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Looking Back: 8 new occupants of the 2008 tech graveyard
Gaze with us, back on the tumultuous year that was 2008. Although it started hopefully, as all new years do, it slowly turned into a time when old ways died, gadgets that barely got off the ground ceased to exist, and whole tech categories breathed their last. Alas, for all of them, it was the worst of times.
To some of the occupants of the following list we bid a fond farewell, and others we kick out the door as if we were barroom bouncers, accompany their exit with a stern "good riddance." A few may not be quite dead yet, but 2008 was their last full year, and in our opinion, are as good as dead — definitely not "pining for the fjords."
Join us in saying goodbye to the dearly departed:
The format war between HD disc formats is over, with Blu-ray emerging victorious over HD DVD. Sony laid down some major coin to get Warner Brothers in the Blu-ray camp, and meanwhile Netflix, Best Buy and then Wal-Mart abandoned HD DVD. Finally Toshiba, one of the originators of HD DVD, bowed out, effectively killing the format. And we thought HD DVD had a shot at a win, especially since its manufacturing processes were similar to DVDs. The jury is still out on Blu-ray, with a lackluster performance for the rest of '08.
Neonode N2
First seen on the streets in mid-2007, this cute, tiny touchscreen cellphone burst on the scene with high hopes. That burst turned to fizzle as the phone's operating system needed revamping, its hardware needed tweaking, and its Swedish company's bank account needed replenishing. Now Neonode AB has filed for bankruptcy, the first victim of what's being called the "touch bubble."
Phantom Lapboard
Five years in the making, Phantom Entertainment still vows to release its first lap-friendly keyboard/laser mouse/mousing surface next February. But we've heard that promise of impending release many times before. The company is apparently running short of funds, not surprising considering the astonishing $62.7 million spent developing this $130 keyboard. The soap opera of its development limps along, but we're ready to call the company's illness terminal. Somebody pull the plug already.
VHS Tape
The warhorse of home video just died this year, although many of us thought it had croaked a decade ago. At a ripe old age of 30, the last shipment of the tired old tapes emerged from a Palm Harbor, Florida warehouse run by the format's last major supplier, Ron Kugler. Though Ron sold 4 million VHS tapes to truck stops and Dollar Stores over the past two years, even he's calling VHS a dead technology, comparing it to 8-track tapes. Along with those moldy old 8-tracks, this is one piece of tired tech we won't miss at all.
Analog TV
It's not quite dead yet, but 2008 was the last full year of that analog TV tech that brought our parents and grandparents Howdy Doody, Kukla, Fran and Ollie, and the Beatles on The Ed Sullivan Show. We're sure there aren't many DVICE readers still stuck in the analog TV era, but for those who haven't made the jump to digital yet, hurry up and get your $40 vouchers (each household is allowed two) for set-top digital converter boxes, because they're running out and you only have until February 17, 2009 until analog is gone forever.
Film Cameras
Unless you're using a disposable camera (and even some of those are digital now) chances are you've gone digital. Almost all the pro shooters at the Olympics last summer were shooting digital SLRs, too. A lot of high-end studio camera photography is still done on film, but when it comes to snapshots, digital is king, film is dead.
Remember all the hype about Microsoft's "Origami," a code word for an "Ultra Mobile PC?" Electronics companies hoped you'd buy one of their underpowered 7-inch-screened tablet PCs, even if you already had a laptop. Now, with smartphones getting smarter, the battery-hungry and expensive UMPCs have been squeezed out of the lower end of that market, and have given way to netbooks. The UMPC's awkward keyboard and frustrating performance kept it from quite finding its own market niche. Sure, there are still a few UMPC stragglers kicking around, but we're hearing their death rattle.
The $100 laptop
It started out with noble ambition, and then as its price went up, way beyond the $100 target of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) initiative, those idealistic, Utopian hopes of a $100 laptop that could be placed into the hands of every child in the world vaporized. Sure, you can still give one/get one of these cheap Linux-running PCs — you send one machine to a child in a developing country and also get one yourself — but that'll cost closer to $200 per laptop. It's still a low price, but the $100 laptop idea? Deceased.


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|Tamara McMinn Yoga
|Yoga Style: Ashtanga, Vinyasa
Monroe, Washington
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| Yoga Classes in Snohomish Washington
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|Yoga Circle Studio
|Yoga Style: Many styles of Yoga, and Special Workshops
707 Pine Avenue #A103
Snohomish, Washington 98290
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Yoga Circle Studio is a spa for the spirit: A beautiful space for creating strength, flexibility and a greater sense of well being. Several styles of yoga are offered including a Beginners 101 7 week series, Warm Flow, and Gentle Hatha classes - as well Tai Chi, and special events. Check our website: www.YogaCircleStudio.com for a current schedule of classes and events.
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| Yoga Classes in Woodinville Washington
9.73 Miles Away
|Divine Will Yoga
|Yoga Style: Hatha
19019 156th Ave NE
Woodinville, Washington 98072
|206-321-2389 cell
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Healing~Relaxing~Inspiring Hatha Yoga classes. Please come practice with wonderful studnets in a beautiful studio. Enjoy a first time lesson for free.
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|Root 2 Rise Yoga
|Yoga Style: Vinyasa, Hatha and Yin
13317 NE 175th St, Suite C
Woodinville, Washington 98072
|Contact:Casey Stewart
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Yoga is our passion. We are dedicated to fostering harmony, health, and balance in our lives and community. We encourage curiosity and play with a lighthearted approach.
We are a community yoga studio offering a variety of classes for all fitness levels. We have yoga related products available for purchase in-store.
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|Hot Yoga of Woodinville
|Yoga Style: Hot Yoga, Bikram Beginning Hatha Yoga
Woodinville, Washington 98072
|425 415 1802
|Contact:Sandra Smith
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This studio closed in August of 2013. If you are looking for a studio location, contact Wallace Properties Woodinville.
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|Heart Filled Yoga
|Yoga Style: Vinyasa
Gold Creek Tennis and Sports Club
Woodinville, Washington 98072
|425 881-6874
|Contact:Kris Lowe
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Live audio classes available for download. I teach at Gold Creek Tennis and Sports Club in Woodinville (membership required). Annual Yoga weekend on a private island in the San Juans in May. Twice daily yoga, kayaking, sailing, beach combing, gormet food, heated swimming pool, tennis, relaxing. Photos on website from spring retreat.
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| Yoga Classes in Bothell Washington
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|Include Yoga
|Yoga Style: Iyengar influenced Hatha
18104 - 102nd Avenue Ne, Bothell, WA
Bothell, Washington 98011
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Includeyoga, Hatha yoga classes based in Exhale!Pilates Studio, the Historic District of Bothell,WA. Classes are based on the principles of B.K.S.Iyengar. Asana focuses on alignment and symmetry. Studio Classes, Classes on the Go,Corporate, Private Sessions and Workshops available.
All levels welcome! Beginners/gentle yoga for special needs: Pregnancy, injury recovery, children and family yoga. Classic Hatha:asana, breathwork and meditation. CYT (500), RYT 200,ERYT 200 Visit the website: www.includeyoga.com
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|Ananda of Seattle & Bothell
|Yoga Style: Ananda Yoga / Kriya Yoga
23305 Bothell-Everett Hwy
Bothell, Washington 98036
|Contact:Terry McGilloway
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Ananda is an international network of independent retreat and yoga centers, intentional communities, meditation temples based on the hatha, raja, and kriya yoga of Paramhansa Yogananda and founded by a direct disciple, Swami Kriyananda. Ananda has three locations in the greater Seattle area: Seattle (in East West Bookshop), Bothell (Meditatin Temple), and Ananda Community in Lynnwood, WA.
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|Institute of Living Yoga
|Yoga Style: Ananda Yoga
23305 Bothell-Everett Hwy
Bothell, Washington 98021
|Contact:Willow Kushler
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Providing weekly yoga classes, yoga supplies and resources as well as Yoga Teacher Training.
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|Exhale! Pilates & Yoga
|Yoga Style: Iyengar, Classic, Family Yoga
18104 - 102nd Avenue NE
Bothell, Washington 98011
|Contact:Marsha Dorman
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Cecilia Boehme, RYT 500, is the owner of IncludeYoga at Exhale! Ce's class focus is on alignment and symmetry, and she is skilled at targeting the challenges that come with all ages, stages of life, fitness levels, heights, weights and energy levels—active adults, aging adults, curvy bodies, new moms, moms-to-be, moms & babies, children, teens and families. Cecilia specializes in yoga for life transitions—rehabilitation, recovery, grief & loss. Her yoga services include ongoing classes, private lessons, beginner series, and monthly workshops. Ce's additional certifications include Zumba, Zumba Gold, Zumba Step and Tai Chi for Better Balance.
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| Yoga Classes in Everett Washington
14.36 Miles Away
|Holman Health Connections
|Yoga Style: Viniyoga-inspired Prana Flow
1917 Rockefeller Ave
Everett, Washington 98201
|Contact:Roy Holman
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Holman Health Connections, since 2000, has been teaching yoga, meditation, and other healing classes and workshops, as well as leading retreats in Washington, Sedona, Mexico, Costa Rica, Hawaii, Bali, and Guatemala. Roy Holman is the author of Healing Self, Healing Earth: Awakening Presence, Power, and Passion, and Poems from the Passionate Heart. He is also a Oneness Blessing giver and trainer, and works out of Everett, Washington. Focuses on compassion, kindness, and awakening for the Shift on Earth. For every body.
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|Abundant Life Yoga
|Yoga Style: Certified Purna Yoga Teacher
Everett, Washington 98208
|Contact:Debbie St Marie, CPYT-2000, ERYT-500
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Debbie is one of fewer than 50 teachers world wide who is certified at the 2000 hour level in Purna Yoga! Her instruction is designed to help you fall in love with life again and make you feel more alive! With a vast knowledge of therapeutic uses of yoga, she offers small group and private instruction in her beautiful garden view studio. It is fully equipped and features the only Great Yoga Wall in the Everett/Mill Creek area. www.greatyogawall.com. Mention you found us on YogaFinder for a $5 discount!
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|Tranquil Turtle Yoga Studio
|Yoga Style: Iyengar
7th Ave SE
EVERETT, Washington 98208
|425 737 5509
|Contact:Shannon Middleton
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Smaller classes, more personal attention in a comfortable studio setting. Low cost classes ($9 per class). Therapeutic yoga offered. Massage also available.
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|Women's Wellness Center
|Yoga Style: Hatha, Beginning, Gentle
2817 Rockefeller Ave
Everett, Washington 98201
|Contact:Kerri Mallams
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Everett's only non-profit women's yoga center includes: beginning, gentle, all-level yoga, restorative and Yin.
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|Barefoot Yoga
|Yoga Style: Power Vinyasa, Prenatal & Restorative
1708 W. Mukilteo Blvd.
Everett, Washington 98203
|Contact:Mandy Cummins, RYT200
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Mandy offers private, group & prenatal yoga lessons in her beautiful in-home yoga studio that boasts heated floors ,environmentally friendly props & supplies & inspiring artwork in a serene atmopshere
Find out what movements work best for your body, the physical & mental benefits of each pose, & how to release anxiety & access a sense of calm no matter what's going on around you.
Schedule: Mondays at 4:30pm-Ma Yoga Prenatal, Tuesdays at 6pm-Candelit Yoga Fusion, Sundays at 8am-Yoga Fusion. Mandy also teaches Thursdays at 6pm at Rosehill Community Center through the Mukilteo Parks & Recreation department.
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| Yoga Classes in Redmond Washington
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|Aham Yoga
|Yoga Style: Hatha & Vinyasa
8226 196th Ave NE
Redmond, Washington 98053
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All our yoga classes focus on alignment, breath and awareness. A typical class will include asana/postures, pranayama/breath work and Yoga Nidra/complete relaxation. Our classes are open to all levels of practitioners from beginners to advanced. However, if you are looking for personalized or therapy/restorative sessions they can be provided on request. Our basis comes from classical Yoga. We teach two main styles – Hatha and Hatha Vinyasa
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|Aham Yoga
|Yoga Style: Hatha, Children, Prenatal, and Vinyasa
8226 196th Ave NE
Redmond, Washington 98053
|Contact:Arundhati Baitmangalkar
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New to Yoga, want to give it a try? Or, an experienced practitioner who wants to learn the classical system as it was originally practised? Or, do you want to bust the myth that yoga is not for everyone? Aham Yoga with Arundhati offers a variety of classes aimed at all levels of practitioners where we teach classical yoga, take you back to the roots. There are multiple classes everyday for kids, adults, beginners and prenatal yoga. Our classes are small in order to help you grow deep in your yoga practice. All classes are taught by Arundhati, who effortlessly shares her yoga knowledge & passion with you. So you never have to worry about adjusting to new teachers each day. We specialize in Hatha Yoga & Vinyasa, with emphasis on alignment, breath coordination & bringing awareness into the body. We also offer several workshops, community classes, yoga movie screenings, yoga in the park and more.
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|Discover Yoga
|Yoga Style: Viniyoga/Prenatal
15744 Redmond Way
Redmond, Washington 98052
|Contact:Alison Eliason, Owner
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Yoga studio, registered with the National Yoga Alliance. Offering classes and workshops in Viniyoga for adults, children and prenatal students.
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|Yoga Style: Hatha/Kundalini
Redmond, Washington 98052
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Serving people by showing them the tools and how to apply their own specific formula for true peace, health, love, joy and harmony in their personal and professional lives.
Serving individuals, groups and businesses with Lifestyle consultations, Meditation, Yoga, Breathing techniques, Ayurvedic lifestyle,Vedic Astrology, Intuitive Counseling.
Masters degree in applied behavioral science. a counselor , lifestyle coach, chopra certified instructor, spiritual speaker, teacher and educator in meditation, yoga, and ayurvedic lifestyle. consulting in vedic astrology, consult and serve people with concerns with addictions, degenerative diseases, death and dying, nutrition, and spiritual concerns.
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|Briora Ballroom Dance Studio
|Yoga Style: Power Vinyasa Yoga
2260-152nd Ave NE, Suite 100
Redmond, Washington 98052
|Contact:Jessica McMorrow
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Develop strength, flexibility, and get a great workout with our high-energy power vinyasa (flow) yoga sequence. These classes are suitable for all fitness levels. Drop-ins are welcome. Check our website for an up-to-date schedule at www.Briora.com/calendar.html
Also offered at Briora Ballroom: Nia, Essentrics, Feldenkrais, Ballroom & Latin Dance
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| Yoga Classes in Sammamish Washington
16.56 Miles Away
|Kundalini Yoga with Sosie
|Yoga Style: Kundalini
Sammamish, Washington 98074
|Contact:Sosie Hari Kirin Sagherian
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I teach throughtout the East Side of Seattle. Kundalini yoga classes are a dynamic blend of postures, pranayam, mantra, music and meditation, which teach you the art of relaxation, self-healing and elevation. Balancing body and mind enables you to experience the clarity and beauty of your soul. No previous experience in yoga is required for you to achieve results with your very first class.
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|Plateau Yoga
|Yoga Style: Iyengar/Purna
820 216th PL NE
Sammamish, Washington 98074
|Contact:Susan Giese
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Quiet, friendly private yoga sessions available in your own home setting.
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|Vedic Cultural Center
|Yoga Style: Bhakti Yoga
1420 228 Ave SE
Sammamish, Washington 98075
|Contact:Vidya Ramakrishnan
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Vedic Cultural Center is dedicated to preserving, practicing, and growing the Vedic tradition for the benefit of younger generation and all people. The Vedas teach that we are all part of one great family with a common origin. Therefore Vedic culture celebrates commonality of all human beings and teaches them to live in harmony with nature by practice of the universal principle of ahimsa or non violence.
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|Bhakti Yoga
Sammamish, Washington 98075
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|Urban Oasis Yoga & Wellness
|Yoga Style: All Styles
3310 E. Lake Sammamish Pkwy SE, Suite #I
Sammamish, Washington 98075
|Contact:Deb Wolfe
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Urban Oasis Yoga & Wellness looks out onto Lake Sammamish and is located in a bedroom community between the cities of Issaquah and Sammamish in Washington State. We are the only integrated healthcare and yoga facility in the greater Seattle area. At 4,200 square feet, our facility has been designed with all the natural elements in mind: stone, wood, metal, fire, and water. Our state-of the-art center focuses on a "ONE STOP SHOP" concept for integrated healthcare and yoga in a spa like setting.
Our facility consist of two large yoga studios, one is designed for Alignment-base yoga (Iyengar) and Yoga Therapeutics , with a 58 foot yoga wall and all the props necessary for proper alignment and Therapeutic yoga. The other studio is set up for our Warm (80º) Power Vinyasa classes, as well as Hatha, , Workshops and RYT Teacher Trainings programs. By offering over 38 yoga and meditation classes a week, taught in 14 different styles, all by certified yoga instructors, Urban Oasis has quickly been set apart from other yoga studios.
Our Integrated Healthcare & Wellness Center, has brought together a team of well educated, experienced and compassionate practitioners. Our team consists of an Chiropractor, two Massage practitioners, an Acupuncturist, a Nutritionist, three Clinical Therapists, a Hypnotherapist and a Yoga Therapist.
Our focus is to ensure that each client is nurtured in a non-threatening, professional and secure environment so that they may attain their goals of achieving optimal health and well-being.
To get started visit our website at www.urbanoasisyoga.com and print out our 1 WEEK FREE MEMBERSHIP PASS! With gratitude, The Team at Urban Oasis Yoga & Wellness
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| Yoga Classes in Lake Forest Park Washington
15.50 Miles Away
|Gina Sala - Global Vocals
|Yoga Style: cross-cultural chanting/mantra
17753 - Beach Dr NE
Lake Forest Park, Washington 98155
|(206) 367-2708
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Gina Salá is a vocalist, composer and teacher living in Seattle who has learned and shared songs at stages, living rooms, and huts throughout much of the world. She has been chanting mantra since the age of 3 while living at Swami Sivananda Radha's Yasodhara Ashram in Canada. Singing in 18 languages, she has performed at the United Nations, the U.S. Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, is featured on Roland's 'Voices of the World' compilation and has recently completed a singing contract with Cirque du Soleil. With joyful awe at the power of sound and voice, and gratitude to her teachers worldwide, Gina leads voice workshops and cross-cultural kirtans internationally and is a co-director of Sound Healers of Washington. She has completed coursework with MHTP, IMHE, OPEN EAR CENTER. Offering techniques and humor from many cultures and traditions, her joy is helping youth and adults experience the pleasure of their own embodied free voices & the silent, loving Voice within.
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Heritage-Crystal Clean, Inc. Announces 2012 Third Quarter Financial Results
ELGIN, Ill., Oct. 17, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Heritage-Crystal Clean, Inc. (Nasdaq:HCCI), a leading provider of parts cleaning, used oil re-refining, and hazardous and non-hazardous waste services primarily focused on small and mid-sized customers, today announced results for the third quarter and first three quarters of fiscal 2012 which ended September 8, 2012.
Third quarter highlights include:
- Sales increased 66.6%, to $62.1 million, compared to $37.2 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2011. For the first three quarters of fiscal 2012, sales increased 78.5% to $174.8 million, compared to $98.0 million in the first three quarters of fiscal 2011. This increase was due to organic growth in the Environmental Services segment and the ramp up of the Oil Business segment.
- Earnings per share (EPS) was $0.06 in the third quarter of fiscal 2012 compared to basic and diluted EPS of $0.04 in the third quarter of fiscal 2011. Earnings per share was $0.15 for the first three quarters of fiscal 2012, compared to basic and diluted EPS of $0.12 and $0.11, respectively, in the first three quarters of fiscal 2011.
- Our Environmental Services (ES) segment includes parts cleaning, containerized waste, and vacuum services. During the third quarter, ES sales increased $4.5 million, or 16.3% compared to the third quarter of fiscal 2011, primarily from organic growth. During the first three quarters of fiscal 2012, ES sales increased $13.3 million, or 16.4% when compared to the first three quarters of fiscal 2011.
- Same-branch sales for our ES segment increased 13.6% for the quarter, measured for the 66 branches that were in operation throughout both the third quarters of 2012 and 2011. For the first three quarters of fiscal 2012, same-branch sales increased 13.2%, measured for the 66 branches that were in operation for the first three quarters of both 2012 and 2011.
- Average sales per working day in our ES segment was approximately $555,000, compared to $475,000 in the third quarter of fiscal 2011 and compared to $545,000 in the second quarter of fiscal 2012.
- Our Oil Business (OB) segment includes used oil collection and re-refining activities. During the third quarter of fiscal 2012, OB sales increased $20.3 million, to $29.9 million from $9.6 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2011, reflecting sales from base oil from our used oil re-refinery in Indianapolis, which had only produced intermediate products and byproducts in the third quarter of fiscal 2011. During the first three quarters of fiscal 2012, OB sales increased $63.6 million, or 383.7%.
The Company's Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer, Joe Chalhoub, commented, "We are pleased with the ramp up of our Oil Business segment as we showed continued progress at our Indianapolis, Indiana re-refinery. During the quarter we fed 10.0 million gallons of used oil into the re-refinery and we increased our base oil production rate to 89% of nameplate capacity, up from 69% in the previous quarter. We continue to work through the logistical and operational challenges which are typical with a new re-refinery, but we are pleased with our overall progress."
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I think low VOC paints are a must (I think most non-industrial brands are nowadays), and water-based paints are probably better than oil-based paints (since they clean up with water and no paint thinners or anything). If you are stripping or scraping old paint off, I'd have someone else do that, since there may be lead paint underneath. keep the windows open if you can, just because the smells may upset an already queasy tummy.
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A cliché of the energy debate is that we need to adopt wind, solar, and other "renewable" energy technologies to reduce our dependency on foreign oil. The new executive director of the Sierra Club, Michael Brune, said exactly this on CNNC with me back at the time of the BP oil spill last spring. This is another example of the rampant ignorance of the nation's energy conversation. We very quickly made a transition away from using oil to generate electricity over 30 years ago.
The data in the figure below, taken from the Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration, compares the various sources of net electricity generation from 1960 to 2009.
In 1978, oil was the second-largest fuel used to generate electricity, behind coal. But since the oil shocks of the 1970s the United States has reduced oil-fired electricity by 90 percent. Whereas it was once true that using alternative energy (wind, solar, whatever) lowered our dependence on oil (foreign or domestic), that is no longer true. Windmills and solar panels don't help us "get off oil" at all any more. And what the lines also show is that the greatest growth of electricity came mostly from coal and natural gas (though nuclear power has increased its power output 38 percent since 1990 without building a single new nuclear plant)—not wind, solar, biomass, or other non-fossil fuel sources. Nearly all of our oil consumption today is used in the transportation sector, for planes, trains, and automobiles. Further progress in reducing oil use will have to come from developing alternative fuels for the transportation sector.


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Did anybody else realize that Rasheed Wallace's almost-perfect game (7-8 field goals) was far from perfect, after all? Not Doc Rivers, apparently. (Boston Globe)
"I thought he was on the post a little bit more,'' Rivers said. "He just played well. It's a human game. You know, you can struggle a whole year and you keep working and it may turn for you. That's why I don't stay in the past very long.
"The guy is working and practicing every day. You just hope he keeps working and keeps improving. That was a good game, that was a great game. Our bench overall was phenomenal. But we lost the game.''
Yeah, Rasheed shot very well from the field, with his only miss being a late three-pointer in his final field goal attempt. He made some nice moves, including one where he pivoted to put the ball right over his defender's head, then drained a shot off glass before the defender could react. That was nice, real nice even.
But he grabbed one rebound in 26 minutes. He's 6'11, people! Granted, his one rebound was a beastly offensive board over two defenders, but it was still ONE REBOUND IN 26 MINUTES! I could have gotten as many, and I'm a 6'1″ white boy with the mobility of a fat 12-year old.
If you want to be satisfied with Wallace's performance, go ahead. He scored well, put in work on the post, and had a pulse for the first time in months. But if you want to settle for one rebound in 26 minutes, you're setting the bar far too low.
Another troublesome sign? Glen Davis said Doc Rivers doesn't urge Rasheed to go down low.
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Twice a year, AIP's 41-member Governing Board meets to discuss weighty matters along with some routine business matters. Board members are appointed by AIP's Member Societies to oversee products and services generated by AIP for the benefit of Societies' members and, through them, for the benefit of the physical science community. AIP was formed nearly 80 years ago for the purpose of providing publishing services for the Member Societies. Even though the world of society management and societal communications has changed significantly since 1931, AIP's products and services continue to bind the Member Societies together with mutual benefit.
At last Friday's Spring 2010 meeting, the Board was given the final accounting of AIP's financial results for 2009, which was anything but business as usual; rather, it has been "off normal" to use the language of a statistician or mathematician. The global financial situation put AIP and several of its Member Societies under stress. Even so, we were pleased to report to the Board that AIP completed 2009 with a modest budget surplus. Moreover, we were able to continue to invest in critical revenue-generating products, such as upgrading the Scitation online publishing platform and delivering new and innovative information products and services (e-books, UniPHY, and iResearch). John Haynes, VP, Publishing, presented a progress report on the ongoing initiative to strengthen not only AIP's core publishing products, such as Scitation, but also to transform AIP's fee-based publishing services business model into a value-added publishing partnership model.
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A day-long board meeting can tend to hit the doldrums by early-afternoon, but not this meeting, thanks to a guest appearance by Steve Fetter, assistant director at-large of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President. Fetter gave a "View from the White House," as he reviewed the national science policy issues during the first year of the Obama Administration, and some future plans. As AIP has reported in numerous FYI reports, there were significant increases for funding of science programs in both the FY2009 Stimulus Bill and in FY2010 appropriations for agencies with science portfolios.
Discussions on public policy continued in the afternoon session when Kevin Marvel, chair of our new Government Relations Advisory Committee, introduced a discussion and a draft motion on the need for a Board-level committee on public policy. The lively debate concluded with my pledge to work with the Member Societies to craft a mutually acceptable solution before the next Governing Board meeting. I thank the Board members for their spirited and useful debate on this subject.
AIP issued a press release on March 23 announcing the "launch of a pilot program that allows individuals to 'rent' single articles for a 24-hour period for just $0.99. The service, created by DeepDyve, allows users to read, but not download or print, the full text of an article. Called 'Netflix for researchers' by some, the service gives corporations and institutions with more specialized collections affordable access to seminal AIP journal content. AIP will be offering their new article rental service on an experimental basis until the end of September, 2010." For more details, see the full press release: http://www.aip.org/press_release/deepdyve.html.
Thirteen undergraduate institutions have received 2010 Sigma Pi Sigma Chapter Project Awards to fund chapter inductions and events—the most in the program's four-year history. These annual awards recognize chapter efforts to raise public awareness of the physics honor society, build Sigma Pi Sigma's student/alumni community, and promote inter-chapter activities.
One of the notable awardees, Western Kentucky University (WKU), will use the grant funds to celebrate WKU Sigma Pi Sigma Chapter's remarkable history on April 24, 2010, by hosting their 50th annual induction ceremony. The ceremony will be open to all WKU Sigma Pi Sigma alumni, and special invitations will be extended to five alumnae, one from each of their five decades of existence, to address new inductees about the significance of membership in the national honor society and their experiences since graduation. See a complete list of the recipients, along with project summaries, on the Sigma Pi Sigma website.
In celebration of Laserfest 2010, the 52nd annual AIP Industrial Physics Forum is titled "Applications of Laser Technology." It will be held October 25-26, in conjunction with Frontiers in Optics 2010/Laser Science XXVI, in Rochester, NY. Three theme sessions range in topic from biomedical applications to environmental applications to metrology. The perennially popular Frontiers in Physics session—which addresses the most exciting physics research going on today, regardless of field—will feature invited talks on graphene, entangled atoms, and the new science stemming from the Large Hadron Collider and the Fermi Gamma Telescope. This special symposium is presented by AIP and OSA Corporate Associates.
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*Picture book for preschoolers through 2nd graders (nonfiction)
*Saint Nicholas as the main character (before he was a saint)
*Rating: Secret Service Saint is the perfect picture book to share with curious children in the holiday season. It helps teach about the importance of giving!
Short, short summary: The book starts out with Nicholas as a younger man, sailing on a ship in the sea, following God's plan for him. When he lands, a group of Christians need help, and Nicholas starts caring for them. But he wasn't feeling quite right about the work he was doing. So, he took off his bright red outfit, and he put on a dark cloak at night instead. He started helping people in secret and in disguise. He loved doing this! People never figured out who did all the good deeds until Nicholas died and the secret good deeds stopped. His legend of secretly giving spread all over the world, and he became known as Saint Nicholas.
So, what do you do with this book?
1. Students can pretend they are St. Nicholas and write and draw a picture of whom they would like to secretly give a gift to if they could. If it's possible, they can do it in real life, too!
2. One of the themes of this book is giving is as good OR BETTER than giving. This is often hard for little children to understand. This is a great book to read at the beginning of a service project, such as can food drive or even a book drive. You can talk to them about why they are giving and how it will help someone and how that will feel.
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Tenth U.S. Cavalry
The first black soldiers mobilized for service in Cuba during the Spanish American War of 1898 were the 24th and 25th Infantries and the 9th and 10th Cavalries. These men first assembled at Chickamauga Park, Georgia, to prepare for the Cuban campaign.
Appointed General of the Armies in 1919, making him the second highest ranking general in American, John J. Pershing served briefly as Regimental Quartermaster of the famous 10th Cavalry during the Spanish American War. Pershing joined the 10th Cavalry at its staging area in Chickamauga Park, Georgia and worked tirelessly to prepare it for movement to Cuba. He had a huge task as much equipment was outdated or missing and rail transportation to Florida was delayed due to congested rail lines and poor organization. At Tampa, Florida he loaded the Regiment onto transport Leona and supervised unloading at Daiquiri and Siboney, Cuba. Pershing saw the first combat of his career at Kettle and San Juan Hills.
This stereograph shows the Buffalo Soldiers and their mounts at Chickamauga Park, Georgia preparing for transport to Tampa, Florida. Stereograph circa 1898.
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A type of printer that utilizes a laser beam to produce an image on a drum. The light of the laser alters the electrical charge on the drum wherever it hits. The drum is then rolled through a reservoir of toner, which is picked up by the charged portions of the drum. Finally, the toner is transferred to the paper through a combination of heat and pressure. This is also the way copy machines work.
Because an entire page is transmitted to a drum before the toner is applied, laser printers are sometimes called page printers. There are two other types of page printers that fall under the category of laser printers even though they do not use lasers at all. One uses an array of LEDs to expose the drum, and the other uses LCDs. Once the drum is charged, however, they both operate like a real laser printer.
One of the chief characteristics of laser printers is their resolution -- how many dots per inch (dpi) they lay down. The available resolutions range from 300 dpi at the low end to 1,200 dpi at the high end. By comparison, offset printing usually prints at 1,200 or 2,400 dpi. Some laser printers achieve higher resolutions with special techniques known generally as resolution enhancement.
In addition to the standard monochrome laser printer, which uses a single toner, there also exist color laser printers that use four toners to print in full color. Color laser printers tend to be about five to ten times as expensive as their monochrome siblings.
Laser printers produce very high-quality print and are capable of printing an almost unlimited variety of fonts. Most laser printers come with a basic set of fonts, called internal or resident fonts, but you can add additional fonts in one of two ways:
In addition to text, laser printers are very adept at printing graphics. However, you need significant amounts of memory in the printer to print high-resolution graphics. To print a full-page graphic at 300 dpi, for example, you need at least 1 MB (megabyte) of printer RAM. For a 600-dpi graphic, you need at least 4 MB RAM.
Because laser printers are nonimpact printers, they are much quieter than dot-matrix or daisy-wheel printers. They are also relatively fast, although not as fast as some dot-matrix printers. The speed of laser printers ranges from about 4 to 20 pages of text per minute (ppm). A typical rate of 6 ppm is equivalent to about 40 characters per second (cps).
Laser printers are controlled through page description languages (PDLs). There are two de facto standards for PDLs:
Most software can print using either of these PDLs. PostScript tends to be a bit more expensive, but it has some features that PCL lacks and it is the standard for desktop publishing. Some printers support both PCL and PostScript.
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Red Oak Lady Hawks pitch shut out
The Lady Hawks varsity softball team pitched another shut out game against the Lancaster Lady Tigers last Tuesday.
With threatening skies, the varsity team played first in case the rain came early.
It would turn out to be a short played game anyway and not due to rain, but runs.
The Lady Tiger's pitcher had a hard time finding the strike zone and walked many of the Lady Hawk batters, where they quickly took advantage of wild pitches and advanced on the bases at will.
Occasionally when a strike was thrown, the Lady Hawk batters took advantage of that too.
By the third inning the game was called by run rule and the Lady Hawks went on to win 16-0.
The JV girls were also able to play their game before the rain set in.
This game was almost a repeat of the varsity game.
The JV girls, when they weren't walked, hit the ball well too.
Their defense was also good allowing no runs as they went on to win 9-0 in three innings.
Box Scores:
Lancaster 0 Red Oak 16
Lancaster 0 1 11
Red Oak 16 9 0
Individual Pitching / Hitting
LP—Amber Arnick
WP—Shelby Hall
3B—RO: Chelsea Bissonnet 1.
2B—RO: Amber Tucker 1.
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Menezes learned about the scholarship opportunity last fall in Special Topics in Career & Professional Development, a hands-on professional development course for Isenberg sophomores, currently taught by Kim Figueroa, Director of Internships at Isenberg's Chase Career Center. Two recruiters from Liberty Mutual--Kaitlin Kelly and P.J. Macom--were in the classroom to critique student resumes. When they discovered Menezes' involvement with Run4Fun, they urged her to apply for the scholarship.
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Our friends on Sv Danika are getting ready… read their blog!
Our friends on Sv Danika are getting ready… read their blog!
Back in October, we spent two weeks putting the boat back together and getting things ready. It was still pretty hot then and I (Patrick) was a pretty uncomfortable during the days. It always takes me some time to adjust. All of our (read Dawn's) work prepping the boat before we left paid off. We had only a tiny bit of mold on some clothes, and that had happened before as well. But the boat itself was spotless. Having Rob from sv Katrina Liana open/close the boat and keep an eye on things for worth every penny!
When we left last season, my free surfboard was on its last legs and was about to break. I gave it to one of the kid boats for them to play with. I hear it got good use and eventually did break. It was part of the plan to get a new board here in Mexico from a local shaper. I wanted to spend my money here and I wanted my first new board to be from the place I learned to surf.
Tzahui Poo is a local surfer and owner of a family run surf rental and lessons shop in Mita called Mictlan Surf. I met with Tzahui at his home and shaping loft. We went over what I wanted and I was able to pick out the colors and put my own logo on the board! All of that for 2/3rds of what I would have paid for a new mass produced board. El Chicharo is 9'1" x 23" x 2-3/4" a basic longboard shape. Such a pleasure to ride! I dinged the board on like the 3rd day and had to send it back to Tzahui for repair. He loaned me a Bruce Jones. It didn't have the specs on the bottom, but it was a bit narrower and less buoyant. I could ride it, but it was a struggle to catch waves. That's more a function of my skill level right now. My board is perfect for me right now and will be a good longboard for me in the future too. I will definitely want to get some other boards though as I get better.
Anyway, since I got my new board, we've been up in Punta de Mita. The first week the swell was awesome with some 4-5 foot waves. PERFECT! That went away though and the past week or so, there's been a lot of reading going on. I've also been watching Jacqueline Gargus' Architecture 5110 from THE Ohio State University class on iTunes (Knowlton School of Architecture). I can tell she's the kind of professor I would have enjoyed when I was in school. When we're not filling our minds, we've been laying around on our boards looking at the fish, watching the pelicanos and terns catching fish on the reef, and cleaning the bottom of the boat.
Last year we let the bottom cleaning get away from us a bit. This year I think we need to be in the water once a week to clean up Deep Playa. There are two basic things we get on the bottom. First, a ring of slime around the waterline which is scrubbed off with a scotch bright pad. Second, barnacles. The barnacles are tiny, less than ¼" around right now. They have to be scraped off with a putty knife. It's not hard work, you just run the knife along the hull and they pop-off. The hardest part is cleaning the entire bottom with a 3" wide blade! I've been thinking about making something about a foot wide out of scrap metal. I think it would be perfect.
Lots of routine, lots of relaxing, a bit of boredom. Another day in paradise. More on what's to come next…
It's 11pm EST and in 36 hours we should be back on Deep Playa.
See you soon!
Patrick and I have a running joke about Coos Bay, Oregon…It is an old Native American term meaning "come here and fix shit". About this time last year, we sailed into Charleston's port and across the Coos Bay bar with the intent of getting Deep Playa's leaky fuel tank repaired as soon as possible and quickly return to our trip south to Mexico. Well things didn't move along as quickly as we had hoped and we spent a month here….yes, a month. Don't get me wrong, we tried to leave, on a few occasions. One of our attempts to leave resulted in having Deep Playa towed by Boat US across the bar and onto Charleston's vagrant dock after we boiled our starting battery (big ooooopsey). So, after almost a year since leaving Charleston, we became nostalgic to return in our Land Yacht on our way to California. And of course, as to be expected, we experienced a problem with the land yacht and had to stop in Coos Bay to fix a screeching alternator belt.
We decided to pull into Charleston's Oceanside RV Park, located behind Bastendorff Beach, which is one of my favorite beaches in the world! This was one of my favorite running destinations last year so coming back here is very exciting for me. Since Pea and I both own bicycles this year, my new ride is in the pic, I am finally able to show Pea all of the cool places I visited while on my long distance running escapades. By the way, my running legs are definitely in need of some hours of training on the bike. The hill up Bastendorff Drive and Coos Head Road did me in and I had to push my bike up the hill. It was pitiful.
Land Yacht parked at Oceanside RV Park in Charleston, Oregon
My *awesome* new ride.
The beach is so close we can hear the distant eerie whistles and muffled bells of the channel buoys in the bar entrance. Hearing these sounds brings me back to last year when we were crossing the bar on Deep Playa in pitch dark and fog without our iPad as a cockpit navigational aid. The bells and whistles seem so much louder and recognizable then they did that night. I am thoroughly enjoying the contrast in perspective that I am experiencing this year compared to last year. The status of the sea state, weather, boat projects and storms have all taken a back seat this year and, man… are we waaaaaaay more relaxed.
We are enjoying the relaxed and quiet RV park today and finishing up some projects on the land yacht. Tonight we took a long walk on the beach to watch some surfers and doggies playing in the surf. We are missing surfing something fierce but I don't have the urge to get into the 52.2 degree Fahrenheit water (I Googled it) and freeze my booty off.
Pea walking on Bastendorff Beach
Surfer running into *not* too much surf…sorry dude. Note the full head to toe dry suit he is wearing. COLD!!!
Little inlet. Look at those beautiful colors and contrasting light and darks. Love it.
This dude is not wearing anything but his board shorts! Hardy people these Pacific Northwesterners…or just crazy. I am wearing a sweatshirt and sweatpants while on the beach taking this pic.
It is soooo magical here and it makes my heart and soul very happy. I <3 Oregon Coast beaches.
NOTE: This post is current in June 2012. Currently there is a Mexican tourist visa law, which has not been implemented yet, but will change the process outlined below.
Your FMM is the 6 Month Mexican Tourist Visa granted when you clear-into Mexico (or fly in). It's good for six months and it not supposed to be renewed. However, some cruisers I know go to the airport, ask for a new visa and they are provided with one. Apparently, it depends on the person at the service counter. When we tried to do the same we were turned down and informed that it was not possible to so any longer and we would have to apply for a FM3 (non-residential visa).
We took the following steps to get our FM3 visas.
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When I was asking around about the location of the INM Office none of the cruisers or the bus drivers seemed to know anything about it, so I will give you detailed directions to the immigration office in Bucerias, Nayarit, Mexico. The INM office closes at 2:00PM sharp! Leave yourself plenty of time.
From the bus, get off the at Camarones Hotel (this is the landmark the drivers know). It has a big arch spanning across the street. There is an OXXO on the opposite corner.
The cross streets are Highway 200 and Las Palmas.
Once you get off the bus, walk down the hill towards the bay and the INM office is on the right hand side, there is a nice big sign and guards with machine guns to keep the Canadians under control. ;-P
Here is what you are going to do:
1) Acquire an permanent street address
2) Fill out the printed and online forms.
3) Print out three months of bank statements
4) Get your passport photos
5) Go to the INM, drop off paperwork and pay the paperwork fee at the Bank and receive receipts of payment.
6) Go to the INM to verify everything is ready, pay for FM3 at Bank and pickup FM3
That's the summary I wish someone told me, for us, we went to the INM first to see how it all works, they explained the steps to us, then I came back with our paperwork and I had left off our middle names so we had to do it again. Then when it was all complete, we had to make an extra trip because while the person who signed Dawn's paper work was in that day; the person who signed mine was not.
I had to come back. Not a big deal, we're cruising we got all the time in the world! Let's go through the detailed process without our mistakes.
Step 1 – Get an Address
You need a local address which is in the vicinity of your INM office. The easiest way to do this is to stay in the Marina La Cruz. If you're paying customer they seem very happy to write you a letter saying you live there. We had stayed there a few days here and there and we had planned to leave the boat there over the summer. If you're not a customer of the marina, I don't think they will do this for you. They will print off a letter stating your address and signed by an attorney.
Step 2 – Fill out the Printed and On-line Forms
There are printed forms you need to fill out which has information they use for statistical purposes, but it is required.
Club Cruceros in La Paz has good instructions on this here: http://www.clubcruceros.net/index.php/guides/documentation-and-visas/mexican-visa-applications.html They have an English version of the form as well. You CAN NOT turn in the English form. It is merely a guide.
There is an on-line form you fill out which is what I'll call the official FM3 Application. In theory, you can track the status of your application from the website, This did not work for us and wound up going to the office after 3-4 weeks to check the status and they were completed.
Here is a link to the form: http://www.inm.gob.mx/index.php/page/Solicitud_de_Estancia
This image translates the fields for you.
Step 3 – Print your Bank Statements
You need to show you have $1500.00 USD in the bank for the past three months per person ($3000 total for 2). You can use paper statements or you can print out your statements from your bank and use those. If you are submitting the same bank account for a husband and wife BOTH your names need to be on the statement. If one of you doesn't have an account with enough money in it then there is more work to do. I don't know what it is. Contact an agent to help you (see bottom). I also don't know anything about Mexico's views on gay marriage, but I guess they just want to see the right names and the right amount of money.
Step 4 – Get your Passport Photos
Get all of your paperwork together and go to the INM office in Bucerias. If there is not a person with a sign for passport photos standing outside the INM, walk back up the hill and about half-way up the street you will see a sign for FM3 Photos. We paid $300.00 MXN for our photos. This takes about 30 minutes.
Step 5 – Goto the INM to drop off your paperwork and pay the processing fee
When you go to the INM, a nice man with a large automatic weapon will ask you to sign-in (your ID # is your passport #) and will give you a number. You can wait inside if there are chairs or outside, or if you are number 73 and they are 10 you can go get lunch. I would bring a book and I would be prepared to spend 2-3 hours here waiting. I would recommend not going on Mondays.
When your number is called they will check that everything is filled out OK, you have all the right papers, etc.. Then they will hand you a form to take to the bank to pay the processing fee. This fee is just for paperwork. Its not the FM3 fee. They will also tell you to bring back 2 copies of the receipt along with the original. The Bank will not print these for you. You need to get a copy.
There is a bank on the corner of La Palmas and Highway 200 (at top of the hill) to the right, next to the OXXO.
You can get copies at the Internet Cafes across the street on the same corner. Copies are like $1 Peso!
We were told to come back in 2 weeks. We waited three. Then we went back only Dawn's was ready. This is their country, be patient and don't be a jerk!
Step 6 – Go to INM to Pickup FM3 and Pay FM3 Fee
When you go to INM you do the same sign-in get a number thing.
Assuming everything is ready they will send you off to the bank to pay the FM3 Visa Fee. You will again need 2 copies of this as well as the original.
They will have you sign your FM3, supply both thumbprints. You'll sit back down while they laminate your FM3.
When they are done they will hand you a shiny new laminated FM3 !
If you are not up for that, in every town there are agents who will fill out the paperwork and stand in the line for you. The fee for this service is around $1000 Pesos. Ask around on the VHF Nets if you want an agent.
It is a never ending battle to keep the boat bottom clean. In fact, I think it's impossible, but we try. You get three kinds of growth. The sea cabbage grows all over the bottom. Its is leafy it is easy to remove by running a wide blade putty knife along the hull. There is a slimy but that seems to prefer the sunny side of the hull along the water line. It only comes off with a fairly aggressive (black) 3M \ Scotchbrite pad. And lastly there are the barnacles. They grow very sparsely along the hull and cluster on anything which is metal and thus not bottom painted, as well as LOVE the overhanging stern section which is always bouncing in and out of the water. On the hull they pop off with the putty knife. On the waterline and metals bits you really have to hack at them to get them off which uses considerable oxygen\energy.
We had been able to keep up with the waterline and the bottom fairly well by snorkeling. The stern is always a bit of a mess though, and the brand new paint on the waterline stripe is now scratched up badly.
The metal bits (deeper in the water) are just too hard to do via snorkel. I can't hold my breath long enough and without a weight belt, you spend most of your time trying to keep from floating against the boat. Today we borrowed a dive hookah and weight belt from another boat, and man was it awesome. I spent about a half hour in the water and was able to hack all of the barnacles off the prop, shaft and gudgeon. Maybe that 1.5kts of boat speed we were missing will come back!
We use Petite's Barnacle ban on our metal bits (prop, shaft, gudgeon). It seems to ban nothing, but when I did scrape them clean the grey paint was still there where it didn't get scrapped off, so I think its doing ok.
Our boat sits perfectly on its waterline in calm water at the dock. But there is RARELY calm water at anchor. This is why people raise their waterlines. Not because they've overloaded the boat, but because at anchor your boat is always bouncing around and at all times 4-6 inches of your waterline are bouncing in and out the water. Filter feeders like Barnacles LOVE this! When we redo the bottom paint this next year I am going to look into raising the water line and I'm going to paint the stern overhang completely in bottom paint.
Zincs at Shilshole Bay Marina were replaced every six months. We haven't been in Marinas much at all since November and the zincs are about 1/2 gone at 9 months. We'll have the divers replace them when they clean the boat while we're gone.
After today's experience I can really see the benefit of a dive hookah. You could even use it for snorkeling in general. Unfortunately, retail dive hookahs cost $2000 to $5000 depending on the make and model. Not something that is in my budget right now, but it is possible to build your own for less than $500 and I think I'm going to start looking into that.