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By Douglas R. Failing, Caltrans, District 7 Director
On Friday, September 12, a tragic collision involving a Metrolink train and a Union Pacific train affected us all at Caltrans deeply. It was a very horrific accident involving a transportation partner. Transportation is so important to our region and our economy; it's how we earn our living.
A northbound Metrolink Train #111 (from Los Angeles Union Station) collided head-on with southbound Union Pacific train number LOF 65 of the 12th, at 4:23 p.m. in Chatsworth, California. There were three Union Pacific crew members and two Metrolink crew members, with as many as 225 passengers on the Metrolink train.
Certainly, Caltrans responded as we always do in emergencies and disasters. Caltrans was called upon by the incident command center to control traffic caused by many people driving in and out of the area for various reasons. Caltrans closed nearby on- and off-ramps on State Route 118 at De Soto Avenue and Topanga Canyon Boulevard.
I appreciate the tireless work of our Maintenance crews. From me to you and from others heading the incident command center, "Thank you" to all who were at the incident site around the clock, doing their best to control traffic so that the first responders, ambulance crews, the Los Angeles County Fire Department, the Los Angeles Police Department and the California Highway Patrol, could do what they needed to do with the least amount of distraction.
District 7 Operations team responded with traffic management signage, and the Los Angeles Regional Transportation Management Center (LARTMC) activated Changeable Message Signs (CMS) to advise motorists of the closures and alternate routes. Within the first few hours and by the next day following the accident, Caltrans issued an unusually large amount of permits for heavy equipment and large trucks to move on the freeway system for use in the recovery effort.
I want to make sure that everyone from Caltrans who was involved in this effort knows that many people and agencies involved at the incident command center have expressed their thanks to Caltrans crews who were on the scene and for the support we provided in many ways. We, at Caltrans, are trained to be in the support role position. Your work in the field was noticed and appreciated.
For the 25 people who have died in this tragic incident, it is time for us to think of their families. And for those 135 who were severely injured, we wish them all a full and speedy recovery.
In the aftermath of the tragic loss of life in this Metrolink accident, the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) unanimously passed an emergency order on September 18, 2008, to ban the use of cell phones and other personal electronic devices while operating a train. This emergency regulation clearly brings the dangers of cell phone use on the job site into focus. The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) has been tracking cell phone usage by drivers, and in 2007 reported, "… 1,005,000 vehicles on the road at any given daylight moment being driven by someone using a hand-held phone." This survey also reports "… an estimated 11 percent of vehicles in the typical daylight moment… is using some type of phone, either hand-held or hands-free."
The convenience offered by technology is difficult to ignore, but the inattention caused by this little distraction can easily result in tragic consequences. I urge all of you to be mindful of the safety of yourselves and those around you when you use cell phones and blackberries, whether you are walking, riding transit, or driving. It is tempting to take care of that one small detail, or make that phone call, read that e-mail or check voicemail. Also, be mindful when working on the road, other drivers are distracted by their hand-held use of cell phones and other activities, which also places you in danger. The lives lost in the Metrolink accident are a grim reminder to us all. Please be careful, be constantly aware of your surroundings, and if you must make a cell phone call on the road, find a safe place to stop and remove yourself from harm's way. Dial the phone when the vehicle is not in motion. No phone call is worth your life.
I remind you of Caltrans Director's Policy 29, (issued May 28, 2008), which speaks to the issue of cell phone usage on the job and requires the following from all employees:
1) Recognize the risks of being distracted while working in an active work zone. While in active work zones, personal communication devices are to be kept in off mode and entertainment devices are not to be used.
2) Conduct business telephone calls only after ensuring the safety of the work area, themselves, other workers, and the traveling public.
3) Use personal communication devices for personal calls during breaks or lunch periods from a safe area and do not distract other workers at work.
And the final word about our State budget, which is to say that we do now have a State budget after a record 82-day impasse. Thank you all for your continued diligent work during that time of uncertainty. Though, passed by our Legislature and signed by the Governor, it is far from a perfect budget, but it is a very necessary budget.
For us in the transportation community, we can feel good that the State Transportation Improvement Funds (STIP/Proposition 42) were spared and are available to keep us working and to provide the necessary projects and jobs to help move California's economy forward. This is due to the recognition of the great work we have accomplished these past few years that helped the Legislature and Governor recognize the value of what Caltrans does.
So, with all the tough choices facing them, they elected to keep funding in transportation. That is a credit to each one of you that are out there doing the best job you can each and every day. It is also a mandate from the people of California that we continue to keep providing that high level of service, to do the job we do as best we can, as cost-effective as we can, to ensure that the trust they have in us is paid back.
Think of us as a private company. Please! Think of us as a private company! The people of the State of California are our shareholders; they own our stock. This year, we need to be focused on and reminded that our job is to make sure that our stockholders profit from our labor. Although this fiscal year's budget is challenging, we can expect economic trouble to continue for another budget cycle or longer. We will need to continue to show that we can be trusted to do well with the resources we are given and that we can return a profit to the people of California, such that they will want to continue to invest in our company.
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Part 12
Borneo - Part 2
18.09.2007 - 23.09.2007
As soon as I alighted the plane and stepped on the tarmac of Kota Kinabalu's (KK) modern airport I knew it was a place I'd like very much....the intense heat hit me as if I'd walked in to an oven and the cool breeze that followed enveloped my body as if in a welcome hug. The feeling of welcome continued as I collected my rucksack and exited to meet Vincent.
Vincent's the owner of the Tropicana Travel Lodge, he's in his late thirties and has been a resident of KK all his life. He collected me in his beat-up, dirty white, pick-up truck and before transporting me to his hostel he got behind the wheel and popped a can of beer, lit a joint and switched Bob Marley's Exodus on the cassette player....I was right, KK's going to be awash with hazy, lazy days :-)
Vincent & Sachiko
It took around forty minutes to reach the hostel and after floating most of the way there I was pleasantly surprised how homely it felt, I half expected it to be filled with cannabis related paraphernalia....Bob Marley posters, bongs and hippy chic rich kid students taking a gap year out to rebel against their parents.... or anything they could think of to rebel against!
One of the main reasons I booked the hostel was because the website advertised a balcony with a jungle view. Unsurprisingly the 'balcony' turned out to be a 3ft wide, 20ft long gangway and the 'jungle view' was nothing more than the overgrown garden at the back of the building! That aside, it was a lovely place to sit and watch the firefly's do their nightly dance, the butterflies brought forth their usual array of colour to the morning light and geckos scurried the walls, floors and ceilings as fast as their little legs would carry them. Geckos, it seems, are akin to how us westerners view mice,,,,vermin! When one of the female cleaners spotted one of these creatures she'd run screaming something in Malay and you wouldn't see her for the rest of the morning. Vincent, on the other hand, told me that he enjoyed flicking elastic bands at them....of course, he often missed as his stoned out eyes saw two or three geckos when there really was only one. I'm really not exaggerating or judging here, from the time Vincent awoke to the time he went to bed, he drank copious amounts of beer and smoked cannabis at a rate of at least twenty a day! Although, please don't misunderstand, he wasn't falling over drunk / stoned - he managed himself and his habits well. After all, he runs three or four very successful businesses. The hostel does well, Mook Lodge (in partnership with Justin) is a haven and the tours / trips that Vincent organises are truly experiences of a lifetime.
For example; the day after my arrival Vincent, Sachiko and I took a boat to Mamutik island to spend the day snorkeling. I was a bit nervous as I'd never snorkeled in my life as I can't see that much without wearing my specs... I was also a little nervous as Vincent had already drank a few cans of beer and smoked several joints for his breakfast! Anyway, we managed to arrive safe and sound, but the day was a bit of a wash out as it started to rain and the prescription goggles I was given made me feel as if drunk! The day got a lot better when our late afternoon meal arrived.Vincent excelled himself and really wanted us to have a memorable day. He arranged for several of the islands inhabitants to catch fresh seafood and BBQ it for us.....we ate like kings. Sea fresh prawns, crab, muscles and groupie were cooked and it was wonderful being served by the locals who also climbed coconut trees to bring us fresh milk. Sitting under the canopy that draped between the trees really endeared me to both Sachiko and Vincent as we chatted and laughed for a few hours until the sun came back out.
Mamutik Island Snorkeler
Vincent is very charming and seems to know almost everyone in and around KK....he says that he's a free thinking, unapologetic eccentric that loves life and the adventure it brings. Sachiko, on the other hand, is quite shy and says that she has limited experience of travel and life. She's a school teacher who lives in a village near Tokyo and KK was one of the first real holidays she'd taken in some time....she'd never met anyone like Vincent before, or I for that matter, and only the booked Tropicana Travel Lodge for the balcony and its jungle view.... she wasn't that impressed! Sachiko checked out the following day sighting that she could no longer cope with the smoke and the beer swilling students she shared her dorm with didn't help either! Then again, I don't think I could cope with sharing a six bedded dorm with five straight lads either.....or could I! :-)
My room was the only single at the hostel that consisted of four sleeping areas, two showers, two toilets, a lounge, kitchen and 'balcony'. Two dorms are for six people to share, one room is the family room which sleeps four and my room had a double bed, TV and DVD too. My room cost a lot more than the dorm rooms (about six pounds per night more!), but I value my privacy and haven't compromised this my whole trip. It's cost me to go private and my budget has been excelled as a consequence, but can you imagine sharing with travelling people....all that farting, bad breath and lack of personal hygiene! I'm not a prissy old queen by no means, though I know some of you might disagree, but sharing toilets and showers is my limit.
In fact, I didn't disclose my sexuality to anybody in KK....of course, I'm certainly not closeted...more out and proud :-) I just get a little fed up of 'coming out' every time I meet someone new. Imagine if heterosexuals were to put their sexuality out there each time they meet somebody new? People can be so idiosyncratic (not all, but some), they can't see the wood for the trees and can discriminate the 'act' of sexuality rather than seeing the person as a whole. It was quite an experience as many people seem to assume that their fellow human beings are straight. Don't misunderstand, I never denied a fundamental part of my being, I was just careful with my terminology....if someone asked if I had a wife I could honestly say no, but I have a daughter and my partners a nurse!
After spending several days exploring KK....walking through the history of the Sabah museum, having a beer or two along the waterfront bars, taking in the beauty of the Islamic museum and the wonderfully kept heritage park with its replicated village scenes, lakes, bridges and walkways, through Vincent, I arranged my onward journey.
I flew to Sandanken and took a taxi to the Sepitok Jungle resort that's just a five minute walk form the orangutan rehabilitation centre....not that I knew there's a kind of Betty Ford clinic for monkeys....I was quite surprised that many of them abuse drink and drugs! :-)
It was pretty amazing to see these big ginger creatures swinging on ropes and trees to their feeding time platform....six of them in all, five adults with a tiny baby in tow. Thankfully, not many tourist go to the afternoon feeding time and this gave those who were there a great opportunity to observe the gingers in an almost natural environment. Although, I did wonder who was watching who? It seemed as much as I was observing them, they were eating their bananas while watching me.
Kitabatagan was my next port of call; I enjoyed a three day rainforest trek that included several sightseeing treks and cruises along the Kitabatagan river. A minibus collected me from the Sepitok resort at around noon and Christian and Kate were already on the bus, Zac and Jo joined us along the way and Now and Lisa were already at the camp site. Christian, from Sweden, and his English girlfriend, Kate, had started travelling the world a year ago and told some wonderful stories. Zac, form Nashville, and Jo, from Huddersfield, had met while teaching English to Thai children in North Thailand and are as alike as chalk and cheese. Jo being the love sick fag hag to Zac and Zac's so laid back that he almost walked horizontally. Now and Lisa, from Tokyo, are one of the sweetest couples I've ever met and I've met many people along this journey of mine, but honestly, the Japanese and Koreans are some of the most humble of people....kind, polite, quite unassuming and genuinely sweet. Need less to say, we all got along real well and shared the site with some wonderful staff too. Louise and Rebbecca were our cruise / trek guides ...strange names really, both are male! Actually, many of the men I met around Kitabatagan have female names, not that they're transvestites...although, I don't really know what they did in their spare time. I think their parents had watched western TV and misunderstood male and female characters....but, hey....who am I to judge :-) Anyway, they're were both splendid at guiding the party to some awesome sights.
Zac & Joe
Each day there were two cruises....sunrise and sunset....and two treks....mid afternoon and early night. The creatures I saw in their natural habitat was mind blowing. Several species of monkey swung the trees of the jungle and included orangutan, silver tail and the ones that look like Jimmy Durante - proboscis. The wild boar were scary, especially as they were just standing there in the eerie sunset shadows of a dense forest. Crocodile, lizards and snakes are as creepy as they appear on TV or in zoo's. And the hornbill birds are as colourful as a rainbow seen from a far distance. The night time treks are like being a boy scout on a new adventure. Tarantulas lurked in the holes of trees as tall as skyscrapers and bugs, the likes of which I've never seen before, were both beautiful and creepy at the same time. Millipede's, the size of a ruler, scurried across the jungle floor and bats hung from the branches of the trees near its ceiling. Storks and Kingfisher's flew across the breathtakingly blue morning sky while illegal loggers rode logs down a river so filled with life it was difficult to comprehend my actual place / situation.....It felt so exciting to be in Borneo and its endangered rainforest!
My accommodation at the camp site was very basic and had a kind of rustic feel. I had a small log cabin with a view of the river, a small cold shower was attached and a small fan limitingly helped cool the intense heat of the surrounding jungle. The camp itself is surrounded by an electric fence which keeps the tigers and elephants at bay, but, unfortunately, the water rats are free to roam! One evening I returned to my cabin to find that a rat had chewed a pack of crisps I'd left on the bed, nibbled at a book and dragged a bar of soap to a hole I discovered underneath my bed. I was left to imagine that the rat, I affectionately named him Roland, ate his dinner and wanted a good book to read before taking a shower....I did not sleep easy that night!!
I left Kinabatagan with amazing memories and again....I feel so lucky to have met some wonderful people there too. Before I did leave; I donated some of the money raised to the world wildlife organisation and if you would like to see what that money goes toward then please feel free to have a look at their site.... http://worldwildlife.org - if you enter the word 'Kinabatagan' in their search engine you can peruse many of their projects.
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TAMPA — Many questions remain about how Jaiden Henry vanished and how he ended up in the care of a babysitter seemingly without his mother's knowledge.
But for a moment Monday afternoon, all that mattered was that the 3-year-old was safe. When a sheriff's deputy put Jaiden in his mother's arms, she closed her eyes and squeezed.
"It feels good," she said.
For five hours, Sasha Earnest didn't know if her little "J.J." was alive or dead. Perhaps he was wandering busy streets by himself or had been abducted by a stranger.
The worst fear was that he had walked about 100 yards from their apartment, climbed through the gaping hole in a red picket fence and fallen into the Hillsborough River. Jaiden can't swim.
But about 1 p.m., the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office got in touch with the woman who takes care of Jaiden and his infant sister occasionally while Earnest runs errands or looks for work.
Yes, she had Jaiden, the woman told deputies. They were out shopping at a store up the road.
The woman had no idea of the hunt that had started shortly after 8 a.m. when Jaiden's mother discovered him missing and the apartment door wide open.
Jaiden's grandmother, Angela Allen, said the morning's drama began with a shower.
Earnest got her two children ready for the day, then stepped into the bathroom, leaving a door cracked so she knew when her infant daughter cried.
When she heard the baby, she called Jaiden to find the pacifier.
"J.J., put the Binky in the baby's mouth," the mother said.
It worked once. But the next time, the baby kept crying. Jaiden didn't answer.
Once reunited with her son, Earnest reflected back on those frantic first minutes: "I just tore everything up," she said. "I just wanted to find my baby."
Earnest even ran to the riverbank to see if he was in the water. She then used a neighbor's phone to call 911. Helicopter units, police dogs, divers and at least 30 deputies combed the area.
But it all ended with a phone call to the babysitter. It took only a few minutes for the woman, whose name was not released, to drop off Jaiden at the Riverview Landing apartments across the street from King High School.
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He wants to understand why deputies didn't know about the babysitter until hours into the search. And it still wasn't clear where or when she picked up Jaiden and why the mother wasn't aware.
Then there is the surveillance video from Monday morning showing a boy that resembled Jaiden playing alone outdoors. Gee said he wasn't sure where it came from, possibly a recreation center across Sligh Avenue.
If the boy in the video is indeed Jaiden, that creates another wrinkle in the timeline of his disappearance, Gee said.
Those answers will come. But in that moment when the boy was reunited with his mother, no questions were asked.
Also there to greet him was Octavius Johnson, the man who has helped raise Jaiden since he was 6 months old and is the only father he's ever known. Jaiden's grandmother and a great-aunt wept at the sight of him while family, friends and a gaggle of media surrounded them.
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Atlantic Marine to Build Two OSVs for Hornbeck
Atlantic Marine, Inc. signed a contract with Hornbeck Offshore Services, Inc. of Mandeville, La., to build two large, high capacity, Offshore Supply Vessels (OSVs) to serve the deepwater offshore oil industry in the Gulf of Mexico and worldwide. These two vessels will be built at Atlantic's Alabama Shipyard Division in Mobile, Ala. Both vessels are scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2002. The contract includes options for two additional vessels. The vessels are state-of-the-art OSVs, each equipped with dynamic positioning capability. The vessels will be U.S. flagged and ABS Classed with dual U.S. Coast Guard certificates for both subchapter I and L. The vessels are 260 ft. long, powered by 6,780 hp Caterpillar engines, and have a large cargo capacity, which includes fuel, deck cargo, drill water, dry mud and liquid mud. These two vessels will expand the Hornbeck fleet in the Gulf to 13 OSVs. Hornbeck also operates several tugs and barges in the petroleum transportation market in the Northeastern USA and Puerto Rico. "We are especially pleased to have Hornbeck return to Atlantic Marine for the construction of these two vessels," said Dick Wells, President of Alabama Shipyard. "This project will add over 100 new jobs to our employment, plus provide stable employment for our current employees throughout 2001."
Alabama Shipyard Sign Contract for ATB
Alabama Shipyard has signed a contract to build an articulated tug and barge (ATB) vessel for Allied Transportation Company of Norfolk, Va. Both vessels will be designed and built to ABS classification standards. "This is our third major contract award during the last four months of 2000," said Dick Wells, the yard's president. "The total value of these contracts is greater than $65 million. Our employment will grow to over 600 an increase of 300 new jobs from today."
Atlantic Marine Expanding Its Rig Repair Capabilities
Atlantic Marine, Inc. has acquired a heavy lift barge, and it is located at its new home on Pinto Island here at the Port of Mobile on the Gulf of Mexico. The barge, named the Mobile Heavy Lifter, will expand Atlantic Marine's capabilities allowing it to accommodate offshore rigs, jackups and semisubmersibles that due to size restrictions are currently unable to fit on Atlantic Marine's largest dry dock; the 50,000 ton drydock, Alabama.
The Petroleum Connection
Building of ATBs Has Become Big Business For Gulf Coast and Great Lakes Shipyards All of the growth markets in the commercial marine marketplace have something to do with petroleum. Supply and crew/supply boats directly support drilling activity and Articulated Tug Barges (ATB) distributes crude, refined or an oil byproduct to refiners or distributors. The ATB represents a big advance in transporting these oil products over a pushboat pushing a tow of petroleum barges
Austal Celebrates Christening Of Future USS Tulsa
Austal Limited has announced that Austal USA has hosted the christening of the future USS Tulsa, the 8th Independence variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) designed and constructed for the United States Navy (USN). Former Mayor of Tulsa and current Chief of Economic Development for the Oklahoma city, Mrs Kathy Taylor formally christened USS Tulsa at a formal ceremony held at Austal USA's Mobile, Alabama shipyard.
First Citywide Ferry Departs for New York
The first of 13 new passenger ferries being built by Horizon Shipbuilding, Inc. for operator Citywide Ferry by Hornblower has departed the Alabama shipyard en route for its new home in New York. The ferry H200 departed to the University of Alabama fight song trumpet fanfare from Horizon on Tuesday, March 21 and will travel approximately 1,700 nautical miles to New York City. The second ferry (H201) is scheduled to depart shortly.
Bay Shipbuilding Picks ATB Design
Ocean Tug & Barge Engineering Corp.'s new ATLANTIC III ATB ocean tugboat design has been chosen by Bay Shipbuilding Corp., of Sturgeon Bay, Wis., a unit of Manitowoc Corp., for construction as the powered portion of a new AT/B the yard will build for Penn Maritime, of Stamford, CT. The 140,000 bbl capacity heated ocean tank barge, will be handled by the latest tug design from Ocean Tug & Barge Engineering Corp., a long established firm whose focus is AT/B, or Articulated
Austal LCS Contracts Signify Navy's Program Commitment
The US Navy has exercised contract options with Austal USA for the construction of LCS 14 & LCS 16. Austal USA's order backlog has grown by approximately $681.7 million dollars as a result of two additional Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) contract options being exercised by the United States Navy. The contract options fund construction of the LCS 14 and LCS 16, the fifth and sixth ships in the 10-ship block buy award made to an Austal-led team in December 2010
U.S. Navy Funds Two More Austal-Built LCS
Austal USA's order backlog has grown by $691 million dollars as a result of two additional Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) contract options being exercised by the United States Navy. The contract options fund construction of the Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) and Omaha (LCS 12), the third and fourth ships in the 10 ship block buy award made to an Austal-led team in December 2010. That 10 ship program is potentially worth over $3.5 billion.
BAE Alabama Wins Dredger Barge Contracts
BAE Systems Southeast Shipyards Alabama wins Great Lakes Dredge & Dock Co. contract to build dredging dump scows The announcement came at the christening of the American Phoenix, a 616-foot-long, 105-foot-wide chemical tanker that BAE built for owner Mid-Ocean Tanker Company LLC of South Norwalk, Conn., a joint venture between private equity firm Alterna Capital Partners and Mid-Ocean Marine, a shipping company also based in South Norwalk.
Austal Wins USD 584.2 million US Navy Contract
Australian shipbuilder Austal has won a $584.2 million contract to build a 14th Littoral Combat Ship for the US Navy, Reuters reported. The contract includes associated LCS class services and related material and integrated data environment support
BAE Systems to Modernize Cruiser USS Vicksburg
BAE Systems will perform ship alternations and miscellaneous repairs aboard the 567-foot-long USS Vicksburg (CG 69) under a $42.9 million U.S. Navy contract. The value of the competitively awarded contract could reach $45.9 million if all options are exercised.
Alabama Port Signs Agreement with Cuba
The Alabama State Port Authority has announced a new memorandum of understanding with the National Port Administration of Cuba, potentially laying the groundwork for future trade deals. The five-year, cooperative agreement was signed at the Tampa Marriott Waterside Hotel in
Marine Exhaust Systems of Alabama Names Simmons CFO
Marine Exhaust Systems of Alabama has appointed Karen C. Simmons, CPA, PFS as Chief Financial Officer effective January 1, 2017.
Austal delivers Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10)
Austal delivered the fifth Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10), to the U.S. Navy on December 23, exactly six months from the date LCS 8 was handed over, at an official document signing ceremony held aboard the ship.
Waterways Council Elects Parker as Chairman
As its Annual Meeting and Board of Directors Meeting in Cincinnati on November 15, 2016, Waterways Council, Inc. (WCI) named Tim Parker, President of Parker Towing, as its Chairman of the Board. Parker succeeds Merritt Lane, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canal Barge Company.
Grand Bahama Shipyard Adds Four Executives
Grand Bahama Shipyard Limited (GBSL), a Caribbean shipyard providing retrofit, refurbishment and revitalization to cruise and commercial vessels, has added four new positions to its executive team in 2016. Taking up the new executive positions are Ian Edward Ross, Don Keirce
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Austal Delivers Seventh EPF7 to US Navy
Austal Limited (Austal) informed that the U.S. Navy has accepted delivery of USNS Carson City (EPF 7) from Austal USA, during a ceremony held aboard the ship at Austal USA's shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, USA on 24 June. This is the second vessel delivered by Austal USA to the U.S
Austal Delivers LCS 8 to US Navy
Austal Limited (Austal) (ASX:ASB) delivered the future USS Montgomery (LCS 8) to the U.S. Navy, during a ceremony held aboard the ship at Austal USA's shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, USA on 23 June. The delivery of LCS 8 marks the fourth Independence-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Austal
USNS Carson City Completes Acceptance Trials
Austal Limited announced that Expeditionary Fast Transport 7 (EPF 7), USNS Carson City has completed U.S. Navy acceptance trials. The trials were undertaken in the Gulf of Mexico and involved comprehensive testing of the vessel's major systems and equipment by the U.S. Navy.
Austal Wins Support Deal for LCS 8
Austal Limited announced it has secured an order worth nearly $11.8 million from the U.S. Navy to provide engineering and management services for advance planning and design in support of the Post Shakedown Availability for the Littoral Combat Ship Montgomery (LCS 8).
World Marine Earns SCA Safety Awards
World Marine, LLC has received the Shipbuilders Council of America's (SCA) annual "Excellence in Safety" award as well as the "Improvement in Safety" award. SCA, the national association representing the U.S. shipyard industry
Austal USA Named Alabama Manufacturer of the Year
Austal USA was named Alabama's manufacturer of the year by the Alabama Technology Network and the Business Council of Alabama during a ceremony in Montgomery, Ala. This makes Austal a three-time honoree in the award's 16-year history; once as a medium company and twice as a large
Alabama Shipyard to Repair MSC Tanker
World Marine of Alabama (WMA), a division of World Marine, LLC, competitively bid and won a contract to dry-dock and repair the USNS Lawrence H. Gianella (T-AOT-1125), a Military Sealift Command (MSC) tanker operated by Ocean Shipholdings, Inc.


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Returning starting guards Tyler Haws and Matt Carlino are going to lead the BYU basketball team in scoring this year.
That quickly became apparent at the Cougars held their annual intrasquad game on Wednesday night at the Marriott Center, the Cougar Tipoff.
It wasn't a true game, however.
The first 20 minutes was a game, as Carlino starred for the White squad and Haws for the Blue squad. The talent was split fairly evenly between the teams, and the White took a 35-34 win.
After halftime, the White team included all the scholarship players (with the exception of Wake Forest transfer Chase Fischer, who has to sit out this year due to NCAA transfer rules.). The Blue team had Fischer, the walk-ons and practice squad players.<


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As I was working on some cardio at the gym on Friday, I was thinking about the upcoming football game (It makes for a pleasant distraction from the torture). I could just see Mike Thomas having a big day against the San Diego Chargers on Monday Night. And so, the X-Factor series was born (and no, I am not talking about that America's Got Talent ripoff).The offensive X-Factor for this week will be Jacksonville Jaguars WR Cecil Shorts.
Cecil Shorts III will have a breakout game against the Chargers, With Brian Robiskie out of the lineup, Cecil Shorts will probably get a lot more playing time, and I believe that he will make the most out of it. It is no secret that Cecil Shorts has a lot of speed. Something tells me that he will be a major target on play-action passes. The safeties and linebackers will probably be so keyed in on Maurice Jones-Drew, that Cecil Shorts could run past their corner for a huge gain iuf he can catch the ball. He gained a reputation through out training camp for making incredible catches and not dropping anything that came his way. I think that we can get a look at what everyone saw from him during training camp on Monday
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Revelation 14:14-20
The Sharp Sickle In Revelation Bible scriptures located in Revelation 14:14-20 explains directly from God's Word the Sharp Sickle In Revelation topic.
Revelation 14:14
And I looked, and behold a white cloud, and upon the cloud one sat like unto the Son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
Revelation 14:15
And another angel came out of the temple, crying with a loud voice to him that sat on the cloud, Thrust in thy sickle, and reap: for the time is come for thee to reap; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.
Revelation 14:16
And he that sat on the cloud thrust in his sickle on the earth; and the earth was reaped.
Revelation 14:17
And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.
Revelation 14:18
And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.
Revelation 14:19
And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.
Revelation 14:20
And the winepress was trodden without the city, and blood came out of the winepress, even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand and six hundred furlongs.
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Three scathing pages --- a "must read" article.
Page 2. Americans have learned the hard way that there was and is a serious effort by some of the most powerful figures in American journalism to quite deliberately keep Americans from making "informed decisions" by denying them accurate information. By ignoring major news stories. By not reporting stories that were or are at variance with liberal politics, as if, like Mary Meyer's diary or John Edwards' affair with Rielle Hunter or Van Jones' speeches or ACORN's scandals or Mark Levin's book they simply didn't exist.
Or, if the subject was someone like a Goldwater, not simpatico with the journalist's personal political beliefs, sticking it to the target with the editor's scissors. Thus, when it came to stories like the Goldwater/Nazi story or the Goldwater/Bircher story -- presto! -- these false stories are, to use your term of art, "vetted" to deliberately mis-portray their subject..


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Surely one of our world's most endangered species -- right up there with the Mountain Gorilla or the Sumatran Tiger -- is the church "ministerius youthii."That was the conviction of the late Louis McBurney, a Mayo Clinic-trained psychiatrist who spent decades at his Colorado retreat center helping ministers crushed by the demands and temptations of their jobs. Youth ministers, for example, face stunning parental expectations, low pay, the loss of privacy and a nagging sense of … [Read more...]
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Zakinthos is the southernmost of the Heptanesoi. Like a bowl holding something precious, the mountains of Zakinthos enclose the fertile central plain. The Venetians called Zakinthos "the flower of the Levant." Until its total destruction in the 1953 earthquake the towns consisted largely of Venetian buildings. In the rebuilding of the island, a Venetian aura has been retained -spacious boulevards, arcaded shops and imposing public buildings. A museum houses some of the relics particularly some fine icons. The island offers some spectacular scenery.
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MGMT set September release date for new album
MGMT has finally hashed out the details surrounding the band's long-awaited third album. The duo announced Tuesday that the disc will be self-titled, and will hit stores on September 17th.
According to a press release, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser have been assembling "a variety of unique visual elements to accompany and illuminate" the new tunes, with the track "Your Life Is a Lie" the first in line to get the music video treatment.
But fans have already had a taste of the new album thanks to the special Record Store Day release of the opening track, "Alien Days." And they may hear even more during one of the duo's upcoming summer festival gigs.
MGMT is also scheduled to start a European tour in the fall, with a U.S. trek set to follow in November and December.
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Congregation of several of this species at a gravel pit area where soil & rock had been excavated for road construction.
This looks very similar to a species I photographed in Rwanda. One of the experts told me it's one of the Admirals - Antanartia sp. possibly A. schaensis. I've tried to add the ID but the finder can't seem to find a species like that. Hope this helps in the right direction.
Here's a link to my photo on Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/marcell_claassen/3271090319/in/set-72157624451669941/
Coincidentally, I was just reminded of the similarities that this butterfly shares with an Admiral species that I observed in the US a year ago, and that was recently IDed on iNaturalist: http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/19389
Many thanks Marcel for starting me on the right track. An annotated list of Bioko butterflies is locked up on JStor, but I also found the work of Evan Weyland, who I would bet was a student or collaborator of the Bioko Biodiversity Protection Program. Weyland lists two Antanartias from his surveys, and that A. dimorphica was only found in the montane site (same as this observation). Quick Google image search supports an A. dimorphica ID. Would love to confirm it with the Bioko list publication, but this ID should be pretty close.


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The Delta: Salmon fishing has slowed down on the Sacramento River, but there are still fish being caught from Rio Vista up to Clarksburg. A lot of anglers are using Kwikfish, Killer Bees, Silvertons and Scarey Lures.
Anglers are jigging for salmon with Gibb's Minnows, and Pucci Spoons from mouth of the Old Sac and Steamboat Slough.
Striper trollers are fishing in the areas of the Old Dairy, Horseshoe Bend, along the West Bank to Collinsville. Most fish are running 4-9 pounds with an occasional fish in the teens using deep-diving Rebels, Yozuris. Shallow runners are using Yozuris, Angry Eyes and shallow-running Bombers.
Bait fishing has picked up using shad, sardines, and mudsuckers from the Rio Vista Bridge, Decker Island and Sherman Island.
Sturgeon was off the hook last weekend. Reports came from fishing at the Power Lines, Light 8, and Lights 1 and 2, as well as the Stacks at Pittsburg. Best baits are roe, eel and shrimp baits.
More and more Stripers are being reported on the San Joaquin River. Trollers are using Rebels, shallow-running P-Line Predators and Bombers. The Port of Stockton is kicking out stripers using jumbo minnows.
Bait fishermen are using shad, anchovies, sardines and mudsuckers. Best areas have been San Andreas, Santa Clara down to Eddos. Wayne Purdy and Arle Ahl caught limits with big fish up to 17 pounds using shad at Eddos.
Black bass anglers are use Spinner Baits, Jigs and Plastics.
Lake Amador: One-thousand trout per day are being planted with 15,000 pounds of fish up to 4 pounds planted so far. Anglers are concentrating in the area of the dam since that's where most of the fish have been planted.
Lake Camanche: Trout fishermen are trolling Excels, Needlefish and Serpent Spoons. Best speed is 2.5-3 mph and stay in the deeper water at 20-40 feet. Best areas are from northshore and southshore all the way to the dam. There is a reward for fish with orange tags, so take them to the northshore or southshore store. There were 100 tagged fish planted and two were caught in last weekend's derby.
Bass fishermen are using crawdad-type baits, rip baits, and worms.
New Melones: Trolling for trout is a little tougher now due to water temperature changes. Anglers are still using Rapalas, Excalibur Lures, Excels, Serpent Spoons and Needlefish, working all areas as the fish are scattered all over the lake.
Ocean: The crab catch is fantastic. Large crabs are being hauled in out of Bodega Bay, Half Moon Bay and Lawson's Landing. Very easy limits and rock Fishing is still very good.
Local fisherman Mike Faught is the owner of Fisherman's Friend in Lodi. To view the Fisherman's Friend website go to www.mrkokanee.com.


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Wonderful Nonsense - The Algonquin Round Table is a companion historical documentary that accompanies Chapter 21:The Scandal of 1920 in The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones. It appears on Disc 8 of Volume 3. It has a run-time of 26 minutes.
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"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening." / "That woman speaks 18 languages and can't say no in any of them." / "Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?" / "Anything can happen, but it usually doesn't." / "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone." -- New York City. 1920. The First World War was over. Flush with victory and dreams of riches, America was ready for something new. Manhattan was the place to be. New Yorkers were feeling confident and sassy. The connoisseurs of the new culture could be found at a daily lunch at a circular table inside a hotel called the Algonquin. They became known as the Algonquin Round Table.
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The Pac-12 Conference is home to some of the nation's most prestigious academic universities, institutions that have borne industry giants in technology, medicine and science. Collectively, the schools are used to being bellwethers, their sense of innovation as much a part of the West Coast culture as the weather.
Which is why, after years of stodginess in their approach to providing and monetizing media exposure for their nationally renowned athletics programs, they aren't just upgrading. Beginning Wednesday, they are launching one of the grandest, boldest -- and, potentially, most lucrative -- experiments in college sports: the Pac-12 Networks, a TV enterprise completely owned and controlled by a conference.
But it's not only about television. It's about the Web, with a new site, Pac-12.com, also debuting Wednesday. It's about mobile. It's about money.
Some projections have the Pac-12 Networks, along with a 12-year, $3 billion deal with Fox and ESPN, providing roughly $30 million a school annually after a recent period in which some Pac-12 schools received slightly more than a quarter of that and their athletics programs became heavily dependent on university general funds.
"My mandate was, how do you take this storied conference with all of this success but is undervalued, under-leveraged from an exposure standpoint, as well as a revenue standpoint, and help kind of turn it around, build an enterprise that stays true to the values of the conference?" Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott says. "How do we blow this thing out?"
Answering his own question, Scott said during the conference's recent football media day event in Los Angeles, "The idea is Pac-12 content, anywhere, anytime, by any device."
Pac-12 Enterprises President Gary Stevenson added, "We don't think just about a television network or a digital network, but rather, we're creating a content company."
Network negotiations ongoing
The TV portion will debut with at least Comcast, Time Warner, Cox, Bright House and the National Cable Television Cooperative on board to distribute varying combinations of six regional networks and one national network that also will be available via computers, tablets and smartphones. Talks with other video programming providers, including DirecTV, Dish, AT&T and Verizon, are ongoing.
So is the fine-tuning of determining where the Pac-12 Networks will be available as part of expanded basic service (which will be the case at least in the schools' surrounding metro areas), where as part of digital service and where as part of a sports tier. That makes it unclear what the subscriber base will be at launch.
The venture has been compared to the Big Ten Network, and the Pac-12 studied its colleague's model. But Fox owns 51% of the Big Ten Network, with the league owning 49%. The Pac-12 has no partner in this project, meaning its start-up costs will be substantial but revenue and decision-making won't have to be shared outside the league.
"We have to execute, do a great job, but fundamentally, the reason we'll be successful is the way we're structured and the quality of content -- and having the resources to do it well," Scott says. "It's a premier offering. I think we had the benefit from learning from the Big Ten, the things they did well and the things they'd improve upon. But we're different. There is no other financial master to serve.
"We think long-term decisions, and we get to invest. We're only responsible to our university presidents."
It's innovative and ambitious. And if it's lucrative, anything at all approaching the windfall the Big Ten has enjoyed since the inception of its network in 2007, it should enable Pac-12 schools to accomplish important competitive and financial goals. That's even assuming the Southeastern Conference regains TV revenue supremacy under deals being reworked because it has added Missouri and Texas A&M.
The Pac-12 prides itself on athletic programs with a wide range of national championship-caliber teams. It would like to maintain -- or improve -- them through facility and coaching-compensation enhancements that have become necessary at the major-college level. They also need to overcome financial woes suffered by some of the member schools recently.
According to a USA TODAY Sports analysis of 2010-11 athletics financial data schools submitted to the NCAA, the then-Pacific-10 Conference had four of the 11 most heavily subsidized public-school athletics programs in conferences with automatic bids to the Bowl Championship Series.
"Where we are and where we're heading, this is solving the economics of our athletics program when I couldn't see a path forward five years ago," says Oregon State President Ed Ray, whose school ranked second on the subsidy list at nearly $17 million. "But I came from Ohio State. The notion that an athletics program could actually not be self-sufficient was a new concept."
In the Pac-12, it might soon become reality. Subsidies decreased in the Big Ten after the launch of BTN. In 2005-06, without newest member Nebraska, the median subsidy for athletics was about $3.4 million. In 2010-11, also without Nebraska, it was down to roughly $2.7 million.
The Big Ten had $232.4 million in revenue, including a $74.3 million cash transfer from its network, according to its federal tax return for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2010. (The conference's most recent tax return did not reflect the transfer but did list annual revenue of $265 million.)
Pac-12 officials are confident they can achieve similar success and enjoy the added benefit of not having to share revenue with anyone on the outside.
"The contract with the major cable operators provides us roughly $60 million a year," says Ray, who also serves as chairman of the Pac-12 CEO group. "That basically pays for the start-up and running of these networks. Everything we do from here on out represents net revenues that come to the campuses."
Contracts lead to big spending
The reverberations already have been felt, even though the money hasn't arrived.
Washington State, which subsidized its athletic department with more than $11.5 million in 2010-11, ninth most among BCS conference public schools, fired football coach Paul Wulff and replaced him with Mike Leach. The former Texas Tech coach will earn $2.25 million this season, up from Wulff's $600,000 last year. Washington State athletics director Bill Moos says the boost from the ESPN/Fox deal was why it was possible. Season ticket sales and annual gifts are up, and all of the suites being constructed as part of an $80 million renovation of Martin Stadium, the conference's smallest football venue, are sold.
Leach is one of four new football coaches in the Pac-12 this season, joining Arizona's Rich Rodriguez, Arizona State's Todd Graham, and UCLA's Jim L. Mora. All four will make more in their first seasons than their predecessors last season. At least four incumbents -- Oregon's Chip Kelly, Washington's Steve Sarkisian, Oregon State's Mike Riley and Utah's Kyle Whittingham -- received raises this season under prior contracts. Oregon, Washington and likely others have increased their assistant coach payrolls since last season.
At Washington, a $250 million overhaul of Husky Stadium and the construction of a new football operations center are underway. Arizona has committed $72 million to stadium improvements. California, which was 11th on the subsidies list at more than $10.5 million, is completing stadium renovation and training facility construction costing $470 million.
"We're all looking for every source of revenue we can find," Cal athletics director Sandy Barbour says. "Certainly, any revenue that comes from television contracts or from our own conference network, that's all going to help us support our student-athletes."
Arizona State, ahead of Cal on the subsidy list, has extensive plans to upgrade its facilities, too.
There are projects totaling at least $1 billion in the works within the conference, all either assisted or enabled by the new media rights package and the promise of a conference network.
It worked in the Big Ten.
"When the network launched, people wondered if it was going to be a colossal failure," says Jeremy Gray, Indiana's assistant athletics director for broadcast services. "Now, it's basically printing money for the schools. It's been far more profitable than anyone anticipated. … It's simply put us at another level financially."
So, naturally, the Pac-12 will try to elevate even higher.
Contributing: Jodi Upton, Zak Keefer. Martin reported from Los Angeles.


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Daily Reading for Monday, August 11th, 2014
Reading 1, Ezekiel 1:2-5, 24-28
2 On the fifth of the month -- it was the fifth year of exile for King Jehoiachin-
3 the word of Yahweh was addressed to the priest Ezekiel son of Buzi, in Chaldaea by the River Chebar. There the hand of Yahweh came on him.
4 I looked; a stormy wind blew from the north, a great cloud with flashing fire and brilliant light round it, and in the middle, in the heart of the fire, a brilliance like that of amber,
5 and in the middle what seemed to be four living creatures. They looked like this: They were of human form.
24 I also heard the noise of their wings; when they moved, it was like the noise of flood-waters, like the voice of Shaddai, like the noise of a storm, like the noise of an armed camp; and when they halted, they lowered their wings;
25 there was a noise too.
26 Beyond the solid surface above their heads, there was what seemed like a sapphire, in the form of a throne. High above on the form of a throne was a form with the appearance of a human being.
27 I saw a brilliance like amber, like fire, radiating from what appeared to be the waist upwards; and from what appeared to be the waist downwards, I saw what looked like fire, giving a brilliant light all round.
28 The radiance of the encircling light was like the radiance of the bow in the clouds on rainy days. The sight was like the glory of Yahweh. I looked and fell to the ground, and I heard the voice of someone speaking to me.
Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 148:1-2, 11-12, 12-14, 14
1 Alleluia! Praise Yahweh from the heavens, praise him in the heights.
2 Praise him, all his angels, praise him, all his host!
11 kings of the earth and all nations, princes and all judges on earth,
12 young men and girls, old people and children together.
13 Let them praise the name of Yahweh, for his name alone is sublime, his splendour transcends earth and heaven.
14 For he heightens the strength of his people, to the praise of all his faithful, the children of Israel, the people close to him.
Gospel, Matthew 17:22-27
22 When they were together in Galilee, Jesus said to them, 'The Son of man is going to be delivered into the power of men;
23 they will put him to death, and on the third day he will be raised up again.' And a great sadness came over them.
24 When they reached Capernaum, the collectors of the half-shekel came to Peter and said, 'Does your master not pay the half-shekel?'
25 'Yes,' he replied, and went into the house. But before he could speak, Jesus said, 'Simon, what is your opinion? From whom do earthly kings take toll or tribute? From their sons or from foreigners?'
26 And when he replied, 'From foreigners,' Jesus said, 'Well then, the sons are exempt.
27 However, so that we shall not be the downfall of others, go to the lake and cast a hook; take the first fish that rises, open its mouth and there you will find a shekel; take it and give it to them for me and for yourself.'
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By Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY
Ray Randolph did it. He canceled his satellite service, realizing that with a small set-top box from Roku he could bring Internet entertainment and a great deal of TV content to his TV, without paying those huge monthly bills.
"We went from $120 a month to $9 a month and could not be happier," says Randolph of Lakewood, Colo. "We haven't missed not having satellite at all."
With his Roku box, which costs around $99, he gets access to Netflix's library of 20,000 movies and mostly older TV series. He also gets first-run movies and TV shows from Amazon Video-on-Demand ($1 for most TV shows, $3.99 and $4.99 for current movies) and Roku Newscaster, which archives current newscasts from CBS, NBC, CNN and MSNBC.
There is so much movie and TV programming online now that Clicker.com, a search engine for online media, points to more than 1 million episodes of mostly free TV programming on the Web. Like Randolph, many consumers are either cutting the cord completely — letting go of satellite and cable — or adding boxes such as Roku, the $99 Apple TV, the $299 Logitech Revue for Google TV and others to access the fare.
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The benefit: Watch what you want to, when you want to. And because the Internet is so vast, you can find virtually anything you're interested in online — Spanish guitar performances, cooking demos, silly videos, artsy student films — and enjoy it from the comfort of your bed or couch on a flat-screen TV in high-definition, instead of on a small computer screen.
"I have a son age 7, and he finds plenty to watch on Roku," says Joe Voris, a library media specialist at a Bedford, Ind., high school. "Even my 16-month-old daughter loves to watch Barney on Netflix."
He says his friends don't get his non-traditional approach to TV watching, but adds: "We're making our own TV experience. It just feels more individualized."
You don't have to ditch cable to enjoy one of the Web TV set-top boxes. Instead, you can use the box to complement what you currently get on TV. Missed the latest episode of Fox's Glee and don't want to wait for the rerun in January? Rent it for a buck via Amazon on Roku or iTunes on Apple TV.
Already paying monthly for Netflix? Why wait for the discs to arrive? With Apple TV, Roku, Google TV, Boxee and Western Digital's new WD TV Live Hub, you can access Netflix's library on your set.
Installation for most of the boxes is simple: Just power them up and plug an HDMI cable from the back of the unit into the TV.
The oldest of the offerings is a simple small black device that ranges from $59.99 to $99 for a model with increased Wi-Fi range. You get a choice of more than 75 channels of programming that need to be added to your lineup manually. Highlights: Netflix, Amazon, Hulu Plus (shows from NBC, Fox and ABC for $9.99 monthly, coming later this year), music site Pandora and video-sharing site Vimeo. There are sports subscriptions from Major League Baseball and the NFL, and many networks you may or may not have heard of, including online programmer Revision3, on-demand subscription music from MOG, and Newscaster. You can't currently stream content from your computer to the TV, but Roku says that's coming soon.
Apple TV
The newly redesigned box is smaller and cheaper than previous models ($99 vs. $229). You can catch current movies and TV shows from iTunes, subscription movies from Netflix, free video from YouTube, photo sharing from Flickr, and your own video, music and photos from your computer, as long as they're stored in iTunes and in one of the Apple video formats. Apple TV won't play, for instance, Windows Media Video files.
Google TV
The new initiative from search giant Google promises to bring the "complete" Internet to your TV, not just specific channels, via new TVs from Sony that range from $599 to $1,399, and a $299 set-top box from Logitech, the Revue. The Revue comes with a large keyboard that acts as your navigator to websites, as well as Apple TV and Roku-like applications that open up Internet entertainment with one quick click. Apps include movies and TV shows from Amazon and Netflix, video from YouTube and music-subscription service Napster. TV networks Fox, CBS, NBC and ABC have blocked their programming from Google TV, as has Hulu, in a licensing dispute with Google.
The new $199 Boxee Box by D-Link promises the best of both worlds — Google TV's access to the complete Internet with easier installation and a smaller remote control. Via Boxee, you can access Netflix, Hulu Plus (both coming by the end of the year) and Vudu, the Wal-Mart-owned service that offers rentals of current movies. If you're a do-it-yourselfer, Boxee offers tips on how to make your own Boxee on its website by downloading its software and plugging your laptop into the TV. You can use your iPhone or Android phone as the remote.
WD TV Hub
What if your main interest is beaming video content from your computer to the TV, and making your box double as a massive 1-terabyte hard drive? That's the selling point for Western Digital's $199 WD TV Live Hub, which can access your content, plus add channels from Netflix, Pandora, YouTube and movie rentals from Blockbuster On Demand. Unlike the other boxes, WD TV does not have built-in Wi-Fi. In a major design flaw, you have to plug the WD TV into your Internet router and the TV, so your router had better be nearby. WD's solution is a Wi-Fi dongle, which sells for around $50 and doesn't come with the unit.
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Basic Cake Ball Pops
Berry Refreshing
Heart-shaped silicone baking cups make for a special, and effortless, presentation of everyone's favorite – fruit flavored gelatin! With candy "leaves" and icing "seeds," these individual treats will delight young and old.
Brownie Bits Cheesecake
Brownie Ice Cream Sandwiches
Caramel Apple Cheesecake With Glazed Pecans
This is what you get when you cross an apple pie with cheesecake – a combination with the best qualities of both. The glazed pecans enhance the cake tremendously, so don't leave them out!
Cherry Coffee Cake Ring
Spirals of cheesecake-filled dough flecked with deep red cherries arranged in a round. The perfect breakfast bread, snack or dessert.
Chocolate Chip Cookie Bowls
Edible bowls are such fun! Perfect for serving ice cream, fruit, mousse and so much more.
Chocolate Cookie Bowls
Edible bowls are such fun! Perfect for serving ice cream, fruit, mousse and so much more.
Chocolate Cream Stacks
Chocolate wafer cookies, creamy vanilla whipped icing and rich chocolate sauce – a simple recipe with WOW impact, perfect for any special occasion dessert.
Cream Cheese Fresh Fruit Tart
A simple dessert with a very fancy look. Dazzling fresh fruit, beautifully arranged is always an easy way to add color and flavor. This recipe adapts easily to any fruit in season.
Creme de Menthe Bars
A tempting homemade treat that's wonderful to share. Whether enjoyed over coffee or tea with a friend, a dinner party dessert or as a gift, the mint and chocolate flavor combination will excite every palate.
Dark Chocolate Cheesecake
Rich and creamy, the best of the dessert world — chocolate and cheesecake — combined!
Dreamy Ice Cream Cake
Ice cream dressed for company! The perfect size for a small gathering of friends, the special pan makes it easy … all will be duly impressed.
Festive Cherry Almond Chip Biscotti
Biscotti are traditional Italian biscuits (cookies) that have been updated in recent years with different flavor combinations and often are decorated for a more festive look. They are first baked as a loaf, cut into their signature oblong strips, then baked a second time to dry them out and add the crunch.
Festive Rice Cereal Cake
Fruit and nuts transform simple crisp rice cereal treats into a dessert all ages will enjoy! When made in a shaped pan, it's guest-approved!
Finger Gelatin
Gingerbread Cookie Bowls
Edible bowls are such fun! Perfect for serving ice cream, fruit, mousse and so much more.
Glazed and Sprinkled Doughnuts
Doughnuts are all the rage and it's so easy to make baked cake-style doughnuts at home when you have the right equipment. We show you a variety of ways to finish these treats off, making them company-perfect!
Lovely Ladyfinger
No one will guess how easy this impressive dessert is to make. Ladyfingers can be found in the bakery section of the supermarket. Make your own flavored cream cheese or purchase pre-flavored to use.
Orange Flower Power
Refreshing creamy citrus in a fun flower shape. The perfect addition to a ladies' luncheon, dinner on the patio, or dessert after a heavy meal.
Peanut Cereal Treat
This will soon become a family favorite! Mold it in a shaped pan or simply press into a 13 x 9 in. pan and cut as you please (metal cutters make fun shapes!)
Raspberry Fudge Cheesecake
There may be no dessert flavors better paired than chocolate and raspberry. We´ve highlighted this perfect match in a creamy cheesecake with a rich fudge topping.
Spiced Whoopie Pies with Lemon Crème
Strawberry Mousse
The Ultimate Quadruple Chocolate Brownie
Four different chocolates in a single bite – you'll think you died and went to heaven! Despite the elegant taste, these brownies are so easy to make.
Tiramisu Charlotte
This traditional coffee-infused custard and cake Italian dessert takes on a new shape – as a charlotte. The chocolate-dipped ladyfingers add an elegant look that's so easy to make.
Whipped Ganache
Chocolate mousse kicked up a few notches – deep dark chocolate flavor in a rich creamy base – YUM!
Whipped Ganache
Zucchini & Apple Bread
The flavors of a fall harvest and cinnamon are welcoming and comforting, perfect for someone whose spirits may need a lift. And while the flavor says autumn, the ingredients are available year-round – so enjoy!


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Rodney Smith presents "Enthusiast to Advocate"
Preserve Brevard
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
Who's Going
San Francisco, California
London, United Kingdom
Florence, Italy
Event Details
Learn why you should become an advocate for the issues that are important to you. Captain Rodney Smith worked as a fishing guide on the Indian River Lagoon Coast for years while serving as publisher of Coastal Angler magazine and writing several books. As Chairman of the Marine Resources Council and a leader of Anglers for Conservation, Rodney has become a strong advocate for protecting our natural resources. His presentation will cover his experiences that led him to serve as an advocate for issues that he considers important.
When & Where
Brevard Zoo Nyami Nyami River Lodge
8225 North Wickham Road
Wednesday, August 21, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM (EDT)
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Preserve Brevard
Non-profit 501(c)(3) organization formed to support conservation lands in Brevard County. Parent organization for Friends of Ulumay and Friends of the Thousand Islands.
Viera Voice is also a host organization for this event.
2017 Sponsors include: Brevard Indian River Lagoon Coalition, Conradina Chapter FNPS, Friends of the Carr Refuge, Keep Brevard Beautiful, Marine Resources Council, Surfrider Foundation - Sebastian Inlet Chapter and Anglers for Conservation. More may be added.


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- Dates:
- March 24-26, 2006
- Description:
- Otago Workshop in International Trade
- Location:
- Otago Peninsula, New Zealand
- Subject:
- The workshop is intended to bring together a small group of trade economists, and consequently there will only be plenary sessions. We invite colleagues in this field (JEL-Classification F0 to F2) to submit their papersfor presentation at the workshop.[gem?_?? den Informationen des Anbieters - according to site editor's information]The website is no longer available.[Redaktion EconBiz - editors EconBiz]
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Presidents Day is Monday. Here is a list of closings in observance of the holiday.
• Westmoreland County, state and federal offices and courts.
• Post offices, no mail pickup or delivery. (Express Mail will be delivered.)
• Most schools.
• State liquor stores and most banks. (Some branches in supermarkets will be open.)


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Vincent Fleuranceau --> m0n0wall (2004-07-23 16:54:42 +0200):
> >has explicit rules to let these connections pass they are blocked
> >because of an automatically generated rule wich is evaluated
> >earlier:
> >Is this a bug in m0n0wall or am I missing something?
> There are hard-coded rules (anti-spoof check for LAN and OPT interfaces)
> in m0n0wall that cannot be disabled. Because of the "quick" keyword,
> user-defined rules (which come after the anti-spoof check) have no
> effect... Not a bug, a design choice. Sorry :-(
> Read the code in filer.inc and you'll see why.
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Schoolgirls from Mill Hill joined voices with thousands of children in a mass choir at the O2 Arena last night.
Thirty-six pupils from The Mount School travelled to Greenwich to take part in the Young Voice concert.
With the help of the school's head of music Anthony Wilson the girls had been preparing for the event since September, learning dance moves as well as a wide range of songs.
Eight-year-old Andia Zarinabad, a pupil at the school, said: "The dancing was fun because we had to move a lot. I am sure the people who watched us were impressed."
In harmony with schoolchildren around the O2, the girls performed songs from musicals as well as rock and pop medleys.
Francesca Prideaux, 11, added: "I loved the O2 because of the way that everyone joined in together to sing. It was so loud and made us all smile."


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Hi Statalisters,
I am trying to check into the (Rao's) score (or commonly known as the Lagrange Multiplier) test for a model that I am working on. I got results from SAS already, and I want to see if those from SAS would square with the one produced from my own Stata codes.
They don't match, and looks like I probably made some mistakes in my Stata codes. For the generalized formula to get the Chi-Square statistic, I need to get the gradient and the inverse of the information matrix. For the inverse of the information matrix, I can grab from e(V) directly without any further calculation.
So I might've made some mistake in the gradient. I've searched through the voluminous Stata pdf documentation using gradient as the key word, and I was not able to find useful information. But I vaguely remember a while back ago when I was also checking into related issues, I read somewhere that the e(gradient) matrix is a gradient with respect to xb, not b, so I suspect that might be the cause. I am wondering if that's the case. If I am right on this, then a follow-up question is how to recover the gradient with respect to b since I feel there might not be a linear transformation that I can use to get it directly. Any input/suggestion would be appreciated.
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Associate Professor
Department of Sociology
Ball State University
Muncie, IN 46037
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Increasing idiosyncratic risk and converging gender differentials in the labor market
The gender differentials in schooling and labor market outcomes have narrowed significantly in the last few decades. At the same time, it is well documented that idiosyncratic income risk has risen over the same period. We define idiosyncratic risk as the variance of the unobserved wage component in the labor market. We estimate the structural parameters of the model using the US data on schooling, employment and earnings in the 1970s. With a mean-preserving increase in the wage variance, men, who used to work 80 to 90 percent of the time, are now more likely to stay home due to more frequent realizations of big negative wage shocks, and hence their motive for human capital accumulation through schooling and working weakens. In contrast, women, who used to work much less than men, now work more due to more frequent realizations of big positive wage shocks, and their motive for human capital accumulation through schooling and working intensifies. We quantify such effects and conclude that the increase in idiosyncratic income risk can account for much of the observed converging pattern of gender differentials in schooling and labor market outcomes over the last 30 years.
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Hunters and Collectors
Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, the Enmore, ticketek.com.au
The iconic Aussie rockers have some of our greatest songs in their catalogue, and you can expect them to roll them out when they play two big nights at the Enmore Theatre. Mark Seymour and co still have the goods live, too, more than 30 years on from their first shows. Tickets for both gigs are $106.10.
Ball Park Music
Saturday, April 5, the Metro, sold out
The Brisbane indie-pop act have proved themselves as one of the country's hardest working bands – after all, they have three solid albums in two years to their names. The latest is Puddinghead, which has been happily embraced by fans. Now fans have shown support with their feet, with this gig selling out fast.
Saturday and Sunday, April 5 and 6, Opera House, sydneyoperahouse.com
Despite the recent weather, the western boardwalk of the Sydney Opera House will be bright this weekend with this celebration of indigenous music and dance. Hip-hoppers Street Warriors, Casey Donovan and Ursula Yovich are amount the live acts turning out for the event. See the Opera House's site for details – and it's free.
The Fratellis
Sunday, April 6, the Metro, ticketek.com.au
Spiky Scot rockers the Fratellis have always had a great audience in Australia – either that or they really enjoy holidaying here – and now they return with new album We Need Medicine in tow. If you're after a beer-in-the-air singalong, you can't go past this gig. Tickets available for $55.30.
Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros
Thursday, April 10, Enmore Theatre, sold out
One of the first Bluesfest acts rolls into town, bringing with them a great third album and reputation for a killer live show. Full of glorious melodies and '60s psychedelic charm, the band are known for buoyant, life-affirming live experiences. Fans know this, too, as the gig sold out well ahead of time.
Friday, April 4
A$AP Ferg
Darold Ferguson jnr, better known as part of the A$AP Mob, A$AP Ferg – which also includes breakout star A$AP Rocky – was named rookie of the year at 2013's BET Awards, but he didn't turn up to the event thinking there was no chance he'd win it. One to look out for, her was last out for Rocky's tour but heads back on his own to show us just why the young Harlem rapper is having his name dropped all over the place. Friday, April 4, 8pm, the Metro, 624 George Street, city, ticketek.com.au, $60.
Harmony with Day Ravies
The down-tempo, skewed rock project from former Nation Blue main man Tom Lyngcoln has the kind of original, strangely beautiful edge his music is known for. This time out he's with his drummer wife Alex Kastaniotis, former Mclusky bassist Jon Chapple and a vocal group. They're solid on record, but the real joy is seeing this live – which you have the chance to do, when they hit Goodgod with the excellent Day Ravies in support. Saturday, March 29, 8pm, Goodgod Small Club 53-55 Liverpool St, city, goodgodgoodgod.com, $10.
Monster Magnet
New Jersey monsters of sludge-rock return to these shores armed with nine records and a quarter of a century under their belts in which they've blown minds and eardrums on stage. Frontman Dave Wyndorf brings the band out on the back of latest release Last Patrol, which he elaborately describes as space-noir that surrounds a dark, retro-future trip. Clearly that's something better heard live than written down on paper. Friday, April 4, 8pm, the Hi-Fi, 122 Lang Road, Moore Park, oztix.com.au, $71.50.
Saturday, April 5
Elizabeth Rose
The breakout singer-songwriter Elizabeth Rose has had such a good response to her east coast tour she's managed to squeeze in a Sydney gig before flying out for a couple of shows in Western Australia. On the jaunt she's joined by Canberra's SAFIA and Blue Mountains electro darlings Fishing, and will be celebrating the release of her second EP, Elizabeth Rose. Expect plenty of sweetness among the synths on this bill. Saturday, April 5, 8pm, Oxford Art Factory, 38-46 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, oxfordartfactory.com, $18.50.
Sunday, April 6
St Lucia
The one-man indie-pop band from New York, who takes his name from a pointy Caribbean island, makes the kind of happy-sad, textured synth-pop tunes that don't have to work hard to charm. He's been on a national tour in the US since the start of the year, and now Jean-Philip Grobler packs his bags for a long-haul flight here. Get down early to catch promising Sydney pop-loving party pups the Griswolds. Sunday, April 6, 8pm, Oxford Art Factory, 38-46 Oxford Street, Darlinghurst, oxfordartfactory.com, $46.10.
Multiple Man
The basement city venue the Square doesn't get much promo, but it's one of the live music scene's quiet achievers. The 200-capacity spot has great sound and hosts some of the best left-of-centre indie, punk and underground shows. This night is all about dark, new-wave synth sounds with Brisbane's Multiple Man, who get extra points for an obscure superhero name, Brainbeau, Video Ezy and Seating Plan. Thursday, April 10, 8pm, the Square, cnr George and Hay Streets, Haymarket, palacehotelsydney.com.au, $10.
Steve Kilbey and Mark Gable
Steve Kilbey from the Church and Mark Gable from the Choirboys are no strangers to popular Aussie music, having penned plenty of hits in their time. Now, they bring to the stage a celebration of other memorable tunes from the likes of the Easybeats, the Bee Gees, Daddy Cool, Paul Kelly, Ronnie Burns and more. Expect the pair to pull out some of their originals, too in this all-killer, no-filler night. Thursday, April 10, 8pm, the Vanguard, 42 King Street, Newtown, thevanguard.com.au, $43.80.
Cut Copy
The world-beating electro-popsters are back on home soil, playing the Metro on May 8.
Something for Kate
It's their 20th anniversary and everyone is invited when Something for Kate race through their hits in this retrospective show at the Enmore on July 12.
Dustin Tebbutt
The one-to-watch Sydneysider plays the one-to-watch venue, Newtown Social Club, on May 22.
Violent Soho
Expect all the feels when Violent Soho and the Smith Street Band team up for an emotional rock show at Manning Bar on July 11.
Friday, April 4
Lachey Doley Group
The bluesmen launch their new DVD. Venue 505, $20, trybooking.com
Loon Lake
Triple J Darlings take their Good Times national. Oxford Art Factory, $18.50, oxfordartfactory.com
The Ninjas
The post-punk exponents are throwing a party with Birds With Thumbs, Hockey Dad and Noire. FBi Social, $10, fbisocial.com
Sally Seltmann
Talented indie songstress brings her daydream to town, with Wintercoats. The Vanguard, $23.80, thevanguard.com.au
Songs in the Key of Life
Artists celebrate Stevie Wonder. The Basement, $44.50, thebasement.com.au
The Stiffys
Hard-up rock'n'roll from Melbourne, with Surprise Wasp. Oxford Art Factory Gallery Bar, free, oxfordartfactory.com
Vaudeville Smash
Melbourne boys continue their love affair with Sydney stages. Upstairs Beresford, free, upstairsberesford.com.au
Saturday, April 5
Catchy Sydney youngsters are more up-and-comer. Upstairs Beresford, free, upstairsberesford.com.au
Julien Wilson Trio
World-trekking contemporary jazz act launch their album. Venue 505, $20, trybooking.com
Rocking out from Geelong, with Glass Ocean, Little Napier and Jordan Riddle. FBi Social, $10, fbisocial.com
Walk on the Wild Side
Lou Reed and the Velvet Underground get toasted. The Basement, $29.20, thebasement.com.au
Melbourne pop-folkers follow up their promising EP Lemon live. Oxford Art Factory Gallery Bar, free, oxfordartfactory.com
Paul Woseen
Screaming Jets bassist out on his own. Factory Floor, $15, factorytheatre.com.au
Sunday, April 6
When Mother Comes to Visit
Don't be alarmed, it's just a union of the Palumbo Brothers and RAPT. The Vanguard, $20.80, thevanguard.com.au
The Wolfe Brothers
Tasmania rockers hit Erskineville's newest music venue. The Roller Den, $25.50, oztix.com.au
Monday, April 7
Happy Monday Games Night
With a live jazz soundtrack featuring an all-star 505 cast. Venue 505, free, venue505.com
Tuesday, April 8
Old School Funk and Groove
As reliable a weekly fixture as a depressing Monday. Venue 505, free, venue505.com
Swingtime Tuesdays
With a new term for dance lessons before the main event. The Basement, $9, thebasement.com.au
Wednesday, April 9
Joseph Tawadros Trio
Pioneering oud player is out with full band. Venue 505, $30, trybooking.com
Sex on Toast
A nine-piece celebration of '80s and yacht rock that's anything but white bread. The Vanguard, $13.80, thevanguard.com.au
Thursday, April 10
The Folk Informal
Get gentle with Forster Anderson, Maia Jelavic, Telegraph Tower and John Flanagan. FBi Social, $10, fbisocial.com
Free the Beats
Electronica producers push the beats and boundaries. Venue 505, free, venue505.com
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
Local favourites will be out to rule the Den. The Roller Den, $25.50, oztix.com.au


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URL Shortener for Joomla
TinyURL is (was?) a popular URL shortening service. To alter such a cool service as using a Joomla site, I developed an extension.
Whom should be interested in this extension
OK, I am one of them. Why should I be interested?
Because this extension can help your marketing strategy (e.g. your brand strategy or your branding strategy whatever it is called). With this extension you can use your domain for your tweet or your email.
Your tweet without this Joomla extension
Your tweet with this Joomla extension
How does shortened URL look like?
How many URLs can I add?
"x" in the previous question is chosen from 62 characters so this Joomla extension let you have 916,132,832 shortened URLs (62 ^ 5). In addition to the answer, this extension does not delete old shortened URLs.
What is the catch?
If you use this extension for Twitter and your domain is long, you may not be able to put enouth information in your tweet. So if you do not really need to advertise your domain, you may want to use pre-existing service providing much shorter URL instead.
Example Link
http://hironozu.com/u/mGsde (This shortend URL redirects to http://extensions.joomla.org/)
http://hironozu.com/u/21qMi (This shortend URL redirects to my other Joomla extension page)
Screnshots (How to setup)
Install the extension. Do setup until the backend shows you like this (Moving the mouse over the image let you see the details well).
After finishing setup you drag the bookmarklet to your browser's bookmarks bar. When you got a web page that you want to tell someone or tweet about, just click the bookmarklet. The bookmarklet will create a shortened URL and let you copy it or tweet about it.
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The following version is for subscribers (about subscription).
Version 1
This version has the features written in the article above with more sophisticated features (See new features). Version 1 is provided as a different product from Version 0.
At first you can try demo version. This demo basically let you see some user interfaces. Almost no backend logic is implemented. For example, you can see the listing page, but you cannot actually add/edit/delete shortened URLs or Queued Tweet data. You do not have to register this site to download demo.
For subscribers (about subscription).
Feature List
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