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Photography & Videography sessions must be booked in advance with the Special Events Department, please see additional info below or click here to fill out a Portrait Sitting Request Form.
Cheekwood is one of the premier Nashville settings for bridal and engagement portraits.
All photography sessions are in outside venues only and must be booked through the Rentals Department using attached portrait sitting request form. The client may use indoor facilities to change in but this must be booked through the Rentals Department. In order to reserve the date the client may prefer, the Rentals Department advises that they book in advance.
We offer one complimentary, non-weather related rescheduling. Each additional non-weather rescheduling is a $20 fee. Weather cancellations/ rescheduling can be made no more than 24 hours in advance.
The rental of Cheekwood spaces for events or portraits is considered a membership benefit which requires the person or group hosting the rental to hold a Cheekwood Dual Household level membership or above.
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Brides, families or other groups who hire photographers for Cheekwood sittings are considered the primary beneficiaries of the site rental. Photographers who hold memberships and take professional photographs of clients are not considered the primary beneficiary, and should direct their clients to Cheekwood Rentals and Catering for payment of membership and sitting fees.
If you are a bride renting a garden or facility for an event, your membership and sitting fee are included in your rental charge of the space.
If the bride or an immediate family member is not already a member of Cheekwood and no site has been rented, $230 sitting fee is required ($80 for a Dual Household Membership or above and $150 for the sitting fee).
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By reducing the amount of plastic we release into our oceans we can drastically decrease the number of sea turtles that are being killed due to plastics. Every year approximately 100,000 marine animals die due to plastic in our oceans. Plastic produce and supermarket bags that consumers throw away after a single use often get carried away by the wind and enter waterways, and eventually, the ocean. Today, 19 billion plastic bags are distributed annually in California, and they make up almost 25% of urban waste that enters watersheds. The ultimate goal of the Sea Turtle Restoration Project's Bag the Plastics campaign is to end the use of unneeded plastic bags in supermarkets. This will help stop new plastic waste from entering the oceans thus slowing the destruction of marine animal habitats. The first step to stopping unnecessary sea turtle deaths is to take plastic bags out of supermarkets.
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Cutest video ever! Ashley Smith was perfect for this- she's just so charming!
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kiss haha aw what a great post. i loved the clip, might reflag it myself. ashley smith looks amazing, and this video makes me want to return to paris. i went, but didn't know anything about the city, and could not speak french, so i do have to admit, i didn't have the BEST time, but i would love to give it a second chance.
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text: Live Previews from the 2011 North American International Auto Show The car show more commonly known as the Detroit Auto Show is only days away. But some of the production concepts that will be debuted there have already broken cover. Here's an early peek. Check back as more information becomes available. By Ben Wojdyla Email Comments 0 Share Back 1 of 15 Next Back Next View Larger View Thumbnails GMC Sierra All Terrain HD Concept Warren, Mich.For the longest time (forever), there has been little distinction between your basic workaday Chevrolet pickup and the "professional grade" upscale version sold as the GMC Sierra. Since GM's pared down its stable of nameplates, it's time for GMC to mean more than badge engineering. The GMC Sierra All Terrain HD Concept being shown at the 2011 Detroit Auto Show is a peek at how that's going to happen. It's a concept aimed to split the difference between the two off-road pickup brawlers on the market, the Ford F150 SVT Raptor and the Ram Power Wagon. The All Terrain starts with good bonesa production 2011 Sierra 2500 HD chassis, cabin and slightly dressed-up interior, as well as the new 6.6-liter Duramax diesel with 397 hp and 765 lb-ft of torque. GMC engineers chopped the back of the frame down and mounted the 5.8-foot short box on top to give it a wheel-pushed-to-the-corners look. The truck is lifted 3 inches and is 4.2 inches wider, thanks to a set of custom control arms up front and new springs in the rear, with Fox Racing shocks all around. For protection while rock-bashing, there's a full-length underbody skidplate that leaves a generous 11.8 inches of ground clearance. To make sure this concept catches everyone's eyes, designers took familiar GMC design cues and pushed them to the extreme. A huge grille up front flows into a flush bumper that's cut away on the corners to make hopping logs easier. The hood is new and gets two big intakes for the Duramax to breathe through; new wheel flares all around add to the aggressive look and cover the 35-inch tires. Sprinkled around are neatly integrated running lights like those embedded along the top of the windshield and rear glass. Down the side are automatically deployed flood-lighted power steps borrowed from the Escalade. The bed boasts some tricks, too: Additional storage comes via Rambox-like containers along the top edge; there's also a ring of lighting in the bed liner and outlets for both pressurized air and 120-volt power. General Motors is using this monster to gauge interest in something like this coming from GMC, but at the same time expects the Sierra All Terrain HD to act as a design study for much more differentiated GMC pickups to come. We see quite a number of aesthetic details you should expect to see when the production trucks get upgraded to match their all-new mechanical bits. Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Return to Gallery Back 1 of 15 Next Return to Gallery Back Next Return to Slideshow More Auto News!


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A Cold-Case Detective Examines The Claims of Christianity – rebroadcast from 07/27/13
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"And do not fear their intimidation, and do not be troubled, but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence" (1 Peter 3:14b-15).
When it comes to proclaiming the truthfulness of Christ and Christianity to non-believers, Christians have the most compelling evidence on their side to answer common questions like: "Is God the Creator, Sustainer, and Judge of man?" "Is the Bible the Word of God?" "Is Jesus Christ who He claimed to be — the sinless Son of God and Savior of mankind?"
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Directive 2005/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council
of 26 October 2005
on enhancing port security
(Text with EEA relevance)
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 80(2) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Having regard to the opinion of the European Economic and Social Committee [1],
Having regard to the opinion of the Committee of the Regions [2],
Acting in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 251 of the Treaty [3],
(1) Security incidents resulting from terrorism are among the greatest threats to the ideals of democracy, freedom and peace, which are the very essence of the European Union.
(2) People, infrastructure and equipment in ports should be protected against security incidents and their devastating effects. Such protection would benefit transport users, the economy and society as a whole.
(3) On 31 March 2004 the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union adopted Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 [4] on enhancing ship and port facility security. The maritime security measures imposed by that Regulation constitute only part of the measures necessary to achieve an adequate level of security throughout maritime-linked transport chains. That Regulation is limited in scope to security measures on board vessels and the immediate ship/port interface.
(4) In order to achieve the fullest protection possible for maritime and port industries, port security measures should be introduced, covering each port within the boundaries defined by the Member State concerned, and thereby ensuring that security measures taken pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 benefit from enhanced security in the areas of port activity. These measures should apply to all those ports in which one or more port facilities covered by Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 are situated.
(5) The security objective of this Directive should be achieved by adopting appropriate measures without prejudice to the rules of the Member States in the field of national security and measures which might be taken on the basis of Title VI of the Treaty on European Union.
(6) Member States should rely upon detailed security assessments to identify the exact boundaries of the security-relevant port area, as well as the different measures required to ensure appropriate port security. Such measures should differ according to the security level in place and reflect differences in the risk profile of different sub-areas in the port.
(7) Member States should approve port security plans which incorporate the findings of the port security assessment. The effectiveness of security measures also requires the clear division of tasks between all parties involved as well as regular exercises. This clear division of tasks and the recording of exercise procedures in the format of the port security plan is considered to contribute strongly to the effectiveness of both preventive and remedial port security measures.
(8) Roll-on roll-off vessels are particularly vulnerable to security incidents, in particular if they carry passengers as well as cargo. Adequate measures should be taken on the basis of risk assessments which ensure that cars and goods vehicles destined for transport on roll-on roll-off vessels on domestic and international routes do not cause a risk to the vessel, its passengers and crew or to the cargo. The measures should be taken in a way which impedes as little as possible the fluidity of the operations.
(9) Member States should be able to establish port security committees entrusted with providing practical advice in the ports covered by this Directive.
(10) Member States should ensure that responsibilities in port security are clearly recognised by all parties involved. Member States should monitor compliance with security rules and clearly establish a responsible authority for all their ports, approve all security assessments and plans for their ports, set and communicate as appropriate security levels and ensure that measures are well communicated, implemented and coordinated.
(11) Member States should approve assessments and plans and monitor their implementation in their ports. In order to keep disruption to ports and the administrative burden on inspection bodies to a minimum, the Commission's monitoring of the implementation of this Directive should be conducted jointly with the inspections provided for in Article 9(4) of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004.
(12) Member States should ensure that a focal point for port security takes up the role of contact point between the Commission and Member States. They should inform the Commission which ports are covered by this Directive on the basis of the security assessments carried out.
(13) The effective and standard implementation of measures under this security policy raises important questions in relation to its funding. The funding of extra security measures should not generate distortions of competition. By 30 June 2006, the Commission should submit to the European Parliament and the Council the findings of a study on the costs involved in measures taken under this Directive, addressing in particular the way financing is shared between the public authorities, port authorities and operators.
(14) This Directive respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in particular by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
(15) The measures necessary for the implementation of this Directive should be adopted in accordance with Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures for the exercise of implementing powers conferred on the Commission [5].
(16) A procedure should be defined for the adaptation of this Directive to take account of developments in international instruments and, in the light of experience, to adapt or complement the detailed provisions of the Annexes to this Directive, without broadening the scope of this Directive.
(17) Since the objectives of this Directive, namely the balanced introduction of appropriate measures in the field of maritime transport and port policy, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States and can therefore, by reason of the European scale of this Directive, be better achieved at Community level, the Community may adopt measures in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve those objectives.
(18) Since this Directive concerns seaports, the obligations herein contained should not be applicable to Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Luxembourg or Slovakia,
Article 1
Subject matter
1. The main objective of this Directive is to introduce Community measures to enhance port security in the face of threats of security incidents. This Directive shall also ensure that security measures taken pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 benefit from enhanced port security.
2. The measures referred to in paragraph 1 shall consist of:
(a) common basic rules on port security measures;
(b) an implementation mechanism for these rules;
(c) appropriate compliance monitoring mechanisms.
Article 2
1. This Directive lays down security measures which shall be observed in ports. Member States may apply the provisions of this Directive to port-related areas.
2. The measures laid down in this Directive shall apply to every port located in the territory of a Member State in which one or more port facilities covered by an approved port facility security plan pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 is or are situated. This Directive shall not apply to military installations in ports.
3. Member States shall define for each port the boundaries of the port for the purposes of this Directive, appropriately taking into account information resulting from the port security assessment.
4. Where the boundaries of a port facility within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 have been defined by a Member State as effectively covering the port, the relevant provisions of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 shall take precedence over those of this Directive.
Article 3
For the purpose of this Directive:
1. "port" means any specified area of land and water, with boundaries defined by the Member State in which the port is situated, containing works and equipment designed to facilitate commercial maritime transport operations;
2. "ship/port interface" means the interactions that occur when a ship is directly and immediately affected by actions involving the movement of persons or goods or the provision of port services to or from the ship;
3. "port facility" means a location where the ship/port interface takes place; this includes areas such as anchorages, waiting berths and approaches from seaward, as appropriate;
4. "focal point for port security" means the body designated by each Member State to serve as contact point for the Commission and other Member States and to facilitate, follow up and provide information on the application of the port security measures laid down in this Directive;
5. "port security authority" means the authority responsible for security matters in a given port.
Article 4
Coordination with measures taken in application of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004
Member States shall ensure that port security measures introduced by this Directive are closely coordinated with measures taken pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004.
Article 5
Port security authority
1. Member States shall designate a port security authority for each port covered by this Directive. A port security authority may be designated for more than one port.
2. The port security authority shall be responsible for the preparation and implementation of port security plans based on the findings of port security assessments.
3. Member States may designate a "competent authority for maritime security" provided for under Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 as port security authority.
Article 6
Port security assessment
1. Member States shall ensure that port security assessments are carried out for the ports covered by this Directive. These assessments shall take due account of the specificities of different sections of a port and, where deemed applicable by the relevant authority of the Member State, of its adjacent areas if these have an impact on security in the port and shall take into account the assessments for port facilities within their boundaries as carried out pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004.
2. Each port security assessment shall be carried out taking into account as a minimum the detailed requirements laid down in Annex I.
3. Port security assessments may be carried out by a recognised security organisation as referred to in Article 11.
4. Port security assessments shall be approved by the Member State concerned.
Article 7
Port security plan
1. Subject to the findings of port security assessments, Member States shall ensure that port security plans are developed, maintained and updated. Port security plans shall adequately address the specificities of different sections of a port and shall integrate the security plans for port facilities within their boundaries established pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 725/2004.
2. Port security plans shall identify, for each of the different security levels referred to in Article 8:
(a) the procedures to be followed;
(b) the measures to be put in place;
(c) the actions to be undertaken.
3. Each port security plan shall take into account as a minimum the detailed requirements specified in Annex II. Where, and to the extent appropriate, the port security plan shall in particular include security measures to be applied to passengers and vehicles set for embarkation on seagoing vessels which carry passengers and vehicles. In the case of international maritime transport services, the Member States concerned shall cooperate in the security assessment.
4. Port security plans may be developed by a recognised security organisation as referred to in Article 11.
5. Port security plans shall be approved by the Member State concerned before implementation.
6. Member States shall ensure that the implementation of port security plans is monitored. The monitoring shall be coordinated with other control activities carried out in the port.
7. Member States shall ensure that adequate exercises are performed, taking into account the basic security training exercise requirements listed in Annex III.
Article 8
Security levels
1. Member States shall introduce a system of security levels for ports or parts of ports.
2. There shall be three security levels, as defined in Regulation (EC) No 725/2004:
- "Security level 1" means the level for which minimum appropriate protective security measures shall be maintained at all times;
- "Security level 2" means the level for which appropriate additional protective security measures shall be maintained for a period of time as a result of a heightened risk of a security incident;
- "Security level 3" means the level for which further specific protective security measures shall be maintained for a limited period of time when a security incident is probable or imminent, although it may not be possible to identify the specific target.
3. Member States shall determine the security levels in use for each port or part of a port. At each security level, a Member State may determine that different security measures are to be implemented in different parts of the port depending on the findings of the port security assessment.
4. Member States shall communicate to the appropriate person or persons the security level in force for each port or part of a port as well as any changes thereto.
Article 9
Port security officer
1. A port security officer shall be approved by the Member State concerned for each port. Each port shall, where practicable, have a different port security officer, but may, if appropriate, share a security officer.
2. Port security officers shall fulfil the role of point of contact for port security related issues.
3. Where the port security officer is not the same as the port facility(ies) security officer(s) under Regulation (EC) No 725/2004, close cooperation between them shall be ensured.
Article 10
1. Member States shall ensure that port security assessments and port security plans are reviewed as appropriate. They shall be reviewed at least once every five years.
2. The scope of the review shall be that of Articles 6 or 7, as appropriate.
Article 11
Recognised security organisation
Member States may appoint recognised security organisations for the purposes specified in this Directive. Recognised security organisations shall fulfil the conditions set out in Annex IV.
Article 12
Focal point for port security
Member States shall appoint for port security aspects a focal point. Member States may designate for port security aspects the focal point appointed under Regulation (EC) No 725/2004. The focal point for port security shall communicate to the Commission the list of ports concerned by this Directive and shall inform it of any changes to that list.
Article 13
Implementation and conformity checking
1. Member States shall set up a system ensuring adequate and regular supervision of the port security plans and their implementation.
2. The Commission shall, in cooperation with the focal points referred to in Article 12, monitor the implementation of this Directive by Member States.
3. This monitoring shall be conducted jointly with the inspections provided for in Article 9(4) of Regulation (EC) No 725/2004.
Article 14
Annexes I to IV may be amended in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 15(2), without broadening the scope of this Directive.
Article 15
Committee procedure
1. The Commission shall be assisted by the committee set up by Regulation (EC) No 725/2004.
2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, Articles 5 and 7 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply, having regard to the provisions of Article 8 thereof.
The period laid down in Article 5(6) of Decision 1999/468/EC shall be set at one month.
3. The Committee shall adopt its Rules of Procedure.
Article 16
Confidentiality and dissemination of information
1. In applying this Directive, the Commission shall take, in accordance with Decision 2001/844/EC, ECSC, Euratom [6], appropriate measures to protect information subject to the requirement of confidentiality to which it has access or which is communicated to it by Member States.
Member States shall take equivalent measures in accordance with relevant national legislation.
2. Any personnel carrying out security inspections, or handling confidential information related to this Directive, shall have an appropriate level of security vetting by the Member State of which the person concerned is a national.
Article 17
Member States shall ensure that effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties are introduced for infringements of the national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive.
Article 18
1. Member States shall bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive by 15 June 2007. They shall forthwith inform the Commission thereof.
When Member States adopt these measures, they shall contain a reference to this Directive or shall be accompanied by such reference on the occasion of their official publication. The methods of making such reference shall be laid down by Member States.
2. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the text of the main provisions of national law which they adopt in the field covered by this Directive.
Article 19
Evaluation report
By 15 December 2008 and every five years thereafter, the Commission shall submit an evaluation report to the European Parliament and the Council based, among other things, on the information obtained pursuant to Article 13. In the report, the Commission shall analyse compliance with this Directive by Member States and the effectiveness of the measures taken. If necessary, it shall present proposals for additional measures.
Article 20
Entry into force
This Directive shall enter into force on the 20th day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
Article 21
This Directive is addressed to the Member States which have ports as referred to in Article 2(2).
Done at Strasbourg, 26 October 2005.
For the European Parliament
The President
J. Borrell Fontelles
For the Council
The President
D. Alexander
[1] OJ C 120, 20.5.2005, p. 28.
[2] OJ C 43, 18.2.2005, p. 26.
[3] Opinion of the European Parliament of 10 May 2005 (not yet published in the Official Journal) and Council Decision of 6 October 2005.
[4] OJ L 129, 29.4.2004, p. 6.
[5] OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.
[6] OJ L 317, 3.12.2001, p. 1. Decision as last amended by Decision 2005/94/EC, Euratom (OJ L 31, 4.2.2005, p. 66).
The port security assessment is the basis for the port security plan and its implementation. The port security assessment will cover at least:
- identification and evaluation of important assets and infrastructure which it is important to protect;
- identification of possible threats to the assets and infrastructure and the likelihood of their occurrence, in order to establish and prioritise security measures;
- identification, selection and prioritisation of counter-measures and procedural changes and their level of effectiveness in reducing vulnerability; and
- identification of weaknesses, including human factors in the infrastructure, policies and procedures.
For this purpose the assessment will at least:
- identify all areas which are relevant to port security, thus also defining the port boundaries. This includes port facilities which are already covered by Regulation (EC) No 725/2004 and whose risk assessment will serve as a basis;
- identify security issues deriving from the interface between port facility and other port security measures;
- identify which port personnel will be subject to background checks and/or security vetting because of their involvement in high-risk areas;
- subdivide, if useful, the port according to the likelihood of security incidents. Areas will be judged not only upon their direct profile as a potential target, but also upon their potential role of passage when neighbouring areas are targeted;
- identify risk variations, e.g. those based on seasonality;
- identify the specific characteristics of each sub-area, such as location, accesses, power supply, communication system, ownership and users and other elements considered security-relevant;
- identify potential threat scenarios for the port. The entire port or specific parts of its infrastructure, cargo, baggage, people or transport equipment within the port can be a direct target of an identified threat;
- identify the specific consequences of a threat scenario. Consequences can impact on one or more sub-areas. Both direct and indirect consequences will be identified. Special attention will be given to the risk of human casualties;
- identify the possibility of cluster effects of security incidents;
- identify the vulnerabilities of each sub-area;
- identify all organisational aspects relevant to overall port security, including the division of all security-related authorities, existing rules and procedures;
- identify vulnerabilities of the overarching port security related to organisational, legislative and procedural aspects;
- identify measures, procedures and actions aimed at reducing critical vulnerabilities. Specific attention will be paid to the need for, and the means of, access control or restrictions to the entire port or to specific parts of a port, including identification of passengers, port employees or other workers, visitors and ship crews, area or activity monitoring requirements, cargo and luggage control. Measures, procedures and actions will be consistent with the perceived risk, which may vary between port areas;
- identify how measures, procedures and actions will be reinforced in the event of an increase of security level;
- identify specific requirements for dealing with established security concerns, such as "suspect" cargo, luggage, bunker, provisions or persons, unknown parcels, known dangers (e.g. bomb). These requirements will analyse desirability conditions for either clearing the risk where it is encountered or after moving it to a secure area;
- identify measures, procedures and actions aimed at limiting and mitigating consequences;
- identify task divisions allowing for the appropriate and correct implementation of the measures, procedures and actions identified;
- pay specific attention, where appropriate, to the relationship with other security plans (e.g. port facility security plans) and other existing security measures. Attention will also be paid to the relationship with other response plans (e.g. oil spill response plan, port contingency plan, medical intervention plan, nuclear disaster plan, etc.);
- identify communication requirements for implementation of the measures and procedures;
- pay specific attention to measures to protect security-sensitive information from disclosure;
- identify the need-to-know requirements of all those directly involved as well as, where appropriate, the general public.
The port security plan sets out the port's security arrangements. It will be based on the findings of the port security assessment. It will clearly set out detailed measures. It will contain a control mechanism allowing, where necessary, for appropriate corrective measures to be taken.
The port security plan will be based on the following general aspects:
- defining all areas relevant to port security. Depending on the port security assessment, measures, procedures and actions may vary from sub-area to sub-area. Indeed, some sub-areas may require stronger preventive measures than others. Special attention will be paid to the interfaces between sub-areas, as identified in the port security assessment;
- ensuring coordination between security measures for areas with different security characteristics;
- providing, where necessary, for varying measures both with regard to different parts of the port, changing security levels, and specific intelligence;
- identifying an organisational structure supporting the enhancement of port security.
Based on those general aspects, the port security plan will attribute tasks and specify work plans in the following fields:
- access requirements. For some areas, requirements will only enter into force when security levels exceed minimal thresholds. All requirements and thresholds will be comprehensively included in the port security plan;
- ID, luggage and cargo control requirements. Requirements may or may not apply to sub-areas; requirements may or may not apply in full to different sub-areas. Persons entering or within a sub-area may be liable to control. The port security plan will appropriately respond to the findings of the port security assessment, which is the tool by which the security requirements of each sub-area and at each security level will be identified. When dedicated identification cards are developed for port security purposes, clear procedures will be established for the issue, the use-control and the return of such documents. Such procedures will take into account the specificities of certain groups of port users allowing for dedicated measures in order to limit the negative impact of access control requirements. Categories will at least include seafarers, authority officials, people regularly working in or visiting the port, residents living in the port and people occasionally working in or visiting the port;
- liaison with cargo control, baggage and passenger control authorities. Where necessary, the plan is to provide for the linking up of the information and clearance systems of these authorities, including possible pre-arrival clearance systems;
- procedures and measures for dealing with suspect cargo, luggage, bunker, provisions or persons, including identification of a secure area; as well as for other security concerns and breaches of port security;
- monitoring requirements for sub-areas or activities within sub-areas. Both the need for technical solutions and the solutions themselves will be derived from the port security assessment;
- signposting. Areas with access and/or control requirements will be properly signposted. Control and access requirements will appropriately take into account all relevant existing law and practices. Monitoring of activities will be appropriately indicated if national legislation so requires;
- communication and security clearance. All relevant security information will be properly communicated according to security clearance standards included in the plan. In view of the sensitivity of some information, communication will be based on a need-to-know basis, but it will include where necessary procedures for communications addressed to the general public. Security clearance standards will form part of the plan and are aimed at protecting security sensitive information against unauthorised disclosure;
- reporting of security incidents. With a view to ensuring a rapid response, the port security plan will set out clear reporting requirements to the port security officer of all security incidents and/or to the port security authority;
- integration with other preventive plans or activities. The plan will specifically deal with integration with other preventive and control activities in force in the port;
- integration with other response plans and/or inclusion of specific response measures, procedures and actions. The plan will detail interaction and coordination with other response and emergency plans. Where necessary conflicts and shortcomings will be resolved;
- training and exercise requirements;
- operational port security organisation and working procedures. The port security plan will detail the port security organisation, its task division and working procedures. It will also detail the coordination with port facility and ship security officers, where appropriate. It will delineate the tasks of the port security committee, if this exists;
- procedures for adapting and updating the port security plan.
Various types of training exercises which may involve participation of port facility security officers, in conjunction with the relevant authorities of Member States, company security officers, or ship security officers, if available, will be carried out at least once each calendar year with no more than 18 months elapsing between the training exercises. Requests for the participation of company security officers or ships security officers in joint training exercises will be made bearing in mind the security and work implications for the ship. These training exercises will test communication, coordination, resource availability and response. These training exercises may be:
(1) full scale or live;
(2) tabletop simulation or seminar; or
(3) combined with other exercises held such as emergency response or other port State authority exercises.
A recognised security organisation will be able to demonstrate:
(1) expertise in relevant aspects of port security;
(2) an appropriate knowledge of port operations, including knowledge of port design and construction;
(3) an appropriate knowledge of other security relevant operations potentially affecting port security;
(4) the capability to assess the likely port security risks;
(5) the ability to maintain and improve the port security expertise of its personnel;
(6) the ability to monitor the continuing trustworthiness of its personnel;
(7) the ability to maintain appropriate measures to avoid unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, security-sensitive material;
(8) knowledge of relevant national and international legislation and security requirements;
(9) knowledge of current security threats and patterns;
(10) the ability to recognise and detect weapons, dangerous substances and devices;
(11) the ability to recognise, on a non-discriminatory basis, characteristics and behavioural patterns of persons who are likely to threaten port security;
(12) knowledge of techniques used to circumvent security measures;
(13) knowledge of security and surveillance equipment and systems and their operational limitations.
A recognised security organisation which has made a port security assessment or review of such an assessment for a port is not allowed to establish or review the port security plan for the same port.
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- ^Dio Dio was an american heavy metal band formed in 1982. This, along with the hand gesture used while casting (Pointer & Pinky fingers extended, middle & ring fingers held down by the thumb aka The Horns), fits in with Joe being a rocker.
- ^Grief Grief is a reference to griefers. Griefers are people who derive their fun from a multiplayer game by ruining everyone else's. This is probably more specifically a reference to multiplayer Minecraft, when griefers destroy another player's creations.


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Cristina Romer, Berkeley economics professor and the former head of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, passed judgment on the merits of raising the minimum wage in Saturday's New York Times, and in the process made clear why she wasn't a member of the president's de facto council of political advisers. She argued, as some mainstream economists do, that the merits of a heightened minimum wage were slight—that it may, for instance, raise prices, offsetting the gain to low-wage workers.
In announcing Thursday that he would no longer negotiate with President Obama over a deal to reduce the nation's budget deficit, House Speaker John Boehner said that Republicans would support no more tax increases. The question, he said, came down to "how much more money we want to steal from the American people to fund more government. I'm for no more."
If Republicans have any political sense at all, they'll support not just raising the minimum wage, but indexing it.
The economic case for raising the wage, at a time when economic inequality is rampant, working-class incomes are declining, and Wal-Mart sales are falling through the floor, is overwhelming. But while Republicans may blow off the economic consequences of not raising the federal standard, they can't be so cavalier in dismissing the political consequences.
Tuesday's House Judiciary Committee hearing on the status of the undocumented produced a united front of Republican support for legalizing those immigrants, but not allowing them to become citizens. Well, an almost united front.
House Republicans convened their first hearing on immigration reform on Tuesday and made clear that they were scared to death of immigrants actually getting the vote. Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte of Virginia set the tone when he made clear he was looking for a mid-range position somewhere between deporting and granting citizenship to the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. A nice, safe legal "resident" status, he suggested, never to be upgraded to that of citizen and voter.
Is China moving ahead of the United States on worker rights? According to a report on Monday's Financial Times, it may be doing just that.
The FT reports that Foxconn, which employs 1.2 million Chinese workers who make the bulk of Apple's products, along with those of Nokia, Dell, and other tech companies, has decided to allow its workers to hold elections to select their union leaders. This is a radical departure from past practice in China, where unions are run by the government—that is, the Communist Party—which customarily selects the union leaders. Often, the leaders selected under this system are actually the plant managers.
Should the Supreme Court uphold it, last Friday's decision by three Reagan-appointees to the D.C. Circuit Appellate Court appears at first glance to rejigger the balance of power between Congress and the president. The appellate justices struck down three recess appointments that President Obama had made to the five-member National Labor Relations Board during the break between the 2011 and 2012 sessions of Congress partly on the grounds that Congress wasn't formally in recess, since one and sometimes two Republicans showed up to nominally keep it in session for the sole reason of denying Obama the right to recess appointments. Two of the three justices went further, ruling that the president can't really make recess appointments at all.
Poking holes in the arguments that appear on The Wall Street Journal's editorial pages bears a close resemblance, I admit, to shooting fish in a barrel, but an op-ed in Thursday's Journal makes points so idiotic I cannot restrain myself.
Can we at least agree to stop using the term "Big Labor?" Whatever else may be said of the American union movement, it's not really big any more.
There has never been a more pro-worker Secretary of Labor than Hilda Solis, who announced yesterday that she's stepping down from her cabinet post. But for much of her tenure, she was swimming upstream—confronting not just most anti-labor congressional Republicans in modern American history, but also an Obama White House inner circle that she, like many of her fellow cabinet members, never really permeated.
As a rule, most merger or affiliation announcements between two organizations tend to the celebratory: Each group brings a proud history and now have joined together to create an even prouder future, yadda yadda. But not last Thursday's press release from the California Nurses Association/National Nurses United (CNA), which proclaimed its affiliation with the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) in an announcement largely devoted to attacking the presumed perfidy of the Service Employees International Union, with which NUHW has been engaged in a prolonged blood feud that puts the Hatfields and McCoys to shame.
If the debate around the fiscal cliff and, particularly, the still-impending sequester demonstrates anything, it's that Richard Nixon's one plunge into economic theory—"We're all Keynesians now," the former president once said—still holds. Everyone acknowledges that laying off hundreds of thousands of government employees, including 800,000 civilian Defense Department workers, and stopping payment to government contractors will, by definition, destroy jobs, at least until the payments resume. It's still Republican orthodoxy, to be sure, to deny that government spending actually creates jobs, but even they acknowledge that the cessation of government spending destroys them. Which illustrates that the problem with contemporary Republicanism isn't confined to their indifference to empiricism but also their indifference to logic. Reasoning—either deductive or inductive—is either beyond them, beneath them or above them.
Two books published in 2012 opened new windows on the history of the American left. Michael Kazin's American Dreamers looked at social change movements and left parties from the abolitionists to the New Left and concluded that their most significant and enduring contributions came in changing the nation's social and cultural attitudes. The left in America measurably diminished institutional racism and sexism. What it wasn't so good at was building a lasting left movement in the United States akin to the social democratic parties of Europe – which has meant that American capitalism has less of a social character than its European counterpart.
Friday's Wall Street Journal reported that Wal-Mart "is planning to monitor subcontractors' U.S. warehouses, in the same way it tries to police conditions at suppliers' factories around the globe."
Harold Meyerson is the editor-at-large at The American Prospect and a columnist for The Washington Post. His articles on politics, labor, the economy, foreign policy, and American culture have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, The New Statesman; the op-ed, commentary, and book review sections of The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, and in numerous other publications.
The presidential race may be where the glamour is, but it's not where liberals can build power.
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