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Craig When packing for a pleasure cruise, one Craig woman never expected her Bonfils Blood Center donor ID card would help her help save a life on the open seas.

I was on a cruise from New Zealand to Australia in February, said Mary Morris, of Craig.

The ship was still a day out of Tasmania when the captain announced a medical emergency and asked passengers with O-positive blood to consider helping.

I finished supper and cruised on down to see if they needed me, Morris said.

She joined several potential blood donors in the ship's medical center where medical staff selected her to donate.

"Others who responded did not have donor cards and doctors were relieved to see mine," Morris said.

Morris is a regular donor and promoter of Bonfils, and like all Bonfils donors, she received her donor ID card following her second blood donation.

Its something that nearly everyone can do. Many who could just havent. Its really no big deal to donate. It just takes a little time, Morris said.

After her ship board donation, the captain sent chocolates and wine to Mary's cabin along with a note stating, I would like to offer my heartfelt thank you for your kindness.

In Tasmania, the captain announced that the patient was doing well and had been taken to a hospital.

"The most rewarding experience was, after all these years, the firsthand reality of knowing that donating blood really can help save a life, a warm memory I cherish from this trip," Morris said.

In 2016, more than 142,000 blood donations from 67,000 people were made in Colorado to Bonfils blood centers.

Every blood donation has the potential to save up to three lives, said Liz Lambert, marketing and communications specialist for Bonfils Blood Center. April is National Donate Life Month that honors and celebrates organ, eye, tissue, blood and marrow donors for their commitment to saving lives.

She hopes more people will consider saving a life by donating blood.

The next Craig community blood drive is from 12:30 to 6 p.m. April 11 in the pavilion at the Moffat County Fairgrounds.

To make an appointment for the April 11 blood drive visit: donors.bonfils.org and enter the site code 0183.

Contact Sasha Nelson at 970-875-1794 or snelson@CraigDailyPress.com or follow her on Twitter @CDP_Education.

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Helping save a life on the high seas warmed the heart of one Craig woman - Craig Daily Press

During ISE 2017, NEC announced their NEC Infinity Board Video Conferencing, where SEAS delivers the sound. The Infinity Board is an all-in-one communication system with a high-end screen, camera and loudspeakers, perfect for conference calls, online classes etc.

NEC approached us and wanted to know if we would take on the challenge. Of course we did, and we are now the proud supplier of sound solution for the system. We have contributed with a High End full range 4-inch SEAS loudspeaker driver with ultra-low distortion. The driver is mounted in a solid MDF cabinet, and the resulting sound is clear and stable. This enables excellent speech intelligibility with no distractions.

The speakers are thoughtfully designed to give any listener in the room the equal high end sound experience.

Daniela Dexheimer, Product Manager Solutions at NEC Display Solutions Europe says: "We are very pleased with the successful launch of the NEC InfinityBoard which took place at ISE 2017 in Amsterdam. So far, the interest for the solution has been overwhelming and we believe that this new all-in-one communication platform is bound to meet the needs of customers out in the market place. Bringing together strong eco-partners to collaborate and create a new innovative solution like InfinityBoard is very encouraging. High quality components are key for such a sophisticated solution aimed to enhance the overall meeting experience. The high-end loudspeakers from SEAS was an easy choice since SEAS is constantly working to meet with the highest standards. The InfinityBoard is a best-in-class display solution designed for the modern meeting room and the new collaborative working and communication styles.

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Matt Hensley rolled the 5-foot mini, pumping up the walls, doing smooth ollies and grinds. Part of the generation that first pushed the limits of street skating, Hensley, now 46, was enjoying a session with old friends on a Friday night.

But there was something more to it: Hensley and his old H Street skate team were sessioning the high seas with the tropical Atlantic Ocean stretching to the horizon in every direction.

It was the first-ever skate jam on a cruise ship. But this sea voyage wasnt your average Bahamian jaunt. This was Flogging Mollys Salty Dog Cruise, a swashbuckling three-night excursion of a few thousand punk-rock pirates.

Somehow, legends like Eddie Elguera, Ron Allen, Tony Magnusson, Sal Barbier, John Schultes and company grinding away in the Tropic of Cancer seemed to fit perfectly.

Its three years that Ive been trying to do this and I finally got the green light. When I first wanted to do it, everybody around me was like, Yeah, no problem. Lets do it. Ive been a skateboarder all my life, so I was thinking that it was too easy, Hensley told GrindTV on his way across the pool deck from Flogging Mollys headlining Friday evening show to the ramp, which had been assembled while he was wailing out Tobacco Island and The Kilburn High Road with his band.

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If it was that simple, lets just light the whole place on fire and go crazy.

Hensley is that rare type who has become an icon in two worlds, first as a California pro skater and today as the accordion player for Irish punk rockers Flogging Molly. He became an influential skateboarder in the 90s and while traveling on skate tours bought old accordions from pawn shops, eventually becoming a proficient player.

Irish-born Dave King, who was reviving a form of Celtic folk music around Los Angeles, invited Hensley to join the band in 1996. Theyve put out five albums in the last 15 years, traversing the world many times over.

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Each March, Flogging Molly does a whirlwind of live shows, TV performances and, for the last few years, the Salty Dog Cruise, a four-day, three-night tour from Miami to the Bahamas with a full lineup of Flogging Mollys friends. This year was highlighted by everything from reggae to punk, folk, rock steady and traditional Irish music.

When Hensley got that first green light about getting a ramp on the ship, he reached out to some skate friends.

I wanted to have skateboarders who were artists and played music to be here to skate, he says. I reached out to [Tommy] Guerrero and Ray Barbee, but when the company told me we couldnt do it, it messed everything up.

But this year, with all the legal ts crossed and is dotted, the floating ramp became a reality.

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When The Enchantment of the Seas pulled into Coco Cay, Flogging Molly tore apart the stage on a tropical beach. That evening, back on the ship, between sets by Less than Jake, the Bouncing Souls, Voodoo Glow Skulls and the English Beat, the H-Street team started really letting loose somewhere in the middle of the ocean.

It just feels so good. I see the world through a skaters eyes. I see transition where there shouldnt be, said Hensley. With all these punk bands on this boat, I knew that if you put a skate ramp on here, it would just make a good time great. Come hell or high water, we did it.

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MOUNT CARMEL Will it float?

The answer to the age-old question was answered Friday during the Mount Carmel Area Junior/Senior High School ninth annual Boat Regatta.

Boats made of cardboard, rubber sealant and a limited amount of duct tape either sank or stayed afloat during the double-elimination event organized by industrial arts teacher Keith Fourspring.

Leading up to the humorous event, Fourspring taught his students how to create small-scale models and solve formulas to determine if their ships would be sea worthy. Months of hard work by students was ultimately put to the test Friday in the head-to-head competition that contained several heats.

First place was awarded to Selana Guererro, second to Alyssa Karycki and third to Evan Salamone.

The event included live music by students and light refreshments for event sponsors. The boats that did not make the finish line were ultimately decommissioned and placed in a district garbage truck.

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Several dozen students of Duncan High School became the first do something never done before they successfully, or in some cases soggily, traversed the waters of the Simmons Center pool with only cardboard and duct tape boats to see them safely to the other side.

As part of the physics classes and the STEM class, students had to create a boat using nothing but cardboard and duct tape that had to float, be at least a meter long and carry one student.

Keely Cox, physics teacher, said it was a practical demonstration.

I was trying to show them that you can build a boat out of really heavy stuff if you do it right, she said. So they had to figure out buoyancy versus weight as long as the buoyant force is more, you are going to float no matter what you make it out of.

Gretchen Taylor, STEM teacher, said the students worked diligently with the concepts.

The concept was calculating the volume of the boat and that would get us the displacement and then you apply the density of water and use convert factors which we are big on this year to calculate the buoyancy factor, she said. This was a project that the students did on their own outside of class. It was a project that they worked on in the evening and on the weekends, even over spring break to build these boats.

Cox said it was also an exercise in cooperative skills.

The student groups went head-to-head as the boats were timed on their journey across the pool, until one boat was deemed the winner.

The a group of freshmen STEM class members came out on top, and 9th graders Anna McNurran, Lincoln Fitts, Ethan Howard and Jaxon Gregston had the fastest boat of the day.

McNurran said it took everyones input to get the boat ready.

It took a lot of all of our ideas putting them all together and discussing what we think would be best, what would work the best, she said.

Gregston, who manned the boat, said the group used a familiar model.

We tried to make it as close to an actual canoe possible, he said. We tried to keep it all one piece too so the water couldnt get in. (Because of) water displacement, there were some boats that were tipping over because there was only so much water being moved out of the way, so we had a flatter bottom that would keep us up right with out tipping.

All four agreed that getting to compete was a great experience.

Going head -to-head was really fun, Howard said. I liked to see that our boat actually worked in real life, not just on paper.

The teacher hoped to do this again next year because the students had a great time and learned the concepts well.

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We may never know the full extent of what lives in our oceans, but on March 28th, well be coming face to face with some deep sea horrors in the underwater horror game Narcosis.

Honor Code, Inc. is pleased to announce that its debut effort, Narcosis, launches on the Oculus Store, Steam and Xbox One on March 28, 2017. Narcosis has garnered critical acclaim for its unique setting, compelling narrative, striking visuals and subtle but effective usage of virtual reality. An all-new trailer #Safe+Dry demonstrates some of the surreal sights, sounds and situations encountered in the abyss.

Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean. Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his dwindling oxygen and sanity give out.

First conceived as a student project, this first person survival story unfolds from inside a walking coffin a half-ton, high-tech deep-sea dive suit following an industrial catastrophe. Influenced and inspired by a growing appetite for unconventional horror and narrative-driven games, Narcosis is rooted in reality, but steeped in the surreal.

Features: Pressure Kills: High-stress situations accelerate oxygen intake, distorting sight, sound, space and time.

Hostile Waters: A knife, flashlight and flares are essential to surviving the nightmarish flora and fauna of the abyss.

Phantom Narrative: The survivors account unfolds in inexplicable ways alongside the players journey.

Beyond Good and Evil: No shadowy organizations or eldritch terrors at Narcosis dark heart, only primal fears and human limits.

Terror Verite: Primal fears darkness, confinement and isolation take on new levels of immersion when experienced in VR.

IGN: They told me the demo wasnt too scary, but I just about panicked anyway.

Rock, Paper, Shotgun: Fascinating The tension it generates is impressive.

Game Informer: The Oculus Rift is no stranger to horror games, but Narcosis is the best-looking of its breed Ive played.

Polygon: The developers call it a walking coffin and after a few minutes using the Oculus Rift I understand why.

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Capt. Aldante Vinciguerra, chief of response for the Coast Guard 7th District, told the Associated Press that authorities had apprehended 65 Cuban nationals on the high seas since the day President Obama announced that Cubans would no longer receive political asylum in the United States automatically, January 12. Most will be repatriated, and 27 already have, according to Mart Noticias. That outlet notes that another 52 Cubans were detained in U.S. ports of entry between January 12 and mid-March as an extra precaution to implement the policy.

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The repeal ofWet Foot/Dry Foot does not mean Cubans cannot appeal their deportation, citing a material risk of political persecution at home. Cuba is a communist dictatorship notorious for flagrant human rights abuses against Christians, political dissidents,and professionals enlisted in thenations$8-million-a-year medical slave trade. Those who are fleeing Cuba due to the extreme poverty and lack of economic opportunity on the island created by decades of reliance on the Soviet Union and communist mismanagement do not benefit from this exception.

We discourage anyone from taking to the sea and attempting to reach U.S. soil illegally, Vinciguerra told the AP.They are risking their lives with very little chance of success.

The number of Cuban nationals attempting to flee to the United States had increased dramatically between 2014 and January 2017 as a direct response to President Obamas normalization policy towards Cuba, which called for the acceptance of dictator Ral Castro and economic rapprochement with his regime.

The Coast Guard documented a 117-percent increase in the number of Cubans intercepted trying to reach the United States on makeshift nautical vessels between December 2013 and December 2014, when President Obama announced the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Castro. Upon being caught, Coast Guard officials reported that Cubans were increasingly taking to harming themselves, including instances of Cubans drinking from gallon jugs of bleach to avoid being sent back to Cuba.

While the Associated Press reported an increase in violence on the part of Cuban refugees at the time, they failed to note that the violent acts were largely acts of self-harm.

The Coast Guard report arrives on the anniversary of President Obamas visit to Cuba in March 2016. Cuban-American legislators in Congress condemned President Obama this week for implementing a policy that has resulted in an increase in state violence and repression against pro-democracy dissidents. According to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, around 16,000 arrests have occurred in Cuba between last year and 2016, and nearly 90,000 Cubans have abandoned the regime en route to the U.S. coast since December 2014.

Mart quotes Ros-Lehtinen as describing Obamas approach as a failed policy. Agreeing with her was fellow Florida Rep. Mario Daz-Balart, who told reporters, these two years have been disastrous for the aspirations of freedom of the Cuban people. He cited violence against women by Cuban police as a human rights violation of particular concern, given the weekly beatings and arrests of the members of the Ladies in White dissident group.

Obamas policies also left thousands of Cubans stranded throughout Latin America as the Wet Foot/Dry Foot policy allowed Central American nations to help Cuban nationals reach their families in Florida. Panama, Costa Rica, and Mexico have been particularly troubled by streams of thousands of Cubans seeking an escape from communism.

Those stranded have argued that President Obama repealed the executive policy as a response to the Cuban-American communitys longtime support of the Republican Party. Cuban voters largely supported current President Donald Trump during the November 2016 election.Obama, because he is leaving, suddenly takes up theidea of repealing a law that has been enforced for many years and has favored many Cubans. I think he got angry with the Cubans it is a reprisal,Jose Enrique Manresa, a 47-year-old Cuban stranded in Mexico, told the BBC in January.

Unlike President Obama, President Trump has repeatedly condemned the Castro regime, using the occasion of Fidel Castros death to condemn the brutal dictator and calling for a shift in policy away from the Obama administrations. Both Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer have stated President Trump is seeking a full revision of the U.S.s Cuba policy.

The Trump administration has done nothing to aid Cubans stranded by the abrupt repeal of Wet Foot/Dry Foot, however, and has not moved to shut down the newly reopened U.S. Embassy in Cuba or the Cuban embassy in Washington, D.C., the latter of which many in the Cuban-American community have condemned as a base for espionage.

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Panaji: The country may be responsible for 30% of the global staff for the international cruise sector but as a contributor towards cruise passenger volumes, India comes behind China and Taiwan, contributing just 6% of cruise passengers. There were 1.26 lakh Indians who took a cruise vacation in 2016, making India the sixth largest Asian market for the sector.

While average age for Asian tourists stood at 45 years, young Indians in the 37-year-old age bracket went on cruise vacation, said a report by Cruise Lines International Association, the worlds largest cruise industry trade assoction.

But cruise liners expect more people taking vacation on board their ships due to growing middle class with disposable income. Here in India, the market has started developing slowly and maybe with time they may think that this is much more viable than land based vacations. I think India is going to be a growing market, Apollo Group senior director Othmar Hehli told TOI.

I would imagine that in the next 10 years there will be more Indians travelling, because typically the biggest countries contribute the most people. With 1.2 billion people and with a younger population earning and a growing middle class, there will be growth, Hehli said.

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Now, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal, the oil titan has also been employing a number of other cost-cutting strategies to its deepwater efforts, many of which were learned on dry land.

For example, Shell has hired a chief irritant for all of its divisions whose sole focus is to shake up the way they operate and find ways to increase efficiency.

Shell is also maximizing oil recovery by drilling horizontal water-injection wells a technique perfected by many fracking upstarts. This technique has come in handy at Mars, a massive drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico that produced as much as 225,000 barrels a day in 2002. By drilling horizontally from the existing deep wells at Mars and into shallower layers of rock, Shell can use infrastructure thats already in place to reap new rewards sometimes producing oil for as little as $10 to $15 a barrel.

Venturing into old wells can carry risks, however, because hydrogen sulfide, a corrosive and flammable gas, can build up in sealed-off wells. But Shell reported that it is using finely tuned monitoring equipment to detect hydrogen sulfide problems. The extra precaution can slow down nearby drilling, which can cost Shell but the price is nothing compared to the potential cost of a well blowout.

Shells strategy is part of a growing industry-wide shift towards boosting efficiency with lean manufacturing.

Pedro Parente, president of Brazils state-run oil company, Petrobras, recently commented that his company is focusing on a number of cost-cutting measures including debt reduction and increased efficiency. In particular, Petrobras has been focused on standardization throughout all of its processes.

Now is the time to change how we run this industry, he said.

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Shell Looks to Lower The Cost of Drilling on The High Seas - Chem.Info

Meeting on High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean The Arctic Journal All delegations reaffirmed their commitment to prevent unregulated high seas fishing in the central Arctic Ocean as well as a commitment to promote the conservation and sustainable use of living marine resources and to safeguard healthy marine ...

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