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Cramerton leaders are considering offering help to a developer who wants to build a large mixed-use community. That help would come in the form of money and 19 acres of land, according to a town official.
But all of that is still in the works.
The development, called The Villages at Cramerton Mills, has been in the works for years, but its organizers are asking for more land, as well as assistance in getting the project off the ground.
Amicus Engineering would not offer details, as negotiations are ongoing, said Nick Parker, an engineer with Amicus.
Parker would not say whether the incentives being discussed would be for the first phase of the project, which is slated for construction soon, or the second stage of the Villages.
Cramerton town commissioners discussed the proposal in closed session during a July 18 meeting.
Town Manager Michael Peoples also said talks are still in the early stages and no details are yet available.
�We discussed possible incentives for development and the possibility of a company locating in Cramerton,� Peoples said.
Town Commissioner Sam Carpenter would like to see research on the proposed incentives before making a decision.
�We want to make sure we�re being fair to the taxpayers of Cramerton and the developer,� Carpenter said.
No action was taken at the meeting last week.
Cramerton commissioners approved The Villages at Cramerton Mills in May 2010.
It would bring institutional, office and retail space, as well as housing, to Cramerton. In May, Peoples said careful planning and a rough economy stalled the project. But it�s now underway again.
According to Parker, construction could begin in late summer or early fall.
The project calls for 84,000 square feet of office and retail space and 40,000 square feet of institutional space.
There would also be a residential neighborhood in the development. Developers want to build more than 140 cottages, 60 townhomes, 40 bungalows, 220 apartments, 20 flats and 40 condos.
They�ll sell for $50,000 to $350,000, Parker estimated.
The entire community would be anchored around an institutional space that Parker is calling the research and workforce development center.
Plans call for it to house research for green building, renewable energy and sustainable communities. Those are also concepts Parker hopes to bring to life in The Villages.
�The original intent, and current intent, of the project was for it to be very forward thinking,� Parker said earlier this year. �It�ll be a sustainable community, low impact development, green building and renewable energy.�
You can reach reporter Lauren Baheri at 704-869-1842 or Twitter.com/lbaheri.


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You wait a long time for Christmas morning
drifting asleep even as the ebony slate of sky
shatters in clarion silence
Glory, Hallelujah!
and shepherds in the hills cast down their rods
look up at angels and find themselves
no longer huddled in darkness
but lucent between the stars.
You, no longer a child but still drifting,
enter the mystery that is darkness
willing to open the gift inside your own singing
recognizing the song of songs from the first Eve—
We all live for the Light
that the lowly born, a glimmer, leads
the way
and you wake up, still in the dark
but watchful and ready now.
Sandra M. Tully is a Wisconsin poet, educator, and community spiritual leader.
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South Vietnamese generals plan coup
Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge reports to President John F. Kennedy from Saigon that South Vietnamese generals are planning a coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem.
Kennedy and his administration had become increasingly concerned about Diem because of the rising tide of dissent against the Diem regime in South Vietnam. Diem, a Catholic in a predominantly Buddhist nation, refused to institute promised political reforms. He was opposed by numerous factions, not the least of which were the Buddhist priests. Several South Vietnamese generals led by General Duong Van Minh met with CIA operative Lucien Conein to ask for assurances that the United States would not thwart a coup, and that economic and military aid would continue. Kennedy had already come to the conclusion that Diem could never provide the necessary leadership to unite his country against the Communist insurgents. He told Conein to give the South Vietnamese generals the assurances they wanted. Kennedy also warned that, as a representative of the United States, Conein should avoid getting involved with operational details.
The coup plotters received additional motivation in the wake of another Buddhist monk's self-immolation (on June 11, 1963, Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc had set fire to himself in protest; his self-immolation was followed by several others) when Diem reacted with intensified political repression, including the arrest of scores of women and children who had marched against the government. Another attempt was made by the Kennedy administration to convince Diem to make the necessary reforms, but once again he refused. There was disagreement among Kennedy's advisors as to what to do about Diem; some believed that Diem had to go and others were unsure. Ultimately the president decided to do nothing. In this case, that was tantamount to support of the coup plotters.
On November 1, rebel forces seized the radio station and police headquarters while laying siege to the presidential palace. In the early morning hours of the next day, Diem and his brother Ngo Dinh Nhu surrendered to representatives from the rebel generals. They were later found murdered in the back of an M-113 armored personnel carrier. What followed was a period of extreme political instability as a series of "revolving door" governments took turns in an attempt to rule and stem the tide of the ongoing insurgency in the countryside.


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ENGAGEMENT—a new blog published by the Anthropology & Environment Society—features compelling, first-hand accounts by anthropologists and other social scientists whose work directly addresses pressing social and environmental problems.
AES is pleased to announce the publication of our second post, "Getting Goats," in which Dr. Carolyn Lesorogol (Washington University) takes us to northern Kenya for a look at her work promoting sustainable development among Samburu pastoralists. This post follows Brandon Nida's account of his work as an anti-mining organizer in West Virginia. Upcoming contributors include Dvera Saxton on the local food movement in California, Tom Sheridan on ranching and conservation in the American West, Jim Igoe on the greening of uranium and Paige West on the broader impacts of her new book on the social world of coffee.
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FABA is Now a Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth Organization!
Great Opportunities Are Opened Up for Our Member Families!Updated Wednesday March 9, 2016 by FABA.
FABA parents and players,
We have some exciting news to share! FABA is now an official Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth organization! Our charter for the Fleetwood School District was approved this March. The FABA board has been working on this for several months now, and our affiliation with Cal Ripken/Babe Ruth opens up many very good opportunities for FABA families. Here are just a few:
Cal Ripken Tournaments
The Cal Ripken organization holds some of the finest youth baseball tournaments in the world, and we now have the opportunity to represent Fleetwood area baseball at these tournaments at all age levels.
Cal Ripken Baseball Camps: The right skills. The right drills. The right way. The Ripken Way!
Cal Ripken and his organization provide baseball camp experiences that players remember for the rest of their lives. FABA can now organize attendance at these camps for parents and players.
Cal Ripken World Series: The Road to Aberdeen
FABA can now put together tournament teams that can follow the Cal Ripken "Tournament Trail" that leads to the Cal Ripken World Series in Aberdeen, Maryland.
A Wealth of Training Materials for our Coaches
Cal Ripken and his organization offer outstanding training materials and videos that our coaches can use to make sure FABA players get the best instruction available, the Ripken Way!
The Babe Ruth World Series
The Babe Ruth organization offers some of the best, most competitive baseball for players age 13 to 18. In addition to playing Babe Ruth teams in our area, our Babe Ruth division now has the opportunity to follow the Babe Ruth "Tourament Trail" for both 13-15 year olds as well as 16-18 year old players leading up to the Babe Ruth World Series!
There are other benefits for FABA as well such as excellent insurance through the Babe Ruth/Cal Ripken organization as well as the freedom to run our league the way that works best for the Fleetwood Area. Cal Ripken field sizes for age divisions also match what we at FABA do for our 11-12 year old players, moving them to a 70' field rather than keeping them on the same size field our Tee Ball players use. Playing on a 70' field helps our players with the transition to the regulation 90' fields in Babe Ruth, middle school and high school ball, and helps our players be ready for middle school tryouts.
We hope you are as excited as we are about this important step forward for FABA and for baseball in the Fleetwood Area.
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Giving the Power Grid Some Backbone
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Scientific American has an article on expanding the US power grid to enable greater utilisation of solar and wind power - Giving the Power Grid Some Backbone.
A stiff wind blows year-round in North Dakota. In Arizona the sun beats down virtually every day. The U.S. has vast quantities of renewable electricity sources waiting to be tapped in these regions, but what it does not have there are power lines—big power lines that can carry the bountiful energy to distant cities and industries where it is needed.
The same is true beyond the windswept high plains and the sun-baked Mojave Desert: renewable supply and electricity demand are seldom in the same place, and too often the transmission lines needed to connect them are missing. The disparity exists even in New England, where hundreds of miles of high-tension wires supported by thousands of steel towers run neatly through dense areas of settlement. When Gordon Van Wiele, chief executive of ISO New England—in charge of transmission in the six-state region—unfurls a map of the land there, large ovals show the location of the best wind sites: Vermont near the Quebec border and eastern Maine spilling over into New Brunswick. But sure enough, no transmission lines transect them.
The U.S. has the natural resources, the technology and the capital to make a massive shift to renewable energy, a step that would lower emissions of greenhouse gases and smog-forming pollutants from coal-fired power plants while also freeing up natural gas for better uses. Missing is a high-voltage transmission backbone to make that future a reality. In some places, wind power, still in its infancy, is already running up against the grid's limits. "Most of the potential for renewable resources tends to be in places where we don't have robust existing transmission infrastructure," Van Wiele says. Instead, for decades electric companies have built coal, nuclear, natural gas and oil-fired generators close to customers.
That strategy worked reasonably well until recently, when 28 state governments set "renewable portfolio standards" requiring their utilities to supply a certain portion of their electricity using renewables, such as 20 percent by 2020 or even sooner. But as Kurt E. Yeager, former president of the Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto, Calif., points out, such standards "aren't worth the paper they're written on until we have a power system, a grid, that is capable of assimilating that intermittent energy without having to build large quantities of backup power, fossil-fueled, to enable it."
In Colorado the utility that serves most of the state, Xcel Energy, is now building a megawatt of natural gas capacity for every megawatt of wind so that it is ready to come online quickly to provide power when the wind tails off. That plan is a carbon improvement but not really a carbon solution. The U.S. needs a new transmission backbone that crisscrosses the country, knitting together many large wind farms, solar-energy fields, geothermal pools, hydroelectric generators and other alternative sources.
One utility company has already unveiled a grand plan for the U.S., and other experts are charting their own backbone schemes. But whichever one might prevail will require a lot of money and a lot of coordination across what are now independent areas of technological and political control. ...
North America is actually covered by four regional grids (three of which serve the U.S.). The largest is the Eastern Interconnection, an extensive complex of transmission lines that stretches from Halifax to New Orleans, with substations that step down the high-voltage electricity to lower levels so that it can be distributed locally along smaller wires. West of the Rockies is the Western Interconnection, from British Columbia to San Diego and a small slice of Mexico. Texas, in an echo of its history as an independent republic, comprises its own grid, now called the Electric Reliability Council of Texas. And Quebec, with its separatist undercurrent, also has its own grid. The high-voltage transmission systems in the four regions comprise about 200,000 miles of power lines, divided among a staggering 500 owners, that carry current from more than 10,000 power plants run by about 6,000 investor-owned utilities, public power systems and co-ops. ...


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At $64,500 a month ; this rental apartment in Tokyo is supposedly one of the most luxurious and spacious in Tokyo. It is surprising to most in the western world who are habituated to far grander standards of living , but the truth is that Japan has capsule hotels for a reason. Space is at a premium in this nation of 127 million especially Tokyo which is the largest metropolitan area in the world.
The $64,500 rental (penthouse) may be paltry when compared to the $135,000 rental at the Waldorf in NYC (or a far cry from the 5 most expensive residential rentals of the world) but it sure is much better then a capsule hotel.
As compared to the fiberglass block that measures roughly 2 m by 1 m by 1.25 m and has room to sleep and sometimes a television with Internet access , the apartment offered at La Tour Daikanyama are palatial in comparison.
We reproduce here the press release of the company – La Tour Daikanyama combines state-of-the-art architectural excellence with sophisticated Japanese elegance. The full range of modern amenities, including English-speaking concierge staff, a gym, gardens and well-appointed grounds, common rooms for parties and play areas for children, make this a perfect place to relax after your busy day, as well as provide a base as you work, play and head out to explore Japan.
The facilities have been designed to be luxurious, safe and comfortable, and perfect for families with children. A residence and lifestyle you can be proud of.
Just minutes from downtown Tokyo, La Tour Daikanyama is nestled amid the fashionable and vibrant Daikanyama neighborhood, renowned for its leafy, winding streets, cafes, fine restaurants, boutiques and parks.
Please come and experience for yourself this exclusive and special place – La Tour Daikanyama.
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Screeeech! Thump.
I braced myself against the back seat of the van and waited to see what had happened. Our driver for the day pulled over to the right side of the road. A goat herder in a white turban carrying a walking stick approached us. To our left, the goat we had apparently just hit ran to the grass for safety. Kids started slowly collecting to our van like filaments to a magnet. Our driver and guide got out, while the guide's beautiful young wife stayed with the rest of us. The seven of us looked at each other in shock and confusion. "Close the doors," Ale said, as the crowd gathered. Javed and Niraj got out and stood at either side.
The goat herders, our guide and driver walked to the grassy area on the left, where the goat stood, its face bloody. They were talking in Amharic, arguing from the looks of their dramatic arm gestures. Our guide picked up the goat several times, perhaps weighing him, or indicating that he wasn't badly injured. On our right, children from around ages 4-14 gathered. They had varying hues of dark skin and eyes, with closely cropped hair, a few shaved in geometric patterns. Big bright eyes, open and looking, mouths smiling when we smiled. By then, we had determined the temperature of the situation and had opened the door. To entertain the kids, Alejandra recited the few words in Amharic she had written down: "Hello," "Nice to meet you," "What is your name?"
On our left, the men were still arguing, lifting the goat.
Back on the right, Alejandra asked, "Should we count to ten and impress them?" So she did. One of the kids told us her name in perfect English. We looked at each other in awe. "Pencil?" another one asked. But we didn't have any pencils available; everything was packed in our luggage and loaded in the back.
The driver came back to the van and got money out of the glove compartment. He brought it to the goat herders; later we found out he paid 500 Ethiopian birr, or the equivalent of $25. Our guide walked back to the van carrying the goat upside down by his legs. Some of us started clearing room for him, but others loudly refused. We had three more hours til Gondar, and barely enough space for the 10 of us and our luggage as is.
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The day had started about 10 hours earlier, when we left Addis Ababa bright and early 6:30 Sunday morning. Plenty of people were walking to church wearing thin white shrouds, sheer fabric wrapped around their hair and bodies like a toga.
We were surprised to notice many runners up the steep hilled streets around Addis. Lots of men running, stretching, doing push-ups on the side of the street.
As we drove further from Addis, crowded city streets gave way to houses and shacks further apart. The soil was red. We passed a cement factory, horses, donkeys, people herding cattle, oxen and goats. After a few hours the elevation grew higher, the air grew colder and thinner as we approached the Rift Valley. We stopped for gas, some kids approached us and we gave them some marbles.
The Rift Valley was extremely winding and extremely beautiful, mountains full of clouds and trees. A baboon ran across the road, then another and another, and we saw about seven or eight in one small curve of the road, including a mom holding her tiny baby. Near the top, women and children were selling plates of fruit, and Alejandra bought two full plates from a woman with intricate tattoos (either a pattern or script writing) covering her neck. It cost 60 cents for all the bananas and limes we then ate.
It got warmer as we descended, and then cooler again once the elevation once again rose.
We stopped for lunch in the afternoon, during a rain storm. Out of the restaurant window we saw at least two wedding processions around the street's roundabout, including several donkeys wearing woven blankets, songs pouring out of cars, bajajs (small three-wheeled rickshaws), guys dancing in the back of a pick-up truck and dump truck, and the wedding parties wearing flowing outfits. By the end of our weekend, we'd counted over 10 weddings (asseh in Amharic).
We bought some cake for the road. Some of us were carsick and took more medication. Further along the route we encountered the beautiful light of the setting sun, people of varying skin tones and clothing styles carrying wood down the side of the street, and eventually, the goat.
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After the guide heeded his wife's quick response to our unease with the goat's accommodations, and piled the goat onto a bus that had just stopped, we continued in the deepening dusk to Gondar. The roads were very winding and trucks were using their high beams in the dark. Our driver was exceptional, however, at navigating the potholes, sharp turns, people and (almost all) animals with grace and precision. We arrived in Gondar just before 9pm, grateful to have made it to our destination, to no longer be crunched in the van, bouncing around with luggage, and thankfully no goat.


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Choosing a Router Bit
Choosing a Router BitYou've finally got that new router, and you're eager to use it. High-tech as it is, though, it's toothless without router bits. But which bits should you buy? If you haven't used a router much, the options can be dizzying. Here's what you need to know to make informed choices.
A beginner's guide to choosing router bits
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Routers: Key Characteristics
Collet size:
The collet tightens to grip the shank of the bit being mounted in the router. Many mid-size routers come with both 1/4" and 1/2" collets, so they can work with both 1/4"- and 1/2"-shank bits.
The standard base, with knobs on either side for holding and guiding the router. It also can easily be mounted to a router table.
The base mechanism allows the rotating bit to be lowered a set distance into the stock to make stopped grooves and dadoes, as well as mortises.
Instead of two knobs, as on the standard base, there's a knob and a D-shaped handle that provides pistol-grip control and a locking on/off trigger power switch.
Some routers are equipped with variable-speed adjustment features, which means that the speed at which the spindle rotates can be adjusted to work safely with bits of different diameters. (Larger bits need to be run at a slower speed than smaller bits.)
Laminate/trim routers:
These machines, which typically have smaller motors and 1/4" collets, are easy to control and ideal for small jobs such as trimming or finishing laminate edges.
Compact routers:
They're smaller than their mid-size cousins, but with 1 to 1-1/4 hp, compact routers have more power than trim routers. They provide great control and enough power for many workshop tasks, including edge forming, mortising and freehand routing. They usually have 1/4" collets.
Mid-size routers:
They typically have 1-3/4 hp to 2-1/4 hp motors and come with 1/4" and 1/2" collets. Their power and versatility make them a workshop staple, as they can be used both for handheld and table-mounted routing.
Large routers:
Typically equipped with 3 hp to 3-1/4 hp motors, these routers are built to handle heavy-duty routing work.


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The Met Gala is a high-profile party in NYC that marks the opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's annual fashion-related exhibit at the Costume Institute.
It also produces a red-carpet spectacle that, whereas other red carpets engender class and decorum, encourages celebrities to dress and act as zany as possible.
The theme of this year's Met exhibit is Punk: Chaos to Couture (check out coverage on our women's blog). The first favorable outcome of this auspicious motif was a series of fashion films from event sponsor Vogue. Dubbed Punk Stories, they included British model-of-the-moment Cara Delevingne displaying her patented mix of good humor and bad attitude (above) and Ukrainian-Canadian bombshell Daria Werbowy, barely recognizable (but still stunning) in a bleached buzz-cut and various other punk-inspired transformations (below).
Then, there's the wild red carpet and ensuing after-parties. We're no fashion police when it comes to womenswear—but we know what we like. Here are the ladies (and a couple men) we thought went the most "punk rock" at Monday night's Met Gala:
Nicole Richie spray-painted her coif grey for the night (and rocked some high-end Topshop).
Alexa Chung wasn't afraid to push Gerard Butler around.
Kelly Osbourne, Cara Delevingne, Rita Ora—you guys look great, but Miley Cyrus, of all people, was the one who hit the punk-rock nail on the head.
Taylor Tomasi Hill of Marie Claire donned some serious spikes—and while Thom Browne didn't exactly wear his punk-rock spirit on his sleeve, we know he has it in him.
We're not sure about the blue faux-hawk, but Zachary Quinto's eyebrow game, as usual, was on-point.
Rooney Mara's attire for the evening wasn't overtly punk—but if her anti-establishment Girl with the Dragon Tattoo character is permanently burned into your brain, like it is ours, you'll agree that she'd look pretty tough even in a bathrobe and bunny slippers.
Kanye West performed, in his now-signature punk-inspired Givenchy gear.
Anne Hathaway went bleach-blonde, reportedly just for the night. For a girl-next-door type like her, that's punk-rock enough to fit the theme in our book.
And then, there was the part where Jennifer Lawrence photo-bombed Sarah Jessica Parker. But Lawrence acts crazy even at the Oscars and on live TV, so "punking" SJP is par for the course. (Note Marion Cotillard and Lena Dunham cracking up in the background.)
For more punk-inspired fashion, go inside the Met's exhibit
on our sister blog, The Thread.
[Photos and videos via Vogue.com, except for Anne Hathaway and Jennifer Lawrence via NYmag.com. Still photos by Pablo Frisk, except Cyrus and co. by Taylor Jewell, Kanye West by Kevin Tachman, Hathaway by Larry Busacca. Individuals pictured do not endorse Nordstrom.]


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FUKUSHIMA, Japan, Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Fish caught near Japan's Fukushima nuclear power plant have radiation levels 100 times higher than normal, officials say.
Japan's Environment Ministry carried out a study that found fish caught near the plant had more radiation than fish caught elsewhere, RIA Novosti reported.
The levels found ranged from 4,400 becquerels per kilogram to 11,400 becquerels per kilogram, against the maximum "safe" level of 100 becquerels per kilogram.
The findings have prompted a government investigation into the physiological basis for contamination and why radiation readings in some specimens remain hundreds of times over the official safe limit, The Asahi Shimbun reported.
The Council for Science and Technology Policy, a government panel, is to study why radiation levels in fish near the plant have not decreased since March.
Researchers will analyze cesium levels in the fish's otolith, a part of the inner ear.
Researchers will measure cesium levels in contaminated seabed soil near the nuclear plant, in an effort to determine when the fish were contaminated.


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Hello. I've had this game since May, and starting in July I've had constant temporary freezes while in windowed mode. I stopped playing the game because I was unable to resolve this issue. Redownloading, verifying game cache, tweaking other settings.
I come back several months later (now) to find that the same issue is still present. Have there even been any updates?
To give a bit more detail: during turn playback (or turn prediction playback), the game always just locks up at a certain point during the playback. I have to wait about 30 seconds and then the game resumes, with the playback ended. The freeze seems to happen at the same specific point in the playback every time. I haven't noticed any freezes at any other time in the game. Again, this only happens in windowed mode.
I have seen other threads describing this exact issue with no working solutions. (for example: http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/s ... p=24906474 )
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Episode 5
The Far North: Amritsar, Shimla, Manali
The Golden Temple is the centerpiece of the city of Amritsar, and probably the second most photographed building in India, but few know about the building or the people who built it. The most significant building to people of the Sikh faith, it is open to people of all faiths. We witness the celebration of the changing of the guard before heading into the mountains for a visit to the British influenced town of Shimla. Bill takes us further north for look at the resort area of Manali.


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Saturday, January 28, 2012
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Oracle's recent move to gobble up Taleo, which follows on the heels of SAP's pending acquisition of SuccessFactors, means the HR software world's biggest players have chosen a talent management specialist to acquire.
It also means the remaining talent management vendors may struggle to remain relevant. And the very term "talent management"—the major buzzword during the past decade in HR technology—is going to lose its luster.
During the past decade, a key battle line in the HR software world has been between core HR titans—especially SAP and Oracle—and the smaller makers of more-strategic applications dubbed talent management tools. The core HR vendors provide companies with a system of record, which track basic employee information such as name, supervisor and pay level.
The talent management players, such as SuccessFactors, Taleo, Halogen Software, Cornerstone OnDemand and SumTotal Systems, have focused on applications for tasks such as recruiting, compensation decisions and employee performance management. What's more, these upstart "best-of-breed" vendors typically have offered their software through the cloud—as a metered service over the Internet, which promises faster implementations and fewer tech headaches compared with the traditional on-premises approach associated with Oracle and SAP.
It's been a David-vs.-Goliath fight. The Goliaths have had some capabilities in recruiting, performance management and the like. But the Davids, arguing that they had superior talent management features and a better delivery model, have scored a lot of victories. Just look at Cornerstone OnDemand's revenue, which rose 62 percent last year to $75.5 million.
But the Oracle-Taleo and SAP-SuccessFactors deals change the battlefield. Now the major Goliaths are poised to have a leading David on their side. Jason Corsello, vice president at Cornerstone OnDemand, claims that little guys still can hold their own against the big guys, also known in the field as enterprise resource planning vendors, or ERPs.
"History has proven that when ERPs enter a market, the leading best-of-breed vendors cannot just survive but thrive," Corsello told me. "Just look at Salesforce.com."
He has a point. But I think the recent mergers spell trouble for most talent management vendors. Over time, new business software features tend to get folded into the software of soup-to-nuts providers such as Oracle and SAP, and customers often choose those comprehensive products because they like the convenience of dealing with one vendor.
This happened in the field of business intelligence software a few years ago. It also has happened on a smaller scale within talent management software itself, as players such as Taleo and SuccessFactors snapped up other vendors to offer a broader suite of applications.
More consolidation could be on the horizon. Maybe another Goliath such as ADP or Infor or Saleforce.com will step in and snap up a Cornerstone or Halogen. Ultimate Software and Workday, which offer core HR and talent management tools, also could be buyers or sellers.
In the wake of the Oracle-Taleo announcement, Josh Bersin of research firm Bersin & Associates also sees challenges ahead for the remaining talent management specialists. "The 'losers' are some of the smaller human capital management vendors who now have a much bigger sales force—Oracle—to compete with," he says.
One possible downside with consolidation is innovation can diminish as the number of competitors dwindles. But I don't worry much about that. Already, a new generation of social and mobile HR tools is cropping up—such as Achievers and Yammer.
Some of the talent management vendors are trying to tap into this emerging field of collaboration. But don't be surprised if they stop calling themselves "talent management" companies in the near future.
That buzzword always was a bit self-important, with its claim to higher-level concerns than mere "human resources." And now its time in the spotlight is coming to an end.
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VIDEO: The Daily Zap for games played Dec. 30
Report: Lakers, Cavs talk Gasol-for-Bynum swap | Rondo to D-League for rehab? | Adelman rails over Wolves' loss to Mavs | Jazz show more improvement
No. 1: Report: Lakers, Cavs talk Gasol-for-Bynum swap — Disgraced Cavaliers center Andrew Bynum had his best years in the NBA as a member of the Los Angeles Lakers. Pau Gasol, the Lakers power forward who has fallen out of favor with coach Mike D'Antoni, could use a change of scenery himself, too. Those factors, plus a looming luxury tax hit facing the Lakers has L.A. pondering a move that would briefly bring Bynum back to Lakerland, if only to help the Lakers' cap situation in the immediate future. Brian Windhorst and Ramona Shelbourne of ESPN.com have more on the deal talks between Cleveland and Los Angeles:
The Los Angeles Lakers and Cleveland Cavaliers have had discussions on a trade that would involve Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum, league sources told ESPN.com.
No deal is believed to be imminent, but both sides are mulling it over ahead of a Jan. 7 deadline when the second half of Bynum's $12.25 million salary would be guaranteed. The Cavs suspended Bynum for one game this weekend for conduct detrimental to the team and have excused him indefinitely from all activities, including games.
By trading Gasol in a package for Bynum and then waiving him, the injury-ravaged Lakers could save more than $20 million in salaries and luxury taxes, which could help them maintain financial flexibility heading into the next few summers. A Gasol-Bynum trade would have to include at least one other player and perhaps other assets from Cleveland.
The Lakers have been luxury-tax payers for six straight seasons. While the luxury-tax savings this season — and ability to avoid the repeater tax penalty that kicks in when a team is a taxpayer in four out of five years starting with the 2011-12 season — would undoubtedly help the Lakers' long-term flexibility, the franchise's history and organizational culture make that a difficult prospect to consider.
The Cavs have been after Gasol since this past summer, when they had extensive discussions with the Lakers, sources said. Those talks ended when Dwight Howard signed with the Houston Rockets. The Cavs, who have been struggling, are looking to upgrade their roster as they attempt to end a three-year playoff drought.
The Cavs also have had separate discussions with the Chicago Bulls on a Bynum trade for Luol Deng, according to sources. The Bulls are in a similar position as the Lakers, about $8 million into the luxury tax and dealing with an injury-marred season.
Deng, like Gasol, is a free agent-to-be, and such a trade-and-waive deal with Bynum also could save the Bulls in excess of $20 million in salary and taxes this season. However, the Bulls have maintained they do not want to trade Deng and believe they will be able to re-sign him after the season.
If Bynum is waived by the Cavs or any team that might trade for him by Jan. 7, Bynum likely would have multiple offers to join a team as a free agent.
In addition to talks of a Lakers-Cavs swap, Jason Lloyd of The Akron Beacon-Journal has a very in-depth look at why teams like the Knicks, Nets, Clippers and others could possibly pull a similar cap-room saving deal like the one Los Angeles is after:
There are six teams currently over the NBA's luxury tax and in line to pay significant penalties at the end of the season. While the Cavs search for a trade to unload Andrew Bynum, those are likely their best — and perhaps only — potential trade partners between now and Jan. 7.
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If the Cavs don't find a deal to their liking, they can either release him prior to next week and clear $6 million in cap space leading up to February's trade deadline or hold onto Bynum, pay him the full $12 million for this season and try again to trade him around the draft. They would have until June 30 to trade him before his $12 million salary for next season becomes guaranteed.
By retaining him and paying him the full $12 million, it would essentially force Bynum to miss the rest of the season and create a $12 million trade chip around the draft.
One more disclaimer, it's conceivable (though not likely) a non-contender could do the same thing. Another team with cap space could trade for Bynum, slide his $12 million figure into their cap and only have to physically pay him about half of that for the rest of the season. Then they would have a $12 million trade bullet to fire around the draft and until June 30.
VIDEO: The Beat crew chimes in on the Cavs and Andrew Bynum
No. 2: D-League stint a possibility as Rondo continues rehab — If things go how Celtics coach Brad Stevens plans, the attendance at Maine Red Claws games could soon see a serious spike. Stevens' star point guard, Rajon Rondo, is continuing to practice with the team, but his return to the lineup remains a ways off. While Boston readies for a West coast road trip. Stevens told Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe that sending the All-Star guard to Boston's NBA D-League affiliate for additional rehab work isn't out of the question:
Rajon Rondo practiced again with the Celtics on Monday and is slowly returning to basketball shape and perhaps his rehabilitation may include a stint with Maine of the NBA Development League, according to coach Brad Stevens.
Stevens said Rondo likely wouldn't return to the Celtics during their five-game West Coast road trip beginning on Jan. 5 but he could spent time with Maine practicing and playing in D-League games before coming back to the NBA.
Rondo has not played since Jan. 25 because of a torn right anterior cruciate ligament.
"I would make that a decision on him and our staff," Stevens told the Globe following practice at the Celtics Training Center at Health Point. "That is something that has been discussed, probably some positives and negatives to that, but at the end of the day, it is an option as part of his rehabilitation."
When asked if Rondo would travel west with the Celtics, Stevens said: "And playing? I have not been given any indication he would be playing that soon. It's going to be on him. Physically, I think he's looking better and better. But that's to be expected, you're going to gain more confidence but I don't know when that translates to ready to play."
Stevens former point guard at Butler, Ronald Nored, is a player development coach in Maine and he and Rondo have discussed the possibility of Rondo spending some time there.
"That would be positive," Stevens said of Nored's presence with Maine. "The extra practice time they have between games is a possibility, getting a chance to play multiple games in that area is a positive. So there are a lot of positives, getting your legs underneath you a little bit."
The Celtics have not used their D-League affiliate for rehabilitation over the past few years. The last Celtics regular to see a stint there was Avery Bradley during his rookie season. Little-used rookies Fab Melo and Kris Joseph spent time with Maine last season.
VIDEO: Celtics coach Brad Stevens talks about Boston's upcoming game against the Hawks
No. 3: Adelman, Wolves rail about loss to Mavericks — Minnesota has been struggling to get itself over the .500 mark for the last few weeks, but last night's game against Dallas would have given the Wolves their fifth chance this month do perform that feat. The Wolves found themselves down 21 at one point, but rallied back and had a shot at a game-tying bucket with 3 seconds left in the game. Minnesota worked the ball over the Kevin Love for a baseline jumper, who appeared to be fouled by Shawn Marion, but no call was made. Marion saved the ball before it went out of bounds and the Mavs left with a victory. Afterward, the Wolves — and coach Rick Adelman in particular — lamented the seeming lack of star treatment that Love received, writes Jerry Zgoda of The Star-Tribune:
When it was all over and they had carefully selected their words in attempts to ease their frustration without lightening their wallets, the Timberwolves lamented Monday's 100-98 home loss to Dallas both because of their astoundingly uneven performance and Kevin Love's still presumably incomplete superstar status.
Afterward, the Wolves discussed both how they lacked urgency in a game they had every reason to win and how they were wronged by no whistle when the game was on the line and the ball was in the hands of their star who had already delivered another 36-point night.
While Marion sat in the Dallas locker room, chuckling and saying he committed no foul, Wolves coach Rick Adelman expressed his exasperation.
"He got fouled," Adelman said. "I wonder what that would have been if [Dallas star Dirk] Nowitzki, LeBron James, all the top players in the league … A guy reaches on a last-second shot like that instead of challenging it. Maybe they don't understand Kevin is one of the top five players in this league."
Long after the final horn, Love was asked if he had been fouled. "You saw the replay," he said.
Then he was asked about Adelman's comments.
"Of course I agree," Love said. "I'm the type of person that if you see a foul — an obvious foul — you call it. I thought that was pretty, pretty obvious. Just look at the replay: Without saying too much, you look at the replay and it was obvious he got arm. I didn't know how to react. I couldn't, I wasn't going to yell at him. That wasn't going to do anything.
"I just walked off the court, just tried to keep my head up."
VIDEO: Wolves coach Rick Adelman fumes after no foul was called on Kevin Love's final shot
No. 4: Jazz continue to show improvement — With a 1-14 start to the season, the Utah Jazz looked to be headed for perhaps their worst season ever in Salt Lake City. What was lost on many during that putrid start, though, was that the Jazz were playing without their prized rookie point guard, Trey Burke, and were giving major minutes to journeyman point guards such as John Lucas III and Jamaal Tinsley. While Utah hasn't pushed for the playoffs or anything since Burke has returned, it has looked like a more formidable squad with a brighter future than was seen just a month ago, writes Trevor Phibbs of The Deseret News:
Tanking for lottery position? Not exactly.
After starting the season 1-14, it appeared Utah was headed for record-setting futility. However, with the emergence of rookie point guard Trey Burke, the Jazz have climbed to respectability. Their ascension continued Monday as they closed the 2013 calendar with an 83-80 win over Charlotte at EnergySolutions Arena.
It was the 10th straight win over the Bobcats for Utah, which improved to 9-7 with Burke, Gordon Hayward, Richard Jefferson, Marvin Williams and Derrick Favors together in the starting lineup.
"It gives us a lot of confidence winning close games, especially at home," explained Burke, who scored a game-high 21 points with five assists. "We feel we're coming together as a team and we're learning to play with each other more and more. As long as we continue to strap down on defense I think we'll be good."
Leading 78-77, Burke hesitated deep into the shot clock, beat Walker off the dribble and iced the win with a scoop off the glass.
"That's why I went to the basket," Burke said. "There was about two seconds left and I figured he thought I was going to shoot the shot, but I felt I could get a better shot and I went after it."
VIDEO: Rookie Trey Burke talks about his basket to clinch Utah's win over Charlotte
SOME RANDOM HEADLINES: The Raptors could be making a color scheme change in the future to a black-and-gold look inspired by musician Drake … The Bucks will be without young big man John Henson (ankle) for two weeks … Kevin Love is the latest of many NBA stars to copy Dirk Nowitzki's patented one-legged fallaway jumper …
ICYMI Of The Night: As a guard, the 6-foot-4 John Wall is a pretty decent shot-blocker. But who knows what he was thinking when he decided to go up and contest this coast-to-coast dunk by 6-foot-11 Pistons big man Greg Monroe
VIDEO: Greg Monroe posterizes John Wall with a coast-to-coast jam


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Posted: Tue May 21, 2013 6:15 pm
Post subject: Repairing a Bic Nova 165
My Bic Nova came loose in the bed of my van and slid into the rear doors, chipping off a quarter inch by 3-4 inch section of plastic right where the top half and bottom half meet. I see blackish grey stuff behind that.
I believe the construction, based on boardlady.com, is ASA plastic over non woven fiberglass over foam.
I used 2 part 5 minute epoxy from McMaster-Carr over the injury without any real prep work and it works for a time, but yellows and then peels off.
What can I do to patch this up?
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found this on surfer mag
You should structure repair it with epoxy resin, even though it's poly core (more flexible, stronger), then get a hot glue gun, low temp kind around 350 degrees, not the Ptex ski base kind and lay on beads, to be sureformed flush, then finished with progressively finer sandpaper until 120. No need finer than 120.
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in other words - i was curious myself since i have one or two ASA boards & just searched the web
good luck with that
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doesn't eva discuss sanding in what you've read? without scuffing up the surface, it won't adhere.
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One other thing to keep in mind about epoxy. Most do not have UV inhibitors in them and they will turn yellow in the sun and then the bond will fail. System Three epoxy: has Sailboard and surfboard repair epoxy SB112
It's a good product to use on clear coated SUP and even painted boards. It's super clear and easy to use. Use a grams jewelers scale and you can mix small batches of epoxy with little waste. 100/44 by weight Resin/hardner. If your using the 5 minute Stuff Paint it with some Auto motive touch up paint. Good luck!
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Try Marine-Tex, worked for me when repairing smaller ASA dings, not sure about coverage over the area you want, sticks to ASA well, won't soften or yellow, nice white, sands nicely.
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I have a Bic Nova 165 and had to do a small repair on the bottom when the board flipped over and was impaled by a fin on a nearby board. The damage was about a 2 inch long dent with a crack about 1 inch long. At the time I checked Bic's web site and found the following user manual:
The manual recommends using epoxy for the repair because the board contains an EPS core.
For the repair I used white Marine Tex which can be found at West Marine stores or on line. I carefully sanded the dented area to ensure good adhesion and to remove any wax or mold release chemicals that may have been present from the molding process. This may have been part of the reason that your previous attempt failed. I also lightly wiped it with acetone but I would use caution because you don't want to damage the EPS core.
After mixing and applying the Marine Tex I covered it with a piece of Mylar to smooth it but you can also use a small piece of a polyethylene (think zip loc bag) which would work better if you are wrapping the rail. After it cured I wet sanded the excess off starting with 80 grit and finished with 320. The Marine Tex color matches color of the board and you have to look very closely to even see the repair.
On the Bic Nova 120 which we used to have I used West Epoxy to repair a 2 inch diameter dent from when the board was dropped. The only reason I did not use Marine tex was that there was a V shaped crack through the skin about 1 inch on each side. I wanted to reinforce the area with a bit of cloth which the West Epoxy is more suited for. I cut away the loose piece leaving a triangular shaped hole. As mentioned previously the board has an EPS core but only with a single skin. I used a bit of resin thickener with the West epoxy so the resin did not soak into the core and then laid several small pieces of wetted out 4 oz glass cloth into the dent. I did add a bit of white pigment to the epoxy with hope that it would match the bottom but I ended up painting the spot afterwards. For small paint jobs I use Krylon white primer because it is easy to apply and wets sands very smooth.
For your application I would recommend using the Marine Tex approach because can be done in one step and the color matches perfectly.
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Thanks folks, the wind was good today and I got impatient and used the 5 minute epoxy, but I tried to follow the directions above. I sanded before and after. One thing I did wrong was to apply too much at once. The epoxy bubbles and there's no way to get the bubbles out without leaving a void. Heat might have helped since it makes the epoxy more runny... Well when this repair peels off I'll use the proper marine stuff.
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You said the epoxy bubbles. Are you doing the repair in direct sun or after the board has heated up? If the board does not have a vent plug and you try to do a repair the epoxy will bubble or have pin holes, due to the board wanting to vent. So try to get the board cool and do the repair late in the day when the temperature is dropping and that should help with the bubbles.
Hope this helps. Mike
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A guide to helping first-time cruisers differentiate and select their first cruise line and cruise ship.
This is where first-time cruisers probably want the most advice, and rightfully so. Do your homework, but also realize that at some point you have to make a decision and pick one line. Just remember that you will definitely learn more during your first cruise than you could ever learn during a lifetime of reading about cruise ships.
The idea is to find the right ship for your personal lifestyle. It is extremely important to realize that unlike trains or planes cruise ships are far more than a means of transportation. Those kinds of ships are called ferries. Cruise ships provide a shipboard experience that will be as exciting, and in many cases depending on where you go, far more exciting than the places you visit during the cruise.
In general, almost any cruise line has better food and service than you will find in an average restaurant or hotel. In addition, you get entertainment that on many cruise ships includes Broadway-caliber entertainers, first run movies, cabaret, rock or blues music, comedy and more. You also get free 24-hour room service and more than a maid, you get a room steward who cleans and makes up your stateroom twice each day - cleaning each morning and a turndown service every night.
Each cruise comes with food available 24-hours and entertainment included in the cruise fare. While you are onboard most cruise ships you will have to pay extra for any alcohol or soda beverages as well as gratuities to certain crewmembers who serve you personally. The cost of drinks is similar to a hotel, while gratuities average about $10 per passenger per day in total. All onboard costs are settled on the last day of the cruise and can be charged to a prearranged credit card account similar to the method of hotels.
But these are the minimum offerings that cruise lines have in common. And the style in which each cruise line presents these amenities defines the distinct personality of that cruise line which is what you want to study carefully before they book your first cruise. Some people eventually find a favorite cruise line and stay with them cruise after cruise, building up loyalty rewards similar to frequent flyer miles. Some people cruise on different lines all the time, depending on what mood strikes them for their next cruise.
Cruise ships come in all shapes and sizes, from tiny "expedition vessels" that only carry 30 to 50 passengers to "mega-ships" that can carry well over 5000 passengers plus close to 2000 crewmembers at the same time.
So - how do you know which one is right for you? We will look at this question very closely and I urge you not to jump to any conclusions or pre-conceived notions based on what you may have heard about certain cruise lines. Also - watch out for negative reader-contributed cruise reviews you read online. In many cases these people had one or two things go wrong but decided to list every little negative thing they could think to say in order to "make their case."
There are several different factors to consider for any given cruise ship; size, cost, age and amenities. The cruise line itself is the first consideration, but keep in mind that within each cruise line there can be a vast variety of vessels, smaller ones that are 20 years old, and brand new ones with all of the biggest and best features.
Size: Today's cruise ships vary in size between 30,000-tons to 220,000-tons. I realize "size" is a vague concept to non-experienced cruisers. We use gross tonnage to represent ship size because it is actually a measure of the interior volume of a ship - not how much it actually weighs. A 100,000 ton cruise ship could be about 900 feet long, 14 decks tall and 90 feet wide. It will carry about 3000 passengers more or less depending on the cruise line.
This is a rough way of defining size:
- Under 20,000-tons = smallest
- 20,000 to 49,000 tons = small
- 50,000 to 75,000 tons = medium small
- 75,000 to 100,000 tons = average
- 101,000 to 120,000 tons - medium large
- 121,000 to 149,000 tons - large
- 150,000 tons + = "mega-ship"
- 220,000 tons = world's largest ships
To be clear, the (1) smallest ships include river boats and older "yacht-like" luxury vessels. (2) Represents some of the newer luxury vessels introduced in the last few years. (3) Includes some of the older (1990s) ships of the more popular fleets such as Disney, Holland America and Princess and (4) Represents some of the newer ships (early 2000s) of those same fleets. (5) Includes most of the newer ships from Carnival and Princess. (6) Includes some of the newest ships from Carnival as well as some of the ships currently on order for NCL and Princess to arrive in 2013. It also includes the newer ships from Celebrity, although the different is that while a Carnival ship may carry over 4000 guests a Celebrity ship of this size only has 2850 berths for more space per passenger. (7) Includes only the largest ships from NCL and Royal Caribbean and (8) only has two ships, Oasis, and Allure of the Seas.
This brings up an important point; size alone is not as much a factor as space per passenger. This is called the "passenger-space ratio." The "PSR" is a somewhat good indicator of "luxury" but one should not get carried away because it is an inherently faulty measurement due to its over-simplicity. It is based dividing the gross tonnage by the number of berths, but it does not exclude crew and technical areas of the ship, nor does it count extra people in staterooms (which can be anywhere from none to thousands).
One of the biggest factors that come along with size is the variety of activities aboard. Simply put, larger ships have a greater variety of onboard activities including;
- Sports: tennis, miniature golf, basketball, a fitness center and spa facilities for massage, facials and haircuts. Some larger ships even offer acupuncture and wet and dry saunas.
- Showtime Entertainment: on larger ships entertainment is generally much more sophisticated and impressive than on smaller ships, with Broadway caliber shows and well-known comedians and other performers from stage and screen.
- Dining Options: Larger ships also provide a much larger variety of dining options although that does not necessarily mean better food. For example, one of the larger ships in the cruise fleet, Norwegian Epic, has 21 restaurants onboard but only a handful of them would qualify as gourmet dining. On the other hand, some of the most expensive ships in the "luxury" category will be smaller and will only have two or three dining options onboard, but each of them will offer what is considered among the finest cuisine at sea. Children's Facilities: larger ships usually offer special programs for kids of all ages separated into distinct groups.
- Casino: larger ships will offer more casino games and a greater variety of slot machines.
- Night Spots: larger ships will generally offer a number of nighttime entertainment venues including disco style dancing, live entertainment such as rock or blues bars, comedy clubs, karaoke and sing-along piano bars.
- Movie Theaters: the new trend on larger cruise ships these days is you have not only movie theaters, but the latest state-of-the-art 3-D technology. Some ships have even taken this a step further to include theaters with seat motion, air blowers, ankle ticklers and back pokers for the fully immersive theater experience.
- Waterslides: many of the largest ships have waterslides for the kids such as the new Disney ships which have water rafting rides 765 feet long. Carnival and Norwegian Cruise Lines ships also have waterslides.
Obviously, the widest variety of activities available comes on the largest cruise ships. This makes them destinations unto themselves even though they generally visit the same ports of call as smaller cruise ships. So, while itineraries of any given cruise are always one of the first considerations for first-time cruiser it is also commonly heard by first-time cruisers that they didn't realize how much they would enjoy the ship itself.
Re-engineering older ships is a recent trend by cruise lines. The idea is to take some of the newer features that have proven most popular on new ships and add them to older ships during remodeling. This has been done to all of the older Carnival ships and many of the newer ones. Royal Caribbean, Celebrity and Holland America are also in the process of upgrading their older ships.
It is important to note that larger ships offer a much smoother ride in the ocean while a very small ship of 10,000-tons will rock with every motion of the ocean it encounters. A very large mega-ship of over 100,000-tons will glide through the water with a much slower and less noticeable rocking motion you may go an entire cruise and not feel any movement at all.
In general, more expensive provide more space per passenger first of all. Luxury cruise ships tend to be smaller, however, it is only logical that smaller cruise ships cannot provide the variety of activities found on larger, more mainstream cruise lines. And so size is often a matter of personal preference related to how much a person wants to get involved with the activities offered onboard. It is assumed that luxury cruisers prefer a more "yacht like" experience, meaning there are fewer distractions and more of a focus on quiet time with a closer connection to the sea. In fact, small luxury cruise ships generally offer a very quiet environment, the opposite of the larger "ship as the destination" experience.
Understanding Categories. There are generally four categories of cruise ships in the industry starting with the least expensive known as "contemporary" or what I refer to as mainstream, followed by premium, upscale and luxury. There used to be a "budget" category of cruise lines, mostly sailing refurbished older ships from the ocean liner era. These have all but disappeared as competitive pricing made them unprofitable and it became too costly to comply with newer safety requirements.
Contemporary. This category includes Carnival Cruise Lines, Royal Caribbean Line and Norwegian Cruise Line. These lines generally offer the cheapest cruises available although one can often find more "premium" cruise lines selling cruises for about the same prices, depending on the ships. Of course, these are the largest cruise ships in the business with Royal Caribbean being the leader in the size category. Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas are the two largest cruise ships in the world by far at 220,000 tons apiece.
It seems a little bit counterintuitive that these largest and most active ships with the most activities are operated for the most cost conscious consumers by the mainstream cruise lines, but there is frankly much more to do on the larger ships for those who enjoy the sort of activities they offer.
Contemporary ships fall into the "ship as the destination" category unlike smaller, more expensive cruise ships that excel at destination-oriented cruising with the focus on the ports of call. If your goal in taking a cruise is to see the world then a small ship is much more convenient. You will be able to get on and off the ship very quickly and have smaller and more exclusive tours available.
Premium. The next step up from contemporary brings "premium cruise lines" where we find Holland America, Celebrity Cruises, Princess Cruise Line, Cunard line and Disney. There are differences between all of these cruise lines; for example, Holland America offers smaller ships with fewer passengers while Princess cruise ships are larger and carry more passengers. Celebrity Cruises has newer cruise ships of larger size but fewer passengers per ship for more space onboard.
Obviously, Disney Cruise Line is in the category of its own offering family oriented cruises with extensive activities for kids six months to 18 years old. Disney also has adult-only areas but the focus is on technology and family entertainment, even in the dining rooms.
Cunard line is also practically a category unto itself with three ships including the Queen Mary II, the world's largest ocean liner ever built. Queen Mary II offers a very distinct and classic ocean voyage much like the famous upper-class scenes from the movie Titanic. All Cunard ships offer two separate classes where the top category is considered a luxury cruise experience while the lower category is more in keeping with premium cruises.
Upscale. The next step up encompasses a wide variety of ships in the "upscale" category. The upscale cruise lines include Azamara, Oceania, and Windstar. These are smaller cruise lines offering smaller ships that are very destination oriented. Almost all of these will be found in the Mediterranean every summer offering port intensive cruises with a new destination every day. The focus here is on fine dining and very comfortable nighttime accommodations to get you ready to see a new destination the next day. Two notable exceptions in this category are the new ships from Oceania; Marina and Riviera. These two ships are larger than average for this category and each offers an excellent dining experience at least on par if not better than most of the luxury cruise lines. Marina and Riviera are two of my favorite ships.
Luxury. The most well-known luxury cruise lines are Seabourn, Regent Seven Seas, Silversea and Crystal Cruises. There are a few other independent luxury cruise operators that are niche oriented; SeaDream, Travel Dynamics International and the Paul Gauguin.
Luxury cruise lines offer a "yacht like" onboard experience meaning a focus on quiet activities, very few announcements and more personalized service options such as butler's who will bring the same cuisine as served in the dining room to your stateroom. Most of the luxury cruise lines are affiliated with award winning chefs and purveyors of fresh ingredients to prepare their recipes. Most of the luxury cruise lines now include alcohol and gratuities in the cost of the cruise. Of course, the price of the cruise goes up proportionately. Luxury cruisers are mostly wealthy individuals who are smart enough to understand the price of a luxury cruise is not a value proposition, however they are willing to pay extra for the convenience of the inclusive service provided. Notably, within the luxury cruise sector, Regent Seven Seas stands out as a cruise line that also includes regular shore excursions and pre-cruise hotel stays before each cruise included in the price of the cruise.
River Cruises. One last category, although they are not technically ships, river cruises are conducted very similarly to regular cruises. The food and entertainment is included in the fare, and most tours are also included. Many include wine with dinner. River cruises are extremely popular in Europe with literally hundreds of boats available from Portugal to Russia. Popular lines include Viking River, AmaWaterways, UniWorld and Avalon. In the U.S. the Great American Steamboat Company just reintroduced Mississippi River cruising in 2012.
To sum up; the main differentiators of these categories include the quality of the food, what is included in the cruise fare, the onboard entertainment and sports facilities, the comfort and convenience of the staterooms and the level of service provided by the onboard staff. There are dozens of different cruise lines and many have several categories of ships. It can take a long time to fully understand the vast variety of offerings within the cruise industry but a great deal can be learned just by taking your first cruise. By the end you should know what is most important to you and you can adjust to a smaller or larger ship and pay more or less for the food and service depending on your personal tastes. At some point most cruisers have just a few cruise lines that they prefer and many cruise with the same cruise line all the time.