text: Remembrance of the Daleks *** The 25th anniversary season takes the Doctor back to London 1963 for a Dalek showdown Comments Doctor Who story guide Patrick Mulkern 12:00 AM, 25 August 2012 Season 25 – Story 148 "They hate each other's chromosomes. War to the death" – Ace StorylineThe Doctor has some unfinished business that takes him right back to the start of his televised travels – to London 1963. He and Ace team up with a military/scientific corps tracking a Dalek at Totter's Lane junkyard, while at Coal Hill School more Daleks have set up a transmat in the cellar and a launch pad in the playground. Two factions are at war for racial supremacy: renegades commanded by a Black Dalek and Imperial Daleks led by the Emperor (Davros in disguise). They're searching for the Hand of Omega, a remote stellar manipulator created by the Time Lords and left on Earth by the first Doctor. It is part of an elaborate trap – the Doctor goads Davros into activating the device, which sees his archenemies and their home world Skaro vaporised. First transmissionsPart 1 - Wednesday 5 October 1988Part 2 - Wednesday 12 October 1988Part 3 - Wednesday 19 October 1988Part 4 - Wednesday 26 October 1988 ProductionOB recording: April 1988 in London at St John's School, Hammersmith; Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford; John Nodes Funeral Service, Ladbroke Grove; Willesden Lane Cemetery; Theed Street and Windmill Walk, Waterloo.Studio recording: April 1988 in TC8 CastThe Doctor - Sylvester McCoyAce - Sophie AldredGroup Captain "Chunky" Gilmore - Simon WilliamsSergeant Mike Smith - Dursley McLindenProfessor Rachel Jensen - Pamela SalemAllison Williams - Karen GledhillRatcliffe - George SewellHeadmaster - Michael SheardHarry - Harry FowlerVicar - Peter HallidayThe Girl - Jasmine BreaksEmbery - Peter Hamilton DyerJohn - Joseph MarcellMartin - William ThomasKaufman - Derek KellerDavros - Terry MolloyEmperor Dalek - Roy Tromelly (anagram for Terry Molloy)Dalek operators - John Scott Martin, Tony Starr, Cy Town, Hugh SpightBlack Dalek operator - Hugh SpightDalek voices - Brian Miller, Royce Mills, Roy Skelton, John Leeson CrewWriter - Ben AaronovitchDesigner - Martin CollinsIncidental music - Keff McCullochScript editor - Andrew CartmelProducer - John Nathan-TurnerDirector - Andrew Morgan RT review by Patrick MulkernOK, let's start with that title. 1980s Doctor Who is fixated with Dalek story titles beginning with "Re": Resurrection… Revelation… Perhaps having ruled out Restoration and Repetition, chewed over Repêchage and Rectum, John Nathan-Turner plumps for Remembrance of the Daleks! It may not really relate to anything in the plotline but, hey, it resonates and reflects an air of revelry… For this rambunctious four-parter launches Doctor Who's 25th anniversary. It not only reunites the Time Lord with his deadliest enemies and their creator Davros, it also returns to the dawn of the series: the school where the first Doctor's granddaughter, Susan, caused consternation for her teachers, Ian and Barbara; and the junkyard (now more evidently a scrap merchant's) where they stumbled upon the Tardis. So praise to all for attempting to honour the programme's roots, even if, sadly, the effect is more of the present clomping all over the past. Remembrance doesn't have a shred of the atmosphere conjured by Waris Hussein's debut episode, An Unearthly Child. Not for one second am I convinced that this drama takes place in London 1963. Horrible dance-beat music and harsh on-location video-recording place it slap-bang in the 1980s. The devil is in the detail. Anachronistic parking bays are painted on the roads. Modern cars pass in the background. The design team laboriously re-creates the original wording on the scrapyard gates but misspells "Foreman" as "Forman". In a cheeky anniversary touch, Ace switches on a telly in a B&B and leaves the room just as an announcer says: "This is BBC television. The time is a quarter past five and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series, Doc…" It doesn't matter that the 1963 announcement was much simpler. More importantly, the TV set looks too modern, 1970s at best, not like some boxy 1950s relic that this down-at-heel lodging house would surely own. It's also broad daylight outside, not night-time as it should be at 5.15pm on 23 November. The script implies that when the series began, the first Doctor had been in London to conceal a casket containing the Hand of Omega, thus laying a trap that he or a later incarnation could spring on the Daleks. But, unequivocally, the Doctor's earliest awareness of the Daleks occurred in his second televised adventure. I'm nitpicking, maybe being too harsh with this fan favourite, but such niggling points underpin the greater failings of a production where little rings true. At the top, I'm not at all sure about the seventh Doctor and Ace. Sylvester McCoy makes the Time Lord endearing but he's jettisoned his japing from season 24, and struggles to convey gravitas. He's now lustily rolling his Rs ("I made a grrrave errrorr of judgment") and elongating words like "leeeeeeavve". Sophie Aldred attacks Ace with gusto – bashing one Dalek with a baseball bat, blasting another with a rocket launcher, jumping over tables in a science lab and smashing through a window. But despite her Nitro-9 explosives, Ace is a peculiarly safe, middle-class rendering of a streetwise kid. Ben Aaronovitch's script is thoughtful and neatly draws parallels between the Dalek mindset and racial tensions in 1960s London. To this end, Mike is the most intriguing character – a dashing sergeant in a flying jacket, who seems terribly nice but is actually a traitor with fascist tendencies. (Dursley McLinden, a promising young actor, died seven years later. The Independent printed a poignant obituary.) Other characters lack depth. Simon Williams plays the same old upper-class twit; George Sewell is as dull as ever as a small-time crook; the alluring Pamela Salem almost makes Rachel breathe (she's like a blend of former Who companions Barbara and Liz). Her colleague Allison is redundant. Most annoying is the skipping, scowling schoolgirl. Almost every appearance is heralded by a rendering of Ring a Ring o' Roses. It's intended to be eerie but is simply drippy. The dizzying pace at times compensates for such shortcomings. Action scenes are well handled by director Andrew Morgan, from the extravagance of a full-size spaceship landing in the playground to a soldiers-v-Dalek battle in Totters Lane. The extermination effect packs far more punch than ever before. And a fabulous cliffhanger proves that Daleks can indeed go upstairs. The Black (and silver) Dalek looks gorgeous, almost like one of the shiny versions from the 1960s movies, but most of the Daleks look fragile, wobbling on cobbles. They shriek "Exterminate!" but will not get on with it. Predominant voice artist Roy Skelton seems stuck in Zippy mode. And I can't decide about the tank-like Special Weapons Dalek: menacing or absurd? What is unforgivable in Remembrance is that the Doctor (without any apparent compunction) tricks Davros into using the Hand of Omega, so that Skaro is vaporised. When an anxious Ace asks at the end, "We did good, didn't we?" he replies, "Time will tell. It always does" – blithely skating over the fact that he and, by extension, the Time Lords have double genocide on their hands. Daleks and the pacifist Thals lived on Skaro. No wonder when Russell T Davies brought the Daleks back 17 years later, he established the back-story of a Time War, which was initiated by Gallifrey in Genesis of the Daleks and is surely ramped up several notches in Remembrance. --- Radio Times archive material RT billings RT feature RT letters A rare behind-the-scenes shot in the backstreets of Waterloo, showing the Special Weapons Daleks, dismantled Daleks and the Dalek operators' tricycles that go inside the bases. (Photographed for Radio Times by Don Smith) Like this? Share it. Facebook Twitter Google Tumblr Pinterest Blogger Reddit VKontakt Print Email


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By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter
MADISON — All the media focus was on the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism — or more precisely, the Joint Finance Committee's decision to boot that organization from the UW-Madison campus — Thursday afternoon at a news conference with budget committee co-chair Rep. John Nygren, R-Marinette, in Assembly Speaker Robin Vos' office.
"I think a case can be made that this organization, albeit it Bill is here, you know, albeit one that has created a unique relationship with the university is one that members in our caucus has concerns about the propriety of having a news gathering organization, right, left, center, whatever," Vos, R-Rochester, said of the decision.
The 'Bill' Vos referenced is Bill Lueders, the money and politics projects director at the Center for Investigative Journalism. Lueders came to the Capitol to get some answers about the policy which seemingly came from nowhere.
"Where have these concerns been raised, you know, prior to 5 o'clock on Wednesday morning?" Lueders asked.
Vos said the issue was brought up in caucus by "a number of people," but said he couldn't recall who piped up first.
"Should it matter that the center provides a service that the university finds valuable for its institution and its students, and wants to preserve?" Lueders asked.
"That's a decision they made. We believe otherwise," Nygren said. "That's why we made the decision we did."
Vos argued it was an issue of fairness, that the university was unduly subsidizing the center with their voluntary agreement.
"Taxpayers provide the resources for University of Wisconsin System. I think it's a legitimate function of state legislators as representatives of the people to say whether or not the university should be creating arrangements that some in the public might perceive to be helping one organization or another without giving the same access. The university didn't go through a (request for proposal) process. They didn't say let any organization apply and we'll choose that which is best," he said.
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Parents and their toddlers can take part in free baby rhyme time sessions at a library in Burnt Oak.
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Missing Findlay teen's family, friends 'heartbroken'
Police are searching for a Findlay teen who didn't return home after telling her father that she was going to see a movie.
Hailey Phillips, 16, was last seen Friday morning, when she left the home of a Bellevue man, said Findlay police Officer Patrick Zilles.
Police interviewed the man and don't consider him a suspect. They do not suspect foul play at this point.
"She's a smart, beautiful 16-year-old," said her father, Sean Phillips, 33. "She has a bright future. We're all heartbroken for her right now, and we'd like her to be home as soon as possible."
Hailey Phillips told her father that she would see a movie Thursday with friends in Robinson but ended up staying with the man in Bellevue. He told police he asked her to leave the next morning when he went to work. He said he gave the teen some money and she left, Zilles said.
She called her friend, Abby O'Leary, 15, of Oakdale from the man's cell phone about 9:30 a.m.
"She was talking, but she wasn't really speaking clearly," O'Leary said. "I couldn't really understand what she was saying. I said, 'Hailey where are you?' She said she was in Bellevue. And I said, 'You need to get home; people are worried about you.' "
Hailey Phillips sounded like she had just awakened but did not sound upset, O'Leary said.
"It's weird that I haven't got a call from her and she's not coming home," O'Leary said. "I really don't know where she could be."
Hailey Phillips ran away from home before but stayed with friends and was easy to find, Sean Phillips said.
"I don't want to say it, but I just have a bad feeling that she's used up her ninth life on this one and somebody's got her," Sean Phillips said. "She just doesn't have the street smarts to get out of situations that she might get herself into."
Pittsburgh police checked a possible sighting in the North Side on Tuesday, but it didn't pan out, Zilles said.
Hailey Phillips doesn't have a cell phone or credit cards, making her difficult to track electronically, the Findlay officer said.
"She is very small and vulnerable, and we're getting a little concerned now because she's never been away this long before," Zilles said.
Sean Phillips works for Gillece. The business is offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the girl's location. The company worked with Lamar Advertising to put up billboards about her disappearance. Anyone with information on her whereabouts should call Findlay police at 724-695-1300.
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Subject: Re: [DNA] DYS710
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 10:01:11 EST
My other questions is about DYS710 for J1* participants. While the R1b
groups had lots of activity, there was no movement for the J1* group. Has
anyone else seen this?
In a message dated 11/7/2010 6:01:17 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
The more I hear about DYS710, the more it seems to me that the pattern
should be provided : how many di-nucleotides etc.... In the case of the
Davenport branch the marker might be useful provided the pattern is known.
> Thanks Bill, a good illustration of how this marker behaves
> in an established genealogy.
> Interesting to note that the .2 element is present
> throughout, suggesting that all the variation is in one of
> the tetranucleotide segments (probably the longer one).
> Gareth
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by Spencer Harmon from his blog Unspoken - My Wife Has Tattoos: Marriage, New Birth and the GospelThis has been all over the internet this weekend, provoking many different reactions: some people thinking it's awesome and those that think it's awful. Someone on our NLQ Support group on Facebook said it should have been titled 'King Cophetua meets Beggar Maid' What do you think dear readers? … [Read more...]
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When a large drilling tower was recently spotted on Lake George, the rumour mill went into overdrive. Social media was abuzz with speculation. Adding to the mystery surrounding the large-scale operation was that the drilling tower and a considerable number of support vehicles vanished almost as quickly as they appeared.
After some snooping around, this column can reveal the two-day drilling operation was part of a three-year multidisciplinary three-year study of Lake George.
Eva Papp, academic visitor at the ANU's Research School of Earth Sciences and a chief investigator of the new integrated project, which involves industry, government and universities, says "the study will examine the tectonic, sedimentary, hydrological, vegetation, climatic and archaeological history of Lake George, including the application of new and improved methods in geochronology, remote sensing, and geophysics".
And the exact purpose of the drilling? Well, that was the first stage in a project that examines the sedimentary record of the lake bed.
"The lake is an outstanding natural archive – it contains the longest continuous sedimentary record (around 4 million years) of any Australian lake and has a long, unresolved human occupation history," explains Papp, who adds "the core samples taken extended to up to 77 metres below the lake bed and represent around 2 million years of sedimentary history. The full depth of the sediment at that location is estimated to exceed 140 metres."
It is hoped that project outcomes will increase knowledge of landscape evolution and human history in eastern Australia from improved understanding of the responses of Lake George to past and future climate change and human impact.
"We want to leave a home for our children and grandchildren that is sustainable for many generations to come and we want to understand the past so we can take care of the future," Papp says.
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Spotlight on stingrays
While the out-of-place dugong holidaying at Merimbula Lake has been stealing the show this summer, some of the most popular sea creatures to spot along the South Coast are stingrays.
The two species you are most likely to see are the common stingray and the smooth spotted stingray, both of which are best viewed from the many boardwalks, boat ramps and fish-cleaning stations up and down the coast.
One of the best places to readily spy a stingray is the Mossy Point boat ramp, where there are often four identifiable rays, including "Stumpy", which, unfortunately, has lost its tail. First noticed about 2004, the rays measure about 1.5 metres across and are quite tame, sometimes taking fish scraps from a fisherman's hand.
For the adventurous, Region X offers a range of guided tours on South Coast waterways, where you can view stingrays and other marine critters from a glass-bottomed kayak.
"We have lots of close encounters of a friendly nature. No need for alarm, but they are keen to swim around our kayakers, very inquisitive and here to compete against cormorants and pelicans for the feast from fishermen," Region X's Josh Waterson says.
For more information, see regionx.com.au or phone 0400 184034.
If you are after a guaranteed sighting, then beat a path to Merimbula Aquarium which is home to hundreds of local species, ranging from sharks to shrimps and, of course, stingrays. They also have fish-feeding sessions at 11.30am on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. See merimbulawharf.com.au or phone 02 6495 4446.
Where is your favourite place to spot stingrays in their natural habitat? Please let me know at the address at the end of this column. Oh, I'd also love to see a photo of Stumpy.
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If you prefer your stingrays to be of the artistic kind, you have less than a week to wait until the festive season's most anticipated beachside spectacle: the 15th annual Sand Modelling and Sandcastle Competition at North Broulee Beach.
Expect: About 400 competitors and 2000 spectators as one of our much-loved South Coast beaches is invaded by all manner of seaside critters, including mermaids, sharks, octopuses, dugongs, crocodiles and, of course, stingrays.
When: New Year's Eve, Thursday, January 31. Registration from 2.30pm, with the competition running from 4pm to 5pm (to coincide with a low tide).
Tools of the trade: For competitors, only standard beach gear (toy buckets, toy spades, ice-cream containers etc) plus spray bottles are allowed. No shovels, rakes and concreting trowels.
Entry fee: $5 an individual or group (which can be up to five people).
Categories: Open sculpture; open sandcastle; and junior (for children not yet in high school). Businesses have donated prizes and all money raised from entries will go to the Community Association's shared pathway project.
Beach report: Earlier this week, this column checked conditions on the beach and can confirm the usual quantity of fine yet firm modelling sand is ready and waiting.
Tim's tip: Due to the recent demolition of the road bridge over Candlagan Creek, there is a temporary footbridge in place linking Mossy Point and Broulee. Enter Broulee from George Bass Drive, then work your way to the northern section of the beach.
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The South Coast isn't the only place Y numberplates flock to over summer. With cooler days and smaller crowds, the Snowy Mountains are becoming more and more popular for summer interludes for many Canberrans, including Garry Mayo.
While recently walking through a hidden valley in the wilderness of the western side of the main range, "we thought we had finally found the elusive Yowie", Mayo reports.
"It was taller than the average man and, to all intents, looked dark and hairy," explains the seasoned bushwalker, who adds, "given the remoteness of the location, we thought we might have finally cracked the mystery".
As Mayo and his fellow walkers approached the "yowie" with caution, "it showed no signs of movement" and Mayo and Co. soon realised "it was much more mundane, but nonetheless still one of nature's treasures, the trunk of a magnificent native fern (Dicksonia antarctica)".
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Cyptic clue: Another good stingray-spotting location, but I can't see a "mill" anywhere.
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Last week: Congratulations to Sam Harding, 12, of Farrer, who was first to correctly identify last week's photo as a cut-out cow, resplendent in Christmas tinsel, in Cobargo. "We stop at Cobargo quite often on the way to Bermagui for family holidays," reveals a jubilant Harding, who just beat a number of readers, including Alison Meretini, of Braddon, who "knows that cow very well" after just completing a stint house-sitting in the pretty coastal village.
The "folk" in the clue was a dead give-away for many, including Ajay Satyan, who explains "Cobargo is famous for their folk festival in February, adding "the cow in the picture is artwork representative of Cobargo's dairy industry".
Many readers actually thought the photograph depicted one of the South Coast's other crafty villages of Mogo and Central Tilba. However, two readers definitely not mistaken were Roz and Norm Barker, of Oxley, who recognised the facade of Bangles Pottery. "We still use the toothpick holders we bought there many years ago as port glasses," recall the Barkers. Meanwhile, Sue Lockyer, of Chisholm, reports she also still has pottery bought from the landmark shop more than 20 years ago. "It was captivating watching the potter at the wheel in the window," she recalls.
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Lead the Way Honors National HIV Testing Day with Free HIV Testing, T-shirts
SAN DIEGO (June 25, 2012) – One in five people living with HIV do not know they are infected. To help reverse that trend, Lead the Way is offering free, confidential HIV tests on National HIV Testing Day.
On Wednesday, June 27, Lead the Way will be providing free, confidential HIV tests from 9:00am to 3:00pm at MOMS Pharmacy (3940 Fourth Ave, San Diego, CA 92103) and from noon to 8:00pm at Lead the Way (3830 Park Blvd, San Diego, CA 92103). Anyone who tests at either location will also receive a free Lead the Way t-shirt.
"We hope that San Diegans understand that getting tested is an important opportunity to support the overall health of their community," said Susan Little, MD, professor of medicine in UC San Diego's Division of Infectious Diseases and head researcher of Lead the Way. "The ultimate goal is that everyone gets tested and those who need treatment receive it, so we can significantly curb the spread of HIV."
National HIV Testing Day (NHTD), June 27, was established by the National Association of People with AIDS in 1995. It is an annual observance to promote and increase HIV testing around the U.S., so that more Americans know their status.
Lead the Way is the nation's first comprehensive test and treat model for HIV prevention and is a research program of the UC San Diego AntiViral Research Center. The study aims to find out whether or not people will test for HIV if the test is made readily available in the 92103 and 92104 zip codes of San Diego. Testing 10,000 adults in the two communities is the first step in a multiple-year project to demonstrate that, with appropriate testing and HIV treatment, HIV can be controlled within a community.
Since Lead the Way began in May 2011, over 1,300 people have participated in the study. To date, UCSD has identified more than twice the number of new HIV infections per year than it did in the year preceding the launch of Lead the Way.
To learn more about Lead the Way, visit www.leadthewaySD.com or call (619) 543-9340.
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In the months before the Moncton rampage, the suspect, Justin Bourque, was seen acting oddly as he roamed the wooded trails near the places where the slain police officers were ambushed.
Physiotherapist Charles Doucet, who lives 75 metres south of one of the crime scenes, on a dead-end abutting woodland, recalled crossing paths with Mr. Bourque during a storm last winter.
Mr. Doucet was shovelling in front of his house when Mr. Bourque came by, on snowshoes, carrying a shovel and wearing camouflage clothes.
"He went into the woods behind our place. And just before getting in, he stared at me, with a very cold glare," Mr. Doucet said. "It was bizarre."
Mr. Bourque, 24, was arrested early Friday morning in connection to the shooting deaths of three RCMP officers Wednesday night.
A few months later, in the spring, Mr. Doucet saw him again on a trail, carrying an axe, a shovel and other tools.
"The thought that crossed my mind was that this was a man who was too old to be playing fort in the woods."
He said his wife also crossed paths with Mr. Bourque a few times on the trails and found a makeshift shelter.
Mr. Bourque's Facebook page has a photo of him with a friend in a clearing, holding shotguns, the snowy ground littered with shell casings.
The friend works at Worlds End Warehouse, a "preparedness" store near Moncton that sells guns and survival gear. He appears in numerous photos on the store's Facebook feed as well.
The store announced on Facebook that an employee named Nate Plewes offered his resignation Friday, "as the media attention surrounding the case has currently made his position untenable."
A representative from the store said it did not sell Mr. Bourque his guns.
A week and a half before the shootings, Mr. Bourque had taken a job at Rolly's Wholesale Ltd., a warehouse in the city's northeast. He worked there "until the incident," a manager said, declining to provide further comment.
The woods where the Doucets saw Mr. Bourque are located about three kilometres from the trailer park where he lived.
On Wednesday, when he emerged in camouflage gear, holding a rifle and a pump-action shotgun, Mr. Bourque was heading south towards the wooded area, marching on Mailhot Avenue, where the shootings took place.
Meanwhile, neighbours of the Bourques on Friday expressed sadness at learning it was the son of "good Catholic" parents who had sent Moncton into mourning.
A young man describing himself as a friend of the Bourques stood watch outside what he confirmed to be the family's home, a small, beige house on a quiet residential street with a small garden out front and a trampoline out back, not far from downtown Moncton.
No one answered the door, but neighbours milling about in the rain said their thoughts were with the family and the victims.
The man outside the home, who was visibly shaken and wouldn't identify himself other than to say he knows the Bourques, said little other than the suspect had several siblings.
A woman, who described herself as a landlord for some other nearby buildings, said she wasn't at liberty to discuss the tenants, saying she had nothing to offer about the religious family who lives there and that "the community has suffered enough."
A neighbour, John Doubt, said he noticed an armoured police car at a nearby corner and a Brinks truck outside the home around 1 a.m. last night. Though he couldn't confirm it was the Bourque home, he described his neighbour as a "good Catholic family."
"They're great neighbours," said Mr. Doubt, adding he moved there about a year ago and understands the family has lived there for several years. "I see them go to church every Sunday ... They seemed a happy family."
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New Chinese Shipbuilder Unveiled
A new, bigger shipbuilder was unveiled in Dalian recently, as part of the restructuring of the city's shipbuilding industry, ShanghaiDaily.com reported. Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Co was formed by the merger of Dalian Shipyard Co and Dalian New Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co. Dalian Shipyard, with more than a 100-year history, used to be one of China's big military shipbuilders. Dalian New Shipbuilding, established 15 years ago, was one of the country's biggest shipbuilders. Both the companies were subsidiaries of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation. The new shipyard expects to output vessels of 2 million tons next year and more than 2.6 million tons in 2007, according to Xinhua. (Source: ShanghaiDaily.com)
China Shipyard Delivers Bulk Carrier to Greek Owners
COSCO Dalian Shipyard has delivered a 57.000 dwt bulk carrier to Common Progress Co Na S.A. of Athens COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co., Ltd ("COSCO Dalian"), a subsidiary of the Company's 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, has delivered a bulk carrier of 57000DWT, "COMMON FAITH", to its European buyer. The bulk carrier measures 189.99 meters in LOA, 32.26 meters in breadth and 18 meters in depth.
China Shipyard Delivers Another Supramax Bulk Carrier
COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited says its COSCO Dalian shipyard has delivered the 57,000 dwt bulk ship 'Guotou' to its Asian buyer. The new bulk carrier measures 189.99 meters in LOA, 32.26 meters in breadth and 18 meters in depth. About COSCO Shipyard Group Founded in June 2001, COSCO Shipyard Group Co., Ltd, is a subsidiary of China Ocean Shipping Company (COSCO), specializing in large vessel construction, marine engineering, construction and conversion
China Shipyards Win US$100-Million OSV Contracts
COSCO Corporation (Singapore) Limited says that its subsidiary Dalian and Guandong shipyards in China have won the following offshore vessel construction contracts: 1. COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co., Ltd., has secured a contract from an Asian company to build four Emergency Response / Rescue / Field Support Vessels (ERRVs), scheduled for delivery in the first half of 2016. 2. Two shipbuilding contracts signed by COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co
China's Dalian Shipyard to Build Deepwater Jack-Up
COSCO Corporation inform that its subsidiary Dalian Shipyard has been contracted to build a jack-up rig based on the LeTourneau Super 116E Class design. The US$184-million order has been placed by Derwent Ocean Limited S.A, part of Foresight Group. COSCO inform that the new rig will be built to ABS classification, with notation A1, and will be a self elevating drilling unit capable of drilling HPHT wells. It will be capable of operating in 350 feet water
Cosco Hands Over Salvage Vessel, Bulker
Cosco Corporation Singapore said that Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard Group Co, a 51% owned unit of its subsidiary, has recently delivered a salvage lifting vessel to its Chinese customer and a bulk carrier to its European customer. De Bo 3, the 17,000 dwt salvage lifting vessel, was handed over to its Chinese buyer. It measures 159.6 meters in LOA (length of all), 38.8 meters in breadth and 10.9 meters in depth.
World's First Offshore Barge with Built-in BWTS
The BALPURE ballast water treatment system, which received Type Approval in July 2011, has been selected for use on two flattop oceangoing heavy deck cargo barges. The Type-Approved BALPURE ballast water treatment system from Severn Trent De Nora has been selected for use on two oceangoing heavy deck cargo barges being constructed for Norwegian-based Greenway Shipping by Dalian Shipyard, at its shipyard in Dalian, China
COSCO Group (Singapore) Report Decline in Bulk Shipping, Shipyard Revenue in Q1
Cosco Corporation (Singapore) reports turnover down slightly due to decline in dry bulk shipping & shipyard revenues in first quarter of 2012 Overview of the report is as follows: Against the backdrop of a difficult business environment, the Group achieved turnover of $978.7 million with a net profit attributable to equity holders of $27.8 million. Group turnover inched down 3.2% to $978.7 million in Q1 2012 from $1
COSCO Delivers Three Large Bulk Carriers
COSCO Corporation (Singapore) announce that subsidiaries of the Company's 51% owned COSCO Shipyard Group have delivered three more bulk carriers to Asian owners 1. COSCO (Guangdong) Shipyard Co., Ltd has delivered two bulk carriers of 57000 DWT, "Wuxing 5" and "APJ SHIRIN", respectively to its Asian buyers. 2. COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co., Ltd has delivered a bulk carrier of 92500 DWT, "OCEAN SAPPHIRE", to its Asian buyer.
Liebherr Sells Knuckle Boom Cranes to China
Liebherr offshore crane division has recently signed a contract with long-time partner DALIAN SHIPYARD (DSIC Offshore) for two state-of-the-art ram luffing knuckle boom cranes of the type RL-K 4200-100 LIT to be delivered for the new high-level semi-submersible BT 4000. "We have already successfully delivered around 40 machines to DSIC to date, but this contract marks a new milestone for us at the Chinese offshore market," informs Gordon Clark
Deck Carrier BigRoll Beaufort Delivered
The heavy marine transportation provider BigRoll Shipping has reached a milestone. The fourth and final MC Class vessel for BigRoll shipping was handed over by Cosco Dalian Shipyard Co. Ltd to new owner BigRoll Shipping in Leiden, the Netherlands.
Cosco Delays Delivery of Jack-up Rigs for Northern
Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard, subsidiary of Cosco Shipyard Group, has reached an agreement with Bermuda-based rig owner Northern Offshore to further delay the delivery dates of two jack-up drilling rigs amid challenging offshore drilling market.
Rickmers Sells Entire Containership Fleet to Navios
Owner and operator of dry bulk and container vessels Navios Maritime Partners L.P. said it has reached an agreement to acquire Rickmers Maritime's entire containership fleet. The deal, worth about $113 million, will see Navios Partners acquire 14 container vessels from Rickmers Maritime
COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Delivers Flag Lama
COSCO (Dalian) Shipyard Co has delivered an bulk carrier, "FLAG LAMA", to its European buyer, the company said in its press release. The delivery documents were signed by and between COSCO Dalian and the buyer recently.
Shanhaiguan Books Order for Six Containerships
China's Shanhaiguan Shipbuilding Industry has booked an order to build up to six feeder containerships for Dalian Port Wantong Logistics and Dalian Jifa Ship Management. The newbuilding contract will see the affiliate yard of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation
First Vessel Launched for BigRoll Shipping
The heavy marine transportation provider BigRoll Shipping announced its first of four MC Class vessels under construction, BigRoll Barentsz, was launched on October 27, 2015 at Cosco Dalian Shipyard. The vessel construction and commissioning remains on schedule for delivery in March 2016.
Canada, China Port Cities Reach Collaboration Pact
The Mayor of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality (CBRM) and the City of Dalian, Liaoning Province in the People's Republic of China have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) laying the ground work for an official sister city relationship between the two regions and port cities
CMES Orders Six VLCCs at Dalian Shipbuilding
China Merchants Energy Shipping Co Ltd (CMES) has firmed up orders to build six very large crude carriers (VLCCs) at Dalian Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Corp for $522 million, reports Reuters. The deliveries of 308,000dwt VLCCs are scheduled between August 2018 and October 2019
China Merchants to Take 21.05% Stake in Dalian Port
China Merchants Holdings (International) Company Limited, has announced that it has signed a share subscription agreement with Dalian Port (PDA) Co., under which Dalian Port will issue 1.1bn new shares to China Merchants for HK$4.3bn ($554m).
Seadrill's Posts Strong Q4 Results
Rig company Seadrill, once the crown jewel in the business empire of shipping tycoon John Fredriksen, said the final quarter of 2015 was the year's strongest in operational terms, but warned that 2016 would be tough and said it was working to strengthen its finances.
Alfa Laval PureNOx Prime Ordered for Five VLECs
Alfa Laval's new PureNOx Prime solution for water treatment in Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR), will be part of EGR systems on five very large ethane carriers (VLECs) to be operated by United Ethane Carriers (UEC). This order from MAN Diesel & Turbo comes only a short time after
CMA CGM to Upgrade its FAL 1 Service
In order to improve the reliability of its service, CMA CGM has decided to review the port coverage of FAL 1. As from m/v CMA CGM JULES VERNE voy. 115 FLE, FAL 1 service will no longer call the port of Zeebrugge. Last vessel calling Zeebrugge will be m/v CMA CGM VASCO DE GAMA voy
COSCO Delivers PSV and Two Jack-up Rigs
Cosco (Dalian) Shipyard Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of its 51 percent owned Cosco Shipyard Group Co., Ltd., has delivered two jackups to the Foresight Group of companies through United Arab Emirates-based drilling and rig management services firm Hallworthy International FZC.
Mega Yacht Shipped from Lavrion to Dubai
In early October, cargo vessel MV Rickmers Dalian made a stop-over at the anchorage off Lavrion in Greece to load a mega yacht for shipment to Dubai, where she was discharged on October 19. The shipment of the 50-meter-long, 340-metric-ton yacht was coordinated and booked by
Cosco Delivers Module Carrier to Bigroll
On 23 November 2016, Cosco Dalian Shipyard Co. Ltd handed over BigRoll Baffin, the third MC-Class Module Carrier for BigRoll Shipping, to her owners. The first two state-of-the-art MC-Class Module Carriers, BigRoll Barentsz and BigRoll Bering were handed over earlier this year


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Pirates admit 'rumblings' about Tabata's age
His birth certificate and passport say outfielder Jose Tabata was born Aug. 12, 1988, in Anzoategui, Venezuela. Yet, during a recent radio interview, general manager Neal Huntington admitted there are "a lot of rumblings" that Tabata might actually be in his mid-20s.
In Latin America, record-keeping can be spotty, especially when it comes to youngsters with excellent baseball skills. The New York Yankees investigated Tabata's background in 2005 and, satisfied he truly was 16, signed him as an undrafted free agent.
The Pirates are not publicly disputing Tabata's age, and yet ...
"All of the documentation he has used to obtain his visa from the U.S. government and his passport from the Venezuelan government indicates his reported age is accurate," Huntington said in an e-mail to the Tribune-Review. "Apart from unfounded speculation, there is nothing to indicate his age any different than reported. My point is that while we have reason to doubt his reported age, it is a non-issue to us."
Even if Tabata should have three or four more candles on his birthday cake, he's still considered a top prospect. But how good he is, to a degree, does depend on his age.
Last year, Tabata played in 93 games — includuing 32 at Triple-A Indianapolis, where he hit .276 with three homers and 10 RBI.
A 21-year-old who's set to begin his first full season at Triple-A is considered precocious. But for a 24-year-old, it's considered a typical career path.
New, improved Milledge
During a Q&A session at PirateFest, a fan asked if Lastings Milledge had gotten a bad reputation because of distorted media coverage. Milledge, who was unaware there were three reporters listening nearby, did not take the bait.
"I think I brought a lot of it on myself," Milledge said without hesitation. "I didn't take the game very seriously. A lot of things were handed to me. Now, I'm working harder and not taking anything for granted."
Milledge's seemingly heartfelt answer drew a long round of applause.
Bad trips
Major League Baseball's schedule-maker can be quite unkind to the Pirates.
They often have to make three separate trips to the West Coast, instead of playing the Dodgers, Padres and Giants in one or two swings. Three years ago, the Pirates touched every corner of the country — Seattle, Anaheim and Miami — on the same trip. MLB refuses to recognize the Indians as a yearly interleague rival, instead offering Pirates fans series after series against the White Sox and Royals.
Although Cleveland will visit PNC Park this season, much else remains the same. There's an epic trip — Houston, Milwaukee and Los Angeles — at the end of April, four trips to California, and an odd, two-game stint in Philadelphia.
An early draft of the 2010 schedule had the Pirates playing an interleague series against the Twins at their new Target Field. However, plans changed and the Pirates instead got a series in Oakland against the A's.
Now, the team must fly from Pittsburgh to Dallas (to play the Rangers) to Oakland and to Chicago (to play the Cubs). Adding another time zone and a few hundred miles makes for a more tedious trip.
Strong schedule
One thing working in the Pirates' favor is their strength of schedule, at least when it comes to non-division opponents.
This season, the Pirates' will play 83 games outside the NL Central. That includes 15 interleague games.
The 2009 winning percentage of the Pirates' 2010 non-division foes is .502. That places them in the middle of the pack in the NL Central, as far as strength of schedule.
The NL Central, of course, is a unique case because it is the only division with six teams, which means it has fewer non-division games. The way to fix that imbalance is to move one NL Central club to the AL West, creating six five-team divisions. But that's a topic for another day ...
All is forgiven
It seems the Pirates and Klement's Racing Sausages will remain forever ... wait for the bad pun ... linked.
The Milwaukee Brewers are holding an online auction, with the prize being a Valentine's Day visit from one of the famous sausage mascots. Also included in the package are two club-level seats to either the April 26 or 27 games at Miller Park. The Brewers' opponent those days is, of course, the Pirates.
Maybe it's a kiss-and-make up attempt by the sausages, one of whom was bludgeoned by ex-Pirate Randall Simon in 2003.
Around the horn
» Huntington was succinct when asked why the Pirates failed to sign Dominican free agent Miguel Sano. "I didn't get it done," Huntington said. "It's my fault. I hold myself responsible."
» Garrett Jones wants his "walkup" song — the tune you hear when he goes to the plate at PNC Park — to be something upbeat. "I want to use something people will get into," Jones said. "I might go with that new Miley Cyrus song, 'Party in the USA.' "
» Huntington drew some gasps with this evaluation of supposed phenom Bryce Harper, who has been projected as the No. 1 overall draft pick this June: "We like Bryce Harper, but I can't tell you right now he is in our top 10," Huntington said. "I feel sorry for the guy because he has to live up to being the next LeBron James." Huntington added that the Pirates' evaluation of Harper is not yet complete, and — Scott Boras or no Scott Boras — they will take him if he's the best player available. The Pirates have the second overall pick.
» The Pirates were interested in free-agent lefthander Hisanori Takahashi, but have fallen out of the running. Takahashi was 79-66 over the past 10 years with the Yomiuri Giants of the Japanese Central League.


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Be careful what you wish for, goes the saying, for it just may come to pass.
And now, as executives in some of the country's largest broadcasting companies quietly celebrate the national regulator killing off BCE's proposed $3-billion acquisition of Astral Media, they should probably also be a little terrified of what comes next. Because in appealing to the CRTC for help and encouraging its new chairman Jean-Pierre Blais to take a new, consumer-oriented, activist stand against one of their most fearsome competitors, those executives have helped usher in an era where they will no longer be able to write their own rules.
As he brought the hammer down on BCE, parent of Bell Media, Mr. Blais declared he was standing up for Canadian consumers. But in doing so, he may also be harking back to a classic time, in which broadcasting executives recognized they were responsible not just to shareholders, but to Canada's cultural life as well.
For the past few years, industry executives have been trooping through the hearing rooms at the Hull headquarters of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission plaintively explaining that they needed regulatory relief to properly compete in a new era of consumer choice. The unregulated Internet could destroy them all, unless the commission stood aside and permit the formation of a large, consolidated Canadian alternative.
Gaining approval for transactions, then, was usually a matter of ticking off the regulatory boxes: selling off extraneous radio or TV stations to stay under CRTC-set thresholds of local market concentration, and promising to plow a chunk of money into the broadcasting system and the production community.
Not anymore. BCE lined up dozens of producers who attested to its promised generosity and good corporate name. It announced the creation of a $15-million production company with the Cirque du Soleil, and pledged $40-million that would help bring high-speed Internet service to the North. But the CRTC recognized that BCE regarded its $200-million package of so-called tangible benefits as just the price of doing business, rather than a necessary investment in Canadian culture.
The company, in other words, didn't really care about content, as long as it made a profit.
"BCE did not express a vision for radio," noted Mr. Blais during his press conference Thursday, looking mildly peeved. "It made no firm commitments regarding local and spoken word programming, or the promotion of emerging Canadian artists." He explained further than Bell's enormous share of the English-language TV market would be terrible for consumers, and that the company had not even acknowledged there was a legitimate reason for concern.
"At the end of the day, BCE demonstrated clearly that the proposed transaction was good for BCE, but we were not persuaded that it was in the best interests of Canadians. Our only option was to deny the transaction."
Bell may have sensed this was coming, in part because Mr. Blais understands the importance of optics.
During the CRTC hearing in Montreal last month, he played to the crowd by reading aloud some of the more passionate e-mails from listeners upset over BCE's intention to change the format of a popular English-language local sports radio station to French so that it could stay under CRTC-set limits. And then, most unusually, rather than giving BCE and Astral a heads-up days in advance that its ruling would come down on Thursday, the commission simply informed the companies' executives on Wednesday that they might want to get themselves to Ottawa 24 hours later. Few made the trip.
"This should be a wake-up call to all carriers," said Dvai Ghose, the head of research at Canaccord Genuity, in a research note. "In our view, the regulatory environment has changed under the current Conservative government and consumer sentiment has become far more significant than in the past."
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Nothing can match the thrill of seeing a concert in person, not even watching it on high-definition Blu-ray or listening to it on a high-definition parrot. Get out of your cage with this GrouponLive deal to see HOB & 102 JAMZ Hook Up #2 Starring: Rita Ora and Special Guests at House of Blues Orlando. For $14, you get one G-Pass for general admission on Saturday, December 15, at 8 p.m. (up to a $26.50 value, including all fees). Doors open at 7 p.m. Because the ticket is a G-Pass, Groupon customers can use it to enter the venue directly; they will not need to redeem their Groupon at will call.

Although she only just released her debut album, Ora, in 2012, British singer Rita Ora has already toured with Coldplay, collaborated with Drake and Kanye West, and impressed music mogul Jay-Z so much that he signed her to his Roc Nation label. The prolific artist, who blends pop with R & B and jazz, lays down her powerful pipes on pulsing tracks such as "R.I.P.," "How We Do (Party)," and "Hot Right Now." During her live shows, Ora alternates between inciting the crowd to dance and exposing her vulnerability as she talks about what inspires her and encourages fans to sing their journal entries to each other.
Before Ora's set, Miami crooner and Pharrell Williams protégée Cris Cab takes to the stage to belt out reggae-tinged hits such as "Good Girls (Don't Grow on Trees)," and singer/dancer/Vampire Diaries actress Kat Graham shows off her soulful pipes on "Put Your Graffiti on Me."
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Freeport falls in quarterfinals to defending state champion
There's never a good time for a sudden lineup change, but especially not when the defending state champion is on the other side of the net.
WPIAL champion Freeport took the court without injured sophomore outside hitter Zoe Pawlak, and despite a game effort, the shorthanded Yellowjackets fell to Fort LeBoeuf, 3-0, in the PIAA Class AA quarterfinals Saturday at Slippery Rock High School.
Larissa Cass had a match-high 10 kills, and Jolene Young and Kayley Fucci both had eight kills for the Bison (19-1), who will have a rematch of the District 10 final against D-10 champ Conneaut in the semifinals Tuesday. The Bison won by set scores of 25-17, 25-13 and 25-22.
Freeport (19-2) junior Jessica Kelley and seniors Alexis Schrecengost and Megan Sweeny all had seven kills for the Yellowjackets, who only knew for certain on Friday that they would be without Pawlak because of a concussion suffered in the state tournament's first round against Hopewell.
"These guys have been resilient, and we had a great practice Friday, but we had to change everything up," Freeport coach Tom Phillips said. "We had to start a freshman today, and Megan (Sweeny) moved into Zoe's spot. I thought Megan did real well there, but it just seemed like that mesh wasn't there. Defensively, we were OK, but we struggled passing the ball."
The lineup change was a surprise to Fort LeBoeuf, which also had to adjust to the new-look Freeport lineup.
"We had prepared for what we saw on film, so we had to think about what we were going to do with our lineup and the matchups we practiced for," Fort LeBoeuf coach LeAnn Johnson said. "But I also told our girls we needed to play like Fort LeBoeuf, and it doesn't matter if it's Penn State or a seventh-grade team on the other side of the net."
Freeport struggled with communication on some early points but appeared to settle into the match. The Yellowjackets' seniors worked hard to extend their season, as Schrecengost and libero Brittney Bianco seemed to be on the floor nearly every play against the hard-hitting Fort LeBoeuf attack.
"We tried really hard to get everyone into a rhythm, but bringing two new people into new positions made it hard to get in a rhythm in one day (of practice). But we tried," Schrecengost said.
The Yellowjackets tried to make a stand by coming out strong in the third set and taking a 16-13 lead. Fort LeBoeuf regained the lead with a 6-2 run, and though Freeport tried to get the momentum back, a trio of attacking errors in the final eight points helped the Bison finish off the match.
"Everybody stepped up and played well, but when you lose a player, people have a tendency to think they have to do more than they need to," Phillips said. "I think that was the case today, and our passing struggled because of it. But I'm proud of them, the season they've had and the accomplishments they've had."
The team's most notable accomplishment — the school's second WPIAL championship in volleyball — is what Schrecengost said will be the lasting legacy for this year's team and its five seniors.
"I couldn't be any happier with my senior year," Schrecengost said. "Just being on a team with so much talent and so much heart, I couldn't have asked for a better season. None of those other teams have a (WPIAL) gold medal like we do, and we'll always have those to say, 'Hey, we did this as a team.'"
Matt Grubba is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. Reach him at email@example.com or via Twitter @Grubba_Trib.


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Random Blogging For Tuesday July 16th
Good Morning! Happy Tuesday.. 1 day closer to the weekend. Looking forward to a couple of fun things this week, of course we have the rivercade parade on Wednesday, The Dakota Thurston County Fair Parade on Thursday.. Plus Brandi & Smokey Robinson on Thursday at Winnavegas.. Then the weekend gets here and more Rivercade & Riverfest fun! Hope you're able to enjoy it!
The Morning Brain Buster:
Q: 43% of women say they would rather go to the dentist than do THIS.
A: Go see their mother-in-law
Bonehead Of The Day:
A Tennessee woman went to see her doctor about back pain and was told she has a "ghetto booty."
She's been to this office before, but this was her first time with this doctor.
She was there because of severe back-pain and he told her there was a cause of the pain… her "ghetto booty."
The woman complained to an office manager and he apologized. She got a letter from the doctor apologizing but it actually made matters worse.
In the letter he claimed he was trying to explain her condition, "lumbar lordosis", in a 'less technical way.'
No word on if she plans to file a formal complaint.
Man Recieves Email From Paypal.. Worth 92 Quadrillion
A man in Pennsylvania received an email from PayPal that said he had $92 quadrillion in his account.
However when he logged into his account, it showed the correct amount of zero.
The man joked, saying he felt like a million bucks. If the money was real he said he would pay off the national debt and then would buy the Philadelphia Phillies.
A spokesperson for PayPal said she would look into the situation but could not talk about it because of privacy policies.
Out On DVD This Week:
Stars Chadwick Boseman, Harrison Ford
The Adventures of Mickey Matson and the Copperhead Treasure (PG)
Stars Derek Brandon, Francesca DeRosa
Bullet to the Head (-R-)
Stars Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang
Erased (-R-)
Stars Aaron Eckhart, Olga Kurylenko
Evil Dead (-R-)
Stars Jane Levy, Shiloh Fernandez
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (G)
Stars Toni Braxton, Christopher Lloyd
Solomon Kane (-R-)
Stars James Purefoy, Pete Postlethwaite
TV on DVD:
Alphas: Season Two
Damages: The Final Season
Hell on Wheels: The Complete Second Season
Orphan Black: Season One
Johnny Depp Returns For Alice In Wonderland 2
Johnny Depp is in final negotiations to reprise his role as the Mad Hatter in "Alice in Wonderland 2."
The news comes hot on the heels of some bad press claiming he's just not the A-list star he used to be upon the box office failure of "The Lone Ranger" (and "Dark Shadows") before that.
No release date has been set for "Alice in Wonderland 2," though it probably won't hit theaters any earlier than 2016.
~~Will Ferrell is 46 (Saturday Night Live; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Melinda and Melinda, Kicking and Screaming, Bewitched (2005), Curious George, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, Old School; Stranger Than Fiction, Blades of Glory, Step Brothers, Land of the Lost movie; Anchorman 2; many more)
~~Actress AnnaLynne McCord ("90210"; "Nip/Tuck") is 26. (Transporter 2)
~~Actress, Phoebe Cates ("Fast Times at Ridgemont High"; "Gremlins") is 50 (married to Kevin Kline)
~~Actor, Corey Feldman is 42 (Stand by Me; The Goonies; Gremlins; The Lost Boys)
~~Actress Jayma Mays ("Glee") is 34. (Heroes; Smurfs)
~~Actor, James Maslow is 23 (Big Time Rush; Big Time Movie)
~~Actor-singer Ruben Blades is 65. (Do The Right Thing; Predator 2; Once Upon a Time in Mexico; Safe House)
~~Dancer Michael Flatley ("Lord of the Dance") is 55.
~~Actor Daryl "Chill" Mitchell ("Ed") is 48. (Galaxy Quest)
~~Actress Rain Pryor ("Head of the Class") is 44.
~~Actor Mark Indelicato ("Ugly Betty") is 19
~~NFL coach/analyst, Jimmy Johnson is 70
~~NFL legend, Barry Sanders is 45
~~Drummer Stewart Copeland (of The Police) is 61.
~~Singer-guitarist Ed Kowalczyk (of Live) is 42.
~~Singer Ryan McCombs (of Drowning Pool) is 39.
~~Keyboardist/vocalist, Alan "Fitz" Fitzgerald (Night Ranger) is 64
~~Musician, Fatboy Slim is 50
~~Soul singer William Bell is 74.
One Smart Young Lady
A 16-year-old girl from Oregon is on her way to get a PhD.
The girl skipped middle school and high school and went to college at 12-years-old. She just graduated college.
She will now spend the new six years at Georgia Tech getting her PhD in cognitive science and human robotic interaction.
The teen began to play with computers at before the age of two, and was homeschooled because of bullies.
Hidden Treasure Found!
A guy in Wabasso Beach, FL found $250,000 in gold coins just 100 feet from the coast.
He's the owner of a shipwreck salvage company and he found the 48 coins just off the coast in about 6-feet of water.
They're in good condition, so much so that their dates can be read—they were made between 1697 and 1714.
The area they were found in is called "Treasure Coast" where 11 treasure-laden Spanish galleons sank in a 1715 hurricane.
After three years of searching, this is only the second time they've found this many coins.
A Real Sharknado Could Be Covered By Your Insurance
After the Sy-Fy movie Sharknado aired, Consumer Reports did some research and found out a real Sharknado would probably be covered under homeowners' insurance policies.
The vice president of media relations for the Insurance Information Institute said if a tornado dropped sharks on a neighborhood, the shark would be considered a falling object.
Damage done to a vehicle from a falling shark could also be covered as long as the car insurance has comprehensive coverage.
If a person were to suffer a bite that would come under a person's health insurance.
Twinkies Are Back & Smaller
Twinkies are back, but they may be a bit smaller than you remember.
The new boxes hitting shelves this week list the spongy yellow cakes as having 270 calories and a weight of 77 grams for two cakes, or 135 calories and 38.5 grams for one cake.
Right before it went out of business, Twinkies were 150 calories per cake. Photos of past boxes online also indicate the weight to have been 42.5 grams per cake.
Twinkies were pulled from shelves after the snack company went under.
ALSO: Twinkies now have a 45-day shelf life, up from 26 days
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Robert from Pittsburgh asks:
I have an Epson printer which is primarily used to print documents, so I only use the black ink. The darn thing will not work if any of the cartridges are empty. I was wondering if there was a way to trick it into printing, since I only want black and have no need for cyan, magenta, and yellow. Any ideas?
Epson printers tend to use the ink as a coolant and a cushion to keep the printer head from overheating. Ink is necessary to maintain the printer and prevent it from becoming damaged. This means that ink must be present in all the cartridges, no matter what. When the printer senses that an ink cartridge is empty, not printing until the cartridge is refilled is actually a safety feature for the printer.
Epson printers use the color ink to make the black ink darker. Each color is layered under the black for any type of picture or document, but the amount of color used will depend on the darkness of the black. For instance, a document with a graph or table containing gray images won't use nearly as much ink as an image that is completely black.
Printers usually come with a variety of color cartridges, as well as the standard black ink cartridge. Most people want to have the option to print items off in either color or black and white. If you only need black ink, then there are usually ways to make your color printer disregard the color ink cartridges and only draw from the black. Unfortunately, Epson printers don't allow this option.
A suggestion might be to replace the color cartridges and only print in grayscale. This will enable you to conserve the other colors of ink and be able to print items in black and white. Images that consist of bright colors will be substituted with various shades of gray. The following steps are for using the gray scale option when printing:
Step 1 – Choose the document or image you wish to print
Step 2 – Select the option to print, this will cause your print box to open
Step 3 – Select the printer of your choice and click on the Properties button
Step 4 – When the new window opens, click on the tab labeled Paper/Quality
Step 5 – In the new Paper/Quality tab that appears, place a check in the box next to the words Black & White
Step 6 – After checking this box, additional choices may be made.
Step 7 – Once the appropriate boxes have been checked, click the OK button at the bottom of this window.
You can also set your printer to use the grayscale option for all documents that are to be printed. By making this adjustment from the very beginning, you won't have to remember to set it each time there is something you want to print. The following steps are for setting up your printer for always using the grayscale option when printing.
Step 1 – Open up the window that shows your collection of printers and documents
Step 2 – Click on Printer in the top left corner
Step 3 – Click on Printing Preferences and a new window will open
Step 4 – When the new window opens, click on the tab labeled Paper/Quality
Step 5 – In the new Paper / Quality tab that appears, place a check in the box next to the words 'Black & White'
Step 6 – Click on the OK button
If you are certain that you aren't going to want to use much color when printing, then this step-by-step process is probably going to be easier than changing the printer properties for each new task. You can always change the printer and fax properties back to color printing if you need to later on.
The other option that is available is to purchase a printer that only uses black ink. This will eliminate the need to purchase color ink cartridges, which are more expensive than black. Since you are interested in using black ink most of the time anyway, this might be a wise investment. Most other printers will print documents even when some of the ink cartridges are empty.
A much pricier option, at least in the beginning, is to purchase a continuous inking system for your Epson printer. This type of system includes bottles of ink that are attached to the cartridges with tubes that feed ink directly into the cartridge. Epson ink cartridges have a microchip embedded in them that sense when the cartridge is empty. Even if the cartridges are refilled, the printer won't allow the cartridge to be reused. Continuous inking systems come with their own microchip sensor that tricks the printer into thinking the cartridge is always full.
In the long run, purchasing a continuous inking system and using only grayscale to print documents will extend your ink levels for a long period of time and for less cost than it is to buy new cartridges each time one runs out.
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Garth Brooks Joins Hall Of Fame, Elvira Wears Gold – Today In Country Music History
Garth Brooks was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame on this date in 2011, Emerson Drive had a Moment in 2007, the Mistress of Darkness was cloaked in gold 1981 and more.
Here's the list for Today In Country Music History for 16 June, 2012.
- Garth Brooks was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame during an event at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York with Leon Russell, Allen Toussaint and John Bettis in 2011.
- Emerson Drive scored its first Number One single on the Billboard country chart with "Moments" in 2007.
- Lee Ann Womack, Chely Wright and Kid Rock were among an entourage that headed to the Middle East for a USO tour in 2003.
- Tim McGraw's "Grown Men Don't Cry" moved in to the top spot on the Billboard country singles list in 2001.
- Chely Wright appeared as herself on NBC-TV's daytime soap, Another World, in 1999 where she sang her hit "Single White Female" in the show's fictitious club, The Lucky Lady.
- The Oak Ridge Boys were awarded a gold single for "Elvira" in 1981.
You knew this was coming.
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Ascription - Poem by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
O thou who hast beneath Thy hand
The dark foundations of the land,--
The motion of whose ordered thought
An instant universe hath wrought,--
Who hast within Thine equal heed
The rolling sun, the ripening seed,
The azure of the speedwell's eye.
The vast solemnities of sky,--
Who hear'st no less the feeble note
Of one small bird's awakening throat,
Than that unnamed, tremendous chord
Arcturus sounds before his Lord,--
More sweet to Thee than all acclaim
Of storm and ocean, stars and flame,
In favor more before Thy face
Than pageantry of time and space.
The worship and the service be
Of him Thou madest most like Thee,--
Who in his nostrils hath Thy breath,
Whose spirit is the lord of death!
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|Cardiovascular Abnormalities Kidney Failure
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|Prospective Evaluation of Renal Function in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|September 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|December 2010
Renal dysfunction is a recognised independent prognosticator in patients with chronic heart failure. Indeed it has been suggested that the clinical impact of renal dysfunction may be greater than that of left ventricular ejection fraction per se.
The role of renal function has also been investigated in small sub-groups of patients with adult congenital heart disease (ACHD) for example peri-operatively. It is not however known if renal dysfunction has the same prevalence and significance as when present to patient with acquired heart failure. The hypothesis of the study is that renal dysfunction, both overt and sub-clinical, will be commonly detected in patients with congenital heart disease. The study proposes that renal dysfunction will be associated with hospitalisation for heart failure and fluid overload and will also identify patients at an increased risk of worsening clinical status.
Comparisons: Baseline renal function (creatinine, glomerular filtration rate by equation and clearance testing), quantification of urinalysis, baseline neurohormones. Follow-up data regarding clinical endpoints including new arrhythmia, functional deterioration, and hospitalisation.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- The ability to give informed consent
- Age >18 years
- Congenital heart disease being treated as an outpatient
Exclusion criteria:
- Pregnancy
- Renal failure requiring renal-replacement therapy
- Known diabetes
- Shellfish, iodine, or significant drug allergy (sub-study only).
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00807274
|United Kingdom
|Adult Congenital Heart Disease Unit, Royal Brompton Hospital
|London, United Kingdom, SW3 6NP
|Principal Investigator:
|Lorna Swan, MRCP MD
|Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust
|Responsible Party:
|Dr Lorna Swan, Royal Brompton Hospital
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00807274 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 10, 2008
|Last Updated:
|September 24, 2009
Keywords provided by Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust:
Adult congenital heart disease
Heart failure
Renal failure
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Heart Diseases
Heart Defects, Congenital
Renal Insufficiency
Cardiovascular Abnormalities
Cardiovascular Diseases
Congenital Abnormalities
Kidney Diseases
Urologic Diseases
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The 10 oddest cars at Pebble Beach
Ferrari 275 GTB/C Speciale pre-auction estimate: $25m. Ford GT40 prototype: $11m. Ferrari 250 GTO: don't even ask.
There is no shortage of high-dollar auction lots to monitor this week in northern California, where the world's biggest auctioneers have descended on the golf links of the Monterey peninsula. Not to be upstaged by machines dripping provenance from their tailpipes, however, are some lovable outcasts that, with any luck, should find warm, happy homes.
Russo and Steele has consigned a monstrous customised 1928 Rolls-Royce boattail fitted with a 650hp V12 tank engine that spits fire on command:
RM Auctions brings two Fiat summer vehicles that rival Mini for pint-size charm. Not to be outdone, Bonhams, fresh from setting a record in 2013 for the most expensive car sold at public auction, presents a doorless Mini-based beachcomber from defunct UK builder Austin. RM counters all this cuteness with a sportbike that positions the rider's posterior a foot from the tarmac. Gooding & Company recollects the bad old days in Sant'Agata, Italy, with the 1972 Lamborghini Jarama.
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Disappoinment at views of Richard Prosser
Disappoinment at views of Richard Prosser.
The Federation of Multicultural Councils is very disappointed that the views of MP Richard Prosser still exist in Aotearoa New Zealand. It is even more disappointing that these views were made by a Member of Parliament.
This generalisation or stereotyping is totally unacceptable to all New Zealanders and I have received many emails from Federation members this morning expressing their concerns.
Not only it is in contravention of the Race Relation legislation, but is contrary to provisions of Human Rights Act and Geneva Convention.
It is pleasing that Mr Prosser has finally apologised, hopefully it is genuine and not just because of public pressure. I would be happy to discuss Mr Prosser's views with him in the hope that he will understand why people are so outraged about his comments.
It is disheartening to think that these views are still current in New Zealand, this emphasises the need for the Race Relations Commissioner to continue.