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Rule 12 is a post-nuked total conversion for Morrowind. It is currently is the middle stages of development. Set in a post-nuclear-war era, full of irradiated grit and grime, Rule 12 is designed to be a true RPG, filled with all kinds of people and places. The world spans many areas, including a bomb crater, multiple cities and bases, and the Badlands, a jagged expanse of inhospitable terrain left to the toughest, roughest characters in the country. Rule 12 is built on the Morrowind engine, but some major mechanics are changed. Characters have abilities, which can be learned and trained in, and allow special actions. Inventory is limited both by weight of items and by limits on the number of each type, affected by stats (eg, a weak character can only carry one rifle and one pistol, a strong character could have two of each). Unfortunately, due to attempts at realism, this mod isn't for the young'uns.
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Mostly above-ground shots of the reworked landscape (smoothed and textured better now).
If my CS stops corrupting the files, I'll have shots of the redone Copper Roads (grassy and living).


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NEW YORK — New York Sports Clubs (NYSC) has been named the health club partner of the Nets Dancers for the 2005-2006 season. As part of the partnership, the Nets will provide NYSC with in-arena opportunities, logo rights and additional exposure to Nets fans. NYSC will provide club memberships to the organization.
As part of the partnership, Fitness Tips of the Day featuring NYSC trainers and Nets dance team members will air in-arena during home games. In addition, NYSC members will be offered the chance to win a workout session with Nets strength and conditioning coach Rich Dalatri at the Nets official practice facility. NYSC operates 96 clubs in the New York tri-state area with 23 clubs across New Jersey.

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John Deere redesigned its popular Gator utility vehicles (UVs) to boost power and improve comfort in the 2006 models. The green manufacturer added a number of new features to the Compact series and the High-Performance (HP) series of Gators. Deere also recently introduced its Buck ATV lineup for 2006.
Here's a look at what's new and improved in the Gators and Bucks.
HP series enhanced
"The enhancements we're introducing to our Gator HP series focus on delivering more performance and capability while keeping operators more comfortable than ever," reports David Thorne, John Deere utility vehicles.
First on the list is an operator protective structure with lap and shoulder belt for operator safety. Deere also improved the suspension and offers a heavy-duty front suspension kit for full-cab machines and for front-blade use. The company reports that the changes it made in the steering improves the steering effort by 30% compared to earlier models. The Gator HPX 4x4 diesel model features a redesigned Tier II diesel engine that produces a quieter ride and better performance compared to last year's model.
This year's HP models are equipped with a new on-demand 4-wd system that features an auto-locking front differential with a dash-mounted electronic on/off switch to provide more traction in tough conditions. Operators also should notice a more automobile-like braking system with smoother engagement on the new HP models. Deere installed front and rear wheel hydraulic service brakes with hydromechanical rear park brakes.
Drivers should expect easier starting with a four-bypass carburetor that improves throttle response. Plus, the new HP models include a manual choke on the dash to help engine warm-up when needed. Deere installed a larger 854cc Tier II diesel engine in the Gator HPX diesel model.
The HP series consists of the HPX 4x4, retailing for $9,399; the HPX 4x4 diesel for $10,899; and the HPX Trail Gator for $9,899. All models are equipped with a 900-lb. cargo box, a hydro-formed steel frame for strength and durability, and top ground speeds of 25 mph. Circle 200.
More comfortable Compact Gators
The smaller and lower-priced Gator Compact series also underwent some design changes to provide a better ride for the operator. The Gator CS and CX are equipped with a triple-rate spring-over-shock front and rear suspension, which may adjust to accommodate heavy loads. Deere engineers also isolated the frame from the engine and transmission carrier to reduce noise. A new seat base should improve operator comfort as well as entry and exit.
The Gator CS is equipped with a 249cc engine, and the CX model has a 284cc engine. Both vehicles will hold 400 lbs. in a 5-cu.-ft. cargo box. Deere offers more than 20 attachments, including a new utility cart and 25-gal. bed sprayer, for the Compact series.
Retail price is $4,499 for the Gator CS and $5,299 for the Gator CX. Circle 201.
Buck ATV lineup
Deere offers five Buck models in its ATV lineup for 2006. Four have a continuously variable transmission, and one has a five-speed gear-on-gear transmission. The company says that it continues to design its ATVs for serious work as well as recreational activities.
Two Buck 500 models are available with a 498cc in-line Rotax engine. The Buck 500 includes a gear-on-gear transmission, and the Buck 500 Auto features a continuously variable transmission. Both models are equipped with double A-arm front suspension, rigid swing-arm rear suspension and a step-through design. The Buck 500 retails for $6,999, and the Buck 500 Auto retails for $6,499.
Deere's larger-size ATVs come in the Buck 650 Auto series. Three models are equipped with a 644cc, 4-Tec Rotax engine and feature the continuously variable transmission, step-through design, and the double A-arm front and rigid swing-arm rear suspensions.
The Buck 650 Auto retails for $6,999, and the Buck 650 EX retails for $7,799. The EX model comes equipped with radial tires, a 2,500-lb. Warn winch with roller fairlead, front mud flap extensions, rear rack full extensions, heavy-duty rear bumper and front brush guards, and integrated hand guards. The Buck 650 EXT Auto with a cargo box retails for $7,699.
All of Deere's Buck ATVs have a watertight, 8-gal. front storage area. They all include a progressively locking 4-wd Visco-lock system that automatically corrects traction without compromising steering or maneuverability. Deere designed the Buck models with the radiator located in the rear to keep heat away from the operator and to reduce mud and debris problems in the radiator.
Maintenance of the Buck models is easy; the operator simply pulls up the seat to quickly locate the spark plugs, battery, air filter, oil filter, fuses, dipstick, radiator fluid and carburetor. Circle 202.
For more information, contact John Deere Commercial & Consumer Equipment Division, Dept. FIN, Box 13603, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, 800/537-8233, or visit www.johndeere.com.


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Created by famed French videogame designer Eric Chahi, this mysterious game tells of a world in terrible disorder, one that only you can set right again. Commanding the world around you as a child in a sandbox, players will help their people resist, expand and migrate so they can accomplish their quest to find a safe place in a land ravaged by the violent and catastrophic ways of Nature.
Gameplay in this innovative game is based on advanced technology that allows the entire world to act dynamically. The ground, water, and vegetation are all yours to interact with -- breach a lake open, dig open a crater, set loose a lava flow ... your powers are great, but how you choose to use them will determine the fate of this society.
Formerly known as codename Project Dust, Eric Chahi's new game was officially revealed as From Dust at Gamescom today, and publisher Ubisoft showed off the technology that makes nature the star in this modern god game. Read More »
Ubisoft's E3 press conference on Monday puzzled in a number of ways. First there was the impromptu game of laser tag (sorry, Battle Tag) that appeared to irritate actor/comedian host Joel McHale. Then there was the pink-haired guy introducing PC breathing and relaxation "game" Innergy. But perhaps most puzzling was Ubisoft's lack of an explanation for one of its most promising looking new titles, codename Project Dust. Read More »
Also known as: Dust, Project Dust [working title]


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|Strategic Vision
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Enhance the marketability of agricultural products, increase the availability of healthful foods, develop value-added food and nonfood products, and enable commercially-preferred technologies for post-harvest processing.
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Research is focused on developing knowledge and enabling commercially-viable technologies to (1) measure and maintain/enhance post-harvest product quality, (2) harvest and process agricultural materials, and (3) create new value-added products.
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NEW YORK, NY – Move over Pro bowl, horrible NHL All-Star goal fest, and no-D NBA all-star crapfest. Step aside soccer exhibition matches, one-on-one celebrity poker tournaments, and pretty much the entire Olympics. Golf has decided it wants in on the all-star game phenomena.
This week, to coincide with the MLB's midsummer classic, the USGA announced that it too will hold an 'All-Star' event, perhaps as early as 2020.
Officials stated their need for the decade long delay, to work out the kinks in the system, but most expert analysts, and Jim Nantz, believe golf will follow the baseball format. Meaning: Players will be selected by flawed fan voting; the game will be played in the middle of a season to maximize player schedule disruption; there will be some sort of skills event (think putt putt, longest drive, and a 'fan-interactive' club toss); and players will be forced to wear stupid uniforms signifying the event.
Said one pro, "I think it's great. It will be so unlike the regular tour. Instead of the best 120 golfers competing each weekend, this will take the best 100-120 golfers, and have them compete over a weekend. But individually."
True. Unlike majors, where major titles, legacies, and reputations are made, a 'Golf All-Star Event', will allow the players to play for something they can't get at regular events, majors, skins games, or charity pro-ams. This will be an 'All-Star' tournament, mostly because it'll say 'All-Star' on the trophy.
Said John Daly, "As long as there's a Hooters nearby, I'm in". Then he continued, "Actually I'll take a 7-11 if the beer is cold and they smell smokes.'" (can you say lock for fan-vote champion?).
Who knows, if successful, maybe tennis and boxing will follow suit. This writer doesn't just believe we 'should' have 'All-Star' Golf. We need 'All-Star' Golf. Hey, if the WNBA can have one, why not golf?
For more Shoeless Joe Jackson, and articles and videos that spin sports and comedy in ways ESPN isn't allowed to, check out http://www.dailyballbreakers.com/ (breaking balls every day).


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Glenna Jean Boydston Newkirk, 64, passed away May 31, 2013, in her home in Marion.
A shared memorial service for Glenna and her mother, Julie A. Boydston, will be 11 a.m. Monday, June 24, at Eastmoor United Methodist Church in Marion. A memorial has been established for Eastmoor United Methodist Church and Harden Hospice Kansas.
Born Sept. 7, 1948, in Waterloo, Iowa, Glenna was the daughter of Glenn Boydston and Julie A. (Jean) Boydston.
She graduated from Valley Falls High School in 1966 and completed three years of college at Kansas State Teachers College in Emporia. She then held down many different jobs throughout the years including bookkeeping for the family businesses, paraprofessional, medical records, and the duties that come with being a minister's wife.
On Oct. 5, 1969, Glenna married Jim A. Newkirk of Caldwell. The couple retired together at the Marion County Lake, Marion, after enjoying 43 years of marriage.
She was a member of Eastmoor United Methodist Church, where she was very involved in her Sunday school class and missions work. She also loved fishing for crappie, watching college basketball, and spending time with family and friends.
Glenna was preceded in death by her parents, Glenn and Julie.
She is survived by her spouse Jim; son Jeff Newkirk, his wife Jamie, and children Julian and Jaden of Columbia City, Ind.; daughter Tami Harbin, her husband Chris, and children Sammy, Leila, and Hannah of North Africa; and her brother Dr. Harry Boydston and family of Louisburg, Kan.
Glenna will be greatly missed by her family and friends.


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Description: Hat of white felt fur. The domed crown is almost totally covered by ostrich feathers, dyed pale green with violet edges. The brim turns up at ends, and supports lavish embellishments consisting of artificial flowers of various colors of velvet, more dyed ostrich feathers, and a violet silk taffeta bow. The crown and brim, under the added decorations, is covered in a fine black net/veiling, which extends under the brim and into the inside of the crown. The crown is unlined, showing the fur. Maker's paper label partially preserved, attached inside crown: "[Monogram mark RAC(?)] / New York". Label also lists style, "Anita", and price of $4.00.
Date: 1913
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SASKATOON—After watching his bloodied linemate helped from the ice, Chase De Leo did all he could to make one of his best friends feel a little better — help the Portland Winterhawks make the semifinal at the MasterCard Memorial Cup.
De Leo gave Portland the lead for good in the third and the Winterhawks scored three times in the period to defeat the Saskatoon Blades 4-2 in the tournament's final round-robin game.
With the score tied 1-1 after two, De Leo jammed a loose puck past Blades goalie Andrey Makarov at 4:08 as Portland (2-1) now moves on to Friday's semifinal.
After the game, thoughts on the Portland side quickly turned to Winterhawks right-winger Taylor Leier, who suffered what appeared to be a blow to the head on a hit from Blades defenceman Dalton Thrower just inside the Saskatoon blue-line in the first period.
A bloodied Leier, who is from Saskatoon, stayed facedown for a few minutes before being helped off the ice and did not return. The was no penalty on the play, but the Canadian Hockey League said in a release after the game that it was reviewing the incident.
"You don't want to see a teammate go down, especially one of my best friends and linemates. It's a scary thing," said De Leo, who now has two goals at the tournament. "It's not something you want to see and obviously the boys are going to get some energy and motivation to battle back for him."
Not surprisingly, Winterhawks coach Travis Green and Blades counterpart Lorne Molleken had different interpretations of the hit.
"It's pretty obvious where the shot comes. It hits him in the head and there is a jump to it as well. The video is pretty obvious," Green said. "We lost one of our better players to a hit that I thought should have been a major."
Molleken, meanwhile, called the hit "unfortunate" but added that he thought Thrower caught Leier in the chest with his shoulder.
Winterhawks players disagreed.
"When you see a teammate go down like that you're not going to stand by and watch but at this point in the tournament and how big of a game it was, we can't take any stupid penalties," said Portland forward Ty Rattie, who scored his fourth goal. "(Leier) got his head hit. It was a hit to the head."
The host Blades (1-2), who were swept out of the Western Hockey League playoffs in the first round and have never won a Memorial Cup, now have a tough task with three games in four nights.
A win on Wednesday would have meant a bye to the final, but Saskatoon now faces a Thursday tiebreaker game against the Ontario Hockey League champion London Knights (1-2).
"Going through adversity is nothing new for this team. We've had our ups and downs this year and we're looking forward to proving ourselves again and taking the long way around," said Saskatoon overage forward Josh Nicholls, who had a goal and an assist. "This a typical Blades way of doing things — taking that long way. Hopefully we get the job done and take three straight."
The winner of the Saskatoon-London game will meet Portland in Friday's semi. With the Winterhawks' victory, the Halifax Mooseheads (2-1) clinched a berth directly into Sunday's final to decide the CHL champion.
Derrick Pouliot and Brenden Leipsic had the other goals for Portland (2-1), which got 29 saves from Mac Carruth. Nicolas Petan added two assists for the WHL champions.
Shane McColgan also scored for Saskatoon, while Makarov stopped 30 shots in taking the loss.
"It was a big win," Green said. "I thought their team came out hard like we expected early, tried to be physical on us and we withheld and I thought we slowly took over the game."
After De Leo scored to give Portland the lead in the third, Leipsic added an insurance goal for Portland at 6:27, ripping a shot from the slot into the top corner past Makarov.
Rattie made it 4-1 with his fourth of the tournament at 10:16, beating Makarov to the glove side off the rush.
"We knew it was going to be hard and to get three quick bingos like that was big for the boys," Rattie said. "(It) gave us a little bit more confidence and a little bit more leeway on defence."
Nicholls scored at 16:27 to cut the deficit to two, but the Blades would get no closer.
"Portland did a good job against us in a lot of areas but these teams are all skilled teams and when we get into that game it's going to be difficult on us so we have to play a simplified game," Molleken said. "We have to play a north game and make sure our forecheck is good but tonight we let Carruth handle far too many pucks."
Following a scoreless first period, the teams traded goals in the second. Pouliot opened the scoring at 6:44 after jumping on a Blades turnover and firing a shot from the sideboards that fooled Makarov through the five-hole.
Saskatoon got a 5-on-3 power play later in the period and didn't generate much of anything until McColgan, who hit the post moments earlier, fired a shot past Carruth that deflected in off a Winterhawks player in front with a second left on the second penalty to tie the score at 11:20.
Portland had a golden opportunity to retake the lead when Blades left-winger Michael Ferland took a double minor for high sticking with just over four minutes remaining in the period. Winterhawks defenceman Seth Jones, the No. 1 ranked North American skater according to NHL Central Scouting ahead of June's draft, had a good chance off the rush but fired wide as the Blades weathered the storm and were saluted off the ice by a standing ovation from the crowd of 9,239 at the Credit Union Centre.
Coming off Sunday's emotional 5-2 victory over Halifax, the Blades said prior to the game that their focus would be to get on the body early and they did just that, hitting the Winterhawks at every opportunity in the first period — including Thrower's crushing blow on Leier.
The Blades, who have had their share of doubters this season, don't have much time to refocus ahead of Thursday's tiebreaker.
"Things are just going to increase in tempo here. It all counts now because lose and you're done. There is no tomorrow anymore so we've really got to strap up and put our work boots on," defenceman Duncan Siemens. "We're a hard-nosed team. We have some skill up front but the majority of team is meat and potatoes. We've got to go to those hard areas and score those greasy goals."
Notes: The Winterhawks have won two Memorial Cups (1983, 1998). The Blades have never won a CHL title. . . . Former NHL tough guy and Blades alumni Joe Kocur was in attendance.


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In January 1966, I went to work for the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and I began to learn IBM 1401 Autocoder. I described much of what I learned about Autocoder in the Part 1 of this series. After three weeks, along with a few of my classmates, I was selected to learn the IBM 360 Basic Assembler Language (BAL). So, on another Monday morning, I reported to the IBM Education Center at Suburban Station in Philadelphia to begin my study.
There were six or seven of us from the previous class that had been chosen to learn BAL and when we arrived at the Education Center, we were directed to our new classroom. The room had four rows of tables, enough chairs for the students, but no lectern for an instructor. Promptly at 9:00, two gentlemen, one from IBM and one from Bell Tell, arrived and explained that we were to be part of an experiment called "programmed instruction." We would be given paper-bound text books, Assembler Language coding pads, and pencils, but otherwise left on our own to learn a new generation of computer architecture and the language used to program it. Every 90 minutes an IBM expert would join us and ask us if we had questions. After a brief discussion with the expert, we would take a break.
Over the years, as I've thought about this experience, the only explanation that rings true is that the Bell Telephone company, faced with the need to train more than a hundred programmers in Assembler Language, made a deal with IBM to try to reduce their education costs. We, however, were only told that programmed instruction was the wave of the future and that it would soon replace instructor-led training. The fact that any of us learned BAL was due to the determination of my classmates and not the craziness of throwing half-a-dozen guys in an empty room with some books and telling them not to come out until they knew the Basic Assembler.
My strong-minded fellow students were male. We were Bell Telephone company employees who had taken the programmer aptitude test, then transferred to the computer department. Most of the students were from Philadelphia or the suburbs. In our original class of 15, only two other students were from out-of-town. I was from Harrisburg, another from Allentown, and the third, I believe, from Scranton. All of my classmates had installed or repaired telephones and they were happy to be in a warm room in February instead of a cold truck. So, despite the difficulty, we set out to stay warm and learn BAL.
The IBM 360 was made from integrated circuits, unlike the 1401's transistors. And, unlike the 1401 Autocoder, the 360's assembler language was based on the binary number system. Our programmed instruction text reported, "The binary system works under the exact same principles as the decimal system, only it operates in base 2 rather than base 10." No single sentence would cause me more problems. The binary system wasn't the same as anything that I had learned before, it was different.
We read that, as its name suggested, the binary number system used only two digits, 0 and 1. I was all right until the number 2. The number 10 (base 2) was the same as the number 2 (base 10), we were told. Our book showed long strings of zeros and ones, then an equal sign followed by a tidy two or three digit decimal number. Our book demonstrated how we could add and subtract these long strings of digits should we ever find the need to do so. I was confused.
When the expert joined us, I asked for some explanation of the binary system. He smiled, seemed nervous, and confided that we would probably never need to know about binary numbers. The expert advised us that rather than 1s and 0s, we should really concentrate on hexadecimal. Hearing no other questions, he left the room. He was the expert and he was right.
The hexadecimal system (called hex) substitutes a single character for four binary digits. Thus, once again, 2 was 2. Or, more accurately, 0010 was 2. It did get a little messy when you got past 9 because A was 10, B was 11, and so on until F being 15, but I could handle hex numbers. They just looked better to me. And, with that, we finished our first day of programmed instruction.


text: Ford Motor Company rolled into Portland this week for an invitation-only event at Electric Avenue -- the joint research and development project launched by Portland State University, Portland General Electric, and the City of Portland in August 2011. Attendees received a lunch hour briefing before heading over to Electric Avenue to test drive four new Focus Electrics that carry a best-in-class city fuel efficiency rating of 110 MPGe. Our friends at Ford also conducted a contest for the two dozen attendees at the Focus launch: To select from three competing sites (OMSI, Oregon Zoo, and Electric Avenue) where Ford will donate and install its first charging station in the Portland region. By an overwhelming vote, the Oregon Zoo swamped the competition. Thanks to Ford and congratulations to the Oregon Zoo!


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Providing you take common-sense precautions, visiting Cuba poses no particular health risks. In fact, some of the most impressive advances made by the revolutionary government since 1959 have been in the field of medicine and the free healthcare provided to all Cuban citizens. Despite all the investment, Cuba's health service has been hit hard by the US trade embargo, particularly in terms of the supply of medicines. It's essential to bring your own medical kit from home, including painkillers and any prescription drugs that you use, as availability is limited in Cuba.
No vaccinations are legally required to visit Cuba, unless you're arriving from a country where yellow fever and cholera are endemic, in which case you'll need a vaccination certificate. It is still advisable, however, to get inoculations for hepatitis A, cholera, tetanus and to a lesser extent rabies and typhoid. A booster dose of the hepatitis A vaccination within six to 12 months of the first dose will provide immunity for approximately 10 years.
Bites and stings
Despite Cuba's colourful variety of fauna, there are no dangerously venomous animals on the island – the occasional scorpion is about as scary as it gets, while the chances of contracting diseases from bites and stings are extremely slim. Cuba is not malarial and mosquitoes are relatively absent from towns and cities due to regular fumigation. They are, however, prevalent in many rural areas. Basic, common-sense precautions include covering your skin, not sitting out at dusk, closing windows at this time, and using DEET repellent.
There are occasional outbreaks of dengue fever, a viral infection spread by mosquitoes. It can occasionally be fatal, though usually only among the very young or old or those with compromised immunity; reported number of deaths in Cuba have been in single figures, and serious cases are rare. There's no vaccine, so prevention is the best policy. Avoid getting bitten by mosquitoes, and be aware that though more common after dusk, mosquitoes can strike throughout the day. Symptoms develop rapidly following infection and include extreme aches and pains in the bones and joints, severe headaches, dizziness, fever and vomiting. Should you experience any of the above symptoms, seek medical advice immediately – early detection and access to proper medical care eases symptoms and lowers fatality rates to below 1%.
More widespread wherever there is livestock, ticks lie in the grass waiting for passing victims and burrow into the skin of any mammal they can get hold of. Repellent is ineffective, so your best form of defence is to wear trousers tucked into socks. It is possible to remove ticks with tweezers, but make sure that the head, which can easily get left behind, is plucked out along with the body. Smearing them first with Vaseline or even strong alcohol leaves less of a margin for error. Minuscule sand flies can make their presence felt on beaches at dusk by inflicting bites that cause prolonged itchiness.
A cholera outbreak in eastern Cuba in 2012 caused three fatalities, while another in Havana in early 2013 was the country's biggest outbreak in decades; dozens of people were infected, but none fatally so. As cholera appears in epidemics rather than isolated cases, you will probably hear about it should it be present when you visit. The disease is carried by contaminated water or food and is characterized by sudden attacks of diarrhoea with severe cramps and debilitation. Cholera can prove fatal if untreated, but foreign visitors are at a very low risk of contracting it.
Food and water
Due to the risk of parasites, drinking tap water is never a good idea in Cuba, even in the swankiest hotels. Whenever you are offered water, whether in a restaurant, paladar or private house, it's a good idea to check if it has been boiled – in most cases it will have been. Bottled water is available in convertible-peso shops and most tourist bars and restaurants.
Although reports of food poisoning are few and far between, there are good reasons for exercising caution when eating in Cuba. Food bought on the street is in the highest-risk category and you should be aware that there is no official regulatory system ensuring acceptable levels of hygiene. Self-regulation does seem to be enough in most cases, but you should still be cautious when buying pizzas, meat-based snacks or ice cream from street-sellers. Power cuts are common and there is no guarantee that defrosted food is not subsequently refrozen. National-peso restaurants can be equally suspect, particularly those in out-of-the-way places.
Sun exposure and heat issues
Cuba's humid tropical climate means you should take all the usual common-sense precautions: drink plenty of water, limit exposure to the sun (especially between 11am and 3pm) and don't use a sunscreen with a protection factor of less than 15, and if you're fair-skinned or burn easily, no lower than 25. You may find sunscreen difficult to find away from hotels and convertible-peso shops, so be sure to pack some before taking any trips into less-visited areas.
Hospitals, clinics and pharmacies
Don't assume that Cuba's world-famous free health service extends to foreign visitors – far from it. In fact, the government has used the advances made in medicine to earn extra revenue for the regime through a system of health tourism. Each year, thousands of foreigners come to Cuba for everything from surgery to relaxation at a network of anti-stress clinics, and these services don't come cheap. There are specific hospitals for foreign patients and a network of clinics, pharmacies and other health services targeted specifically at tourists, run by Servimed. The only general hospital for foreigners, as compared to the smaller clinics found in around half-a-dozen cities and resorts across the island, is the Clínica Central Cira García in Havana.
If you do wind up in hospital in Cuba, one of the first things you or someone you know should do is contact Asistur, which usually deals with insurance claims on behalf of the hospital, as well as offering various kinds of assistance, from supplying ambulances and wheelchairs to obtaining and sending medical reports. However, for minor complaints you shouldn't have to go further than the hotel doctor, who will give you a consultation. If you're staying in a casa particular your best bet, if you feel ill, is to inform your hosts, who should be able to call the family doctor, the médico de la familia, and arrange a house-call. This is common practice in Cuba where, with one doctor for every 169 inhabitants, it's possible for them to personally visit all their patients.
There is no single emergency number for ringing an ambulance, but you can call 105 from most provinces and 7 838 1185 or 7 838 2185 to get one in Havana. You can also try Asistur's emergency Havana numbers (7 866 8339 and and 7 866 8527).
There are two types of pharmacy in Cuba: national-peso places for the population at large; and Servimed pharmacies aimed primarily at tourists, charging in convertible pesos and usually located within a clínica internacional. Tourists are permitted to use the antiquated national-peso establishments but will rarely find anything of use besides aspirin, as they primarily deal in prescription-only drugs. The Servimed pharmacies only exist in some of the largest towns (as detailed throughout the guide), but even these don't have the range of medicines that you might expect.
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Though overshadowed by fresher competition, the 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 is still the king of big-truck attitude and can handle the diverse duties of comfortable daily driver and capable workhorse with equal ease.
If you believe the commercials, trucks can do anything. They can come within an inch of careening off a 100-yard steel plank into a canyon. They can drive around our country accompanied by a constant soundtrack loop of John Mellencamp. The 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 is apparently capable of withstanding an incessant pounding from a 13-foot tall Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robot. Although these are obvious exaggerations, they demonstrate what full-size trucks are meant to convey: all-American macho machines that are indestructible. With its big-rig styling and workhorse capabilities, the Dodge Ram personifies this image.
For 2008, the Ram gets a little more macho. The 4.7-liter V8 has been upgraded significantly, boosting output from 235 horsepower and 300 pound-feet of torque to a robust 310 hp and 330 lb-ft. That moves it from having a slight advantage over the base V6 to nipping at the heels of the mighty Hemi V8. Dodge is quick to point out that the 4.7-liter gets slightly better fuel economy to match its power boost, but with a 1 mpg increase to 15 combined mpg, that's like saying getting punched in the head by Hulk Hogan is slightly better than getting a roundhouse from Lennox Lewis.
Introduced in 2003, the current-generation Ram is the elder statesman of its segment, but it still manages to offer better-than-average handling reflexes, a full menu of available creature comforts and that big-rig exterior styling, which is (quite arguably) the manliest of this very manly vehicle category. Plus, the Ram's Mega Cab, which stretches the Quad Cab by 20 inches, provides rear quarters that challenge most large sedans for sprawl space. The rear seatback even reclines.
The Dodge Ram has consistently ranked in 3rd place on the sales charts behind Ford and GM's full-size pickups, and today sees Toyota creeping dangerously close into the Ram's territory. Sales only tell so much of a story, as in terms of overall quality and desirability, the newer Toyota Tundra and Chevy Silverado/GMC Sierra twins are the benchmarks among full-size pickups. However, those willing to sacrifice a little refinement for some of that Rock 'Em Sock 'Em style will find the 2008 Dodge Ram a thoroughly competent all-American macho machine.
The 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 is a half-ton full-size pickup truck. There are three body styles to choose from: regular cab, Quad Cab (a crew cab) and Mega Cab (jumbo crew cab). The regular and Quad are available with either a regular short cargo bed or a long bed. The Mega Cab rides on the same-length wheelbase as the Quad Cab long bed but pairs an even bigger cabin with the short bed.
The Ram is further offered in ST, SXT, SLT and Laramie trims. The bare-bones ST comes with 17-inch steel wheels, air-conditioning, a 40/20/40 front bench seat, vinyl upholstery, tilt steering wheel, manual windows and a four-speaker CD stereo with auxiliary audio jack. The SXT is largely similar and is available only with the Mega Cab. Options on these two trims include power heated mirrors, a power-sliding rear window, cruise control and satellite radio.
The Ram SLT comes with 17-inch alloy wheels, cruise control and full power accessories, plus the availability of additional optional features. It is not available with the Mega Cab. The SLT can be outfitted with a Sport Package that adds unique bucket seats, a body-color grille and 20-inch chrome-clad wheels. The top-line Laramie trim adds dual-zone automatic climate control, leather upholstery, a power driver seat, heated front seats, seven Infinity speakers and a leather-wrapped steering wheel with audio controls. The Laramie is not available with the regular cab.
Options for the SLT and Laramie include a sunroof, 20-inch wheels (excluding the Sport), power-adjustable pedals, front bucket seats (excluding Sport), an auto-dimming rearview mirror, Bluetooth, a navigation system, a rear-seat entertainment system, remote vehicle start, satellite radio and an upgraded stereo with six-CD changer.
All Dodge Ram models are available with either rear-wheel or four-wheel drive. Regular cab 2WD ST's come with a 3.7-liter V6 that produces 215 hp and 235 lb-ft of torque. Optional on the ST and standard on the SLT is this year's revised 4.7-liter V8 that makes 310 hp and 330 lb-ft of torque. Optional on the SLT and standard on SXT and Laramie is a 5.7-liter "Hemi" V8 that provides 345 hp and 375 lb-ft of torque. When properly equipped, a Ram can pull up to 9,100 pounds.
A six-speed manual transmission is standard on the V6, with a four-speed automatic optional. The 4.7-liter V8 gets a choice of six-speed manual or five-speed automatic. The Hemi V8 comes standard with the five-speed automatic. Fuel economy for the Ram doesn't change much between powertrains, as each returns around 13 mpg city and 18 mpg highway.
Four-wheel disc brakes with rear ABS are standard on the ST and SLT. The SXT and Laramie come with full four-wheel ABS, but it's optional on the other trims. Power-adjustable pedals are optional on most Rams and standard for the Laramie. For all Ram 1500s, full-length side curtain airbags are optional. Stability control is also optional on all trims except the Laramie, in which case it's standard. In government crash tests, the 2008 Dodge Ram earned five out of five stars for its protection of front occupants in head-on collisions. Frontal-offset collision testing performed by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety similarly resulted in a top rating of "Good."
Considering its size, the 2008 Dodge Ram 1500 is nimble and easy to drive. Ride quality can still be a bit bouncy at times, but when loaded up with passengers and cargo, the Ram is downright comfortable. The new 4.7-liter is a welcome addition and no longer makes the 5.7-liter V8 a near necessity. Both mills provide plenty of power for trailer towing and big payloads, and it's important to note that neither offers a fuel economy advantage versus each other and the V6.
The 2008 Ram's cabin features white-faced gauges, simple twist-knob climate controls and a huge center armrest/bin. Although it is a straightforward, user-friendly design, the cabin's materials quality trails that of newer competitors. Crew cabs can seat up to six people and the rear seats fold up to reveal a flat load floor for carrying large items inside. Unfortunately, rear seating in Quad Cabs is noticeably more cramped than in competitors' crew-cab trucks. The Mega Cab more than compensates by expanding legroom by nearly a foot and offering a comfy, reclining backseat. If carrying passengers in comfort is a priority equal to pickup utility, it's hard to do better than a Ram Mega Cab model.
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2011 (Sophomore): Second team All-Ivy League ... Led Ivy League in goals-against average (1.84) ... Third in Ivy League in save percentage (.752) ... Fifth in Ivy League in saves and sixth in saves per game (91 in 17 games, 5.35 saves per game) ... Played 1144:14 in 17 games, all starts ... Part of three combined shutouts ... Had career-high 13 saves in 5-1 win over Dartmouth Oct. 15 ... Earned Major Y.
2010 (Freshman): NFHCA National Academic Squad honoree … Appeared in seven games ... .775 save percentage ... 2.57 goals-against average.
High School: Captained team as a senior … Conference all-star 2007-09 … First team Baltimore Sun All Metro Team in 2008 and 2009; second team in 2007 … First team all-state in 2009; second team in 2008 … Team was IAAM "A" Conference Division Champions all four years she played, and was tournament champions in 2007 and 2008 … School forum member (Class president 2008-09) … Service League liaison 2008-10.
USA Field Hockey: Selected for USFHA National Futures Championship in 2008 and 2009 … Selected to Junior National Camp in 2008 and 2009 … Olympic Development and Futures Elite Select 2009-10 … Played for Yale associate head coach Tamara Durante, and with current Yale teammate Georgia Holland, on Junior Olympic Team in 2008, earning second place … Played for Yale head coach Pam Stuper on USA Under-16 National Team in 2009, placing third at the International Easter Tournament.
Notes: Father, Marty, is also an Ivy Leaguer (1972 Dartmouth graduate) … Involved with church and Teen Community Bible Study 2006-10.
Why Yale? "I am honored to attend Yale College because of its high academic standard and the never-ending opportunities provided to undergraduate students. The first time I visited, I instantly fell in love with the campus and its rich history. After spending time with the field hockey team and the community on campus I knew that Yale was a perfect fit for me."


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1. esteem - noun
· the condition of being honored (esteemed or respected or well regarded); "it is held in esteem"; "a man who has earned high regard"
Hypernym(s): honor, honour, laurels
Antonym(s): disesteem
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Synonym(s): admiration
Hypernym(s): liking
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· an attitude of admiration or esteem; "she lost all respect for him"
Hypernym(s): attitude, mental_attitude
4. esteem - verb
· regard highly; think much of; "I respect his judgement"; "We prize his creativity"
Synonym(s): respect, value, prize, prise
Hypernym(s): see, consider, reckon, view, regard
Antonym(s): disesteem
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· look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent"
Synonym(s): think_of, repute, know_as, be_known_as, regard_as, look_upon, look_on, take_to_be
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It's hard to believe that 2011 has come and gone and the New Year is here.
Looking back, Farm Bureau had a very good year. We saw the success of some of our priority issues and the undertaking of several endeavors that are significant to the future of agriculture.
Looking ahead, there will be twists and turns in the road that awaits us, especially as we delve into the farm bill this year. But, knowing that Farm Bureau is on the right track as we head down that road, I am confident we will be met with success at the end. As the old jazz song goes, "It's a new dawn, it's a new day…and I'm feeling good."
A toast to the past
It was a good year for Farm Bureau's trade priorities. The Colombia, Korea and Panama trade agreements all passed Congress and were signed into law. Further, Mexico lifted $2.5 billion of retaliatory tariffs against U.S. farm products, and the World Trade Organization welcomed Russia into its membership. All of these victories will result in increased U.S. farm trade.
On the tax front, an IRS provision was repealed that will allow farms, ranches and other businesses to forego unnecessary and burdensome Form 1099 reporting requirements. We also achieved repeal of the 3 percent withholding tax.
Farm Bureau also supported House-passage of the Energy Tax Prevention Act of 2011, which eliminates the authority of the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
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And, we successfully urged EPA to not propose changes to the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for coarse particulate matter, which includes dust from rural areas. In an effort to secure regulatory certainty on the dust issue, we also supported House passage of the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act.
In 2011, Farm Bureau undertook a very important initiative with its participation in the U.S. Farmers and Ranchers Alliance. This unified, long-term and coordinated campaign for American agriculture is unprecedented in size and scope, with most every U.S. agriculture organization working toward one goal: moving the needle to gain consumer trust. I am confident this effort will vastly improve the connection between consumers and farmers and ranchers as we move further into 2012 and the future.
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As we settle in to the New Year, there are also visible obstacles on the horizon. One such challenge will be to complete a farm bill by years' end that meets our expectations, while also staying in tune with the fiscal state of the nation.
Farm Bureau supports the need for deficit reduction and tackling the nation's rising debt, and we understand that in order to do this, cuts in farm programs are likely. While we will fight tooth and nail against disproportionate cuts, we will do our share to get the nation's economy back on track. I am confident Farm Bureau is up to the task.
Water issues, too, still loom. Farm Bureau is leading both legal and policy efforts against EPA's Chesapeake Bay regulations, which unlawfully usurp states' authority. Left uncontested, EPA's unprecedented initiative could set the stage for federal mandates on land use and water quality regulations nationwide, which could negatively affect all farmers and ranchers.
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The prospect of sharply reduced pension checks has sent a jolt through retired workers who always counted on their pensions_who sometimes sought promotions just to sweeten the pot_and never imagined they could be in danger even as the city's worsening finances finally led to its bankruptcy filing last week.
DETROIT (AP) ? K.D. Bullock had been retired from the Detroit Police Department for nearly 17 years and was working as a casino security supervisor when he encountered a problem last March ?long accustomed to working on his feet, he suddenly couldn't make it up a flight of stairs. After months of doctor's appointments, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis, which makes it difficult for him to breathe. He not only left his job but had to begin paying others for the fix-up work he'd been doing on his historic six-bedroom house.
Now, he could be facing another hit, this time to his $2,400-a-month pension.
The pensions earned by more than 21,000 retired municipal employees have been placed on the table as Detroit enters bankruptcy proceedings with debts that could amount to $20 billion. Labor unions insist the $3.5 billion in pension benefits are protected by state law, but the city's emergency manager has included them among the $11 billion in unsecured debt that can be whittled down through bankruptcy. A federal judge has scheduled the first hearing on the city's case for Wednesday.
The prospect of sharply reduced pension checks has sent a jolt through retired workers who always counted on their pensions_who sometimes sought promotions just to sweeten the pot_and never imagined they could be in danger even as the city's worsening finances finally led to its bankruptcy filing last week.
Bullock says he's worried he'll have to sell his home in Detroit's historic Indian Village neighborhood, and others are wondering if they can afford a house at all.
"A number of things can happen. It just means our lifestyle is going to change ? we have no way of knowing," Bullock said of the choices facing him and his wife, Randye.
The average annual pension payment for Detroit municipal retirees is about $19,000. Retired police officers and firefighters receive an average of $30,500. Top executives and chiefs can receive $100,000. Police and firefighters don't pay into the Social Security system so they don't receive Social Security benefits upon retiring.
Bullock, 70, said the idea that his pension could be reduced is "a hard pill to swallow" after 27 years on the force working his way up. He said he was proud to be the first black commanding officer of the department's communications system.
He said that pensions ? and people ? should be a priority over other city assets, such as artwork at the Detroit Institute of Arts, some of which could be sold to help satisfy the city's staggering debts. But art patrons have protested the idea of auctioning off Old Masters in the museum collection. And investment funds have spoken up for the average people who could get only cents on the dollar for their investments in supposedly safe city bonds.
The ripple effects of the pension issue are touching people far beyond Detroit.
Glenda Dehn, 66, and her husband planned to spend winters in Arizona after his retirement from the police force, but since their recent divorce after 48 years of marriage, the home in Peoria, Ariz., is her permanent residence. Now she worries that she'll have to move in with family members in Michigan.
"It would be a major life change for me and many, many others," said Dehn, who also has a son on the force.
Likewise, police retiree Warren Coleman, 76, wonders if his other investments will be enough to support him. In his 27 years on the job before he retired as an executive lieutenant and moved to Ocala, Fla., he said he "put a whole lot of effort into getting promoted" with the rising retirement benefit in mind.
"I intended ... to do the best I could while I was there and get me in as nice a position as I could," he said.
Not knowing what's going to happen to the pensions ? especially after paying into them and planning retirement around them? is the biggest concern for retirees right now, said Rose Roots, a 30-year city employee who retired in 1997 as a job-training specialist. She's also the president of a retiree chapter of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. People want advice, she said, but there is little she can say.
"I've had some older retirees call me on the phone in tears because of their medical needs," said Roots, 76. "I've never received calls like the calls I get now."
Roots said her pension payment is "well below" the $19,000 annual average for municipal employees. "At this point I can't even guess at what may happen that may force me to make changes," she said.
Retirees are putting their hopes in state lawsuits filed by the pension funds. They argue that pensions are protected by the Michigan Constitution and should not be part of the bankruptcy process. The bankruptcy judge will likely rule on whether federal bankruptcy law supersedes the state guarantee.
The impact of the decision could fall heavily on retirees who had low-paying jobs and got small benefits checks.
Michael Woodson began receiving a disability pension of less than $500 a month after he said he fell off a truck while working for the sanitation department. The 57-year-old, who uses a walker, lives in a rugged neighborhood "in the heart of Detroit."
"My concern is just (living) every day," he said. "When you come from where I come from, things like this happen all through your life. ... I've been a blue-collar worker or less all my life. You learn to struggle."
Coleman, the Florida retiree, said he's not only concerned about his future, but also the city he served. He remembered working during the 1967 riots, and worries about the anger if thousands of people lose most of their income in the bankruptcy process.
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SCUBA Cruising Guideby Mike Keleher | 09.07.12
A special reader-submitted article on certified SCUBA enthusiasts using regular cruise ships for exciting and exotic dive vacations.
It is very easy to have a great DIVE experience on a regular cruise You may have never considered taking a cruise vacation as a dive vacation. Many divers think only of booking a week long resort stay at an island location for their long awaited vacation. But in fact, cruise lines have been accommodating divers for many years and regularly sail to great dive islands as well as terrific vacation itineraries.
And while the whole concept of "dive vacations" on a major cruise line may not have received much advertising attention lately, not long ago lines Norwegian, Princess and Royal Caribbean had special departments onboard just to accommodate SCUBA divers. In most cases today you will now be on your own, but for advanced divers like myself the cruise lines still provide more than enough, and those lines plus Carnival and Celebrity have been putting divers in the water quietly and steadily every week for years now.
On a seven day cruise, most ships stop at three to five islands in the Caribbean, Mexico or Hawaii, most of which will be prime dive sites. The cruise lines usually offer their own excursions specifically for SCUBA (that include full equipment rental) and many other water related activities like snorkeling, SNUBA (a bubble helmet with air line; think "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea") and an underwater scooter with a big bubble helmet called Breathing Observation Bubble (BOB).
Some of the large ships have actual "dive shops" on board to facilitate divers and snorkelers (although these are the programs that have been scaled back). The will help arrange excursions for dive trips at pre-designated islands, may sell a limited amount of gear on-board, and have an in-house Dive Master to shepherd the "cruise divers" to various pick up sites or in-water excursions. The actual dive operations are either a short walk from the cruise ship, or they will provide transportation.
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Some ships (Royal Caribbean, for example) ) still offer on-board SCUBA certification training for guests who want to learn SCUBA en route to the dive islands. The book work and pool work is actually done in the ship's pools while it is at sea. They then arrange check-out dives with a traditional island dive shop. On that day, the guests complete the in-water portion of the certification process in the warm blue Caribbean, or off the coast of Hawaii or Mexico... instead of back home in a rock quarry in the Midwest or in one of the Great Lakes!
What if you don't have time for certification but have always wanted to try SCUBA diving? No problem. Look for the "Discover SCUBA" shore excursions offered on most Caribbean cruises. These are an introduction to diving which is completed all in one 4 hour trip. Experienced instructors spend about 90 minutes to teach guests all about the dive gear and safety concerns and then swimmers are allowed to try out a real dive typically in more actual shallow water under close supervision.
What are the Common Dive Sites on Cruises?
The list of islands and dive sites where SCUBA excursions are offered are well known in the dive community. Cruise ships routinely offer itineraries with "hit islands" like...
- Grand Cayman
- Costa Maya, Mexico
- Cozumel, Mexico
- Key West, Florida
- The Bahamas
- St. Thomas
- St. Maarten
- Jamaica
- San Juan, Puerto Rico
- Antigua
- St. Kitts
- St. Lucia
- Barbados
- Margarita Island, Venezuela
- Curacao
- Aruba
- Hawaii
How to Get to the Dive Sites
As mentioned, at least one tour for certified divers will be offered through the ships' shore tour office in each port, but you can also choose to go on your own, as I will explain later.
One of the advantages in booking your dive through the cruise ship is the fact that cruise companies hold the local dive operators to the same level of mega-customer service as provided on board the ship. If one of the contracted dive operators has a problem getting you back to the ship, the cruise line will take responsibility for getting you back on board the ship (or even keeping it in port) before they sail to the next destination. But if are late returning from an excursion you booked on your own- you may just be standing on the dock watching that big white ship sail away while you wonder how to get to the next island! (Cruise lines have staff reps at each destination that can help guests make arrangements to catch up with the boat). Note: When the cruise line says be back on board at 5 PM�they mean it!
Cruise line dive excursions are usually limited to 10-15 divers (and alternatively, if they don't get a minimum number they may cancel the excursion), so the best way to secure a slot is to pre-book on-line via your cruise line web site. It is unpleasant to walk on the ship on your big departure day and find out all of the slots on your dream vacation are already filled.
But if this happens, you can still get a private operator reservation via the internet (available on the ship). Look at shops associated with your dive provider, PADI or NAUI-and (in all cases) be sure to have your Certification Card with you.
You are of course free to make your own reservations with private operators in advance of your cruise instead of booking through the cruise line anyway. In fact, private bookings are usually cheaper and you will be subjected to less "cattle-boat/mass-tourist" combined diving and snorkeling trips. Caribbean dive prices routinely run $100-$130 USD including full rental of gear for a half day two-tank dive.
Here is another trick: If you don't already have a dive booked, you may still find local tour operators waiting on shoreside piers just as you exit the ship. If you have a C card in your pocket, someone will route you to last minute deals that are generally cheaper than most pre-arranged trips, and you may have some haggling leeway. Just remember you only have 6 to 8 hours in port. This is a last ditch effort, but is an option if all else fails.
Divers are legendary for buying very expensive and heavy gear and taking it with them to far away and exotic locations. Taking your own gear is always an option, but I have found it to be more trouble than it is worth. It generally only saves $10 to $20 off the price of a dive. Hauling your own dive gear for two divers adds about 50 lbs and one or two extra bags of luggage to the trip (Experienced Diver note: Get something with wheels to haul dive gear on and off the boat).
When airlines started charging extra baggage prices for checked luggage, it became far less attractive to haul extra bags of dive gear at $25-$75 a bag, more expensive than the typical rental price for all the necessary gear � usually just $10-$20 extra over the price of the dive. Furthermore, I have found the rental gear to be dive worthy, and you get the unexpected opportunity to try out gear from a lot of different manufacturers. It is also very nice to hand it all back at the end of the dive for them to service, clean and maintain while you walk away with just your fins, mask and snorkel.
Taking SCUBA-Cruise Vacation
What's not to like? Diving in absolute luxury accommodations, terrific food and nightly entertainment at about $100 a day (excursions and drinks are extra).
You will definitely dominate the formal dining table discussions with answers to the nightly question "So, what did you do today on the island?"
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Recent changes to limited student visas for foreign masters and PhD students now allow them to find work in their respective fields while completing their postgraduate degrees - a change that some companies are using as a recruitment tool - eliminating restrictions on working off campus in their chosen professions.
Foreign post-grad students such as PhDs typically receive about three or four years of funding, although it can take longer before they defend their thesis and complete their degrees. Many return home to find work while writing their theses before coming back to Canada to defend them and complete their education.
Over the past two years, those restrictions have been quietly lifted, so they can now work up to 20 hours in a job related to their education while in Canada. After they complete it, the Canadian government grants them a threeyear work visa - which helps retain Canadian-educated foreign workers - and allows them to transition into a full-time job in their fields.
Until recently, the problem has been that the foreign, but Canadian-educated, students lacked any Canadian or industry experience because of the limitations placed on their visas.
Hamid Omran is taking full advantage of this opportunity. He was recently hired by the Calgary office of Edmonton-based engineering firm Stantec Consulting Ltd., while completing his PhD in structural engineering at the University of Calgary.
"I realized that I would have to start to work," says Omran, who came to Canada from Iran in 2008 for his studies. His funding ran out after about two-and-a-half years, so he asked around about job openings in his field last year.
At the same time, Gerd Birkle was looking to tap into this pool of highly skilled talent. He is Stantec's practice leader in structural engineering in Calgary and is starting to use the new, relaxed rules to recruit international engineering students.
"I saw the opportunity, went to my regional leader and told him this is what I want to do and he said yes - go ahead," Birkle says. It turns out Birkle had some of the same connections as Omran at the university, so they made a connection and Birkle hired Omran in November.
"We connected on that level to ask what kind of a person he is - would he fit? - and we found out quickly that he did," Birkle says. "The ultimate goal when he's done (his PhD) is to grab onto him."
It's an option that many students and employers still don't know is available to them, he adds.
"When I'm done with school, I (will) have enough experience to work," Omran says.
There is also the more immediate, practical and financial aspect to it. "The money provided by work is a major help," says Omran, who will continue to work part-time in his engineering job at Stantec before he finishes his degree at the U of C.
Birkle can relate to the uphill battle Omran would have faced without the ability to work as an engineer while studying. He came to Canada in 1995 for his PhD on a student visa long before the new rules came into effect.
He ended up going back to Germany to finish work on his degree and thesis before coming back to Canada in 1999. He was then granted a two-year unlimited work permit - the new rules now allow for three years - and applied for permanent residency.
"There was no opportunity for me to work off campus," recalls Birkle, who says the need for highly skilled technical engineers is growing fast.
Depending on the fluctuations in the price of oil and gas, the Petroleum Human Resources Council of Canada projects the industry will need somewhere between 3,500 and 9,500 additional engineers and geosciences professionals this decade. Thousands of current engineers in Alberta are reaching retirement age and industry organizations are increasing efforts to expand the talent pool.
Most in demand are petroleum, civil, electrical and mechanical engineers, although the need is being felt across disciplines.
Birkle says while many young engineering grads target jobs in management and business development, what's really needed is more technical engineers going forward.
"We have a big need for technical engineers . . . that do engineering for engineering's sake," Birkle says. "They are harder to find."


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News feed module for "in the news handling"
The intent of this wish is to create a system to replace the current systems used on nanohub which is a simple 1 page html document, and on NCN which is system type of system. The goal is to have a system which tracks news specificly. News can be a press release, news article, or featured article (internal or external). The module should facilitate the storage of documents for archival purposes.
The data to be saved.
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The above information should be presented in some manner when an article is selected. The presentation should include a list of the archive files based on "archive file private status." The synopsis text should be presented in search results or in "in the news" listings.
We also have the case where an news article is covered by several publication sources. In this case we would want to show a list of other coverage. For example see:
In the above case, a press release was covered by several news outlets.
With the addition of groups such as npt, they would probably want to maintian their own "in the news" feeds. So the system should facilitate that.


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If you look at Stroudsburg wrestlers Shane and Jake Jones, there are plenty of similarities.
If you look at Stroudsburg wrestlers Shane and Jake Jones, there are plenty of similarities.
There's the short dirty blonde hair, they talk the same and both have some of the same mannerisms.
Oh yeah, and they both have 26 victories on the mat this year.
So, what's the biggest difference?
"I'm more mellow and like to be calm all the time," Shane Jones said. "Jake is always like he's on a sugar high and he's just completely nuts. He makes things interesting."
In other words, typical brothers.
Jake (26-9) is a freshman and is the third seed at 106 pounds for this weekend's District 11 Class AAA tournament at Liberty High School. Shane (26-8) is a sophomore and earned fifth seed at 126.
Wrestling is in their blood. Their dad, Chris Jones, wrestled at High Point High School (N.J.) and later at Bloomsburg University before transferring to East Stroudsburg University.
Currently, he's an assistant coach at Stroudsburg, balancing the job of dad and coach when needed.
"I've coached, it's pushing 21 seasons now, but it's different when it's your kids," said Chris Jones, who was the head coach at North Warren (N.J.) for years before joining the Stroudsburg staff. "It just is. I'm so relieved when they're done. I feel a lot of pressure is off. I look up and my wife in the stands is the same way.
"It's no different for the fans when their kid is out there, they're at the edge of their seat, so that doesn't go away. But I am getting better at handling it, though."
It's been a good marriage for the brothers and their dad most of the time.
"Oh, it has its moments," Shane joked. "He's a great coach cause I know that he's always trying to make me better no matter what."
Jake got to see his older brother take the first shot at high school wrestling last year. He talked to Shane, watched him on the mat, and knew coming into the season that wrestling at the high school level was going to be a big step from his junior high days.
"It's a major step," Jake said. "It was hard. I wanted to win really bad. I wanted to be on top of the podium every time, but sometimes you don't have that good match and you want to go back and do it over."
Jake has impressed his older brother, though. Shane understands that the transition from junior high to varsity doesn't come easy and there are bumps in the road.
"Jake is like a bull," Shane said. "He's full of energy, always going after people, always going forward, which is good."
Jake said his goal this weekend is to finish in the top three. That would be good enough to qualify him for the Northeast Regional, a tournament Shane failed to qualify for as a freshman.
But Shane has his own goals — first and foremost is shaking a disappointing 2012 postseason from his mind. At 106 last year — a weight he struggled to make — Shane went 1-2 at districts and exited with an empty feeling, no medal and no region tournament berth.
He's up three weight classes this year at 126 and feeling much better about his chances to advance.
"It was tough last year, really disappointing at the end because I know I wasn't where I was supposed to be," Shane said. "It's been stuck in the back of my head. I know that this district tournament will be different."


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In fact, in the Ultimate College Softball Poll the Lady Bisons moved from No. 25 last week to No. 24 this week. They are ahead of Massachusetts in the 25th spot. Selected NCAA Division I coaches vote on this poll.
In the USA Today/National Fastpitch Coaches Association Poll the Lady Bisons received nine votes for the top 25.
Massachusetts fills the 25th spot in the poll this week. Baylor received 22 votes followed by BYU with 19, San Diego St. with 12 and then Lipscomb. Fresno State and Hofstra were close behind with eight votes each.
The USA Today/NFCA poll is voted on by NCAA Division I head coaches, one representing each conference. In the ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate Poll the Lady Bisons received four votes for the top 25.
The Lady Bisons will face No. 12-ranked California-Berkeley Wednesday. It is the first of three games with Cal this week in the Hawaii Spring Fling in Honolulu. The Lady Bisons will also play host Hawaii three times. Hawaii is also receiving votes for the top 25.
Hawaii will be having live stats running throughout the tournament .
Hawaii's games on Wednesday and Thursday will be broadcast live on Honolulu local TV station, KFVE. There is nominal fee to watch. Jim Leahey will be doing the play-by-play and Lori Santi will be the color analyst.


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On seeing such a beautiful girl this hot worker loses himself and a brill idea appears in his mind. Violent lad makes up his mind to fuck the shit out of pretty chick. He has been dreaming of such a chance for quite a long time and now brutal man will realize his filthy dream. Having bound stunning girls hands, hothead dude and his ace friend start to rip sexy ladys clothes off. She cries but they dont hear girlie. Rude boys take a lipstick and write a whore word on pretty womans bare boobs. She will be abused fucking badly and no one will be able to stop brutal men from doing what they want.


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The Seahawks took their knack for dropping 50 on their opponents international this weekend with a 50-17 thumping of the Bills in Toronto.
Erik Kuselias will have a conversation with Seahawks coach Pete Carroll about what his team has been doing to gain a 108-17 edge over their opponents in the last two weeks. Big as those wins might have been, there's no time to dwell on last week for Seattle. They've got the 49ers coming to town this weekend and we'll find out what Carroll's thinking about that matchup.
Mike Florio and Rodney Harrison will be on hand to catch you up on everything that happened around the league on Sunday. Some playoff pictures got clearer and others are muddier, but the crew will shake everything out to see where we stand after most of Week 15 has been played. There will be a look ahead to Monday night's game between the Jets and Titans as well as a visit from NBC officiating consultant Jim Daopoulos to discuss some of Sunday's questionable calls.
It all gets going at 5 p.m. ET on NBC Sports Network.


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This week, the Environmental Protection Agency released its proposal for cutting carbon emissions from power plants by 30 percent by 2030. Eileen Claussen of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions walks us through the proposal and discusses its possible impact on environmental and global climate policy.


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We live in an age deeply suspicious of institutions. Pastor and performance artist Rob Bell spoke for many of his peers when he asked pastors at Duke Divinity School in 2010, "Do you ever feel like you signed up for a revolution [when you went into ministry], but ended up running a corporation?" Less than a year later, Bell left his pastoral role for a new, less institutionally constrained, calling in Los Angeles.
Implied in Bell's question is a deep frustration with the institutional church and with institutional leadership. But an institution does not have to be a calcified bureaucracy, slowly sucking the soul out of its inmates. Part of why we are cynical about institutions is because we have a limited view of what institutions are and how they work.
The modern bureaucratic organization is relatively new. Historically, institutions are much more varied and valuable things. In the broadest sense, an institution is a cultural pattern of rules and roles, artifacts, and arenas for human creativity and action that passes from one generation to the next.
For cultural change to grow and persist, it has to be institutionalized, meaning it must become part of the fabric of human life through a set of learnable and repeatable patterns. It must be transmitted beyond its founding generation to generations yet unborn. There is a reason that the people of God in the Hebrew Bible are so often named as the children of "Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." Like divine intervention in history, true cultural change takes generations to be fully absorbed and expressed.
Indeed, the best institutions extend shalom—that rich Hebrew word I paraphrase as "comprehensive flourishing"—through both space and time. ...1


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URWLENB FO3 is a weather and lighting color overhaul mod for Fallout 3 and makes the Fallout world beautiful and lighting and colors realistic. It removes the green tint and changes all the colors and lighting, also included is a file that changes interior lighting thouroughly. It adds all new high quality cloudlayers, every single weather has unique clouds and colorscheme. ENB config is included that adds SSAO, Shadows, Bloom, Lumasharpening, Dynamic Depth of Field, sunsprite , lensflare and more. It comes with a FOMM installer in which you can choose some optional files to enhance the look of your game when using ENB. The mod has a scripted menu and a weather quick force menu especially for ENB configurators to make configuring ENB easy and for making nice screenshots ofcourse. You can also construct your own weather climate with this mod cause you can enable/disable every individual weather in the mod. Be sure to read the readme included in the download for additional information.
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These are a few in-game screenshots, this is how the game will look roughly with this mod.


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text: Meiothermus ruber (Loginova et al.) Nobre et al. (ATCC® 35948™) Strain Designations: 21 [VKMB 1258] / Type Strain: yes / Biosafety Level: 1 General Information Characteristics Culture Method History Documentation Print Email Share Share this product Facebook Twitter Google+ Permits and Restrictions View Permits Deposited As Thermus ruber Loginova et al. Strain Designations 21 [VKMB 1258] Application Produces: carotenoid pigmentBiotechnology Isolation Thermal spring, USSR Biosafety Level 1 Biosafety classification is based on U.S. Public Health Service Guidelines, it is the responsibility of the customer to ensure that their facilities comply with biosafety regulations for their own country. Product Format freeze-dried Preceptrol® no Genome Sequenced Strain Yes Type Strain yes (type strain) Comments The type strain is incorrectly referred to in Int. J. Syst. B acteriol. 46: 604-606, 1996 as ATCC 37498.Genome sequencing strain Medium ATCC® Medium 1432: Potato P-YE thermus medium Growth Conditions Temperature: 60.0°C Name of Depositor LG Loginova Isolation Thermal spring, USSR References Loginova LG, et al. Thermus ruber, sp. nov., nom. rev. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 34: 498-499, 1984. Nobre MF, et al. Transfer of Thermus ruber (Loginova et al. 1984), Thermus silvanus (Tenreiro et al. 1995), and Thermus chliarophilus (Tenreiro et al. 1995) to Meiothermus gen. nov. as Meiothermus ruber comb. nov., Meiothermus silvanus comb. nov., and Meiothermus chliarophilus comb. nov., respectively, and Emendation of the genus Thermus. Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 46: 604-606, 1996. type strain type strain Cross References Nucleotide (GenBank) : X58346 T. ruber 16S ribosomal RNA, part. Nucleotide (GenBank) : Z15059 T. ruber gene for 16S rRNA (partial). Nucleotide (GenBank) : ABUF01000000 Meiothermus ruber DSM 1279, whole genome shotgun sequencing project. Permits These permits may be required for shipping this product: Customers located in the state of Hawaii will need to contact the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to determine if an Import Permit is required. A copy of the permit or documentation that a permit is not required must be sent to ATCC in advance of shipment. Basic Documentation Product Sheet Certificate of Analysis SDS


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Size:The Gobi desert covers 1.3 million square kilometers and is elevated with hot summers and cold winters.
Climate: Gobi is a very cold desert yet it rarely snows. It is located above sea level. Rainfall is up to 7.6 inches per anum.
Conservation and ecology: The eggs of dinosaur were first identified in Gobi desert. The desert is a main source of various important fossil finds.
Adaptations: To survive in Gobi desert, the plants have to lose their leaves until it rains again. They are gifted with long roots that absorb water from a large area. Animals get their water from the food they eat, and come out at night.
Desertification: The Gobi desert is expanding in a process known as desertification. It is expanding into China's grassland. Dust storms have increased heavily damaging agriculture.
Plants: The desert flora includes the Saxaul Tree, Saltwort, wild onions, desert shrubbery and grass
Animals: The desert is a home for many different animals like black-tailed gazelles, bactrian camels, wolves, marbled polecats, Mongolian wild ass, brown bears, snow leopards, and sandplovers.


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…but it is remarkably fun and satisfying. My son and I went to a local shooting range this afternoon, as we do most weekends, and fired off 300 rounds, using all four of our semiautomatic pistols, my son's Ruger and Kahr and my SIG Sauer and ArmaLite. In general, we shot well, with the usual caveats: it is easier to shoot a full-sized gun accurately than a smaller carry piece. This was my best grouping of the day; seven shots with my 9 mm. ArmaLite AR-24, at 22 feet:
Some say, of course, that one shouldn't be proud of shooting a pistol accurately, or take pleasure in blowing up gunpowder. Let them say it. Shooting well, we can agree, may not be the apex of human achievement, but it is a heck of a lot of fun. And every now and then, it might come in handy.


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Taking a Different View: The Case of the Eurozone Macroeconomic Policies as a Case of Incompetence pp56-66
© Jan 2014 Volume 12 Issue 1, Special Edition for ECKM 2013, Editor: Monika Petraite, pp1 - 82
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Abstract: This paper aims at shedding a new and different light over a very big problem that actually is being felt by the European Society and by the world at large: namely the difficulties the EU is having, since adopting the EURO as a currency in 2002, with its own management of macroeconomic policies, and with its own forecasts over growth. We follow Sveiby (2012) analysis as a methodology. According to that author, radical innovation generates incompetence due to inability in adjusting to the environment. The incompetence materializes itself in wrong predictions by otherwise and formerly competent and acknowledged experts. Sveiby 2012, dissects the case of the financial crisis of 2007‑8, as a case in which radical innovation in the financial markets produced massive managerial incompetence with huge economic and social consequences. By the same token we assume that the Eurozone became a case of incompetence at the level of macroeconomic management. We show evidence of that incompetence because we compare the predictions before the Euro and with the Euro and analyze the impact the Euro entrance add in the correctness of the experts' predictions. Furthermore we say that experts should take into account that macroeconomic restrictions posed by the Eurozone regulations deeply affect the economy of the more divergent Eurozone Member States. Moreover, the effect of the regulations has not been rightly accounted. The miscalculation generates mistakes in prediction of policy impacts. Those mistakes have major negative effects in the life of ordinary citizens. Therefore we believe that if ones assumes, as we do, and prove, that the Eurozone has currently a problem of managerial incompetence, the finding might have huge economic, social, and political effects The paper is original because we sincerely don't know (and believe it is not our fault) of any study that analyzes the problem of the current Macroeconomic crisis in the EU as a problem of incompetence. Finally we believe the study could and should developed in a multidisciplinary and multi‑country book.
Keywords: Innovation, Competence, KM, Eurozone, Economic crisis, Macroeconomic Management
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If you stopped by my house Thanksgiving Day, you might have noticed something unusual about our living room. That morning, we turned the furniture around backward, facing a corner that currently features a weight bench, an abandoned cat toy and a few dust bunnies.
After wringing much of the goodness out of my old vehicle over the course of seven-plus years, we recently invested in a new set of wheels. My wish-list going into the substantial purchase: that it be an American vehicle with a good Consumer Reports ranking and safety record; have enough cargo space for dump/recycling runs; and that it be capable of towing my late father's small, barely seaworthy boat that I refuse to junk and use occasionally for fishing jaunts on Bristol Pond.
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