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Should You Wear Underwear When You Get a Massage?

If you're planning to get a massage you may be wondering if you should take it all off or leave some clothes on.

Ashes to ashes: Cremation preferred to traditional casket burials

More families are choosing to cremate their loved ones’ remains rather than go with a traditional full burial — nearly doubling nationwide from 24.8 percent in 1999 to 46.7 percent in 2014, according to the Cremation Association of North America.And Oregon, whose cremation rate reached

Timothy Foster, Kelly Schooler charged with breaking into motor vehicle, stealing items

Timothy Milton Foster, 41, and Kelly Jean Schooler, 51, Minot, are accused of breaking into a motor vehicle on Delmar Court on Sunday and stealing a purse conta

12 Fascinating Facts About People Who Go To Pawnshops

How Police Are Watching You on Social Media

How does law enforcement use Twitter, Facebook, and other forms of social media to keep tabs on people? Documents from Chicago's Cook County Sheriff’s Office reveal a few of their surveillance techniques.

Why We Behave So Oddly In Elevators

For most of us, riding from floor to floor in an elevator is a completely mundane process. Lee Gray, an associate dean at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, is known as the Elevator Guy. He spends a lot of his time researching the history of elevators and why we behave so oddly in the big metal boxes.

What Libraries Can (Still) Do

Librarians will need to cherish their special talent as “stewards” while letting go of the instinct to be “collectors.” Knowledge in physical form needs to be preserved and curated. But with digital information pouring into iPhones and Kindles in petabytes, libraries need to rethink old habits. They cannot collect everything, or even a small fraction of everything.

Learning to Maintain Outboards at Yamaha Marine Service School

We go to Yamaha Marine Service School to find out what it takes to be an outboard technician.

Ode to hydronic boat heating, and Sure Marine Service

It seems appropiate to kick off 2018 with a discussion of heating technology, specifically the diesel-fired hydronic system I installed on Gizmo last year. It was a significant purchase and a major install, but the 66 degree pilothouse temperature seen above certainly made my early December ICW trip a lot more pleasant. I'll explain why I chose hydronic, detail how the system went together, and profusely praise Sure Marine Service, a marine heating equipment distributor par excellence...

How Predictive Maintenance Technology Can Help Transit

Last updated January 2017Maintenance of fleet equipment has always been a significant operational cost, however, maintenance technology has evolved to the point where it is now possible to fix condition-failures before they occur. Using a combination of big data and analytical systems, predictive maintenance analytics can monitor the condition of in-service equipment in order to predict when maintenance should be performed. Imagine being able to…

Marine Corps combat veteran knows a pet can change your life

Bill is a Marine Corps combat veteran who started his life anew by acting on his belief that "a pet can change your life."

The few, the proud: Women Marines define themselves

It's never been easy to be a woman in the Marine Corps, which is the most physically demanding branch of the military and the one with the smallest percentage of

A Ship Inspector Who Brings a Bit of the Barre to the Bilge

Helen Gault, an apprentice inspector who reviews the welds in submarines and aircraft carriers, has found similarities between shipbuilding and ballet.

Dietary supplement use among active-duty military service members

A study published in The Journal of Nutrition has found that service members from the Air Force, Army, Marine Corps, Read More

Test Yourself: Are You Fit Enough to Be a Marine?

The Marine Corps recently updated its physical fitness standards for combat jobs. Find out if you could pass.

Collect marine debris, document it, and you could win new diving gear

The BEAT DEBRIS Project is looking to gather new data on marine debris while cleaning up Hawaii's shores.