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A couple years ago while bow hunting for elk I had a mountain goat cross a beaver dam in front of me. When I told told a guy from the forest service, he kept trying to tell me it was a sheep, and I told him sheep aren't white with little black horns
On a lot of my hunts, the things I see while hunting accentuate the memory. Seeing a couple of antelope bucks fight 50 yards from you while oblivious to your presence; seeing a bobcat or a lion, watching two bulls spar, etc.
This year while bear hunting, my partner and I watched a small black bear feeding in the Gambel Oak. It had climbed to the top of the trees and looks like Tarzan, clinging to the violently swaying small branches while trying to stuff more acorns in his mouth. We decided to watch the show for a bit...
The bear climbed down and started feeding on the dropped acorns for a bit. We noticed that it had an ear tag. A juvenile delinquent apparently. Suddenly the little guy bolted at top speed. We thought it had been frightened by something, but had to laugh when it simply sprinted to the nearest pine for a scratch. The return trip to the acorns was made at the same speed. I can't remember the last time I laughed so hard.
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A couple years ago while bow hunting for elk I had a mountain goat cross a beaver dam in front of me. When I told told a guy from the forest service, he kept trying to tell me it was a sheep, and I told him sheep aren't white with little black horns
The memorable moments from hunts are definitely the best!
I have watched two bucks sparring and do oblivious to everything around them, they almost ran straight into my car.
Watched a calf elk last year play in the little stream. Took everything in me to not busy out laughing while this little thing is spinning circles and jumping in the water.
The other day while I was deer huntin I saw a doe beat the crap out of a spike.
My most memorable moment though has to be one year while I was elk hunting, we had stopped on top of a hill to glass and as we were looking across the hill we saw a truck speeding down the road, slam on his brakes and a guy jumped out and started running down towards a large rock pile a little ways down the hill. Me, being the optimistic person I am was thinking he saw some elk over by where I was and maybe I just couldn't see them because they were so close or something. So I was real quiet trying to listen real closely to everything around me and I was looking all around and when I saw and heard nothing I decided to look back over at the dude and see if I could tell a little better where he was looking. So I looked back across the canyon to study the guy, only to realize he was only down in the rocks to take a #2. I was very sorry that I decided to look back..
I have an image of a 200 inch Mule Deer in full velvet staring me down over his nose through the Quakies at 40 yards! I think that will be burned up there forever!!!
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My most memorable moments have been to be with my wife while she took her first Mule deer and antelope and with my daughter taking her first Antelope by far these have been the most amazing things and proud moments I have ever had while hunting.
for me it's mostly about cruising the west in a truck with my dad... seeing beautiful parts of this country that most will never see or know exist...
also when we get on some game, kinda get "on the hunt" or "on the trail" and kinda get in the zone and start doing some real hunting, things seem to change, it's like you're a real man... doing what we do, connecting with nature/humanity/or whatever... it's probably about 5% of the time spent hunting, ie... "real hunting"
Good stories!! Jen's got me rolling!! That is funny.
One other good one was a friend and I watched a pair of Golden Eagles trying to split a muley fawn off it's mother. One would ease in towards the youngster, effortlessly riding the thermals; then when mom would take a run toward it the other eagle would come from the other way. A couple of times the fawn freaked and bolted out of the oaks so mom had to hurry after it. Eventually, the deer made it into the trees and got away unscathed.
This all took place quite a bit uphill from us, and frankly it took us quite a while to figure out what was going on. What a show.
Greatest funny moment..
Me and my wife were watching a meadow.. 2 does came out. 1 doe looked around and charged the edges of the meadow.. Then she just started prancing around all spazzing off. Then she started bouncing around as fast as possible just totally spazzing in different directions. She hit a ditch and went ass end over tea kettle.. me and my wife busted up laughing out loud.. the doe got up turned around and looked at the ditch - Like you bastard- Than started bouncing again..
Seriously I still get a chuckle thinking about it.
Most memorable recent hunt from this year was from last week. I took my 7 year old boy with me on an elk hunt for an evening, and he talked me into letting him take his sling shot. After we made a quick little ground blind out of some logs, he was intently watching and listening for every little movement. It wasn't long, and a chipmunk came scurrrying out about 15 yards away, and my boy just looked at me with those eyes that a father just knows, and I just gave him the up and down nod. He pulled back the rock and let her fly and missed the chipmunk by probably 5 feet, but boy was he excited. He kept on saying that he thought he got him, and you would have thought he just shot a B&C bull. Nothing like taking your little ones out to he field with you whenever you get a chance!!
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This month rings in a brand-new year and the welcome news of reopenings in storm-affected neighborhoods following Hurricane Sandy. On January 10, David Zwirner will finally be able to open its storm-postponed exhibitions in its two Chelsea locations. Luc Tuymans: The Summer Is Over departs from the Belgian painter's usual fascination with painting from photographic images that are based in a broader political context, to highlight autobiographical locations in or near his studio, his home, and even a rare self-portrait. At the other gallery, Francis Alÿs: Reel-Unreel video follows children pushing a reel of film like a tire toy along the dusty streets of Kabul. Meanwhile, for Zach Feuer's first post-Sandy show, Nolan Hendrickson, Eddie Martinez and JP Munro will exhibit their vibrant, colorfully textured and largely abstract canvases through January 12.
The art-rich Chelsea neighborhood will even get a new addition this month. On January 23, Hauser & Wirth Gallery will open its second location in the City, this time in the giant space known best for once housing the 1970s roller rink/club the Roxy, with a show of Dieter Roth, the late German-born Swiss artist known for his installations and books that incorporated foodstuffs that would biodegrade over time. His son and frequent collaborator, Björn, will install the show.
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Joan Semmel: A Lucid Eye, will open at The Bronx Museum of the Arts on January 27, containing 27 of the painter's charged, vivid nude self-portraits that are as daring in their formal execution as they are revealing in their up-close intimacy. Opening on January 24 at the new Nicelle Beauchene Gallery on Broome Street, Owen Kydd's videos contain an intimacy of another sort. The artist's pieces depict out-of-the-way moments, often bereft of people, that appear like photographs until you look closely, and see the breeze turning a pendant light, the flicker of a shadow on the wall or the rustling of a garbage bag arranged on the wall like a sculpture.
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The Lustigs: A Cover Story, now at the AIGA National Design Center, includes more than 500 book, magazine and catalog covers created by revered American designers Alvin and Elaine Lustig between 1933 and 1961. Although the two designed together as a husband-and-wife team, this is the first time their work has been shown together. On January 25, the Lustigs' forebears, the Surrealists, will be on view at The Morgan Library & Museum. The exhibition, Drawing Surrealism, gathers nearly 160 works on paper from the likes of Salvador Dalí, Louise Bourgeois and Joan Miró to examine the importance of drawing and graphic techniques among those artists in the early 20th century.
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The wild abstract paintings of this Korean artist can be seen as psychological landscapes oscillating between violent darkness and delightful wonder, using a technique borrowed from master calligraphy.
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For a Play by chat game of the Rifts RPG I have made a map of the Walled neighborhood that the character's live in. It's more of a small village with almost 200 houses to it. Still it's about a half mile to a mile to a true city of 30,000 people.
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As you can see I ran out of room for the whole neighborhood.
Still I put the Image into MS Paint and completed the neighborhood at least to the neighborhoods layout.
Complete neighborhood
While the neighborhood is now completely imaged It looks bad compared to the hand drawn maps. Thus I stopped coloring it in with Paint and I haven't started on a even larger scale map that includes the nearby City as a City is beyond my capabilities at the moment.


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I have somebody here who would like to migrate some "Bynari Insight Server" accounts to our Zimbra server. I just checked the docs and forums, and I found pretty nothing about this case.
So my guess, according to the docs, is to simply try to use the "ZCS Import Wizard" on each of the target client PC's (+ bynari connector removal & zimbra connector setup). Or maybe there is a better way?
Thanks & Regards, Olivier


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NAPLES — Filmmaker Tyler Perry is offering a $100,000 reward for information in the decade-old case of two men who went missing after separate encounters with a sheriff's deputy in southwestern Florida.
Perry joined the Rev. Al Sharpton and Ben Jealous of the NAACP at a news conference Thursday in Naples to discuss the missing-person investigations of Terrance Williams and Felipe Santos.
Santos and Williams disappeared three months apart in the Naples area in 2003 after crossing paths with Collier County Sheriff's Deputy Steven Calkins. He was never charged but was fired the next year.
Perry says the media is not paying enough attention to missing-person cases involving minorities.
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CONYERS, Ga. -- Darnell Glass says he's trying to stay strong for his 6-year old son, who survived the house fire. Glass was father to two of the other children that died late Tuesday night, but says he considers all them his own.
"Their smiles, their laughing. I just miss them. Everything about them," said Glass still trying to make sense of how it could have happened.
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There had been reports Darnell Glass Jr. had a broken collar bone or arm, from when his mother threw him from a window to safety. But on Thursday, the only sign of physical injury was the glue left on his arm from a bandage he wore in the hospital.
Darnell's father says his son's real wounds are the ones you can't see, as he tries to figure out why his siblings aren't coming home.
"I tried to explain to him the best I could, but he don't understand," said Glass.
"He wants to get toys for them because he's probably thinking they lost their toys and he wants to get toys. He does not understand that heaven is not like going to the local store," said the family's pastor, Rev. Billie Cox.
Cox is trying to help the family look forward, getting donations to rebuild their lives. They have found a new apartment but have nothing to put inside it.
"We're talking bedding, mattresses, everything. Towels, linens and particularly as Darnell prepares to go back to school after the memorial service he's going to need school clothes and school supplies," said Cox.
Darnell wears a size 6 in clothes and a size 11 in shoes. His mother Reba and grandmother Rosetta wear sizes 20 & 22 in clothes. Sizes 7 1/2 & 8 in shoes.
Donations can be dropped of Thursday night at Macedonia Baptist Church, 12052 Barton Street, Conyers. Or you can contact Rev. Cox at email@example.com to drop items off at a later time.
A fund has also been set up at Wells Fargo bank for those wishing to make a financial contribution. The account number for the Glass Family Memorial Fund is 1009683226.
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May 31, 2016
Text messaging is spoiling teenager's sleep. That's the headline on an article published in a British medical journal.
An annoyance for teachers, for sure, but a study of 2,500 teens showed perhaps a bigger problem.
Belgian researchers found more than 40-percent of 16-year-olds in their study had their sleep compromised by late night text messaging.
Of those, more than 20-percent awoke to a late night text message between one and three times a month...almost 11-percent woke up to a message at least once a week, almost 9-percent awoke to one several times a week, and almost three-percent got up to one every single night.
So is a study from Belgium really relevant here? You bet it is!
Explain to you teen why they should turn it off when its time to turn in. Teens who get enough uninterrupted sleep tend to do better both in school and socially.
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I love this map!
This was my entry in the May/June 2011 Light Challenge. Most of the work was done in Inkscape, including the paper texture and other effects. I also used QuantumGIS for tracing out the major landforms and projecting them, gdalwarp to reproject the DEM I used as a basis for the map, The GIMP for various minor tasks like resizing files and adding/removing alpha channels, and some custom programs written in Ruby to generate the graticules and the orbits.
My data sources were a Martian DEM from NASA, and various data (Tilts, radii, orbit eccentricities and other orbital parameters, and the math for the orbit and projection calculations) from Wikipedia, along with photos of Phobos and Deimos. The map is not meant to be an entirely realistic, representation of Mars, even ignoring the canals, reservoirs, cities, and railways, but the locations of major landforms is correct.
The fictional context is that the Victorians have developed an effectively reactionless drive that pushes against the "Luminipherous Æther" and have used it to colonise Mars, where they are engaged in some form of terraforming project using canals to redirect water. Most of the city names are anachronistic jokes.
I love this map!
A real stunner! Lovely work. And all geographically correct too!!
Whatever the case, it is a clean looking and beautiful map Hai-Etlik! Kudos man.
Thanks for the compliments all. I'm definitely rather proud of it myself, I'm working on making it look good when printed at Ledger size so I can hang it on my wall.
Any criticisms? In the voting thread Ascension felt the colours were too muted. That was my goal as I don't particularly like overly bright saturated colours but it's good to get some critical feedback.
Just a tad, not very much is all.
If the radiance of a thousand suns was to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendor of the Mighty One...I am become Death, the Shatterer of worlds.
-J. Robert Oppenheimer (father of the atom bomb) alluding to The Bhagavad Gita (Chapter 11, Verse 32)
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A little update on this map, I'm entering it in the local regional fair this weekend in the Computer Art category. For the printed version I decided to drop the textured background.
ooh awesome! good luck with that!
My finished maps
"...sometimes the most efficient way to make something look drawn by hand is to simply draw it by hand..."
This is really cool! I love the concept and the Victorian style is spot on.


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05/14/2011, Shelter Bay Marina, Panama
Benno is pulling the gen set along the beams next to the main engine. It has to come all the way to the front of the engine room. Plenty of grease on top of the beams makes this task easy!
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05/14/2011, Shelter Bay Marina, Panama
OK, the gen set is almost in the engine room, over and beyond the door frame, sitting half way on the support beams.
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05/14/2011, Shelter Bay Marina, Panama
To manufacture a strong cradle to be able to slide the generator, Benno is shortening the support beams to fit into the engine room, bolted together with 10 mm threaded rods and some shorter pieces it will support the generator safely.
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05/14/2011, Shelter Bay Marina, Panama
It looks amazingly easy, but the boom is holding our generator weighing 400+ pounds which is tilted to fit through the aft cabin hatch. Together we are lowering the gen set and then straightening it out again before setting it onto the bed. Two pieces of 4x4" 8 feet long wooden beams (bullnosed edges with the router and sanded on every side, so that I don't get hurt by splinters in my hands while handling the beams, Benno said) are laid across the bed to support the weight and to balance the gen set. From this position we are lowering the gen set slowly onto the cabin floor and more, although shorter, pieces of 4x4" wooden supports.
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05/13/2011, Shelter Bay Marina, Panama
At last our new generator made it to the Shelter Bay Marina and is sitting now on Diesel Duck's aft deck.
On Monday, the 2nd of May, the cargo ship "Maersk Wolfsburg V" sailed into Colon with our generator stored in one of the containers. Mrs. Dayana Madrigal, from our custom broker, Aimar S.A., told us that they would not pick up the container until the following Monday, a week later, to bring into their warehouse in Panama City. Then, when all consolidated items of the container would be cleared through customs, the custom broker would arrange for the shipment of our generator back to Colon and on to Shelter Bay, now probably to arrive on Wednesday. But on Wednesday we were told "maňana".
Thursday morning dawned like doomsday. The sky turned pitch black and a torrential rain pelted down onto our decks. In fact, at 8 a.m. it was so dark that it felt like night time. Benno was fearful that it would be raining all day so he sent me into Colon to purchase a roll of plastic sheeting, because we didn't know if the generator would be covered in plastic. Luckily by midday the rain had stopped and even a little sun poked through the clouds.
So finally in the afternoon on Thursday, 10 days after arriving in Colon, our baby was delivered and we felt like new parents, too. A little annoying was the extra charge of $100 the custom broker sprung on us for a "custodian service" in cash of course. When I inquired what this was for, the explanation was that a customs person was required to accommodate the generator to make sure the goods were "in-transit" to Diesel Duck". I asked the truck driver where the "custodian" was and he just shrugged his shoulders.
We hired a forklift truck from the marina and in no time at all the gen set was unloaded by Victor the yard guru and set onto the sidewalk where Benno stripped off the shrink wrap, cardboard, excess support packaging and accessory boxes. Several guys from the marina staff hung around to have a look. They proved to be extremely helpful by lending a hand to shove the heavy engine onto a cart. Although heavy to push, Benno was just happy to bring her home! With the help of the boom and some extra muscle from a neighboring boat the generator came to rest on the aft deck. Stay tuned...
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05/11/2011, Shelter Bay Marina, Panama
Diesel Duck arrived at the Shelter Bay Marina by the Panama Canal on April 24th. I noticed two other power boats tied to the docks that were flying their SSCA flags and we went to say hello. The "Two by Sea" from Palm Beach Gardens, FL and the "Serena Ray" from Blaine, WA. Very nice!
Since we were here last, three years ago, the place has changed a bit. The long-time stored boats on the hard are now all fenced in and are gated. Boats in the yard that need work are parked separate and the owners are encouraged to rent a room at the duration of haul-out at the onsite hotel (upstairs in the main building) at market price. If the owners opt to sleep onboard while hauled, a surcharge of $10/night is applied. Also if the boat had a slip to which it will return, the slip charge is applied on top of the haul-out charges. A swimming pool and hot tub were added to the premises as well as additional shower/washrooms. A gym with very nice equipment, but also of course for a user-fee was built for the enjoyment of the cruisers. The nicest addition, I think, is the large air-conditioned lounge upstairs with comfortable leather sofas, tables, chairs, Internet stations and a flat screen TV with DVD player. The marina premises now also sport a mini market and a small ship's chandlery with limited supplies, but at least it's something.
This morning the free marina shuttle bus to the "4Altos Mall" in Colon didn't arrive because there was a problem at the Panama Canal Bridge which got hit by a freighter and no traffic could pass. The bus also brings in the marina employees. Coincidently, the power went off at the marina docks at around 8 a.m. (it was off also for several hours on Sunday) and apparently the people who could fix the problem were on the bus! Naturally, today the weather is overcast, so our solar panels are not much help to keep up the charge for the house batteries. Even the boats with wind generators are out of luck as there is not a whiff of wind in the air. And yes, Benno and I removed our old generator last Sunday, so if the power doesn't come back on, we'll have to run the main engine to charge the batteries to keep the fridge and freezer going. Thank goodness we didn't have to do that as the hydro was restored in the afternoon and the canal brigde got fixed.
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04/30/2011, Colon, Panama
What is happening on Diesel Duck?
For several months now, Benno and I have been contemplating of buying another diesel generator. The one we have now, a one cylinder Farymann at 3600 RPM, 4.3 KW gen set from Norpro has accumulated 4500 hours in the past 5 years , but lately it needed more service and required more spare parts to keep up with our demand. We decided to order a new 5 KW Northern Lights with a 3 cylinder Lugger at 1800 RPM and it seems that it is a favorite model found on many yachts and the demand is high. The dealer for the new gen set wanted a money transfer for the purchase which didn't work from our secluded anchorage in the San Blas islands and to do this we had to leave the islands for a while to have this taken care of. At the same time we purchased the additional fuel hoses and other items required for the new installation. And of course we took the opportunity to restock our food lockers while we had the chance.
So then once we put that in motion, we returned to our favorite islands at Kuna Yala to do some more snorkeling while waiting for the new generator to come. The weather was absolutely lovely and we spent many hours between the reefs every day. On Diesel Duck we do not carry scuba equipment, so snorkeling it is with the occasional dive down to look at something, holding our breaths. I started to photograph underwater with an Olympus waterproof camera good for 33ft but most of the time I couldn't make out anything while wearing my mask and with the sun reflecting on the display. We bought an underwater housing for the camera which improved the view. But then Benno got me a Panasonic Lumix camera which has a 12x optical zoom with an underwater housing which works much better. It even has a built-in GPS.
But, alas, while I am trying to capture the underwater life I am being tossed around by the waves and the fish don't hold still either when I'm finally ready to press the shutter button they have moved on and my picture displays a lovely coral but NO fish! Thank goodness I don't have to pay for picture developing and I can just erase all this still life! However, some fish didn't get away and I would love to share my pics with you if I could find a way to post them in this blog so they can be enlarged to a decent size. The Photo Gallery which our blog provides is not great and the pics are still much too small.
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03/07/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Trolling for fish is fun and quite often we are successful in hauling in a good catch. A week ago, while coming back to the San Blas islands from a shopping trip at the El Rey supermarket in Sabanitas, Benno lost our lure, a "Blue Bomber" and the whole line spun out from the reel and ripped off when some big fish took a bite. Big, big fish!!!
This really was a tragedy because it was our only "Blue Bomber" lure, our--trophy -- good luck - dinner providing lure! But Paul and Sheryl came to our rescue when they brought with them from Canada a few "Rapala" lures which are quite similar. Naturally Benno wanted to try the new lure and get a good sized fish for all of us for dinner. So in-between island hopping the fishing rod was put to work. Not long after we had a strike. Big excitement on board and instructions were shouted to slow the boat, get the fish bonker, bucket, pliers and gloves. Paul grabbed his film camera and I went with my photo camera to capture the action.
The fish appeared to be at least three feet in size and he put on a big fight. Benno really used his muscles as he pulled hard and kept reeling him closer. Just when I thought I should hand Benno a gaff to bring him in, the fish jumped high in the air, spit out the lure, which had a lot of tension on the line and the "Rapala" lure with two sharp 3-prong hooks shot back to hook (as Benno commented dryly) into his family jewels, but thankfully they were protected by a good pair of swimming trunks.
We agreed that the fish that got away appeared to have been a Wahoo.
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03/06/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Toward the end of February our friends, Sheryl and Paul Shard, the film makers of the well known television series "Distant Shores" arrived for a visit onboard Diesel Duck here in the San Blas Islands. We were looking forward to seeing them again. Three years ago, they came to film an episode with us in the Virgin Islands (see: Season Five, Disk 1, episode: Virgin Islands) and this time they wanted to film the Kuna Indians, handmade colorful molas, palm covered islands that are surrounded by beautiful reefs amid azure blue water and a trip into the jungle. The "Distant Shore" series are aired on TV or you can buy their DVDs and also read their interesting blog and newsletters at "Distant Shores"
click here to get to their web site
Although this was a working vacation for Paul and Sheryl, it turned into a lot of fun for all of us. Benno certainly suggested and injected Paul with all kinds of ideas and took them to places that were worthwhile filming. However, our friends only stayed a little over a week and there is only so much you can do and see during this time. But the episode will be fantastic, so make sure you are going to watch it when it comes out!!!
In general, Kuna Indians are shy to be photographed or filmed and permission must always be given. We were encountering some Kuna women that were happy to be on film and when Paul showed them the footage he took of them, the girls giggled with delight.
I showed Sheryl the molas I had purchased and explained the different qualities. Almost all the Kuna women make molas, but we invited Lisa, a famous mola maker onboard to explain the methods of mola making to Sheryl and Paul and she was willing to be interviewed and filmed. Of course Sheryl bought a pile of molas from Lisa that were exquisite in color, design and stitching. The only problem was there were too many pieces to choose from.
And then there was another talented cruiser lady that made lovely jewelry who visited us while we were anchored off Green Island (Kanilildup) enjoying sundowners on the foredeck . Oh the choices one has to make....
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03/06/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Sheryl and Paul are viewing molas on display.
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03/06/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Unique handcrafted jewelry brought to your boat by the artist and one piece nicer than the other. So which to choose from?
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03/05/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Kuna women tending a fire at the family gravesite.
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03/05/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
High up on the mountain in the jungle we turned around at the waterfall. Here are shots of Paul attempting a jump down into the pool, Lisa in mid air and a Kuna guide jumping from the cliff. Refreshing and exciting.
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03/05/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
The Kuna men tend gardens up in the mountains and we saw banana trees in clearings. On the trail we came upon calabash trees, wild pineapple growing on the side and a coco bean ripening on the tree.
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Wild flowers we saw climbing up a trail through the jungle.
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02/25/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Sometime in January the single hander "Don North" with his little dog "Kuna" on his sailboat "Windancer was reported missing in the San Blas Island, Panama and a search for him started on the SSB Panama Connection Net which runs daily at 08:30 a.m. on 8107.0 KHz.
Then in February the news hit the sailing community in the San Blas Islands that Don's body was found in Portobello by scuba divers, with a hole in his head and weighted down by rope and anchor chain. No sign of his boat or dog. But this news turned out to be false. The body belonged to another gone missing sailor and single hander, a Frenchman "Jean-Pierre Bouhard" and his boat the "Levante" was missing too!
It darned to us sailors now that we had some serious pirating going on here in Panama. As things evolved daily and many cruisers became curious to find out what happened, the boat "Levante" a 50 foot aluminum catamaran, was found hidden away, but it was now renamed "Twyss"
In the meantime the search for "Windancer" was still active. At the morning Panama Connection Net a cruiser reported a nearby anchored abandoned sailboat in the East Lemmon Cays near Yansaladup. But it carried the name of "Green Twilight" on the transom. This then turned out to be the missing boat "Windancer", but renamed. No sightings on "Don North" and his dog "Kuna"
Further on it was discovered, that a Spaniard with the name of "Javier Martin" had been hired by both skippers "Don North" and "Pierre Bouhard" as crew to help them to sail their boats to Colombia.
Who is "Javier Martin"? In the middle of December, two weeks before Christmas 2010, during the worst storm of the century here in Panama, "Javier Martin" attempted to sail his 44 foot Benetau sailboat "Twyla" with 11 backpackers (hikers) onboard from El Porvenir in the San Blas Islands to Colombia. However, he turned back, tried a night entry, missed the channel in the dark and his boat went aground on a reef and sank shortly after.
A search was now in progress to question "Javier Martin" A few days later the Panama Border Guard caught him on the Pacfic side of Panama having two horses, carrying three firearms, $14,000 in cash and in possession of Don North's passport. Further it was discovered that he had made ATM withdrawals from both "Don North" and "Jean-Pierre Bouhard's" bank accounts after they went missing.
During the investigation it also became known that the sunken boat "Twyla" was not registered to "Javier Martin" but in fact to a sailor in the Virgin Islands who went missing many years before.
To follow up on this and for many more details, look at the famous website of the panama-guide.com of the dedicated writer "Don Winner"
click for an article about Javier Martin here
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02/25/2011, Panamarina, Puerto Lindo, Panama
"Jean-Pierre Bouhard's" boat the "Levante" and then renamed "Twyss" was found and does not display any names now.
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02/25/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Only the mast and some of the rigging are still visible of the "Twyla"
In this picture which I just took the local Kunas are diving on the wreck trying to recover anything that is still usable.
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02/16/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Benno and I were exploring new anchorages with spectacular reefs together with our friends Donna & Cosmos from "Koukla" and Leila and Erin from "Blow Me Away". While snorkeling we spotted many Eagle and Sting Rays, Sand Sharks, tropical fish in fantastic colors and Groupers large enough to feed a crowd, but smart enough to successfully escape the hunters. However, the 10 inch (25cm) King Helmet shell Benno captured is now part of my shell collection.
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02/15/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
The birthday boy is tending the BBQ for the next batch of meat to be grilled while some of the guests are busy eating!!
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02/15/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Then there were dinners on board the vessels of our friends and on Diesel Duck. A potluck on shore with talented guitarists from Ireland, New Zealand and Germany who entertained us with their music and "Vonny-T" hosted Wolfgang's birthday party on one of the islands in the Eastern Lemmon Cays yesterday afternoon. I have to mention that the food has always been delicious and was expertly and lovingly prepared. There are many gourmet cooks among the cruisers.
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02/05/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
There is no shortage of firewood and dry palm tree fronds to set up a fire on this little island. Our friends are busy with the preparations to build a BBQ pit.
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02/05/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
It is blowing a good steady 20 knots and a little chop runs through the channels of the San Blas islands. But on the lee side of a beautiful, tiny island with a sugary white sand beach we spy two young Swiss cruisers attending an open fire. They are busy setting everything up for an evening dinner with two guests. Gesina and Leo from the sailing yacht "Seluna" are preparing a romantic dinner served on the beach. The food, a chicken dinner with rice, a multitude of vegetables and aromatic spices is cooked inside a Maroccan tagine, a clay pot with conical lid, which is put on a grill onto the open fire pit. The food releases and cooks in its own juices. Need I say more? It was absolute scrumptious!
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01/22/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
This picture shows our Digicel phone on the right, the Vodafone Mobile Connect USB stick in the middle and on the left for comparison a 4GB USB flash drive
Wireless internet over the cell phone network has not the packed speed of transmissions you expect from the normal wifi or a broadband cable, but it has the similar speed of your phone cable 12 years or more ago, when you had your desktop computer hooked up and patiently awaited a download to finish. The other thing is, it does not permit speech on Skype, only the chat option works. The cell phone networks don't shoot themselves into the foot, they want you to use the cell phone for speech traffic and make money on it.
For the hardware to use this technology, you need to have:
#1: A GMS cell phone with simcard
#2: 3G USB Modem Dongle (Vodafone Mobile Connect USB stick in our case)
To explain #1: We purchased a new inexpensive locked Digicel GMS phone on a Kuna Island for $35.00 and a new locked Mas Movil (Cable & Wireless) phone in Colon recently for only $16.99 including simcard. The GMS cell phone you already own might work well, but when you venture to a foreign country, only an unlocked cell phone will accept the new simcard. Many cell networks supply locked GMS phones which don't permit you to change to a different cell network. You don't have to throw your locked, fancy GMS phone away. Most Caribbean nation phone stores have a wizard in-house who will unlock your phone in no time for a little fee. All you have to do is to purchase a new simcard with a new phone number. In our case here in Panama, the price for a new simcard is $3.00 US.
To explain #2: The 3G USB Modem Dongle can be purchased in phone stores stateside or at cell phone networks' own stores, on the internet and as well at the countless phone stores worldwide. G3 stands for "generation 3" or "third generation" technology. The USB Modem Dongle is called also: HSDPA Modem - USB Stick Modem - Mobile Broadband Dongle - USB Modem - mobile connect USB stick etc. Here again, most of these dongle/sticks are locked in to a cell network and you have to get them unlocked to be able to use them everywhere!
We had purchased ours from a fellow cruising guy who had several of these Vodafone Mobile Connect USB sticks and the knowledge to unlock them. His price was cruiser friendly too, so we were happy to get one and he also installed it for us. The Vodafone Mobile Connect USB stick has a little slide-out tray to accept the simcard and another slot for a micro SD card, which permits this dongle to be used also as a USB flash drive.
How does it work?
You load enough money in prepaid scratch cards into your GMS phone. In our case it was $20. We had to dial *142* and the number 40# to purchase one day of internet access for $0.75.
7 day's access is $4.25, purchase number 60#
15 day's access is $8.00, purchase number 80#
30 day's access is $14.95, purchase number 100#
Of course these numbers apply only to the Digicel networks here in Panama. After the purchase, the network will send you a message back to ask for confirmation of your purchase. You have to enter *142*1# to accept the purchase, or if you changed your mind, enter *142*9# to cancel your purchase. After your acceptance you get a message confirming the deal with exact time and day stamp.
Next, you switch off your phone and remove the simcard to install it into the USB Modem Dongle/stick. The dongle/stick is now inserted into one of your computer's USB slots. In case you want to raise the dongle for better reception of the signal above your boat's coachhouse or wheelhouse, or for the reason because your boat is made out of metal which shields the the computer off and prevents the signal to reach the inserted dongle, then you might use a USB extension cord of no more than 15 ft. to raise the dongle. For a longer than 15 ft. run you have to use an amplified USB extension cord. To do this, run the extension cord to the outside thru a hatch or portlight and tie the dongle up with a plastic cable tie and perhaps slip a small ziploc bag over the dongle to prevent rain to shorten it out. On the Vodafone Mobile Connect USB stick the internal software will now bring up a menu and you click with your mouse the "connect" button. Now you are ready to browse on the internet in the cell net coverage area. The other manufacturer's stick/dongles will work similar!
As an addendum to the above, please keep in mind the following:
A 1 day subscription will allow you 20 MB (megabytes) of data download
2 days of this service will limit you to 40 MB of downloads
7 days will permit you 1 GB (gigabytes) of downloads
15 days and 30 days are also limited to 1 GB of downloads only.
So, if you happen to run out of bytes before your subscription ends, the Internet will stop working and the remaining balance of money on your simcard will rapidly be eaten away by the service which is trying to connect. AND, you have to wait for the remainder of your subscription time before you are able to sign in again and pay for another time period of Internet usage. Should this happen to you, dial *100 and ask the operator to have the unused Internet time cancelled from your phone number so you can reactivate it.
1 GB is 1000 MB or roughly 1 billion bytes of computer data storage.
1 MB is 1 million bytes.
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01/22/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
This picture is showing our Digicel phone with the simcard removed from the slot with big white dot.
In the middle the Simcard and
on the left the Vodafone Mobile Connect USB stick with the open slide out simcard tray.
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01/21/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
Just picture this: you are onboard your boat anchored in the lee of a picturesque island which is covered with palm trees and a white, sandy beach in the San Blas islands away from the bustle of cities, civilization and wifi and you are surfing the internet.
Once we left the West Lemmon Cays with the Satellite Internet access to cruise among the many beautiful cays, we had to find another solution to connect to the net. At Isla Wichubhuala, just three miles west from the Lemmon Cays and just half a mile south of Isla Porvenir, we bought ourselves a Digicel cell phone for $35. Wichubhuala is only 200 yards long and 180 yards wide, but heavily populated with Kuna huts from one end to the other. At the government dock is a general store selling all kinds of stuff including cell phones which work only with prepaid cards. Here we purchased the least expensive locked Digicel GSM phone with a Digicel simcard including phone number and 25 dollars worth of prepaid cards. Back at the boat, Marlene burned the first 5 dollar prepaid card calling her mom in Germany. At least we can be reached by cell phone now. The San Blas islands have cell coverage. One cell tower is in Isla Porvenir, the other is in Isla Nargana and another is by the Carti islands. South of Isla Porvenir sits always a bunch of cruising boats under anchor just a few hundred yards from the cell tower. We were told at Nargana there are even more cruisers under anchor and the same at Carti. So why are these cruisers sitting there? It is the access to internet via cell phone simcard inserted into a 3G USB Modem Dongle, which permits you to surf on the net at slower speed, but not offering Skype service. Now you know why all these cruiser internet junkies are hugging the cell towers.
In the next write up we will explain how this technology works in detail with pictures.
And by the way, this is sent through this device from a remote place here in the Kuna Yala.
On the picture below you can see the white 3G USB Modem Dongle inserted into a USB slot on Marlene's laptop
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01/20/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
I'm working on the blog update.
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01/19/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
A Kuna Indian came by and showed us his Digicel phone, saying: "Bateria, bateria" obviously, he wanted us to charge his phone. On these little islands there is no electricity and cooking is done over an open firepit. A few hours later he picked up his fully charged phone, including a magazine for his wife so she could look at the pretty pictures and candies for his kids.
Now, who is he going to call, his stockbroker perhaps or do some horse betting?
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Fred and Zorka
I've read not a few accounts about how George Beuler's wonderful boats/ships have this endearing &/or aura of respect and comradery effect on passing/encountering captains & their crews...in very diverse & quite separate places.
These aquatic marvels have captivated me ever since I first saw one on the 'net...
The name..."Diesel Duck", is...so-o, I dunno ...spot-on, poetic. Even to say, "symphonic".
I am happy for your wonderful adventures...as I 'drop-in' from time to time.
Fare thee well, Captain and Crew...
01/08/2011, Kuna Yala, Panama
A look at our neighborhood. This is how most of the cays look like. Many islands are uninhabited with only coconut palm trees and white, sandy beaches. We like it here!
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In the Lord of the Rings On-line MMO, there is a title associated with collecting maps. There was a discussion when this title was revealed on whether "Cartographile" was appropriate or not but that was resolved when people pointed out that '-phile' was not just a suffix of "pedo-".
The object of the deed is to collect 21 maps (that are wall decorations for your in-game house). These maps are of the various regions of Middle Earth (as depicted in-game). The maps are available 5 time a year, in groups of 2-6, at each seasonal festival, and the yearly anniversary celebration (different maps at each festival.) Of course to mess things up a bit, there are maps of other regions as well. The title applies to maps of Eraidor regions, so Moria and Lothlorien don't count.
My only real problem with this is: I don't have enough places to hang the maps in my house!


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Today's panel: Ken Murphy, D.G. of the Law Society / Breda O'Brien,Irish Times columnist, teacher and patron of the Iona Institute / Eddie Molloy, Management consultant / Camille Loftus, social policy analyst / Labour Minister Pat Rabbitte, Communications, Energy, Natural resources / Ken Cowley, Irish Mortgage Debt Forgiveness Campaign and author of, "Not Running Away."
Peter Boylan, current Clinical Director at Holles Street former master of Holles Street on the inquest in Galway of Savita Halapanavar.
Larry Donnelly, law lecturer NUI Galway and Bostonian comes in to discuss the goings-on in Boston, with Declan Power, security analyst, going through the international news.
We speak to Christian Mallard of France Trois about the story regarding the French minister's assets, and Peter Kuznick, Prof. of History in the American College, Washington talks about his collaboration with film-maker Oliver Stone.


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By Sara Deseran on September 14, 2011 12:55 PM
As a food editor, I think it's my job to be a die-hard proponent of eating everything, which means that I'm generally skeptical of diets and dietary fads and the people who jump on them.
I can't tell you how many vegan cookbooks I've tossed into the swag pile here at 7x7. Don't try to sell me on sugar substitutes, or carbless anything, or egg-white omelets or vodka made with green tea. I like whole milk, butter, bacon and whiskey. My only diet is moderation.


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Andy Buczek, Hartford Hospital's first heart transplant patient, with his family and his surgeon, Dr. Henry B.C. Low, right, in 2004. He received his transplanted heart in 1984
In December, 1967, Dr. Christiaan Barnard successfully transplanted a heart from a young head trauma victim into a dying fifty-four-year-old man with ischemic cardiomyopathy. News of the transplant electrified the world – physicians and the lay public alike.
A frenzy of international activity followed, with over one hundred transplants performed in almost fifty centers over the next year. However, the initial results were discouraging, to say the least. Nearly sixty patients were dead by the eighth postoperative day.
The mean survival was less than thirty days, and seventy one of the first one hundred patients were dead within a year. While problems of immune suppression and rejection were addressed, heart transplantation remained largely an experimental procedure, performed in only a handful of centers worldwide after 1969.
Around 1980, the introduction of
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revolutionized postoperative immune suppression, making solid organ transplantation of all types feasible. Heart transplantation hospital mortality fell to less than ten percent, and five year survival improved to better than seventy five percent. The Food and Drug Administration approved heart transplantation for end-stage heart failure in the early 1980s. Today, over two thousand transplants are performed in more the one hundred twenty centers in the United States alone.
Inspired by the early reports of 1968, Dr. Henry B.C. Low began a series of experimental canine heart transplants at Hartford Hospital. As the dismal outcomes in humans became apparent, enthusiasm for the procedure waned and Dr. Low halted his experimental work.
This quiescent period ended in 1979, when Dr. Lee Ellison revived interest locally. Dr. Robert Schweizer, then Director of Transplantation at Hartford Hospital, suggested that he work with Dr. Low on a series of animal transplants. Ultimately, concerns about viral infections ended that series, but by that time Dr. Low was confident in his technique. By 1980, Dr. Ellison decided to concentrate on his congenital cardiac surgical practice, and Dr. Low was assisted in the operating room by Dr. David Drezner.
The FDA approved cyclosporine for use in transplantation in 1981. Even before that, the drug's salutary clinical effects were evident and it appeared that heart transplantation would be a clinical option for the treatment of end-stage congestive heart failure. With the encouragement of Dr. Schweizer ("You sew in the heart, Henry, I'll keep them alive afterwards," Dr. Low remembers him saying), Dr. Low asked the Hartford Hospital administration for permission to go ahead. Interestingly, at about that time, the board of the Massachusetts General Hospital had refused to allow their program to go forward. The president of Hartford Hospital at the time was reluctant to bring the matter to the board.
Presumably he was concerned about the negative backlash were such a high-profile procedure to fail; he also said he was afraid the publicity might bring too much business to Hartford Hospital. In the face of persistent persuasion by Dr. Low, Dr. Jack Reed (Chief of Surgery), and Bernadette Warren, the matter was brought before the board and Dr. Low was allowed to proceed. Heart transplantation is a multi-disciplinary effort, requiring not only surgeons but also transplant medicine and cardiology. In addition to Drs. Low, Drezner, and Schweizer, Drs. Michael Rossi, James Dougherty, and Alfredo Nino of the Division of Cardiology at Hartford Hospital were instrumental in getting the program off the ground.
Dr. Low observed his first human heart transplant in 1982, flying to the Medical College of Virginia with a heart donated from a patient at Mt. Sinai. Trips to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and Stanford University by the whole team not only completed their training but also convinced them heart transplantation was feasible at Hartford Hospital.
Buczek and Dr. Low in 1984
A heart from a young trauma victim became available, and in November 1984, amidst intense interest (thirty two people passed through the operating room), the first successful heart transplant in the state of Connecticut was performed. Nearly twenty years, two hip operations, a colon resection and two children later, that patient remains alive and well.
Heart transplantation is inherently dramatic because one is transplanting the organ traditionally seen as the seat of the emotions and the soul into a person who is by definition totally debilitated and near death.
Over the years several particularly dramatic episodes stand out. On Valentine's Day in 1987, two United States Air Force F 111 fighter-bombers flew supersonic across country to bring a heart from Oklahoma City to a dying man at Hartford Hospital. Another man was bought to the operating room from the cardiac catheterization laboratory after a failed angioplasty attempt in the setting of a profound ischemic cardiomyopathy. He was placed on cardiopulmonary bypass with CPR underway. When he couldn't be weaned after four bypasses, a heart became available from another hospital. After ten hours on pump, fourteen hours in the operating room, and four weeks in the hospital, he walked out with his new heart. He is now the guiding energy behind the Park Road Playhouse.
Sometimes the new heart just doesn't work. One patient was re-transplanted the same day; one sixteen year old boy was re-transplanted after a week of mechanical circulatory support and one patient's new heart recovered completely. Every life saved is precious and every extra day lived is a little miracle.
Since November of 1984, about two hundred fifty transplants have been performed at Hartford Hospital. Dr. Low realized from the start that this had to be a team effort and the success of the program is testimony to the skill of all involved. Over the years, the Hartford Hospital team has included Drs. David Drezner, Hiroyoshi Takata, James Gallagher, Robert Lowe, Robert Gallagher, David Underhill, Paul Preissler, and Jonathan Hammond (surgeons), Drs. Robert Schweizer, Stanley Bartus, and David Hull (Hartford Transplant Associates), Drs . Michael Rossi, James Dougherty, Alfredo Nino, the late David Lawrence, Jeffrey Walden and Carol Campbell, APRN (cardiology), Dr. Martin Berman and colleagues (pathology), the Infectious Disease and Nephrology staff at Hartford Hospital, as well as the physicians, mid-level practitioners, and nurses of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Intensive Care Unit and the Postoperative floor.
About five hundred thousand new cases of congestive heart failure are diagnosed each year in the United States, but only about two thousand transplants are performed. Clearly, the overall contribution of transplantation to the treatment of congestive heart failure is "epidemiologically trivial," in the words of Dr. Eric Rose of Columbia University. New developments in medical therapy, including ACE inhibitors, ARBs, beta blockers and diuretics, advances in ICDs and biventricular pacing, surgical alternatives to transplantation (including mitral valve repair, left ventricular remodeling and long-term ventricular assist devices), as well as chronic donor shortages, mean that heart transplantation will never be an everyday occurrence.
Yet for those few with no other options, debilitated and dying a slow agonizing death, the heart transplant program at Hartford Hospital has given – and will continue to provide – a major source of comfort and hope.
-- Jonathan A. Hammond Jr., M.D., F.A.C.S.
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text: Design Artisans - Vicky Feb 18, 2014 Share via Facebook Share via Twitter Share via Google plus Share via Pinterest Vicky Davison I grew up in the countryside of North Yorkshire where I spent most of my early life outdoors gathering inspiration from the elements surrounding me. I would spend hours perfecting hand drawn flowers with the only element of its perfume missing! Designing is my passion in life. It gives me the opportunity to channel elements which influence me allowing me to create original designs and styles for Graham and Brown. I now love having the opportunity to explore my imagination. This allows me to produce hand drawn quality drawings ranging from classical through to modern and yes even "quirky". Take a look at a selection of Vicky's favourite products here at Graham & Brown. More Design Artisan films: Design Artisans - Hazel Design Artisans - Krishna Design Artisans - Phil Design Artisans - Steve


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Your Success Comes First
PADI Regional Headquarters offers support, consultation and benefits designed to help you succeed. No matter where you are in the world, you have a team of experts to help you succeed.
By partnering with PADI you receive:
The PADI eLearning system is an interactive, web-based program that allows learners to progress through online knowledge development for various PADI courses at their convenience. Divers are exposed to the same content as any other student divers and complete their inwater training with a PADI Instructor. eLearners are required to affiliate with a PADI Dive Center or Resort, which means that you can:
Through the virtual PADI eLearning Classroom, dive centers and resorts can communicate in numerous ways with eLearners. There are tools available that allow you to interact with your eLearners and provide information about upcoming sales, events or trips:
As a PADI Dive Center or Resort, you benefit from the most innovative and proven marketing campaigns in the scuba diving industry that help drive customers through your doors. Each year PADI Regional Headquarters provide you with marketing tools to help promote core marketing campaigns. Easy to use templates and stunning marketing images are all available on the PADI Pros' Site. Other marketing tools vary from in-store graphics to promotional items created to reach out to new and existing customers.
Marketing campaigns are designed to support the three top initiatives that make a successful scuba diving operation:
PADI ads appear in a wide variety of print media and online magazines. Ads for specific campaigns also appear on Google, Facebook and YouTube (PADI TV) in key markets based upon consumers' search criteria and posts. PADI email campaigns reach out to divers while they are highly motivated right after their certification and encourage them to take the next step. PADI Public Relations efforts help target niche markets and build brand credibility, which benefits your business. Through frequent media exposures and references, PADI Dive Centers and Resorts become recognized as the authority and experts in scuba diving.
The worldwide PADI organization also continues to engage divers and connect them to PADI Dive Centers and Resorts through ScubaEarth – the largest global scuba diving social community. PADI Dive Centers and Resorts get involved by setting up a ScubaEarth profile, logging dives and growing your Dive Crew. ScubaEarth is a great benefit that helps build relationships and creates connections to help to grow your business.
The PADI Diving Society is a global dive club that gives scuba divers incentives to take dive trips. PADI Diving Society members receive a subscription to Sport Diver magazine and access to an online benefits directory with discounts on scuba gear, travel and more. PADI Diving Society is an excellent tool to help keep divers active with your dive operation.
As a PADI Dive Center or Resort, you receive excellent savings on advertising rates in Sport Diver, which gives you the advantage of reaching hundreds of thousands of scuba divers and water enthusiasts. For rates and space reservations contact Sport Diver magazine at +1 407 571 4826
As a PADI Member, you receive an unparalleled level of customer service and business consultation. With the largest staff of regional managers and specialized business consultants in the dive industry, you enjoy personalized attention to meet all of your business goals. There are dedicated Customer Service Teams at PADI Regional Headquarters focused on providing you with advice, recommendations or support, as your partner.
All PADI Regional Managers (RMs) have worked in the dive industry for many years – several previously owned or managed dive shops – and are well-versed on PADI training programs and products. Working for PADI Members is their full time job. They don't represent other dive industry brands, so when they visit you, their sole focus is helping you increase profits through channels best suited for your customer base.
Your PADI RM's goal is to create a solid foundation on which to build a long-term, successful relationship with you based on trust and respect. Your RM is there to:
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PADI is the only organization to provide a full-time, in-house risk management staff to assist you in evaluating business practices, teaching techniques and prudent decision-making to enhance the safety and enjoyment of your customers and to help manage the risks associated with running a business, especially a dive business. Whether coaching staff, developing assumption of risk forms or assisting should an incident occur, the risk management team is available.
As a PADI Dive Center, Resort or professional member, you have access to the scuba diving industry's most comprehensive insurance programs. These programs provide specialized coverage for dive shops, resorts, dive boats and scuba instructors or dive supervisors. You also have the confidence that comes from having the scuba diving industry's strongest and most successful legal defense team behind you. Additionally, the PADI family's size gives us the power to represent the interests of diving and the environment in the face of legislation or regulation.
As a PADI Dive Center or Resort, you have one of the scuba diving industry's most efficient scuba certification processes because you can submit PADI scuba certifications through PIC (positive identification card) Online. PIC Online helps eliminate any mail delays and gets PADI scuba certification cards into your customers' hands faster. Note that your divers' certification cards come with your facility name printed on them!
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I have a subdomain fax.example.com which users have sent emails to for forwarding to a fax server, e.g. firstname.lastname@example.com (123456 is a fax number example).
The fax server is now being replaced with a cloud based solution and users will instead send emails to email@example.com (123456 is a fax number example)..
My question is if there is a way to auto-reply to users' emails at fax.example.com that they should send emails to the new email address firstname.lastname@example.com (123456 is a fax number example) during the transition period.
EDIT: Clearly my description above including the use of e.g. to provide an example fax-email address has been misinterpreted. There are no accounts under the subdomain fax.example.com. the "123456" in my example is a fax number.


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Quote by the creator of star trek
"You can only get people to belive on ridiculus thing at a time."
More people will believe a big lie than a small one. - Adolf Hitler.
Communist Nazi is an oxymoron.
Originally made by LM:
~ I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it. -- Kyle Schmidt ~
~Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. -- Josh Billings ~
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Hey guys. I know us gamers sometimes end up with extra Steam keys (Frozen Synapse comes as a set, for example) or gift copies of games we already own. This thread is a place to offer these copies up to whomever wants them, and pass on the gift of video game giving.
This is a thread out of goodwill, so no trading or selling.
Personally, I have an extra Steam key for each of the following:
Frozen Synapse
if you HAVE NOT gotten a free Steam key from me before (unless you were my Santa recipient or I sent you a birthday gift), and you'd like one of these games, shoot me a PM.
First come first served.
Happy gifting!
GIFTS LIST, curent gift offers:
divisionten offers:
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The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
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Michael Parks offers:
Cthulhu Saves the World
Breath of Death VII
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Puzzle Agent (via TT's website)


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The Lightning game scheduled against the Bruins tonight in Boston has been postponed with no make up date set as of yet.
Poor travel conditions from winter storm Nemo has forced the two teams to reschedule the contest. It was originally slated for a 1:00 PM puck drop, but the Bruins pushed the game back to 7:00 PM this evening, before postponing it all together.
The Lightning will head to New York this evening for their game with the Rangers at Madison Square Garden tomorrow.


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Secretary of State Colin Powell underwent surgery for prostate cancer Monday.
State department spokesman Richard Boucher said Powell's prostate was removed during the two-hour operation.
Doctors say the surgery went fine.
According to the American Cancer Society, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in American men.
Who is at Risk for Prostate Cancer?
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in North American men after skin cancer. It is the second leading cause of cancer death in men after lung cancer.
Both the number of new cases of prostate cancer and the number of deaths due to prostate cancer have increased in the past decade.
Anything that increases a person's chance of developing a disease is called a risk factor. Some of these risk factors for prostate cancer are:
Race - Black males are more likely to develop prostate cancer than white males. Black males are also more likely to die of prostate cancer than white males.
Family History of Prostate Cancer - A man whose father, brother, or son has had prostate cancer has a higher-than-average risk of developing prostate cancer.
Other potential risk factors include alcohol consumption, vitamin or mineral interactions, and other dietary habits.
Source: http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/cgi-bin/srchcgi.exe?DBID=pdq&TYPE=search&UID=280+02606&ZFILE=patient&SFMT=pdq_scrprv/1/0/0 (National Cancer Institute) contributed to this report.


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No one can be a supermodel forever. But what happens when a top-shelf model starts working less and starts getting fewer bookings? Or when she gets tired of having her picture taken and decides to pursue a new line of work?
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