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Gavin Mahal. 21. Axe slinger in The Valiant. I drink too much and I don't tour enough!
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
So my company have given us the brief to do a couple of low quality YouTube videos for our artist.
I'm not a fan of this cause I want the best videos, the best recordings for my artist.
But here we go, what do people think?
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Our President Obama and distinguished Senator Feinstein are trying to protect human life. The murder of innocent people simply must stop.
If guns are such a great way to protect innocents from murder or stray bullets why do gun owners object to a data base monitored by law enforcement (who have guns)?
Emergency room surgeons, especially in big cities, are too preoccupied with gun shot wounds. There are a backlog of people needing surgeries to remedy diseases, old age infirmities and accidents that are not from weapons. More skilled doctors are needed in research too.
Where can I buy one of those "drones"?
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Does Evolution Compromise Human Morality?
Once we have a scientific hypothesis for how something exists, it is tempting to make the philosophical inference that this is also why it exists.
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Once we have a scientific hypothesis for how something exists, it is tempting to make the philosophical inference that this is also why it exists.
In this three-part series, Cal DeWitt offers insights and examples of why science and ethics must work together to help us make informed, practical decisions within our society. DeWitt's science-ethics-praxis model provides a framework by which we can live more effectively as God's stewards.
In this series, David Buller pays careful attention to the original language and cultural context of Genesis 2, revealing that our responsibility to care for creation is a sacred task given to us by God, not merely a modern secular activity. By taking Scripture seriously, we learn that we have a God-given mandate to be diligent stewards of His creation.
The tension generated by our understanding of God's character, as revealed in the Bible, and by the reality of the natural world around us has been the focus of much debate within the Christian church since the first century. This series examines critically several of the proposed solutions to this problem, viewing them from the perspective of a geologist, paleontologist, and orthodox evangelical Christian.
As I stressed in my column about the YEC view, creationism is ultimately about theodicy—it's not only about theodicy, to be sure, but the belief that animals must not have suffered and died before Adam and Eve committed the first sin is crucial to the "young" in Young Earth Creationism. To a significant degree, Theistic Evolution is also about theodicy.
Many Christians believe that they face a painful choice-- either life was designed by God or it is an evolutionary product of natural selection. Charles Darwin himself believed in this dichotomy, and people ever since have felt the need to "choose sides". However, looking back at history, we find that one of Darwin's chief scientific colleagues, Asa Gray, did not share this perspective. In this three-part essay, part 1 charts the relationship of Asa Gray and Charles Darwin. Part 2 describes Darwin's struggle with the problem of natural evil and design in nature, and part 3 explores how Asa Gray was able to embrace evolution without rejecting the idea of design.
In this video, physicist Ard Louis describes that our value and purpose do not come from whether or not we were created by an evolutionary mechanism. Evolution may tell us something about how we were created, but it is not the source of our worth.
If death did not exist before Adam and Eve, how could God have used evolution to create man? And what about predators and natural catastrophes such as the mass extinction of the dinosaurs?
In this video "Conversation," Philip Yancey explains that on the way home from a trip to Mumbai, India, during which terrorists attacked the city, he began to form a list of the challenging situations he has experienced.
This series, written by Bethany Sollereder, seeks to address this question: "How could God create through a process that involves so much pain and death?" She first presents the two drastically opposite worldviews held by theologians and scientists. She also reflects theologically on how a world created through evolutionary means can be good, and concludes with some thoughts concerning the Fall, physical decay and spiritual death.
Death has occurred since the first breath of biological life (and some would say since the first "breath" of cosmological life), long before Adam inhaled. Ironically, therefore, death must be a part of God's good creation. Moreover, human death due to sin must be something different than the physical death we all die.
"Why would the omnipotent Creator of the universe use such a wasteful (and cruel) process of survival of the fittest to bring about the higher forms of life? This view of 'theistic evolution' goes against God's very nature -- and logic itself."
Over the next few months, with permission from Yale University Press, BioLogos will offer edited versions of chapters from John Polkinghorne's best books, Belief in God in an Age of Science and Theology in the Context of Science, in order to help readers delve more deeply into some of his most important ideas.
Seven years ago, fellow filmmaker Terry Kay Rockefeller and I set out on a voyage of discovery that would result in RENEWAL, the first feature-length documentary about America's religious-environmental movement.
As we mark the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, we'd do well to remember that it was successful because of its remarkable grassroots response. We've all become aware of the daily choices we encounter where we could all do our part.
"It's tempting to think that the church needs to decide quickly which of these [original sin] scenarios is right, and which ones must be wrong. I believe the church is better served by taking its time, holding several different scenarios in tension for a while as we think through the implications of each."
Critics of Christianity look to evolution to show how the emergence of human life on earth demanded enormous ruin and ravage, billions of years of apparent waste and futility, species extermination and organism road kill. Not only was the massive dying off rampant, it's mandatory too.
These excerpts from Origins: Christian Perspectives on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design, written by BioLogos president Deborah Haarsma and her husband Loren Haarsma, offer a sampling of the book's many topics, from exploring our disagreements and agreements on origins as Christians to explaining scientific processes to looking at how we read Genesis.
Were one to propose creation by means of theistic evolution, some of the presuppositions for these responses to the problem of evil no longer function. Therefore, advocating some form of theistic evolution poses problems for standard explanations of the problem of evil.
This exchange brings together related essays on death in light of evolution and Scripture from Southern Baptist theologian Dr. John Laing. Laing argues that evolutionary theory requires death to play a central role in the creation of new life, but sees Scripture depicting death only "as an invader, disturber of peace, and a force of evil." A BioLogos response is given by Dr. Jeff Schloss.


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Batrachylodes Boulenger, 1887, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1887: 337. Type species: Batrachylodes vertebralis Boulenger, 1887, by monotypy.
Batrachhylodes — Palacky, 1898, Verh. Zool. Bot. Ges. Wien, 48: 374-382. Incorrect subsequent spelling.
Sticky-toed Frogs (Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 98).
Solomon Islands.
Placed in Ceratobatrachidae by Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297: 136, on the basis of DNA sequence evidence. Brown and Parker, 1970, Breviora, 346: 1-31, reviewed this genus and named new species. Norris in Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 75, suggested that the genus is monophyletic. Menzies, 2006, Frogs New Guinea & Solomon Is.: 76, provided a key to the species in the genus. Pikacha, Morrison, and Richards, 2008, Frogs Solomon Islands: 27-34, provided a key and accounts for the species of the Solomon Islands. See comment under Platymantis.
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.I guess I'll be hoping Bayern advance and win the final. Ugh, I feel so dirty saying that
I was smiling when Torres scored. I am sorry, but I absolutely hate Barca. They're a bunch of diving cheats, especially Busquets who went over like Tyson hit him when Inter played them.
Well I feel dirty saying that I found myself rooting for Chelsea, but I did. I also smiled when Torres scored not just because I wanted Barca to loose but also because I called it.
Barca doesnt annoy me with their diving because so many teams are much worse, but I'm just tired of all the "amazing Barcelona" worship stuff that goes on. These days you cant even read an article or have a conversation about youth soccer without having to hear about what Barcelona does. I'm impressed with their defense because it's relentless, but I'm getting bored with their offensive style. I prefer the more varied and athletic attack of teams like Real Madrid, Man City, or heck even the total football that Jol has Fulham implementing. It's more exciting. The incessant one-two's in tight spaces that Barca tries has gotten old for me.
And because that's how they play they totally blew the man-up advantage they had in the game yesterday. That style did not do enough to tire out a 10 man Chelsea. Chelsea was able to just sit back and defend with a line of men shuffling around the top of the box. Barca didnt move the ball around the entire field and make Chelsea run. Stupid IMO. You have to take advantage of being a man up for that long.
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An emperor penguin hatched at SeaWorld stands next to stuffed toys in San Diego, Calif., on Monday, Oct. 4. The 3-week-old, 2-pound chick hatched in mid-September and is being raised by the SeaWorld's aviculturists in a behind-the-scenes nursery. This marks the 21st emperor penguin to hatch at the park since 1980. SeaWorld San Diego pronounces itself as world-renowned for its successful penguin breeding program. They report they have raised more than 500 penguin chicks representing eight species in the last 30 years. The chick is expected to go on public display in about four months.


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DYNASTY star Kate O'Mara will be treading the boards in Malvern in Agatha Christie's classic thriller Murder on the Nile.
On board a steamer cruising under the scorching Egyptian sun, honeymooners Simon Mostyn and his wealthy socialite wife Kay find themselves being pursued by an old flame of the newly wedded groom.
When a body is discovered, all fingers point to Simon's ex fiancée but things are not what they seem and holidaying cleric Canon Pennefather is drawn into a web of intrigue and deceit as he finds himself on the trail of a ruthless murderer.
Now in its seventh year, The Agatha Christie Theatre Company presents a new production of Murder on the Nile at Malvern Theatres from Monday, March 26.
Alongside O'Mara, the show stars Denis Lill, from ITV drama The Royal and Doctor Who, Susie Amy, star of 71 Degrees North and Footballers' Wives, Chloe Newsome, Coronation Street's Vicky McDonald, Ben Nealon, Capt Jeremy Forsythe from ITV drama Soldier Soldier and 60's pop idol, Mark Wynter.
Agatha Christie's stage adaptation of the novel Death on the Nile was first performed in 1944 under the title Hidden Horizon and later opened in the West End and on Broadway as Murder on the Nile in 1946.
This latest instalment from The Agatha Christie Theatre Company is directed by Joe Harmston.
Murder on the Nile is at Malvern Theatres between Monday and Saturday, March 26 and Sat 31. Tickets from £22.
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Blindspot is a smart white cane that helps visually handicapped people to take on an active role in socializing and venture into places that they do not dared to explore previously. It informs them of a friend or family member nearby and helps to actively meet them. The location of their friends can be abstracted from popular geographical-based social apps such as Foursquare and communicated through the Bluetooth earpiece connected to the cane. Having known that a friend is nearby, they can choose to call them with the earpiece or be guided towards their friends. Their friend's location can be guided by a tactile GPS navigator on the cane handle. It is a horizontally rolling ball that points to the exact direction to walk. Additionally, an in-built ultrasonic sensor helps detect hanging objects and gives forewarning of ground obstacles to the user. This allows visually handicapped people to confidently travel out of their comfort zone and be aware of people they know being around them.
I experienced missing a friend boarding the same bus as I was resting due to motion sickness. It triggered me that visually handicapped people are unable to actively say "Hi!" first to their friends. Picture them walking down a busy street and a friend just missed them as they are busy meddling their smart phones; they never knew that they have walked on the same street. I was inspired to design something for them that focus on their desires and needs and not just on their handicap. Things like entertainment, social needs, sharing of information, these are so easily accessible with technology but not to them. Several user interviews were conducted to understand what they need and desire. The proposal of being informed that their friend is near them and being guided to the friend got them really excited on the possibilities. One stated: "My mother can leave me to shop while I have some coffee. When I'm done I can find her myself. She doesn't have to keep looking out for me."
The main challenges of the design are integrating it into lives of visually handicapped people and finding appropriate feedback and interaction for the different functions. A more direct way of indicating the direction of turn than audio would be to point. Tactile pointing system on the white cane handle was designed to feel the pointed direction. The white cane has a limitation of being unable to detect hanging objects. The ultrasonic sensor was used to detect those hanging objects as it is more appropriate for outdoors than infra-red sensor. Through interviews, visually handicapped people prefer to carry fewer devices as they already have a white cane. Thus the proposed solution was to be integrative into the white cane. The location of people can be known through apps used currently. The optical track button was used for its one button navigating ability. The form of the white cane was designed to be friendly and indicative of the different functions through physical indentions.


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Sigur Rós top of Irish charts
The band's critically acclaimed new album Valtari has just reached the No. 1 slot on the Irish Album Chart.
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An underground favourite for years with a devoted following, Sigur Ros has grown into an act with real stamina, now rewarded with a podium place within just four days of the album release.
The Icelandic band has been around since the early '90s, but sixth studio album Valtari could well be their biggest success yet. They've featured in the soundtracks of a litany of films and TV shows, not least in Vanilla Sky, Queer As Folk and CSI.
Having collaborated with Radiohead in 2003 the band are occasionally pidgeonholed in the same genre, but differ on many points musically with the Oxford artists. The Icelandic afficionados have an established record of wordplay, but as the vast majority of their fans seem to be English language speakers, it largely passes anyone but the home audience by.
It is not unreasonable to expect a slew of stunning singles to come out of Valtari, so chart success may yet again be on the horizon from the best thing to come out of Iceland since Bjork and the invention of hot tubs.


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Ways to Tell Employees 'Thank You' at Christmas
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Two things likely come to mind when thinking about how to show your employees some appreciation this Christmas: have a party and/or give them a gift. There are many different ways you can go about that, though, in addition to other team-building exercises and non-conventional displays of gratitude.
Dozens of "working smarter" contractors were asked how they plan on saying thank you to their employees this holiday season. Read on to hear what they have to say—and maybe steal an idea or two.
Traditional party ideas
Most contractors like to stick with the traditional Christmas party—either at their facility or at some public venue. "A holiday party is a good way to get everyone together, invite their partners, and say thank you to employees," says Daniel Sadler of Michael Bellantoni & Sons in White Plains, NY. "Another great way to say thank you is to surprise them with a small gift. It doesn't have to be big or expensive, just something to say that we recognize their hard work and appreciate them."
Here's a look at some of the more interesting ways "working smarter" contractors are putting traditional Christmas parties together this year.
Christmas breakfast is held at a local resort hotel. We offer gifts for all employees, such as a pre-paid American Express card or a gas card. We also hire entertainment such as a magician or comedian.
We're having a family potluck Christmas party with all employees and their spouses and children. Everyone can share their favorite holiday dish, which makes for a great way to enjoy each others' company.
Each employee is encouraged to bring a guest to the party, and we vary the location year to year. This year we're looking at local wineries.
We like to encourage employees to bring a guest to our party at a restaurant/pool table place. I think they appreciate the meal as many of them don't get to go to restaurants too often. We also hand out a Christmas gift/check.
We have a party with a big thank-you theme right at our garage. I also get a small gift for my men as a token of gratitude, although I'm not a big fan of a monetary bonus as it just seems like the easy way out, although I'd be interested to hear what others think.
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We're having a potluck and management roast, which is a synopsis of the year in pictures, funny bits, etc. It lasts the morning and is truly a great, humorous event.
We will celebrate in typical southern fashion: a catfish fry with all the trimmings, coupled with gifts and giveaways that are drawn from ticket stubs in random fashion. Last year we rented a "cash cube" and filled it with 500 $1 bills and five $100 bills. It created lots of laughs and excitement.
We host a holiday party with hors devours and beverages at a local, festive Italian restaurant. We run a slideshow with pictures of our crews and staff at our annual summer picnic, at training events, working in the field and at our facilities, in addition to some photos of our clients' properties so the employees can show their families where they work.
Usually on December 23, production employees work a half day, and all branches come into our headquarters facility. We decorate the warehouse and have a catered lunch of Mexican food. We solicit our vendors to provide gifts for a raffle. Usually we have enough gifts so that everyone wins something. The Christmas tree in the warehouse is also raffled off, lights and all. Finally, we recognize an employee of the year and manager of the year with an award. The past few years we have given an additional gift to each employee, last year was a nice "hoody" company sweatshirt. I personally shake everyone's hand and thank them for their service to the company.
We usually take our employees and spouse/significant other to a local Yacht club for dinner, fillet Mignon, cigars and scotch. We hand out the bonus checks to the spouses and significant others and give the staff at the yacht club some cool landscape flair from our uniform stash.
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The 4-year-old Fayetteville girl who was found unresponsive by her grandfather in November died after she was suffocated, the state's medical examiner said Thursday.
Bella Marie Morris had an abrasion on the center of her chin and frontal subscalpular hemorrhage which suggested she was smothered, the autopsy report said.
The cause of death has been ruled asphyxia, according to the report signed by Lauren Scott and Deborah Radisch.
Court records previously indicated that was the cause of death, but medical officials had not released the autopsy results until Thursday.
The Medical Examiner's Office also released the girl's toxicology reports. Examiners found caffeine, lidocaine, alprazolam and chlorpheniramine in her bloodstream.
Reports indicate 0.037 mg/L of alprazolam was found. The prescription drug is used to treat anxiety, panic disorders and insomnia.
It was not known Thursday whether Bella had a prescription for the drug, but the amount found was high for a child, the report said.
"This level of alprazolam is therapeutic in an adult; in a child, it may be toxic," the report said.
Bella's paternal grandfather Sterling Morris found her Nov. 5 on the floor of her mother's home in the Pine Springs Apartments on Elcone Drive in the Woodlea neighborhood off Cumberland Road.
In a phone call to 911 dispatchers, Morris said Bella was not breathing. He tried to perform CPR and found there was nothing blocking her airways. He told dispatchers something was coming out of the child's nose when he arrived.
Bella's mother, Jaime Gardner Morris, 36, was charged Nov. 12 with first-degree murder and intentional child abuse. She was processed at the Cumberland County Detention Center after being released from Cape Fear Valley Medical Center.
Debbie Tanna, a spokeswoman for the Cumberland County Sheriff's Office, said Jaime Morris was taken to the hospital after she attempted to commit suicide following Bella's death.
According to court documents, Jaime Morris had lost custody of her daughter and, for a short time, was barred from seeing her. At the time of Bella's death, Jaime Morris was not allowed unsupervised visits with her daughter.
She is being held without bail. Her next scheduled court appearance is March 19.
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Summer flowers and plants hold a promise that outlasts the fleeting season: they are a traditional source of colour for dyeing fibres. Rebecca Burgess, an artisan and teacher based in San Geronimo, California, shows the way with her new book, Harvesting Color: How to Find Plants and Make Natural Dyes.
In the first part of the book, Burgess walks you through the steps of establishing a safe, simple home workspace. She identifies the necessary tools and equipment, demonstrates the process and offers master dye recipes.
The second part of the book is divided by seasons and plants associated with them. For many wild plants, she shows the range of native growth throughout North America. Many of the plants are common garden flowers, for example, the zinnias pictured on the cover of the book or black hollyhocks which produce a pretty mint-green hue.
She uses Japanese indigo, which is not indigenous to North America, to yield blue dye and describes its culture in her garden. For more detailed gardening information, have a look at the Sheep to Shawl website. It was created by Donna Druchunas, an author of several knitting books in the CPL collection.
A Green Guide to Country Crafts is another new book which offers information on the natural dyeing process along with a selection of homespun crafts like rug hooking which reuse household materials.
Both books offer resource lists for the States; Burgess includes a list of Canadian resources.
The Heritage Weavers and Spinners Guild of Calgary offers workshops and classes on weaving, spinning, dyeing throughout the year. In addition, they have a well-stocked library and equipment rentals and for their members.


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The game plan was to get the ball inside, but for the first 20 minutes on Thursday the Drury Lady Panthers didn't stick to the script.
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The game plan was to get the ball inside, but for the first 20 minutes on Thursday the Drury Lady Panthers didn't stick to the script.
Go on. Take a look for yourself. The opponent's stat sheet looks as if it could use a few flame decals, especially right next to its 3-point attempts.
Shooting the lights out from 3-point range might sell tickets up in Rolla, but the Drury Panthers gave their visitors a lesson Thursday night that you best have defense to go with that offense.
Drury men's basketball coach Steve Hesser didn't have much interest in discussing his 200th win as Drury's coach after the Panthers held off Cameron on Saturday night.
With a 10-point lead all but gone in the final minute against Union (Tenn.) on Saturday, the Drury Lady Panthers need a bucket in the worst way.
The first real test for the Drury men's basketball team was looking like a failure until the final four minutes.
In his post-game comments, Drury University women's coach Steve Huber used phrases like: 'no rhythm,' 'not good basketball' and 'unwatchable' to describe Friday's game against Missouri Western State University.
Zack Kleine scored a career-high 38 points Friday night, and his 3-pointer broke open a tie game with a minute left as Evangel University claimed an 80-77 victory over Dakota State at the Midland Thanksgiving Classic in Fremont, Neb.
On a quaint campus that hopes its NCAA Division II national basketball championship translates into bigger crowds and an even better atmosphere and hoping somehow, some way to nose further toward and past 2,000 in average attendance coach Steve Hesser
Sean Osler watched the CBS broadcast of the NCAA Division II national championship game last April and thought nothing of it until a few weeks later a call came in to his juco dorm room out on the Kansas plains.
As Drury University basketball tries to build attendance, especially through its NCAA Division II national champion men's team, it faces hurdles like anybody else, coaches and administrators say.
Evangel University basketball coach Steve Jenkins has made a career winning games with astute halftime adjustments.
The Drury University men's basketball team ranked fourth nationally in NCAA Division II didn't get much of a test on Friday night.
Just like every other time out this season, Kylie Williamson watched the end of Drury's game from the bench.
Three wins to open the season including the last two on the road by a total of three points have the Drury women's basketball team riding high.
The first two minutes of Evangel University's season finale against No. 9 Benedictine College on Saturday couldn't have been much worse.
As bounce-backs go, it was a pretty good one.
Imagine walking this week in the shoes of Evangel Crusaders coach Steve Jenkins.
Kameron Bundy emerged from the locker room straight-faced, ear phones plugged into a smart phone and, well, looking as if the night was about to begin rather than it being over.
It's possible Paige Wilson has the makings of a coach deep down inside her basketball brain. With Drury trailing rival Southwest Baptist by two points and the clock ticking under 25 seconds to play, she decided it was time for a quick shot.
It wasn't even lunchtime Monday when Drury University junior Cameron Adams took to Twitter and called on the cavalry for backup.
Ah, remember last season when Drury Panthers basketball coach Steve Hesser told us that he had changed, that he mellowed in his, cough-cough, old age?
Under a spotlight in a darkened arena, the ceremony for the unfurling of the NCAA Division II national championship banner took all of about 2 minutes.
Steve Huber tried to keep it hidden.
The wow factor? The two-handed dunk at Duke, from the baseline and over the Blue Devils' 6-foot-7 freshman blue-chip recruit and with authority, made one thing abundantly clear again.
Walnut Grove senior Lexi Harman committed to play basketball at Drury University on Thursday, where she will play four more years with her cousin, Heather.
Drury University basketball player Kameron Bundy was arrested Oct. 11 on a 'zero tolerance' violation, part of a suspicion of driving while intoxicated, according to a Springfield Police incident report.
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They're in a few minutes to get the look at the markets but today is also the -- that UPS is set to deliver.
128 million packages busiest day of the year Adam Shapiro.
It one of the company's international air hubs which is located in Louisville, Kentucky at a.
That's not a company that let you had revenue of 53 billion dollars their busiest shipping day to day.
Busiest time of the year 35000.
Of these shipping containers going worldwide and the man who's in charge of all of this ground equipment joins us right now from UBS.
Build Jacob and I know this is your busy time don't sleep much I would imagine after -- Thanksgiving until Christmas today after.
Nine in peak season it's.
It's a somewhat stressful time for the whole management team.
What do you seeing as we -- some video.
Package actually going through the automated process here.
To the storage device again then gets loaded on the aircraft.
Our people -- -- overnight or they stick into the three to five business days.
There's there's somewhat of a trade down on some of the product.
Two three gets -- second day here in three days like what we're still seeing people the procrastinators if you would that that are shipping next there.
That's a good time to point out that tomorrow you can still shipping get it there in time for Christmas overnight.
What are your competitors.
Has actually had Greek plan their future the cut back on some airplane orders because of the slowdown globally what about you guys do you see that it'll largest freight shipping company at least this type.
Worldwide you see a slowdown or do you see things picking up in the future.
We we see.
That that the team at UPS able to manage the airline network.
Managed to block hours that we fly and manage the assets.
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We we think a little bit of an uptick.
We see -- just a -- not much but a little bit of an object.
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I just played the World's Cutest Frog video and my dog went nuts and tried to attack my laptop.
It warms my heart to see that Rock Band 3 is the top selling used game at Gamestop dude
My parents weren't into music at all, but fortunately I had a good friend who was a few years older who was into prog, so I already got introduced to bands like Marillion, Queensrÿche and Dream Theater at a young age.
Speaking of good music, went to see The Gathering live with my wife yesterday. Tiny tiny gig with a crowd of only 50 people, but the sound quality of the venue was stellar. The band was amazing too, Silje is more than a match for Anneke live. Good stuff.
Yeah, for me it was getting into Rush, Yes, and Jethro Tull, and branching out from there (as well as a handful of alt-metal stuff, some of which remains guilty pleasures to this day. What can I say, I'm musically schizophrenic). Didn't come across Dream Theater until freshman year of college (when Metropolis Pt. 2 came out).
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Before I started disputing Donn I'd have to ask him who "he" is.
Hey, Donn. When you say this pretty much assures "he won't be seeing any insurance payout," is "he" the captain or the CEO of Carnival?
I sure hope it's some unknown third party 'cause if you say it's the captain or CEO I'm gonna have to say the statement is absurd.
Goat Island Skiff and Simmons Sea Skiff construction photos here:
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"All kings are not the same."
I agree 100%, Bob. It is truly amazing more people aren't missing/dead.
When I first heard about this the headlines were something to the effect, 'Ship runs aground, 8 dead' which seemed absurd at the time.
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"All kings are not the same."
I'll grant you that and agree--it's sweeping, but true.
You've been defending and praising the actions of the captain almost from the beginning of this story, ACB, while I was staying out of it, waiting for more information.
Now that we have all learned just how egregious this series of "human errors" was you seem to want to continue in a defensive vein.
Am I wrong about that, too?
Goat Island Skiff and Simmons Sea Skiff construction photos here:
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"All kings are not the same."
Lets not turn this into a bilge thread, Andrew sees things from the prospective of most commercial seafarers, competent, honorable, and hard working people who would do the right thing.I'd suggest to everyone that we reserve judgement until things calm down. When passions run high, things can get blown out of proportion.
Another famous capsize right in NYC waters 1942. The ship was righted and salvaged ( sort of)
Fire boats pumped water into her to quench the blaze causing the capsize.
The USS Constellation CV 64 built in the Brooklyn Navy yard 1962 had a fire aboard during construction, Fortunately the NYC Fire dept. learned from their past mistakes in 1942.
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Ah yes, the Normandie. Beautiful girl. A couple differances, she did not have hull damage nor the huge superstructure. I saw a documentry on her salvage a long time ago. They did get her floating, but the only voyage she undertook after that was to the breakers yard, if I recall correctly.
They also removed her superstructure in the process. My bet is on Concordia being dismantled en situ. It seems just too expensive to pull her off the rocks just to send her to the breakers. There is almost no chance she can be returned to service.
More sad news, the number of missing has gone up to 29. Let's hope this is just a mistake and all are well.
I agree with Andrew, criticising all Italian mariners based on the action of this one captain is rather sweeping. Based on what we know, this particular captain made a huge mistake.
I'm inclined to think that the crew did well, inspite of the comments from the passengers. They managed to get thousands of people off alive, which is very impressive given the time and the cold. I realize there is a video of passengers in a lifeboat asking where they are going and not being told. They are alive, safe, in a lifeboat, and I'm certain the lifeboat crew had plenty of worries. Being told where you are going is nice, but the really important answer was "not to heaven, at least not today" and they seem to be unaware of that.
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Every survivor interviewed has stated they were on their own--the crew did nothing, or worse. One that I heard is in the hospitality industry and stated they waited for hours, on shore, for word about assistance from the cruise line. The word came some nine hours after rescue and consisted of a head count! This interviewee was aghast at the lack of follow-up.
They were on their own ON the ship and ON shore. The captain is 100% responsible for his mistake and the crew--and cruise line--share in the irresponsibility exhibited after the fact.
I stand by what I said about how this exemplifies Mr. McMullen's signature--being cool is first, followed by being safe, etc. I am certain it doesn't exemplify 100% of the Italian business model but it appears to be all too common.
An example--I once worked for a company that made huge wing-wall cranes for the US Navy. The pair I was intimately involved with as QC manager used Italian made transmissions for the horizontal rotation of the cranes. The DC motors turned at X rpms and the Navy required the cranes to rotate 360 degrees in 60 seconds, so a reduction ratio of Y:Z was specified, ordered, and manufactured--in Italy. When we went to test we found the cranes rotated 180 degrees in 60 seconds, not 360. RPM of the motors was checked as was the gear ratio as stated on the transmissions' spec plates. In theory, the combination should have met the required spec, but when the transmissions were disconnected and rotated by hand we found the printed gear ratio was WRONG. They were beautiful devices, those transmissions, nicely shaped and painted, but the Italian manufacturer had put in the wrong gears!
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"All kings are not the same."
Which does not excuse any corporativism by which they try to cover up for the bad apples among them.
It seems that Italian cruise ships regularly go off course to buzz islands, like teenagers on a joy ride. All those "competent, honorable" seafarers seemed to know about it and condone it. This complacent attitude led directly to this deadly shipwreck.
Interesting NPR account from a passenger, some worries from local environmentalists, and a bit of expert opinion. The difficulty of evacuation and how everything about the situation was beyond anyone's training. It is more and more clear that it's amazing how few were killed.
English edition of Corriere Della Sera:
Cannot comment on how accurate this is of course. But I note that divers have identified the rock that the ship hit (it's on the chart, plain enough...)
And a passenger account in French from two passengers who were standing on deck smoking and saw the islet loom up in the dark, moments before the ship hit the outlying rock.
I've passed this to a friend in the business in the Philippines who has passed it to the head of the agency who recruits for Costa, because of this bit:
« Ceux qui nous ont aidés, ce sont les cuisiniers, les femmes de ménage, tous philippins. Ils se sont encordés pour nous aider à descendre dans les chaloupes. Nous avons pu monter au dernier moment, avant que le bateau ne se couche..".
My translation: "Those who helped us were the cooks and the stewardesses, all Filipinos. They roped themselves together to help us get down into the lifeboats. We were able to get in at the last moment before the ship settled.."
I don't know if this bit from BBC news will work outside the UK but it shows what is being described there.
Roger Long has some interesting comments on the design at his forum on sailboatowners.com:
That is a very good comment by Roger and I hope I don't damn him by agreeing with everything he says there.
To expand on one comment, the LUSITANIA had wing coal bunkers and she capsized as these flooded; the TITANIC did not have equivalent longitudinal subdivision.
I don't know whether Andrews factored this into his design - he perished with the ship.
Much of the loss of life on the Lusitania was due to the list making the lifeboats unreacheable on one side and unlaunchable on the other.
I understand that a modern cruise ship can be stable. Where I see poor design is in the difficulty of evacuation in any but ideal conditions caused by the tremendous height of the ship, combined with the huge number of passengers and crew. I say again: imagine this same ship hitting a rock (or another vessel) 100 miles offshore, in rough seas. What would the death toll be then?
I am looking at one of the beasts as I type this, though it is a small one - the MSC Opera. The big Costa ships stop here as well, huge slab-sided things looking like a floating slice of the Great Wall of Spain.
Divers have found paint and metal fragments on a rock 92 metres offshore.
With a 35 meter beam, that would be the equivalent of me steering Dalia within 11.5 meters of a rocky shore, at full speed, in the dark - and full speed for us is nowhere near 21 knots.
I hate to admit it, but it does sound like the sort of idiotic stunt that an Italian - or a Brazilian, for that matter - is more likely to try than an Anglo-Saxon. Consider the differences in national driving styles...
Have you guys heard this one yet? The captain was ordered to go back aboard to coordinate rescue efforts but he wouldn't go. All caught on tape:
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This recording (translated) shows a captain who is either incapacitated by fear or completely daft: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16597277
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Clip and paste from local newspaper story (Schenectady ny Gazette) about a local couple's experience with the Costa Condordia's sinking :
First, their cruise ship crashed and tipped over into the sea.
Then, they couldnt reach their embassy to get new passports so they could fly home.
So when the cruise company sent them to Albany, Ga., rather than New York, it was a bit more than just the last straw.
Joan, Brian and Alana Aho of Duanesburg are among the more than 100 Americans who were aboard the Costa Concordia cruise ship that crashed along the Tuscany coast Friday. For them, getting to shore safely was just the start of the ordeal.
Their friend Cheryl Ratner reached out to local media in an effort to help them get home after they had difficulty with the U.S. Embassy in Italy. She told their story as Joan Aho told it to her, through text messages and Facebook posts.
It was their first night aboard. They had planned for the trip for a long time, scheduling it for when their daughter would be on winter break from her freshman year at SUNY Cobleskill. It was to be their only vacation of the year.
It was very exciting, Ratner said. They always vacation together. They work very, very hard. They take one vacation a year, and this was it.
They had several days on shore, exploring Italy, before boarding the ship for a seven-day cruise. As they ate dinner the first night, they heard and felt the crash. The ship hit a rock after what the cruise company described as an unauthorized maneuver by the captain. He is now being held on manslaughter charges related to the six or more passengers who died after the crash.
The family heard plates breaking and hurried to the top deck, ignoring the often contradictory directions given by the staff.
Everybody was issuing orders and every second or third person was contradicting the others, Ratner said.
At one point, Brian Aho snagged two life jackets, for his wife and daughter. He turned and handed them to his wife.
Some woman ripped them right out of her hands, Ratner said. People were panicking.
The family finally got to a lifeboat, but passengers were pushing and shoving so much that Alana Aho nearly got separated from her parents as they climbed into the boat. Her mother grabbed Alanas leg and held on until she was able to get aboard.
Someone was pushing Alana out of the way, Ratner said. Joan had to hang onto Alanas legs.
Once they got to shore, they found that embassies had sent officials to the local hotels to help the stranded passengers get new documents. Most people had nothing with them not even a drivers license. The Aho family had only a cellphone. Officials for the British and other embassies were able to begin processing new passports right away.
But the U.S. Embassy, which had relatively few citizens on board, didnt send anyone to help. At one point, Joan Aho said she had been advised to borrow money from strangers, take a taxi to the embassy, and fill out the familys passport paperwork there, Ratner said.
Joan Aho wasnt happy.
There was a point at which she started getting angry. And this is a woman theyre a very calm, laid-back family, Ratner said. It was just frustrating. Youre stranded, you have no identification.
The Americans finally banded together at one hotel to come up with a strategy to force the embassy to help them. Ratner never heard the results of that meeting, but shortly thereafter the Americans received their temporary passports allowing them to go home.
Then came the next battle: getting the cruise company, Costa, to pay for their tickets. Without their wallets still sinking with the ship they had no way to pay for airline tickets themselves.
On Sunday night, Joan Aho posted on Facebook that Costa had finally come through with tickets for a Monday flight.
Hopefully tomorrow night well be safely home, she posted.
But instead they were given tickets to another Albany: the one in Georgia.
Joan Aho called Ratner from the airport in Atlanta on Monday night to tell her about the mistake.
Costa screwed up, Ratner said. She sounds so completely exhausted.
But she believed Delta Airlines was going to reroute them to the right location, Ratner said.
Shes just hoping they get home soon.
I love this family, she said. I hope they get to sleep for a week.
A Facebook post revealed the captain's acknowledged intent to swing close to the island: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012...ptain-disaster
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Quite apart from the potential that command decisions may have initiated this accident, we have a companion thread looking at the general issue of what, if anything, the crew and officers can do before there's been any emergency drill in a fast changing emergency with communications out.
It appears that at least some crew, forced to act independently in the dark with gear becoming inoperably as the ship listed, rose to the occasion. I am not sure that I'm prepared (yet) to criticize those who managed to get lifeboats to shore but then did not go back out for more since it's not clear whether they'd have helped or just added confusion to the work of better equipped rescue vessels. Similarly, while I'm not prepared to defend the Captain if what's been reported is a full story, I still don't know what he'd have done as a bridge ornament. He seems to have given up any effort to even try to remain in command so it's hard to tell if there was or was not anything useful he could have done, beyond setting a good example of dignity in the face of disaster.
CG: Hello?
FS: Tell me...
CG: I am De Falco from Livorno, commander
FS: (hardly understandable but sounds like: "sh*t, the commander" with a scared voice)
CG: Hello?
FS: Yes... G... Good evening commander.
CG: Listen, I am De Falco from Livorno, am I talking to the commander?
FS: Yes, good evening commander De Falco, I am...
CG: Tell me your name, plase!
FS: I am commander Schettino, commander.
CG: Schettino?
FS: Yes.
CG: Listen, Schettino. There are persons trapped in the ship. Now you go with your lifeboat under the stem of the ship, starboard side. There is a jacob. You will climb that jacob and board the ship. You board the ship and then will tell me how many persons are still there. Is that clear? I am registering this communication, commander Schettino.
FS: Well, commander, let me tell you one thing...
CG: Talk louder!
FS: Ok, the ship now... I am here in front of...
CG: Talk louder, put a hand around the microphone and talk louder! Is it clear?
FS: (talking to someone close to him: "Sit down. Let him come here, let him come here!"). Commander, in this moment the ship is listed.
CG: I understand that. Listen up. There are persons who are decending the jacob at the stem. You will now move over that jacob in the opposite direction, get on board and will tell me how many persons there and what (equipment) do they have. Clear?
FS: (silence)
CG: You will tell me if there are women, children or persons who need an assistance. And you will tell me the number of persons in each one of these categories. Is that clear?
FS: (silence)
CG: Look, Schettino. You may have saved yourself from the sea, but I will get you in a sea of troubles. Get on board!
FS: Commander, please...
CG: No! Please, now you go and get on board! And let me know that you are on board.
FS: I am aboard the liferaft and am not going to leave or get away, I am here...
CG: What are you doing, commander?
FS: I am coordinating the rescue, I am here...
CG: What are you coordinating from there? Get on board and coordinate the resue from the ship!
FS: (silence)
CG: Are you refusing to comply?
FS: No, no, I am not refusing...
CG: Are you refusing to get on board, commander?
FS: I am...
CG: Tell me the motivation for not going there
FS: I am not going there because there is another lifeboat halted there
CG: You get on board, this is an order! You don't have to say anything else, you have declared the abandoning ship, now I assume command. And get on board! Is that clear?
FS: Commander...
CG: You can't hear me? Go! There is my rescuer there.
FS: Where is your rescuer?
CG: My rescuer is on the stem. Move on! There are already dead people, Schettino! Move on!
FS: How many dead people?
CG: I don't know. I know about one. YOU have to tell me that, for Christ!
FS: Do you realize that it is dark here, we don't see anything?
CG: And what do you want to do? Get back home, Schettino? It's dark, you want to go home?
FS: Look...
CG: Climb up that jakob on the stem, and tell me what has to be done, how many persons are there and what are their needs!
FS: I am going there. (incomprehensible)
CG: What?
FS: I am together with the second in command here.
CG: Then climb on board both of you. What is his name?
FS: Dimitri
CG: Dimitri what?
FS: Dimitri Christidis
CG: You and your second get on board now. Is that clear?
FS: Look, I want to get on board. But there is this second lifeboat with rescuers which has stopped there. Now they have called other rescuers...
CG: You, it's been an hour since you are repeating the same thing. Now you get on board. Get on b-o-a-r-d. And you will have to tell me immediately how many persons are there.
FS: All right, commander. I am going...
CG: Move on, now! (Da Falco hangs down)
Five more bodies found today: http://gma.yahoo.com/cruise-ship-wre...-abc-news.html
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"All kings are not the same."
Whatever happens I'd say that captain is beached.
Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
― Terry Pratchett
Did you see the report about his complaints about 30 minutes after the holing? I found it incredible, but one article I came across a little while ago said he complained about the delay in bringing his dinner plate and his female companion's dessert! This suggests he left the bridge where he supposedly was during the unfortunate course deviation, went down to the dining room to eat and carry on with a female friend!
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I'm starting to think they may not have to remove her, she's sitting on a ledge with a 225 foot drop off. They better get the fuel off before she becomes a diving attraction.
Joseph Hazelwood may have been knocked off his perch as the most bone headed ship driver in the public's view.
Captain Edward Smith, RMS Titanic, not only looked the part of a proper ship's captain, but fulfilled his duty.
The cure for everything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
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Description and photos of righting operations during salvage of capsized USS Oklahoma.
Completely irrelevant, but I'm curious: How is it that the stabilizer fin managed to clear the rock that holed the hull farther aft? Were they swinging hard to starboard at the time?
Don't ever become good at anything you don't love to do.
That's one of the two possible explanations - most likely the officer having the con saw the islet and went hard a starboard to avoid it, swinging the stern into the rock, and the other is a version of the same thing - that, passing so close to the rock at 15 knots, interaction effects sucked the afterbody of the ship into the rock.
One report said they did turn hard to starboard at the last moment, swinging or sliding the aft end of the ship into the rock. (Which they proceeded to pick up and carry away.)
I've been wondering the same. I'm thinking (1) the stabilizer just barely cleared the rock, or, (2) a hard turn to starboard--executed at exactly the wrong time--put the aft end of the ship into the rocks. If she was truly running at speed (didn't they say 21 knots?) I don't think a hard turn would have brought about enough movement of the stern to do the damage, so I'm leaning toward the first scenario.
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Can you imagine the effort required for all those people to make their way up--vertically--to the port side, probably in near darkness? Sure, they could walk with some stability on the starboard bulkheads but were the passageways wide enough to do that while erect? Even after solving that problem they had no stairs to take them up--any stairwells would have just taken them fore or aft, not up.
BTW--I just saw two survivors from somewhere out west who praised the crew while damning the officers. Apparently the lowly housekeeper-types gave critical assistance without guidance from their superiors.
Kudos to those people, whoever they were.
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Just as a matter of interest.... not all Italian Captains buzz the islands. This is a shot from exactly 20 years ago in the same locale. That's Montecristo in the background, Giglio was a long way to starboard. Not exactly a cruise ship... we were on a ferry carrying almost exclusively trucks from Palermo to Genoa.
Carpe the living sh!t out of the Diem
I'd rather look back at my life and say "I can't believe I did that" instead of being there saying "I wish I'd done that"
Supposedly the captain swung the ship by the head waiter's home, or something equally absurd.
I think that tape pretty much sums it up. He will do jail time.
Ché sciocco!
Everett, WA
Il colore del cielo, la forza del mare.
Things really hit the fan in Italy today. TV and radio are playing a recording of an exchange between the Italian Coast Guard and Capt. Schettino. Capt. Schettino refused orders to stay aboard his ship until evacuations were completed.
"Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over." -Samuel Clemens
The scraping damage starts well after amidships. Its hard to imagine "interaction effects" that strong. Looks to me like the "helm" was well to starboard. Remember that there are no rudders on these ships, just big pivoting electric pushers, so that the stern swings out like an outboard skiff when the helm is pushed over, more so than a ship with standard rudders.
I think the stabilizer just cleared the rock (she may have leaned into the turn a tad if she was still at or close to cruising speed, 15.5 kt±), but when the rock was hit by the turn of the bilge, it rolled up a bit, ending up higher than the stabilizer.
Definitely enough to spoil one's supper.
The plot thickens:
By msnbc.com and news services
Updated at 7:36 a.m. ET: Adam Smallman, editor of shipping magazine Lloyd's List, tells NBC News that the Costa Concordia took a "pretty much identical" route past Giglio Island in August last year to the one Friday that led to the sinking of the ship. He said the route taken in August, based on satellite tracking, was "authorized by the company and the coast guard."
"Our assessment of the route this vessel took (in August) is it must have come perilously close, and I mean possibly within touching distance of the rock that it hit this time ... which the company is saying wholly unauthorized in terms of its proximity to the island," Smallman said.
It would be interesting to see the damage marked on the vessel's damage stability plan, and if any action was taken to maintain stability.
1947 Nordic Folkboat "Nina"
Interaction is a bit of a mystery at the best of times; the engine room / generator flat which flooded is roughly in way of where I reckon the low pressure area might be. But I include it as a possibility only.
I have been given to understand that this class do not have azipods but conventional propellers, with diesel electric drive.
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If I read the print right, a bit faint in places, the primary has two separate windings 0-100-120v?
If so you could either wire them in series for 240vac input or parallel them for 120v, make sure you use the same wire numbers for each connection, otherwise it will be out of phase, obviously do not connect the 100v wires when hooking up for 120v..
The secondaries appear to be two 27-0-27 or 54v centre tapped.
You can use this one of two ways for 27vac, either put a full wave bridge from a 0 cenre tap to one 27v out.
Or use the centre tap as common and put one Rectifier in each of the 27v sides for one set of windings, this is full-wave centre tap arrangement.
Any parallelling of windings must use the same numbered wire to connect together.


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