condition and trends in Minnesota's groundwater quality.
This project supports monitoring and assessment activities by MPCA EAO staff and includes lab analysis, equipment, and fieldwork expenses associated with monitoring and assessment activities within the described priority watersheds.
This project will, over a 27 month period, fund a 0.75 Full Time Equivalent Conservation Planning Specialist position to update approximately 400 United States Department of Agriculture Highly Erodable Lands conservation plans on 40,000 acres in high priority areas within the Root River watershed. Currently, only 5% of the USDA conservation plans -approximately 40 per year - are being checked for compliance, and this project will increase that number to 150 or more per year.
The goal of this project is to complete the construction, calibration, and validation of an Hydrological Simulation Program FORTRAN (HSPF) watershed model for the Minnesota portions of three watersheds: Root River, Upper Iowa, and Mississippi River-Reno.
This project aims to mitigate flow and nitrate impacts from agricultural drainage to the Root River through the installation of a suite of multi-purpose drainage management practices.
TMDL project in the Root River Watershed that will support surface water assessment, analysis of data, interpretation of southeast Minnesota's karst landscape, stressor identification, TMDL computation, source assessment, and implementation planning.
The purpose of this project is to assess the amount of land in the Root River watershed that is treated by structural best management practices (BMPs); more specifically, Water and Sediment Control Basins. The 2016 Root River Watershed Restoration and Protection Strategy (WRAPS) report recommended reducing sediment loss from upland areas and reducing nitrate loading to streams from runoff. Understanding the location and density of these BMPs will is important for targeting future watershed protection and restoration efforts.
The Root River Field to Stream Partnership is a collaborative effort led by the Minnesota Department of Agriculture in partnership with Fillmore, Mower, and the Root River Soil and Water Conservation Districts, local farmers, crop advisers, the Minnesota Agricultural Water Resource Center, and the Nature Conservancy.Together, project partners are addressing the following key questions:What is the range of sediment, nitrogen and phosphorus losses from agricultural fields in southeast Minnesota?
Approximately 70 percent of all Minnesotans rely on groundwater as their primary source of drinking water. Wells used for drinking water must be properly sealed when removed from service to protect both public health and Minnesota's invaluable groundwater resources. The Minnesota Department of Health protects both public health and groundwater by assuring the proper sealing of unused wells.
Clean Water funds are being provided to well owners as a 50% cost-share assistance for sealing unused public water-supply wells.
The lack of sewage treatment in many small communities in Southeast Minnesota is causing surface water and groundwater pollution. Fourteen of these small communities will receive technical assistance provided by this project. These communities have community or individual straight pipes which are discharging raw sewage directly to the environment, surfacing sewage, or have sewage contaminating groundwater.
The goal of this project is to investigate nitrate transport and the sources of nitrate in karst for more effective implementation of best management practices that will reduce nitrate concentrations in ground and surface water.
This project will complete a chloride management plan which will lay out a strategy for addressing chloride impacts to our surface waters for the 7-county metropolitan area. This chloride management plan will satisfy EPA requirements for impaired waters, address waters not yet listed, and develop a strategy to protect waters that are currently meeting the water quality standards.
This project will provide the MPCA and all local partners in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Area (TCMA) the information and tools necessary to improve and/or maintain water quality with respect to chloride for the 7-county metropolitan area during the winter maintenace period.
This project will provide the monitoring of reaches where there are data gaps, incorporate new data and analyze relevant data, identify pollutant sources, hold a stakeholder meeting, and gather information towards the future development of a Draft Restoration (TMDL) and Protection Plan.
This project will support the monitoring of reaches where there are data gaps, incorporate new data and relevant data, continue identification of pollutant sources, complete load duration curves, coordinate and encourage participation in stakeholder meetings. The information gathered during Phase IIB will be utilized towards the development of a Draft Restoration (TMDL) and Protection Plan (Plan).


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May 12, 2014 11:26 AM PT
Well it was a relatively quiet week here in the Linux blogosphere, giving residents a long-overdue opportunity to catch their collective breath, enjoy a few Tequila Tux cocktails and take stock of all the FOSS-related happenings that have taken place over the past few weeks.
Among the highlights, for those who missed them, were the awarding of the IEEE Computer Society's 2014 Computer Pioneer Award to none other than Linus Torvalds; the arrival of Tails OS 1.0; and, perhaps most exciting of all, the release of Seattle-based band netcat's debut album as a Linux kernel module.
"Are you ever listening to an album, and thinking 'man, this sounds good, but I wish it crossed from user-space to kernel-space more often!'" netcat wrote on its Facebook page. "We got you covered. Our album is now fully playable as a loadable Linux kernel module."
Linux Girl thought she had seen it all here in the Linux world, but now she realizes she was wrong. Thank you, netcat, for keeping life interesting!
'Command Line Secrets'
Speaking of interesting, there's nothing like a little shop talk around the bar to pass the time during a quiet week, and last week afforded a dose of that as well. Life is good here in the Linux blogosphere!
The forum was Linux Voice -- that shiny, new magazine alert readers may remember launched late last year -- and the topic was none other than command line secrets.
Linux Girl couldn't resist.
'It Manages to Render Most Web Pages'
"There are loads of really good reasons to use the command line," wrote the masterminds at Linux Voice. "It's the most powerful and concise method of interacting with your computer.
"However, we decided to take a moment to look at some of its more obscure (and some would say pointless) uses," they added.
Top of the magazine's list is the elinks Web browser: "It might not be as colorful as its more famous rivals, but it manages to render most Web pages," they explained. "As well has having geek-chic, it can come in handy when you just need to quickly check if a Web page is accessible from a computer you only have SSH access to."
The list goes on from there to include looking up definitions on Wikipedia, among other tips.
Down at the Broken Windows Lounge, patrons had plenty of suggestions of their own.
'Great for Maintenance'
"Very nice tips on CL commands, very nice," enthused Google+ blogger Alessandro Ebersol, for example. "But they forgot cowsay, which is great for having some laughs in the darkness of a terminal."
The command line "is great for maintenance," he added. "One can automate with bash scripts and make complex tasks with few (or just one) keystrokes."
Other command line secrets Ebersol would add to the original list are sl (steam locomotive), along with these nuggets:
* % cat "food in cans"
cat: can't open food in cans
* % nice man woman
No manual entry for woman.
* % [Where is Jimmy Hoffa?
Missing ].
* % make love
Make: Don't know how to make love. Stop.
* % man: why did you get a divorce?
man:: Too many arguments.
'The Most Precious Gem'
"Command-line secrets? There aren't any such things," blogger Robert Pogson told Linux Girl. "Desperate newbie? Type 'help.' Still need a hint? Type 'man whatever.' Want more diversity? Type 'ls /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin | less,' pick out a few gems and type 'man whatever' all night long. I've been at it more than a decade. Still having fun."
Pogson doesn't remember how long ago he discovered 'ssh,' but "it's the most precious gem of the FLOSS world," he said.
"The awesome power of ssh is that the joy you have with typing commands on one computer can allow you a hundred times the joy on 100 computers," he added. "Of course, it's not fun to type passwords 100 times, so learn to use secure passwordless logins with ssh to make logging in remotely transparent."
'Use It With Respect'
Of course, "just as with any pleasurable activity, one can be addicted to the point of destruction," Pogson warned. "As root, you can type commands to delete everything or otherwise mess things up.
"This is the nuclear option, and just as world leaders should sit on their hands and think carefully before pushing the button, value this power and use it with respect and higher motivations," he added.
"I once deleted a file system because my thumb dragged the space bar into a command," Pogson concluded. "I only did that once. Honest."
'Very Powerful'
Google+ blogger Gonzalo Velasco C. was no less enthusiastic.
"Even though the GUI tools are easier, in the *nix universe, the command line remains very powerful," he told Linux Girl. "Even some power MacOS users use them."
As for Gonzalo Velasco C. himself, "the only commands I would like to master are the process control and killing, to use with ctrl+alt+backspace, so I can handle the one process that is giving me trouble, and the tar.gz files management -- that to this very day remains a pain for me," he said.
'Ur Doing It Wrong'
Last but not least, SoylentNews blogger hairyfeet had a different perspective altogether.
"The only thing I would add to a story about CLI is this: If you aren't working in IT and performing repetitive tasks where having an extremely simplistic, primitive way to script something is useful, and yet you are still using CLI, then 'ur doing it wrong,'" hairyfeet told Linux Girl. "A CLI isn't magic -- it's a GUI from the 1970s!"
Today there are "useful GUIs thanks to actually having more CPU and RAM than a dollar-store watch -- we even have IDEs and scripting languages that can run rings around that 70s throwback, work across the WAN or LAN and interact with the deepest levels of the OS, all while being easier to use thanks to technologies like intellisense and autocomplete," he explained. "So why in God's name, if you aren't one of the 3 percent who are administering systems where every single byte counts, would you be dragging that old pile of junk out of mothballs?"
Hairyfeet's best CLI advice? "Don't -- join the rest of the planet in the 21st century and learn how to use real languages and tools," he concluded. "Let CLI join bubble memory and floppies on the dustbin of history."