Traveling Is Easy: Cruise ship suffers stopped-up toilets

(CNN) -- Another cruise ship, another problem with malfunctioning toilets.

This time, Carnival Corp. subsidiary Princess Cruises had passengers feeling the impact of toilets that wouldn't flush.

On April 11, the cruise line's Crown Princess was on a seven-day Caribbean cruise when a blockage within the ship's vacuum toilet system rendered 410 stateroom toilets inoperable fro5 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., according to Princess Cruises spokeswoman Karen Candy. The ship has more than 1,500 cabins.

"A small number of passengers continued to experience problems over the next few days which were addressed by the shipboard technical team," Candy wrote in an e-mail.

The ship's itinerary wasn't affected by the flushing problems, and affected passengers were offered $50 apiece in compensation, Candy wrote. "The blockages have been addressed and we are continuing to review the situation to ensure that the system is working with optimum pressure levels."

Although Candy didn't answer questions about the cause of the problem, members of the CruiseCritic.com website discussed the possibility of passengers tossing prohibited objects into the toilets and causing the blockage.

"Toilet problems can happen on any ship when passengers flush the wrong things down the toilet," wrote member Astro Flyer, who was not aboard the Crown Princess.

In February, an engine room fire left the Carnival Triumph adrift in the Gulf of Mexico, with passengers reporting overflowing toilets and human waste running down the walls in some parts of the ship. On a March cruise, the Carnival Dream lost power, and some toilets stopped working. Both ships are part of Carnival Cruise Line, another subsidiary of Carnival Corp.

Candy wrote that "passengers were kept continuously updated about the progress of the repairs." But a CruiseCritic member posting under the handle EB and Curly said they were in an affected cabin and "were never informed as to the status of repairs." However, they were "only totally without a toilet for about 24 hours. It did overflow one night and we had to call maintenance to come up at 1:00 a.m."

CruiseCritic.com reported that the ship left Galveston, Texas, on April 13 for its scheduled trans-Atlantic repositioning cruise to Europe.

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Samsung Galaxy Note 8.0 (Wi-Fi)

Do you doodle? If you think best with a pen in your hand, Samsung's new Galaxy Note 8.0 is the finest tablet available. Samsung's S Pen and the company's broad support for writing and drawing still set the Galaxy Note line apart from every other tablet on the market. But the Galaxy Note 8.0's super-premium $399.99 (list) price in the world of smaller, much-less-expensive tablets will make this a cult classic, not a blockbuster. It's just too expensive.

Physical Features
The Galaxy Note 8.0 is made from plastic, but it doesn't feel flimsy. It's very tightly built, glossy and white, with chrome trim. The 8-inch, 1,280-by-800 LCD screen is surrounded by a surprisingly large bezel. Considering that the tablet's software includes an excellent palm-rejection feature, there's no reason to have such a roomy edge. The display is bright with true colors, although they're not as hypersaturated as the OLED screen Samsung uses on the Galaxy Tab 7.7, for instance. A 5-megapixel camera sticks out of the back with a slight bulge.

The Galaxy Note 8.0's S Pen digitizer pen fits into a slot in the corner of the tablet, and there's also a MicroSD card slot on the side panel. There's no removable battery or SIM card slot, and I think the lack of a removable battery contributes to the tightness of the build. At 8.3 by 5.35 by 0.30 inches (HWD) and 12 ounces, it's quite comfortable (if a little slick) when held in one hand. That's especially important for a tablet like this, where you're likely to be holding the tablet in one hand and the S Pen in the other.

Android and Performance
The Galaxy Note 8.0 is really fast. It runs a heavily skinned version of Android 4.1.2 on a speedy quad-core Exynos 4412 processor at 1.6GHz, with 2GB of RAM. In terms of raw processor speed, it's the fastest Android tablet we've seen yet, scoring 16,604 on the Antutu performance benchmark and running the Sunspider Javascript benchmark in 10 seconds. A high Browsermark score spoke to swift Web browsing and GLBenchmark gaming frame rate scores were very competitive with other tablets in its class, though it looks like they'll be outpaced once tablets with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 600 processor come on line.

The Note 8 supports Wi-Fi on the 2.4Hz and 5GHz bands, and I had no problem connecting to 802.11g and 802.11n routers. The tablet also packs Bluetooth 4.0 and satellite GPS, but not NFC. International versions of this tablet offer cellular connectivity, but that's not available in the U.S.

There's a lot of custom software here. I'll get to two of the key applications below, but Samsung has customized every aspect of Android. We've got Awesome Note HD, a note-taking app; ChatOn, Samsung's chat service, Flipboard, Samsung's Game Hub game store, Music Hub music store, Paper Artist (a sketching program), Polaris Office, custom note-taking and calendar apps, and S Voice voice commands.?

The S Pen, a plastic stylus with a button on it, wakes up the tablet when you slide it out of its slot in the corner. Twiddle some settings, and you can have text input default to handwriting recognition when you're using the S Pen. I found that Note 8's pen input to be cleaner and more responsive than the pen input on the Galaxy Note 10.1, probably thanks to that extra processor speed. The pen uses Wacom technology, so it's pressure-sensitive and has palm rejection. It still missed the occasional tap on the screen when I was trying to draw a lot of little dots, though.

But the presence of the pen really makes the Note live up to its name. Add the support for split-screen multitasking (two apps on one screen), and you can take notes while surfing the Web or doodle a graphic to insert in an office document, for instance. Just as I found on the Galaxy Note 10.1, this tablet is excellent for productivity.

Samsung added some new S Pen features to match the Galaxy Note II and the forthcoming Galaxy S4, most notably AirView, the ability to hover your pen over some types of content to preview it. As that doesn't work in the Gmail app or Chrome browser, though, I didn't find it terribly useful.

The more you use (or want to use) the S Pen, the more you'll like this tablet. My wife is an artist, so I see the appeal immediately; the ability to draw with accurate pressure sensitivity and hand rejection in a range of art apps, or scribble quick notes in S Note, is something no other tablet can match without expensive add-ons. This is the best consumer pen tablet you can buy.

Battery life was disappointing. In our battery test, we play back a video with the screen set to maximum brightness and Wi-Fi switched on, and the Galaxy Note 8.0 got the shortest result in its class, only 5 hours, 35 minutes. Compare that with the Amazon Kindle Fire HD's 7 hours, the iPad mini's 7:37 and the Nexus 7's 10:50 and you'll see the issue.

Cameras and Multimedia
Like with most tablets, the Galaxy Tab 8.0's two cameras are lackluster. Samsung should have probably omitted the 5-megapixel main camera to cut the high price down. It shoots thoroughly mediocre photos. They're acceptable in full outdoor light, although there's visible distortion at the edges of frames. In cloudy conditions, shutter speeds get a bit low, and indoors, shutter speeds are generally always low enough to ensure softness. Dynamic range issues washed out bright backgrounds. The 1-megapixel front camera is grainy and also had very low shutter speeds indoors.

The main camera records 720p video, while the front camera does VGA. Indoors and out, I got washed-out 30-frame-per-second videos on the main camera and 25fps on the front camera.

Media playback is a much happier story. The Galaxy Tab 8.0 comes with 16GB of internal memory plus a MicroSD memory card slot that supports up to 64GB cards. Samsung's video player has always been top of the line, supporting MP4, H.264, DivX, Xvid and WMV files up to 1080p; you can play them on an HDTV through an MHL cable or DLNA wireless.?

Music format support is similarly comprehensive, and Samsung's music player has a nice multi-pane interface, a bunch of equalizer settings and a fun, silly option called "music square" which attempts to sort your music by mood. Audio through both wired and Bluetooth headphones was fine. The bottom-ported stereo speakers aren't as punchy as the Galaxy Note 10.1's front-ported pair, but they're also fine.

The tablet's universal remote features are its second big focus. Like the Galaxy Tab 2 7.0, the Galaxy Note 8.0 has an infrared blaster which can control TVs and home theater equipment. It works best with Samsung's WatchON app; the tabet also comes with Peel Smart Remote, but I couldn't get it to work properly and Samsung couldn't figure out why.

WatchOn does a good job of showing you interesting programs you can watch, combined with a more traditional, grid-style electronic program guide with filters and favorites. The program had no problem controlling Samsung or Sharp TVs and Dish and TiVo boxes in our lab.

You can also flip over to lists of movies and TV shows available through Blockbuster or Samsung's Media Hub app. I've heard Netflix support might come soon, too, and that will make it even better. To watch video-on-demand content on your television rather than your tablet, though, your TV needs to support DLNA.

But for DVR owners, WatchON has the the same fatal flaw that similar solutions on Samsung, HTC and Sony devices all do: The contents of your DVR are totally opaque. You can't schedule recordings; rather, if you tell it you want to watch a show later, it sets a calendar alert. That feels insanely primitive, a 1990s approach for a 2013 tablet.

Conclusions
When Apple launched the iPad mini, I said it inaugurated a new age of premium-priced small tablets. So what should I call a tablet that costs 20 percent more than Apple's??

The Galaxy Note 8.0 has a bunch of features you don't see on Apple's tablets, the Google Nexus 7, the Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 (7.0) or the Amazon Kindle Fire HD, most notably the S Pen and infrared TV remote. While you can duplicate those functions with other tablets, they require costly, clunky accessories.

In a world where you can get a top-notch Android tablet for $200 and an iPad mini for $329, though, it's just too hard for me to recommend that you spend $400 instead. Artists, especially, will adore the Galaxy Note 8.0. But our Editors' Choice for small tablets, the best mainstream choice, remains the much less expensive, still very-capable Google Nexus 7.

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Lincoln impersonators rub gangly elbows in Ohio

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) ? John Cooper's obsession with being Abraham Lincoln began one score and five years ago. Its beginnings were humble.

Tall, lean and bearded, the Ohio man already bore a passing resemblance to the Rail Splitter, or so he was told. One Halloween he donned a frock coat he found in his mother's attic, and his wife fashioned a stovepipe hat out of cardboard. A little spray paint on his beard, and he was ready for trick or treat with the kids.

He was so convincing that before long he was invited to come to schools in costume around Presidents Day. Then people started paying him to show up at their events in character to talk about the 16th president.

The rest is history.

But honestly, this is a huge weekend for the 62-year-old Cooper, who is helping to host a gathering of impersonators of the Great Emancipator in Columbus.

The 19th annual convention of the Association of Lincoln Presenters has attracted around three dozen Abes in chin beards and full regalia, along with 30 or so Mary Todd Lincolns and an array of other Civil War-era figures, including Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.

"I tell people I think we hold this convention just so we can run around in our costumes all weekend," says Cooper, a retired Defense Department parts manager.

In Columbus, the Lincoln impersonators will literally walk where he walked ? and where he lay in state after he was assassinated in 1865. Lincoln gave speeches at the Ohio Statehouse in 1859 and 1861, and his casket rested in the building's rotunda for six hours on its way from Washington back to Illinois for burial. More than 50,000 stood in line to pay their respects.

On Friday morning, Jerry Payn, a Lincoln from Wooster, Ohio, stepped to the podium in the Ohio House chamber and delivered word-for-word the speech given by Lincoln in the same room just before his inauguration in 1861.

Payn, a 74-year-old retired junior high school science teacher, has been playing Lincoln since 1999 and does as many as 100 gigs a year. He says the key to being a great Lincoln is gaining in-depth knowledge of his life, speeches and writings.

"When I first started, I'm ashamed to say I was one of the dumbest guys there ever was about Abraham Lincoln," says Payn, whose wife, Marilyn, has become a Mary Todd Lincoln impersonator. "At this point I can talk about anything about his whole life."

The Lincolns have a certain spring in their step this year thanks to a wave of attention brought by the Steven Spielberg movie "Lincoln," which earned an Oscar for Daniel Day-Lewis for his portrayal of Honest Abe. Some of the impersonators say the excitement has led to more work for them. They can fetch several hundred dollars and up for appearances.

On Friday night, all the Lincolns planned to go to a high school in suburban Columbus to see a student production of "Our American Cousin," the play Lincoln was watching when he was shot at Ford's Theater in Washington on April 15, 1865.

Organizers said the crack of a snare drum would mark the exact moment in the show when the shot was fired, and a student portraying Lincoln's wife would add a scream for dramatic effect.

One of the Abe impersonators in town for the convention, Robert Broski, 60, who lives near Los Angeles, looked so much like Lincoln even without the whiskers that he was persuaded to portray him in an independent film about five years ago.

"I grew the beard, and I looked in the mirror and I said, 'Oh, my gosh, this is my destiny. This is who I am!'" says Broski, who works at a Home Depot. He has parlayed that into a couple of Lincoln gigs a month, including appearances in a few gags on Ellen DeGeneres' talk show.

The Lincolns all seem to agree that one doesn't really have to be blessed ? or cursed, some might say ? with a great physical resemblance to the president.

The Abes in Columbus range from well under 6 feet tall to Lincoln's actual height of 6-foot-4. Some are barrel-chested, some slight. There are gray beards and black beards, and one beardless Lincoln. The costumes vary greatly in extravagance.

"We're presenters. We're not impersonators, necessarily," Broski says. "You don't have to look like Mr. Lincoln. But if you take a beard, a top hat and a frock coat and put it on, people instantly know who you are. What's important is getting across his character, his honesty, his integrity."

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LinkedIn to pay $90M for e-reader company Pulse

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. (AP) ? Professional networking website LinkedIn is paying about $90 million to acquire Pulse, which makes an e-reader platform used on mobile devices.

More than 30 million people worldwide use Pulse's e-reader applications on devices running both Apple and Android-based operating systems. The San Francisco-based company was founded in 2010 by Akshay Kothari and Ankit Gupta while they were students at Stanford University.

The deal, which is expected to close in the second quarter, is a combination of 90 percent stock and 10 percent cash.

Following the close, Pulse employees will join LinkedIn at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.

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Testimony expected on casinos in Texas

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Casino and racetrack supporters made their case Wednesday for allowing Texans to vote on a constitutional amendment to expand gambling, promising billions in new revenues and thousands of jobs.

But the biennial push to allow casinos in Texas still faces an uphill battle with some conservatives insisting that Texas remain one of only 10 states that ban such facilities. The Republican Party of Texas platform also opposes any expansion of gambling and calls for the repeal of the Texas State Lottery.

Sen. John Carona, R-Dallas, said the constitutional amendment he introduced is designed to bring together casino operators, racetrack owners and American Indian tribes that have worked against each other in the past while addressing the concerns of those who oppose all gambling.

Carona said he thinks Texas voters should get a chance to vote on the measure, which would limit the locations of 21 casinos.

"I'm Southern Baptists and I don't gamble, but I like to go to Las Vegas for the shows," Carona said, emphasizing the tourism possibilities. "We put everything into the constitutional amendment so that the only way we can change it is if the people of Texas come back and Texans voted again on the issue."

The proposal would allow one casino each in Dallas, Fort Worth and San Antonio with three additional casinos along the coast. Three racetracks in Dallas-Fort Worth, San Antonio and Houston could operate casinos, and nine small race tracks could apply for licenses to operate casinos or slot machines.

The three federally recognized American Indian tribes in Texas would also each have a casino license. The amendment would only allow two casinos per county and no more than three in a major metropolitan area.

The state would tax gambling revenue at 20 percent, unless the operator invested more than $1 billion, and then the rate would be 15 percent. At least 85 percent of tax revenue would go to reduce property taxes, the city and county would get 5 percent each, and the remaining 5 percent would be spent to prosecute gambling-related crime and help people with gambling addictions.

Supporters say their market research indicates Texas residents spend almost $3 billion in Oklahoma, Louisiana and New Mexico visiting casinos, and that the Chickasaw tribe has built the second largest casino complex in the nation just across the Red River to serve the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

They told the Senate Business and Commerce Committee on Wednesday that spending on convention centers and casinos could bring $8.5 billion in economic growth and 75,000 jobs to Texas.

Andy Abboud, representing the Las Vegas Sands Corp., said his company would invest in "integrated resorts" that generate revenue from conventions, dining and shopping in addition to gambling. He said the company's resorts dedicate less than 3 percent of total floor space to casinos, which serve as one of many amenities to convention goers.

"It's what they can do at the end of the day that makes a convention successful," said Abboud, who added that only 39 percent of his company's revenue in Las Vegas is from gambling. "Texas is one of the last great opportunities left in the world."

Most horse breeders have moved out of the state because Texas only offers $20 million in purses a year, while Louisiana, New Mexico and Oklahoma offer $210 million, said Andrea Young, president of Sam Houston Race Park, a horse track in Houston.

"Texas tracks need casino gambling for one reason, in order to compete with tracks in adjacent states," she said.

But others said lawmakers should not be persuaded by the promise of new hotels and convention centers.

"You didn't hear one person talking about the games," said Rob Kohler, representing the Christian Life Commission, which opposes gambling.

Melinda Fredricks, vice chairwoman of the Republican Party of Texas, read from party platform, "We oppose the expansion of legalized gambling and encourage the repeal of the Texas State Lottery." She said any attempt to allow voters to decide the issue was "a veiled attempt to pass the buck."

The conservative Texas Public Policy Foundation issued a statement saying that the proposed limit on the number of casino licenses was anti-competitive and warned against the hidden social and legal costs of gambling.

Sen. Eddie Lucio Jr., D-Brownsville, also warned that while he supported the measure, he knew some Democrats would oppose the measure because of possible negative economic and social consequences.

Carona promised to work with all groups to craft a better version of the resolution. It needs a two-thirds majority in the Senate and House before it can go before voters.

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Senate Joint Resolution 64: http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&Bill=SJR64

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/testimony-expected-casinos-texas-180329026.html

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