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Joined: 20 Dec 2009
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Posted: Tue 12 Jan 2010, 18:27
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How do i install VMware inside Puppy?
I would like to use puppy to run some other very small distros and I cant seem to find anything online that isn't related to Puppy inside vmware.
What about vmware inside puppy?
I'm sure someone has done it. Can anyone help?
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Posts: 103
Posted: Wed 13 Jan 2010, 17:42
Post subject: Installing VMware Player 3.0 on Puppy Linux 4.3.1
Subject description: To a Frugal installation
To use VMware Player on Puppy Linux, you will need to:
1 - Set up your computer to boot to Puppy with a "Frugal" installation
2 - Save a pupsave_431.2fs file of sufficient size (I just make it the 1.2 Gb maximum)
3 - Set Puppy to mount the development tools and kernel source .sfs files
4 - Prepare directories to receive the VMware Player installation
5 - Download VMware Player for Linux
6 - Run the installer
7 - Configure VMware Player, including creation of kernel-specific modules
8 - Make corrections to the vmplayer.desktop file for correct menu entry
Are you sure you want to do this?
It's a lot more involved if you are doing this in a Full installation.
I am going to assume you can already set up a computer to boot to Puppy Linux as a frugal installation, create a pupsave_xxx.2fs file and configure the bootmanager to mount the .sfs files. (Those are steps 1 to 3.)
Puppy Linux 4.3.1 liveCD image
Puppy Linux 4.3.1 development tools .sfs
Puppy Linux 4.3.1 kernel source .sfs for kernel 184.108.40.206
VMware Player for 32-bit Linux
Note: You may have to register with VMware before you can download the installer.
__ 4 Prepare directories and one file __
You will need to create folders in /etc, so enter the following command in a terminal window:
mkdir -p /etc/rc.d/vmware.d/rc{0,1,2,3,4,5,6}.d
(What does the "-p" do in mkdir? I dunno. I read this somewhere else.)
Next, go to /etc/rc.d. There is a symlink to init.d there, which should be copied to /etc/rc.d/vmware.d
It may not be necessary, but create a blank file in /etc called "inet.conf". This was needed for earlier versions of VMware Player to be installed in Puppy, so it's not a bad idea to make this as well.
__ 5 and 6 Download and run the installer __
I figure you now have the file "VMware-Player-3.0.x-<version_number>.i386.bundle" someplace
From a terminal, run this installer
The installer application will start. You may need to accept the EULA.
You will be asked for the "System service runlevels". Set them to:
System service scripts should be set to:
The installer should now work by itself, and then end.
__ 7 Configure and create modules __
I'm getting a bit hazy in my memory, but there may be more here. You may be asked to confirm the locations of the kernel header files, etc. You can just accept their defaults, though. This might happen when you first run it, and not during the installation
__ 8 Fix the .desktop file, which is always wrong __
The application is found in /usr/bin/vmplayer
An icon can be found at /usr/lib/vmware/share/pixmaps/vmware-player.png
A .desktop file is found at /usr/share/applications/vmware-player.desktop
Edit vmware-player.desktop to have the correct path and filename for the icon
==== You're done ====
After you reboot, you should fine VMware Player in your System menu, or maybe Utilities. I forget.
Your first run may be where configuration occurs. My memory is hazy.
I hope this is mostly correct.
Daniel Kim
(I will follow this post with some more information)
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Posted: Wed 13 Jan 2010, 17:46
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rename to
vmplayer_xxx.sfs xxx = your puppyversion
for example vmplayer_412.sfs is for puppy 4.1.2
choose bootoptions
add your vmplayer file
start vmplayer
tested in puppy 4.1.2
Grüße aus der Autostadt
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Joined: 14 Sep 2008
Posts: 103
Posted: Wed 13 Jan 2010, 17:57
Post subject: Using VMware Player inside Puppy Linux - Frugal
Subject description: Running out of temporary file space
VMware Player likes to have a place to put temporary files. If you are using Player in a Full Install of Puppy Linux, this may not be a problem, but if you are using a Frugal install, you're in trouble.
This is because your temporary files will be made within your frugal filesystem, which is limited to your pupsave_xxx.2fs file. You run out of space really fast.
This was addressed at VMware's community forum
VMware has its configuration file located at:
Edit this file, and change or create the line
tmpDirectory = "/some/other/directory"
You want the temp directory to be outside the Puppy frugal filesystem. I put mine in
You may also want to have a swap partition as well.
Daniel Kim
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Posted: Wed 26 May 2010, 07:17
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DanYHKim could you please explain better point number 7 "__ 7 Configure and create modules __" ?
I've downloaded vmplayer 3 installer, and I run Lucid Puppy with 22.214.171.124 kernel version; I've also mounted devx_500 and kernel_source sfs files.
VM Player installer worked correctly, now when I type "vmplayer" It asks for Kernel Headers Files..I think it should be related with your seventh point!
Thanks a lot
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Posts: 52
Location: Greece, Athens
Posted: Sat 10 Jul 2010, 16:21
Post subject: Vmware on puppy 431
I have the puppy 431 (frugal), i used the sfs file of vmware
but when i start the application vmware the result was :
C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to your distribution's documentation for installation instructions.
what do i have to do?
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Location: Greece, Athens
Posted: Sat 10 Jul 2010, 16:45
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Also, after I had added the kernel source sfs file at the boot loader
and i started the vmware the error was:
Unable to build kernel module.
See log file /tmp/vmware-root/setup-15734.log for details.
thanks kostas
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Posted: Sun 24 Oct 2010, 10:37
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anyone installed VMware player in puppy 511 ?
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Posted: Thu 28 Oct 2010, 17:35
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anyone one to help me ???
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Posts: 103
Posted: Thu 28 Oct 2010, 22:31
Post subject: Well, dang! I can't get it to work now
Subject description: Kernel headers problem with LuPu 511
Just a reply. I've decided to try installing VMware Player 3.1.2 on Lucid Pup 5.1.1, and it is giving me the Kernel Header not found error. Dunno why this is the case, since even I can find them, or something like.
OK, in truth, I wouldn't know a kernel header if you hit me with one. I just set the boot manager to load the blah-blah-blah.2.6.something.something.sfs on boot, like I always did.
So, I am also at a loss. This always used to work, and so I feel betrayed!
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Location: Japan
Posted: Fri 29 Oct 2010, 04:27
Post subject: Qemu on Puppy
If you can afford the slow speed, there is SFS of Qemu virtual machine on Puppy.
Works on Puppy-431 and may work on any Puppy.
Downloads for Puppy Linux
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Posted: Fri 29 Oct 2010, 07:23
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I use VirtualBox under 4.2.1 from a USB drive and run XP as a virtual machine under it. My drive is a 30Gb Asustek EEe 1.8in drive. (SHE251)
It is very nearly as quick as native XP and is completely Portable.
I needed the XP to get at Outlook and Power Point on client machines.
"Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett
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Posted: Fri 29 Oct 2010, 16:04
Post subject: I had the wrong kernel_srcxxx.sfs file!
Subject description: Here is a procedure to install VMware Player
Install VMware Player 3.1.2 on Puppy Linux 5.1.1 (Lucid Pup) - Frugal Install
Distribution .iso file:
Development Tools .sfs file:
Kernel Source .sfs file:
(Login: puppy, Password: linux)
--Not to be mistaken for the "kernel_src-188.8.131.52-patched.sfs" file, which is for the 5.1.0 release.
VMware Player can be downloaded from their site at
You will need to register with them (free) and log in to get to the download page.
I downloaded the installation file: "
___ I. Boot your computer with Puppy Linux 5.1.1
I figure this is a trivial matter for you, and does not need more description.
___ II. Shutdown, creating a lupusave.2fs file
I have it as a maximum size (1.25 Gb?) ext2 filesystem
___ III. Restart Puppy so it will load up with the lupusave.2fs
Now, set it up to load the development tools, etc.
Copy the
to your
directory, where
is located
Go to
Menu --> System --> BootManager
Choose extra SFS files to load on bootup. The two .sfs files should appear in the list, so select them to load.
Restart Puppy again
___ IV. You're ready to install!
*** Important preparation before you install ***
Something not mentioned, but really important. You need to add some folders to
before you proceed.
Create the directory
(This may already exist. If so, don't bother)
Create directories
/etc/rc.d/rc0.d to rc6.d
(seven directories in rc.d)
Create a blank file
(This may not be relevant anymore, but do it anyway)
*** END of Important Preparation ***
Find the
file, and click it to launch. Wait a bit, it takes a minute to load up.
An installer will be created and launched, which will now ask if you want to check for updates, send data to VMware, etc. Answer however you like.
After a while, it will announce that the installation is complete, and you can click the Close button.
Perhaps out of superstition, I always shut down the computer and power it back on before proceeding.
___ V. Start up VMware Player! Hooray!
You can now find the launcher for VMware Player in your menu. It is found in
Menu --> System --> System Status and Config --> VMware Player
If it is not there, you might need to open a terminal (click the Console launcher on the desktop) and type:
Then go to
Menu --> Shutdown --> Restart JWM
to restart the window manager
VMware Player should now start up and begin to compile kernel modules for itself. This is where the
file is important, by the way.
Eventually, it will open an accept license window. When you agree, it will open the VMware Player console for you.
Now you can create and run virtual machines!
___ Extra: Fix the .desktop file, which is always wrong __
The menu item seems to be defined by a
file. When VMware Player is installed, it is always missing its icon.
The .desktop file for VMware Player is found at
An icon can be found at
file, and change the "
" line to have the correct path and filename for the icon
I think it will display properly if you restart the computer, or maybe you need to do the
and restart JWM thing to make it work.
xxxxxx xxxxxx A note on running virtual machines in Puppy Linux xxxxxx xxxxxx
VMware Player will need some place to put temporary files, etc. Since your Frugal install limits your file system to a rather small size, you will quickly run out of space. Fortunately, there's a way to tell VMware Player to put its temp files in another designated location (somewhere else on the hard drive, for instance).
This was discussed at
You can change the directory in
by adding (or changing) the following line:
tmpDirectory = "/some/other/directory"
First, go to
Right click the "
" file, and select "Edit as Text"
Add the line to the text file, using the path of a directory not in your lupusave.2fs filesystem. I used "
" to do this, since my virtual machines are in /mnt/sda1/_VMX already.
Remember, this will only work if /mnt/sda1 is mounted. If not, then VMware Player will probably choke.
*** A final note about VMware Player under Linux ***
VMware Player doesn't like to work with virtual machines that reside in a NTFS partition.
They will give errors and not load. It used to be that there were settings that would work around this, but they don't work for the 3.1.x player, I guess. In any case, if you're going to play VMs under Puppy, they should be located in an ext2 partition (maybe ext3, but I haven't tried this).
That being said, I am able to make this work. Can't figure out how to make Shared Folders work, though, but still, it's a start.[/i]
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Posted: Sun 31 Oct 2010, 04:13
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I tried your tutorial and it's not working for me.
Here are the differences:
- My puppy 5.11 is booting from an usb key.
- lupusave.3fs, kernel_src-184.108.40.206-patched.sfs, lupu_devx_511.sfs are in the root of that key, i load them at the boot process.
They mount in /mnt/home
- I download the file VMware-Player-3.1.2-301548.i386.bundle
In /etc I've have done all the things you said.
the installation of the vmware is going quite well.
When i launch the VMware player I have compilation errors:
"Unable to build kernel module.
See log file /tmp/vmware-root/setup-28529.log for details."
Oct 31 09:08:37.609: app-3076835008| Building module with command: /usr/bin/make -C /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmmon-only auto-build SUPPORT_SMP=1 HEADER_DIR=/lib/modules/220.127.116.11/build/include CC=/usr/bin/gcc GREP=/usr/bin/make IS_GCC_3=no VMCCVER=4.4.3
Oct 31 09:08:38.835: app-3076835008| Failed to compile module vmmon!
so ?
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Posts: 103
Posted: Mon 01 Nov 2010, 15:07
Post subject: You need a different kernel_srcxxx.sfs file
Subject description: You have the one for lupu5.1.0
I got this wrong myself, and had trouble until it was resolved. The kernel source .sfs file is:
Kernel Source .sfs file:
You want the one that says "L4" on it.
Chasing down the kernel_src_xxx.sfs file is a major hassle, since it is not directly linked in the new distribution announcements, as far as I can tell.
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The 'greenhouse effect' is not a new concept. In 1863 Irish-born scientist John Tyndall was writing about 'greenhouse gases' and some 30 years later Swedish scientist Svante Arrehenius made the first known attempt to calculate the impact of increased carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere.
Today there is no question about the existence of the greenhouse effect. Without it our planet would be vastly colder (by 33°C on average), and present life forms would be very different. Water vapour is the main greenhouse gas, accounting for some three quarters of the greenhouse effect, and nothing we do is likely to change it very much.
But second to that, and much more related to human activity, is carbon dioxide. A major source of this today is the burning of fossil fuels to provide energy, particularly electricity. Human activity, particularly since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, seems to be turning up the heat.
Each year well over 28 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide are put into the atmosphere by human activity. This is only about 3% of the natural flux between atmosphere and oceans or land. But its balance is critical. Carbon dioxide is responsible for more than half of human-induced global warming effect.
If much of the human effect which tends to increase global warming comes from our use of energy, we need to ask:
Everyone. Today the world uses a great deal of energy and the usage is increasing dramatically in developing countries.
In the early 1970s a fourfold increase in the price of oil alerted the world to the need for more efficient use of energy, and more diversity of supply.
In OECD* countries the response to this, including greater use of electricity as a means of increasing efficiency, led to a levelling off in demand for primary energy. Between 1973 and 1985 primary energy demand in the OECD remained unchanged despite an increase in gross domestic product (GDP) of 33%. Since 1985 energy use has been rising again.
* Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Outside the OECD countries the picture is different, and primary energy demand is increasing by about 50% each decade. Overall, world energy demand is expected to increase by more than 50% from 2005 to 2030.
Source: OECD/IEA World Energy Outlook 2004
Any attempt to understand or forecast global energy requirements must take account of population growth. At the beginning of the twentieth century, world population was about 1.5 billion. Today it is over seven billion and growing at the rate of 90 million a year. By the year 2025 world population is expected to reach 8 billion.
Rate of population increase
6 billion
Over 90% of world population growth in the foreseeable future will be in the less developed countries, which already contain 75% of the world's people. United Nations projections show most of this growth taking place in urban areas.
Even with effective energy efficiency programmes in developed countries there will be a global need for much more energy if people in the less developed countries are to improve their standards of living. A large part of this increase will be in electricity.
World electricity demand is forecast to double between 2002 and 2030. For instance, while the growth in demand for primary energy in East Asia is around 5% per year, that for electricity is 7-8% per year. In China, power generation requirements are expected to almost double in 15 years, with much of this being met by nuclear. China intends a fivefold increase in nuclear power capacity by 2020 (from 2005 level).
Electricity is the most widely used and rapidly growing form of secondary energy supply. Its generation accounts for about 40% of total primary energy supply. It offers great flexibility of distribution and use, is relatively efficient, very safe for the consumer, and environmentally benign in end-use.
Although overall energy intensity (energy per unit of GDP) fell 25% worldwide 1971 to 1997, electricity demand increased almost threefold over this period. The share of electricity in total energy consumed will rise from 16% in 2002 to about 20% in 2030.
All energy conservation scenarios assume the expanded use of electricity. The most important fuel for generating electricity is coal which provides 40% of all electricity generated. Uranium used in nuclear power stations today provides 13.5% of the growing total.
Today 67% is from fossil fuels, which give rise to substantial carbon dioxide emissions. In the OECD countries nuclear power contributes about 23% of total electricity.
There is more electricity generated by nuclear power today than from all sources worldwide about 40 years ago (2560 billion kWh in 2009).
Every form of energy conversion, such as turning primary energy into electricity, has some environmental implications.
In recent years attention has been focused on the climate change effects of burning fossil fuels, especially coal, due to the carbon dioxide which this releases into the atmosphere.
Carbon dioxide contributes at least 60% of the human-induced increase in the greenhouse effect. Electricity generation is one of the major sources of this carbon dioxide, giving rise to about 9.5 billion tonnes per year - 40% of it, or about one quarter of the human-induced greenhouse increase.
Coal-fired electricity generation gives rise to nearly twice as much carbon dioxide as natural gas per unit of power, but hydro and nuclear do not directly contribute any. If the amount of nuclear power were doubled, emissions from electricity generation would drop by one quarter.
Conversely, there is scope for reducing coal's carbon dioxide contribution to the greenhouse effect by substituting natural gas or nuclear power, and by increasing the efficiency of coal-fired generation itself, a process which is well under way. Nuclear power is well suited to meeting the demand for continuous, reliable electricity supply on a large scale (ie base-load electricity), the major part of demand.
At the time of the oil shocks early in the 1970s, France was heavily dependent on overseas supplies of energy. Since then it has built 60 nuclear reactors in a major programme. Nuclear power now provides 78% of its electricity, it has become a major exporter of electricity (60 billion kWh per year), and it now has a high level of energy independence. Moreover the cost of electricity has declined markedly and per capita carbon dioxide emissions are half those of its neighbours. Next door, Italy is the only industrialized European country without its own nuclear power generation, but it is also the world's main electricity importer - mostly from France.
A 1,000 megawatt electrical (MWe) coal-fired power station burning coal has a typical fuel requirement of almost 3.2 million tonnes* of black coal a year.
*assumes coal yielding 24 MJ/kg and plant operating at 80% capacity. Burning brown coal at 8.15 MJ/kg would require 9.3 million tonnes of fuel.
A nuclear power reactor of the same capacity, (after its initial fuel loading of uranium), has an annual requirement of around 27 tonnes of fuel. Producing this amount of uranium fuel requires the mining of 45-70,000 tonnes of typical Australian uranium ore, or even less Canadian ore. This yields about 200 tonnes of uranium oxide concentrate which is sold, the rest stays at the mine, as tailings. The uranium oxide is enriched to yield the 27 tonnes of actual fuel (see The Nuclear Fuel Cycle in this series).
Coal-fired power stations worldwide consume over 4500 million tonnes of coal each year to make 40% of the electricity. This compares with about 70,000 tonnes of natural uranium (82,000 t of oxide concentrate from the mines) providing the fuel for the nuclear power stations which make 13.5% of the world's electricity. Coal-fired power needs about 20,000 times as much fuel from mines for each kilowatt-hour.
Much of the coal is used in the country in which it is mined, though often it has to be transported long distances, which requires considerable energy (and results in further greenhouse gas emissions).
By comparison, very little uranium is required to do the same job. The 1000 MWe nuclear power station requiring 27 tonnes of fresh fuel per year means an average of about 74 kg per day, which would fit in the back of a car. An equivalent sized coal-fired station needs some 8600 tonnes of black coal to be delivered every day, or rather more brown coal (lignite)
Emissions of carbon dioxide from burning fossil fuels are about 28 billion tonnes a year worldwide, of which around 38% comes from coal, 21% from gas and 41% from oil.
Each year the 1000 MWe coal-fired power station produces about 7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide, perhaps 200,000 tonnes of sulphur dioxide (depending on the particular coal) and typically about 200,000 tonnes of solids, mostly fly ash. The ash contains several hundred tonnes of toxic heavy metals including arsenic, cadmium, lead, vanadium and mercury which remain toxic forever. If brown coal is used the carbon dioxide figure is about 9 million tonnes.
This Figure shows the relative levels of CO2 emission from generating one kilowatt-hour of electricity from different sources. Every 22 tonnes of uranium (26 t U3O8) used saves about one million tonnes of CO2 relative to coal.
Methods exist for removing sulphur dioxide and nitrous oxide although the cost is high. Fly ash is generally captured and dumped in landfill. However there is no economically feasible way to remove or reduce carbon dioxide from the burning of coal. None of these emissions occur at a nuclear power station, where virtually all wastes are contained in the 27 tonnes or so of used fuel, and are therefore not released to the environment.
The combustion of coal may also release radioactive heavy metals (including uranium and thorium) contained in it, though these are mostly retained in the ash. The use of natural gas releases radioactive radon. The amount of radioactivity released is negligible relative to the natural background radiation levels, but is often greater than that from nuclear power generation.
If the electricity produced worldwide by nuclear reactors were generated instead by burning coal, an additional 2600 million tonnes of carbon dioxide would be released into the atmosphere each year. This can be compared with the target of a 5% reduction (600 million tonnes per year) in carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2010, as agreed in 1997 at Kyoto just for the developed countries.
Every 22 tonnes of uranium used avoids the emission of one million tonnes of carbon dioxide, relative to coal. When the electricity comes from coal, every kilowatt hour of it results in about a kilogram of carbon dioxide being emitted.
Borosilicate glass from the first waste vitrification plant in UK in the 1960s. This block contains material chemically identical to high-level waste from reprocessing. A piece this size would contain the total high-level waste arising from nuclear electricity generation for one person throughout a normal lifetime.
The total amount of used fuel resulting from operation of all the world's commercial nuclear power stations is about 12,000 tonnes per year. About two-thirds of this is treated as waste, while the rest is reprocessed to recover useful fuel material. The reprocessing of used fuel results in only about 3% of it being high-level radioactive waste (which is then incorporated into glass), with the balance being recycled as fresh fuel.
Handling, storage and treatment of these radioactive wastes has been undertaken in many countries for several decades without incident. Nuclear power is the only energy-producing industry which takes full responsibility for all its wastes and costs this into the product.
The used nuclear fuel elements - or the separated high level wastes - are stored for up to 50 years to allow for the decay of most of the radioactivity and heat (to about 0.1% of what it was when removed from the reactor) before final disposal. Today the waste disposal issue is not a technical problem but one of public and political acceptance.
Renewable energy sources for electricity are diverse, from solar, tidal and wave energy to hydro, geothermal and biomass-based power generation. Apart from hydro power in the few places where it is very plentiful, none of these is suitable, intrinsically or economically, for large-scale base-load power generation.
Because of their diffuse nature (making them difficult to harness efficiently) and their intermittent availability (giving rise to the need for storage or back-up from other sources), their role in meeting electricity demand on any significant scale will always be limited. A 20% contribution to grid supply is the maximum conceivable for non-hydro sources, and about half of this is likely. Renewables have most appeal where demand can accommodate small-scale, intermittent supply of electricity.
All of the various means of generating electricity have a role to play in meeting the rapidly increasing demand for this form of energy. Fossil fuels, particularly coal and gas, will remain important. Since reliability is the most important attribute of electricity supply, the role of non-hydro renewables is limited.
Nuclear electricity is one part of the solution of the energy equation for today and tomorrow, particularly in the light of concerns about carbon dioxide emissions. Without nuclear power the world would have to rely almost entirely on fossil fuels, especially coal, to meet demand for base-load electricity production. This has significant environmental, and particularly greenhouse gas, implications.
Nuclear power plants do not emit any carbon dioxide, nor any sulphur dioxide or nitrogen oxides. Their wastes end up as solids and, though requiring careful handling, are very much less than the wastes from burning coal and are easily managed.
Whenever new electricity generating capacity is required, or old fossil-fuelled plants need to be replaced, it is therefore sensible to consider nuclear as a serious option. Nuclear electricity has accumulated over 14,000 reactor-years of operating experience.
The continued and expanded use of nuclear power is one among a range of measures which will effectively limit future global carbon dioxide emissions. Some 50 countries have chosen nuclear power as part of their energy mix. They have over 430 power station reactors in operation and more under construction.

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BAGHDAD (AP) — A new wave of attacks across Iraq including an assault on a TV station killed at least 26 people on Monday, officials said, as the government pressed on with its offensive to hunt down al-Qaida-linked militants in the country's volatile western desert.
Five attackers stormed the offices of the channel owned by the provincial government of Salaheddin in the city of Tikrit north of Baghdad, one blowing up a suicide car bomb at the gate and two more setting off explosive suicide belts inside, police said. Two more were killed by security forces.
Six channel staff died in addition to the attackers, and six others were wounded, police and health officials said. A security source said one of the dead was a female presenter.
Also Monday, militants fired mortar rounds into a military base near Baghdad's western suburb of Abu Ghraib, killing three officers and three soldiers, a police officer said. Seven soldiers were wounded in that attack.
Hours later, a bomb went off next to a passing military patrol in the same area, killing two, an officer and a solider, he added. Two other soldiers were wounded.
In Baghdad's southern district of Dora, gunmen broke into a pet shop and killed four men, another police officer said.
Three civilians were killed and nine were wounded when a bomb ripped through an outdoor market in the Iraqi capital's northwestern Tobchi district. And on a highway in eastern Baghdad, drive-by shooters opened fire at a bus, killing two commuters and wounding nine, he said.
Separately, gunmen attacked a bus in the town of Baqouba, a former al-Qaida stronghold located about 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, killing three commuters and wounding six there, police said.
Four medical officials confirmed the casualty figures. All officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media.
Speaking at a press conference in the southern city of Karbala, Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said on Monday that the operation in Anbar "will continue until it is purged of terrorists, with the help of the Iraqi people."
Video released by the military on Monday showed an airstrike hitting what appeared to be a camp, the capture of militant banners and the arrest of one individual.
Also Monday in western Iraq, police said gunmen seized three trucks with a load of about two dozen SUVs on the main highway to Jordan and kidnapped the drivers.
The military operation in Anbar province followed the weekend killing of a senior military commander, a colonel and five soldiers in an ambush there during a raid on a militant hideout early Saturday.
A government statement said security forces backed by helicopters have been combing the desert near the borders with Syria and Jordan. Syria's civil war and chaos have encouraged widespread cross-border movement of al-Qaida fighters between the two countries.
Insurgents have stepped up attacks across Iraq in the past months, sending violence to levels not seen since 2008.
Monday's attacks brought the total number of people killed so far this month to 400. According to U.N. estimates, more than 8,000 people have been killed since the start of the year as insurgents seek to undermine government efforts to maintain security nationwide.


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This is a wild bunny alert: Our New England cottontail rabbit is in trouble.
It won't be much of a surprise to learn that we're to blame. Perhaps it will lessen the guilt to know state and federal environmentalists — and a few conservation-minded landowners — are now working to save our native bunnies.
And they're doing it in part by using a program designed to provide hunters with more wild game to shoot.
Which is fine with Tom McAvoy, who happens to like hunting.
McAvoy's 115-acre farm in the little eastern Connecticut town of Scotland is one focus of a combined federal-state effort to provide more of the brushy, thickety landscape favored by our furry native...


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Potbelly Sandwich Shop Delivery Driver job in Brighton, MI
- Company
- Potbelly Sandwich Shop
- Job Title
- Delivery Driver
- Job Type
- Full-time, Part-time
- Est. Wages
- $9.37 to $17.51 per hour (Snag Est. )
- Location
- 8539 Grand River Ave.
Brighton, MI 48116
- Last Active
- 16 days
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Delivery Driver
Potbelly Sandwich Shop is looking for Delivery Drivers who can make our customers really happy by delivering our great Potbelly product quickly, safely and with excellent customer service. When not focused on Delivery Driver responsibilities, he or she may also be assigned to other Associate duties within the shop.
Essential Functions:
- Demonstrate Potbelly's Behaviors and Values– Integrity, Food Loving, Teamwork, Accountability, Positive Energy, Coaching, Delivering Results through Execution, Building and Inspiring Teams, Creating Potbelly "Fans"-- through all interactions.
- Provides quick and friendly delivery service and set-up.
- Effectively handles customer complaints/issues.
Other Functions:
- Other Associate position duties as assigned as outlined in Potbelly Associate job description, such as preparing quality finished products at various stations, complying with health and food safety standards, restocking items, cleaning, operating the cash register, answering the phone, providing great customer service, and following Potbelly policies and procedures.
Physical Requirements:
- Ability to stand/walk a minimum of 3 hours or as needed.
- Must be able to operate and licensed to operate a motor vehicle.
- Must be able to exert well-paced and frequent mobility for periods of up to 3 hours or as needed.
- Able to lift up to 50 pounds frequently.
- May frequently reach, feel, bend, stoop, carry, finely manipulate and key in data.
- Must be able to work in both warm and cool environments
- Must be able to tolerate higher levels of noise from music, customer and employee traffic.
- Must be able to tolerate potential allergens: peanut products, egg, dairy, gluten, soy, seafood and shellfish
- Must represent The Potbelly Advantage and Our Values
- Excellent customer services skills.
- A vehicle to drive
- A valid driver's license
- Driving record must be in good standing
- Proof of insurance limits for property damage and bodily injury that are at least $50,000 per person and $100,000 per accident.
- Must be at least 18 years of age
- Excellent driving skills so you can arrive to our customers safely.
- Ability to comprehend and communicate in English via verbal and written communication, such that employee can perform his or her job responsibilities.
- Experience in food delivery, a plus.
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- Minimum Age
- 18+ years old
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text: Today we were changing out an Apollo Hydro Heat system and replacing it with a Heat Pump system in the attic of a 3 story house. We shut the water valve off to the unit, cut the lines and drained them. So far so good. After getting all the old material out of the attic I decided to go get the ODU done before it started raining. I started working on the ODU for approximately 25 minutes when I needed a tool that I had left up stairs in the 3rd story attic. When I got up to the top of the stairs I heard water and looked and sure enough the old apollo lines were just gushing out water all over this attic. I then ran downstairs and turned off the water valve that the electrician accidently turned back on while he was working next to the water heater. By this time there was water all the way down to the crawl space. Probably going to have to replace hardwood floors, sheetrock, and god knows what else. Needless to say I had a very bad day. Anyone else ever had this happen to them before????


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U.S. Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission
Meeting of October 23, 2008 – Issues Facing Hispanics in the Federal Workplace
Good Morning. Madame Chairperson, and Members of the EEOC Commission.
Thank you for inviting me to speak to you today on 'The Realities and Barriers Faced by Hispanics in the Federal Sector'.
September 30th marked the 20th Anniversary of the Federal Court decision in the landmark class-action civil rights case, entitled Bernardo M. Pérez, Plaintiff v. Federal Bureau of Investigation et al., Defendants.
Sam Martinez, a retired FBI Agent, and leader in that fight is here today --- and so is my friend, Nelson Hermilla, Department of Justice Attorney, who boldly took me up to Capitol Hill, after I filed the lawsuit, to seek support for the battle.
Senators Joe Biden and Orin Hatch helped us --- along with John Conyers and other members of Congress. Some Congressional leaders such as former Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez were afraid to get involved. And America's two largest national Hispanic organizations – LULAC and MALDEF – refused to help.
Federal Judge Lucius D. Bunton, heard the case -- and ruled that the FBI systemically discriminated against me and 310 other Hispanic Special Agents. He also found, separately, that the FBI retaliated against me for filing nine EEO Complaints.
He then ruled that then FBI Director William Webster's EEO Program and the FBI promotion system were "bankrupt". Webster was not punished… and subsequently became Director of the CIA. No one was held responsible, ultimately for the FBI's failures. And the consequences went beyond the lawsuit class members…
Richard Yerby, Leo Ramos and George Rodríguez, my Attorneys in the unsuccessful EEO hearing, before the trial, went unpaid. The EEO Judge found no discrimination.
My successful trial Attorneys Hugo Rodríguez and Antonio Silva –- after a long and intense legal effort – suffered devastating family turmoil – and went bankrupt.
The Bureau forced my then fiancée, Yvonne Shaffer, to submit to illegal polygraph examinations to elicit information they hoped to use against me. She quit the FBI. Director Webster ordered me not to date her. I married her and the FBI came after me in different ways as part of their campaign to force my resignation.
I had investigated Klan cross-burnings in Florida, police brutality cases in Texas, and other civil rights violations… But I refused to accept and admit that discrimination existed at "my" beloved FBI. I even argued with my own father and insisted that the FBI was "incapable" of discrimination: But, I finally came to understand a painful truth – He was right, I was wrong.
My brave wife, a former FBI stenographer was the catalyst for that fight. She made me realize that by ignoring discrimination against Hispanics at the FBI, I was sacrificing my ethics to justify continuing my career.
My career was dying and when I finally filed my first EEO Complaint. That was the "last straw" for the FBI who had graciously allowed this Latino into the world's 'premier' investigative organization.
I was among the elite when I became an Agent in 1963 under J. Edgar Hoover. There were fewer than ten Latino Agents out of approximately seven thousand FBI Agents.
Filing an individual EEO Complaint against the Bureau was unheard of. To follow it with a class-action lawsuit from 310 of the 452 Latino Agents in the FBI outraged Bureau executives and most other Agents. Many FBI Officials demanded that Director Sessions not let this case go to trial. This demand was made in my presence. I was called disloyal because we had openly charged the FBI with discrimination. We knew our rights as American citizens were meaningless unless we stood up and demanded equal treatment under the law and the right to be promoted fairly.
It was not a matter of loyalty; it was a matter of justice.
After we prevailed in Federal Court in El Paso, Texas, I was "promoted" to the FBI Laboratory in Washington, D.C. and, reluctantly, the FBI complied with Judge Bunton's Order to promote me to an SES 4 position. My boss had to be promoted first, because he was only an SES 3.
After a year and a half at Headquarters, where I was the 'invisible man', I threatened to sue the FBI again for continuing discrimination and retaliation against the class members. We were worse off than before the lawsuit. I was involuntarily demoted to SES 3 (can this happen?) and transferred to the field as the Special Agent in Charge of the Albuquerque Division. Other FBI Officials returned to the Field with their SES rank intact.
Five years later, in 1995, after 33 years of FBI service, I retired but I still feel the sting of recrimination for having filed suit against the FBI. My story is not unique, but tragically, it is representative of what happened to most class-action members and their careers.
Because we prevailed in the lawsuit, open retaliation accelerated with a vengeance and to this very day we are punished. Class-members were denied court-ordered rightful place seniority and subsequently we retired at lower grades than those ordered by Judge Bunton, who died in January, 2001.
The FBI internal affairs office, known as the Office of Professional Responsibility, conducted more than sixteen investigations against San Antonio Supervisor Gil Mireles (one of my brave EEO Counselors); but couldn't find any wrong-doing. Gil was added to the long list of those Agents forced out of the FBI for demanding their rights as Americans. Ironically, the FBI is responsible for investigating violations of civil rights laws in the United States. Who guards the guards? Is it you, the EEOC and Congress, or does the FBI answer to anyone? Apparently, not.
After the trial, FBI leaders deliberately disregarded Judge Bunton's orders to fix the 'bankrupt' EEO process and the Promotion System in the FBI.
Predictably, those Hispanic Agents who testified at trial – falsely- that the FBI did not discriminate… were among the first to be promoted after the ruling.
Shortly after my assignment to the FBI Lab, I made eighty-eight (88) allegations of perjury and wrong-doing by top FBI Officials during the trial. Director Sessions was unaware. The subsequent two-year investigation into these charges by Inspector Dennis Curry and John Shiman has been lost by FBI. Those FBI Officials who testified falsely and retaliated against us were promoted, given plush assignments and retired at high SES levels. Director William Sessions had been fired in part for letting Pérez v. FBI go to trial.
The lead members of the 'successful' battle against discrimination are all retired now and we loyal Americans pay every day for defending our Constitutional rights. Would we do it again? YES, we had no choice. Latinos in the FBI continue the battle that we started. Regrettably, this battle is far from over. It continues in the FBI and throughout our Federal Government and our Nation. Just listen to the news!
You conduct studies and wonder why more Hispanics don't pursue careers in the Federal service. Perhaps this will give you some insight into 'The Realities and Barriers Faced by Hispanics in the Federal Sector'.


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Case against MERS reaches Supreme Court
A controversial case challenging the ability of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems to foreclose on a California man was filed with the Supreme Court Monday, making it the first major MERS case to reach the nation's highest court. If the Supreme Court agrees to hear Gomes v. Countrywide, Gomes' attorney, Ehud Gersten, says the court will have to decide whether a lower court stripped his client, Jose Gomes, of due process by allowing MERS to foreclose without ensuring the registry had the noteholder's authority to foreclose. "I believe this to be the first case in the country to take MERS to our Supreme Court," Gersten told HousingWire. His claim could not be immediately verified. "Ultimately, what this case is saying is if you are going to be taking someone's home away from them, do you have the proof or the right to do so?" Gersten said. "If the Supreme Court starts to question MERS, and its business structure, it is going to have an effect on every MERS case in the country." MERS, the electronic registry at the center of the foreclosure crisis, has been under fire nationwide as foreclosure attorneys purport the firm, and its parent company Merscorp Inc., illegally foreclosed on properties. Gersten, meanwhile, said MERS has a brief period of time to respond before the Supreme Court decides whether it will accept the case (click here for the filing). Attorneys familiar with the Gomes case are not optimistic about its chances of being heard by the Supreme Court. "While recent statistics show that the Supreme Court takes on average less than 3% of cases on certiorari, it takes even a smaller percentage of those advanced by private litigants, as opposed to the government," said Patton Boggs attorney Anthony Laura. "Also it takes fewer cases out of the state court system than it does out of the federal Courts of Appeals." "So, the likelihood that this case will be taken is slim indeed," Laura adds. "I believe those slim odds are even slimmer because the argument Gomes is making to the U.S. Supreme Court is one he did not previously raise." Laura said that, as a premise for invoking the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, Gomes claims that the court below abridged his 14th Amendment rights. "My recollection is that Gomes never made a Constitutional argument below, neither in the California Court of Appeals nor in the petition for review to the California Supreme Court," he said. "In my view, the U.S. Supreme Court will look skeptically on his just raising that argument now." The original plaintiff, Jose Gomes, appealed to the nation's highest court after California's Supreme Court decided not to review the 4th Appellate District Court of California's decision in favor of MERS. Gomes' petition says he's challenging the foreclosure because MERS "did not have the current noteholder's authority to foreclose." Gersten argues his client "was entitled to proof that the loan servicer, trustee or an entity such as MERS, either named in the deed of trust or acting through assignments of interest, had legal authority on behalf of the promissory note's current holder to foreclose." The 4th Appellate District Court's decision, which Gomes wants overturned, held MERS had the authority to initiate a foreclosure on Gomes because the deed of trust "explicitly provided MERS with the authority to do so," according to court records. The state appellate court also ruled in favor of MERS after finding the deed of trust contained no language to suggest the "lender or its successors and assigns must provide Gomes with an assurance that MERS is authorized to proceed with a foreclosure," according to court records. MERS chose not to comment on the case, but a spokeswoman said the company is aware of the filing with the Supreme Court. Write to Kerri Panchuk.


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Clarkson Student Spotlight: November '11
Eric Evans '13
Global Supply Chain Management with minors in economics and project management
Wilmington, Delaware native Eric may have left campus for 15 months to purse internship and co-op opportunities, but that hasn't stopped him from being very involved with the campus now that he's back. Eric is a member of the CU F.I.R.E. Department through the Reh Center for Entrepreneurship, a group that assists local entrepreneurs improve their businesses. He's also involved in the Economics Club, Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, and Club Hockey. Not to mention, he's a tutor for an economics course. We caught up with Eric to see what else he's been up to. Check it out.
Q: Why did you choose Clarkson?
A: When I heard about the freshmen business program, I became really interested in Clarkson. Also, it has a great academic reputation, it's a big hockey school, and I knew it would allow me to move away from home to broaden my horizons.
Q: Who is your favorite "famous" person?
A: George Carlin. He was one of the funniest people ever. I could watch his specials or read his books 100 times and still laugh every time.
Q: What unique experiences have you had at Clarkson?
A: I've had several. I was the CEO of my freshmen business company. After my sophomore year, I left campus for 15 months to gain professional experience through two co-ops at Johnson & Johnson and an internship with Procter & Gamble.
Q: What is your guilty pleasure?
A: Hot wings and snickers. Not at the same time; that would be an odd combo. If it wasn't for fear of major health implications, I might be able to live off of just hot wings and snickers.
Q: What is your favorite spot on campus?
A: The Rec Center. I love sports and I know when I'm there I don't have to worry about anything else at least for an hour or so.
Q: If you could reincarnate as any animal, which would it be?
A: I would come back as a monkey. Who doesn't like climbing trees and eating bananas? However, I like the concept of opposable thumbs way too much to give them up.
Q: What are your goals for the future?
A: My immediate goals are to fulfill my international experience requirement and land an internship for the summer, then graduate. After that, I hope to get a job in supply chain, pursue graduate studies and eventually embark on some entrepreneurial ideas I've started to develop.
Q: If you could have one superpower, what would it be?
A: I would have to say teleporting. At this point, a lot of my friends, family, and loved ones are spread throughout the country. Being able to teleport would make it a lot easier to see everyone and keep in touch with people. And I hate sitting traffic, so it would solve that problem, too.
Q: What has been your favorite class so far?
A: All of my economics classes and professors have been my favorite - with Profs. Mark Frascatore, Luciana Echazu, and Diego Nocetti. They all have a way of making the courses challenging, but very interesting. I have gotten a lot out of my economics classes.
Q: What does "defy convention" mean to you?
A: To me, defying convention means to challenge reality and accepted norms. It has been said that being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity. Pushing the boundaries, or defying convention, allows us to achieve higher results in many aspects of life.
Check out more student spotlights!
Eric Evans '13


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Fans who enjoyed Vegas during the Pac-12 Tournament won't have to wait until March to visit again.
UCLA officially announced today that it will play in the 13th annual Las Vegas Invitational on Nov. 28 and 29. The Orleans Arena will host the Bruins, Nevada, Northwestern and Missouri. UCLA also has a nonconference game scheduled against the Tigers.
The regional round will take place the weekend prior, with UCLA hosting two teams. Those matchups will be against Chattanooga, IUPUI, Morehead State or Gardner-Webb.


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St. Anselm ready to select non-Benedictine for top postBy KATHY REMILLARD
Special to the Union Leader
April 12. 2013 12:53AM
GOFFSTOWN - For the first time in its history, a non-Benedictine will be chosen to lead St. Anselm College following the May retirement of its long-time president, Jonathan DeFelice.
A presidential search committee has narrowed the field of candidates to two, according to information posted on the college's website - Steven DiSalvo, president of Wisconsin's Marian University, and Msgr. Stuart Swetland, currently vice president for Catholic Identity and Mission at Mount St. Mary's University in Maryland.
In a statement to the St. Anselm community, Abbot Mark Cooper, OSB, chancellor of the college, cited the new leadership as one of several major changes this year at the Catholic, Benedictine liberal arts college.
"I personally want to assure the members of all the various constituencies of this institution that from the very beginning of the search process it has been made clear that it is of paramount importance that we select a practicing Catholic as president, one who is able to profess, live and explain the faith that is at the very heart of this institution and the education it provides," Cooper said. "I am confident that we have identified such individuals in our finalists and am comfortable on this issue as we look to move forward."
According to biographies posted on the college's website, DiSalvo joined Marian University in 2010, and comes with extensive experience in national philanthropic fundraising leadership and Catholic higher education.
DiSalvo served as president and founder of The Hopewell Group, Inc., which focuses on transfers of wealth for individuals, family foundations and corporations.
He held the title of executive director of the Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation, which works to educate and end the cycle of domestic violence.
He also served as the chief operating officer of Junior Achievement of New York, Inc., which provides business education using volunteer role models.
DiSalvo holds a B.S. in psychology from Fordham University, New York, an M.B.A. in marketing from Fordham University, a Ph.D. in educational leadership from Fordham University and attended the Higher Education Institute for New Presidents at Harvard University.
Swetland was ordained a priest in 1991 for the Diocese of Peoria, Ill. He received his undergraduate degree in physics from the U.S. Naval Academy. Elected a Rhodes Scholar in 1981, he entered the Catholic church while studying at Oxford.
Swetland has a B.A. and M.A. in politics, philosophy and economics from Oxford; a M.Div. and M.A. from Mount St. Mary's Seminary; and his S.T.L. and S.T.D. from the Pontifical Lateran University, having studied at the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in Washington, D.C.
He also holds the Archbishop Flynn Chair of Christian Ethics at Mount St. Mary's University, serves as the executive director of the Center for the Advancement of Catholic Higher Education and the executive secretary for the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars.
The search firm of Isaacson, Miller assisted the selection committee, which was led by two St. Anselm alumni and made up of faculty, staff, students, trustees and members of the monastic community.
Cooper said the college's dedication to its mission will continue.
"I believe that we have been careful to ensure and insist that our Catholic mission will be our continued primary focus, and that our Benedictine presence and involvement in that mission will be as vital as our numbers and strength allow," he said.
Both candidates will visit the campus during the last two weeks of April.


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17 May, 2011 - Department of Education and Skills launches Code of Practice
The Secretary General of the Department of Education and Skills, Brigid McManus, and Data Protection Commissioner, Billy Hawkes, today announced the launch of a data protection Code of Practice for the Department.
The Code is the product of work undertaken by the Department in close cooperation with the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner.
It reflects the key principles of data protection best practice.
Set against the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003, the aim of this Code of Practice is to ensure each employee of the Department has an understanding of the concepts of Data Protection and is aware of their own responsibilities.
This, in turn, will assist the Department in its compliance with the Acts.
Data Protection Commissioner, Billy Hawkes said, "I would like to commend the Department for demonstrating leadership in bringing forward this Code. As a significant holder of personal data, the Code sends a strong statement of how seriously it takes its data protection responsibilities. I will be looking to other Government Departments and Public Bodies to follow the Department in this area."
The principal value of the Code is that it makes the principles of data protection real for all employees of the Department and emphasises the heavy responsibility on them to treat personal data with respect.


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Eight join Jerry Rice Award Watch List
Philadelphia, PA – Running back is often a position of impact for college freshmen, and it leads the way for the Jerry Rice Award Watch List, which was updated on Tuesday.
There is a Watch List-high five running backs competing for the inaugural award which honors the outstanding freshman in the Football Championship Subdivision. The award is presented by The Sports Network and sponsored by Fathead.com.
A national panel of sports information and media relations directors, broadcasters, writers and other dignitaries will select the first Jerry Rice Award winner after the regular season. The legendary wide receiver, who played in the FCS (then Division I-AA) at Mississippi Valley State, will be on hand at the national awards banquet on Jan. 6 in Frisco, Texas, to present the award.
The running backs are Chuck Dibilo of Princeton, David Johnson of Northern Iowa, Ross Scheuerman of Lafayette, Jordan Talley of Eastern Washington and Terrance West of Towson.
Dibilo and West were newcomers to the Watch List on Tuesday along with quarterbacks Michael German of Tennessee State and Austin Sumner of South Dakota State, right tackle Will Whitman of Harvard, wide receiver Brady Measom of Southern Utah, free safety Mike Crutcher of Missouri State and punter Jake Miller of Eastern Washington.
The list of nominees:
Mike Crutcher, Missouri State, FS, 6-2, 198
Collected at least seven tackles in six of Missouri State's first seven games for a team-high 59 overall. The redshirt freshman had 13 tackles against then- No. 4 North Dakota State.
Michael Dallas II, Morgan State, LB, 6-0, 205
Had 11 tackles versus Bowling Green and forced two fumbles against Howard. The redshirt freshman corralled 43 tackles, including 5.5 for loss, in Morgan State's first seven games.
Chuck Dibilo, Princeton, RB, 5-11, 200
In a crowded Princeton backfield, he asserted himself with a 147-yard game against Hampton and a team-high 401 rushing yards through the first half of the Tigers' season.
Michael German, Tennessee State, QB, 6-2, 215
German was elevated to starter in October and went a combined 60-for-89 for 798 yards and six touchdowns in his first three games. In that time, the redshirt freshman extended his run of passes without an interception to 131.
D'Vonte Grant, North Carolina A&T, LB, 5-11, 215
Active redshirt frosh totalled a team-high 43 tackles, including 3.5 for loss, one sack, one interception, one pass break-up, two quarterback hits, one forced fumble and one fumble recovery in the Aggies' first six games.
R.J. Harris, New Hampshire, WR, 6-0, 194
The redshirt freshman has had some monster games in leading all FCS first-year players in receptions per game (6.6) and receiving yards per game (97.2) through UNH's 4-2 start. He had five touchdowns among his 33 receptions.
David Johnson, Northern Iowa, RB, 6-3, 214
A redshirt freshman, he led all first-year players with 510 rushing yards on 109 carries, with six touchdowns through UNI's 5-1 start. He also caught 11 passes for 211 yards and two touchdowns.
Eriq Lewis, Old Dominion, CB, 6-0, 180
Totaled 32 tackles (23 solos) in ODU's 5-2 start, but created the most havoc with eight passes break-ups, two interceptions and two forced fumbles.
Dillon Lucas, Villanova, LB, 6-0, 215
Consistent freshman had between six and 10 tackles in each of Villanova's first seven games. He collected a sack versus Monmouth.
Brady Measom, Southern Utah, WR, 5-9, 165
Part of a deep receiving corps at Southern Utah, Measom had 37 receptions for 409 yards and two touchdowns in his first seven games. Also had 10 punt returns for a 14.6-yard average.
Greg McGhee, Howard, QB, 6-3, 200
Mobile left-hander was a threat as a passer (123 of 223 for 1,197 yards and 10 touchdowns) or a runner (275 yards) through his first seven games.
Jake Miller, Eastern Washington, Punter, 6-5, 205
A transfer from Washington State, Miller has come on strong during his redshirt freshman season, averaging 43.1 yards per punt through seven games, with five punts of at least 50 yards.
Ross Scheuerman, Lafayette, RB, 6-0, 190
Through six games, the all-around standout ranked 26th in the FCS with 137.5 all-purpose yards per game. He's been a threat as a runner, receiver and kick returner.
Austin Sumner, South Dakota State, QB, 6-5, 230
The Jackrabbits have turned their offense over to the redshirt freshman, who averaged 299.5 passing yards in his first four starts. He was 37-for-54 for 354 yards and four touchdowns against No. 2 Northern Iowa.
Jordan Talley, Eastern Washington, RB, 5-10, 180
The defending FCS champion Eagles have relied on the true freshman, who had a team-high 350 rushing yards as well as 18 receptions in their first seven games.
Terrance West, Towson, RB, 5-11, 222
Go West. North, South and East, too. He led all FCS freshmen with 11 touchdowns through Towson's surprising 5-1 start. The two-time national freshman of the week had 450 rushing yards on 6.4 yards per carry.
Brandon White, San Diego, WR, 6-3, 195
Has become a big part of the Toreros' offense, catching 34 balls for 427 yards and four touchdowns through their first seven games.
Will Whitman, Harvard, OT, 6-6, 260
The first freshman offensive lineman to start under veteran head coach Tim Murphy, Whitman played every snap in the Crimson's first five games, with 30 knockdowns. He allowed just one sack in that time.


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Well, maybe.
Sonic 1 prototype images Both topics now merged together
Posted 28 February 2012 - 06:29 PM
Well, maybe.
Posted 28 February 2012 - 06:41 PM
Posted 28 February 2012 - 09:24 PM
Flare, on 28 February 2012 - 05:14 PM, said:
Which is precisely why Sonic 1 prototypes are so interesting! The world of Sonic was still being conceived, so it could contain all kinds of crazy things (such as organic enemies, different physics, power ups, level design principles, and so on).
Posted 28 February 2012 - 11:06 PM
Sonic's sprite also has some interesting things going on.
Posted 28 February 2012 - 11:17 PM
SonikkuForever, on 20 February 2012 - 07:08 PM, said:
You know I just now noticed that next to the word "Hersteller" off to the right hand side in the photo above, there are two company names that appear, SEGA and Virgin. I believe I recall hearing that name from somewhere before, but where? I think it had something to do with the 8-bit version of sonic 1, but I can't be sure.
Edit: Ok I know nobody cares but I have to correct myself, it was Ancient that produced Sonic 1 (8-bit) not virgin. Derp.
Posted 28 February 2012 - 11:24 PM
Posted 28 February 2012 - 11:48 PM
It looks as though this guy was jumping to jump on Sonic but either jumped over him or Sonic ran under him at a good enough time. Since he was purple in the concept art but blue here, it makes me wonder if there were other monsters in the level who also had new paint jobs. I hope we find new and more pictures someday or even better actual gameplay footage! Surely someone had to of had a camera or recorder at that Tokyo Game Show. But man these finds are truly incredible because it shows us how far the development had gone along before the big changes. We finally get to learn a little bit more about Sonic the Hedgehog before the storyline, characters, and gameplay were stapled and finalized.
I wonder how Sonic attacked enemies and what happened after he hit them? Did it take more than one hit to destroy them too or just one? These are questions I wish we can find answers to. Man this makes me wish we could find this beta...sooo badly it itches under my skin. I'm so ecstatic that these screen shots were scanned in such nice quality. These two pictures are probably the best quality images of the early Green Hill Zone we have now too. About the whole red text in the one screen shot...I don't think that was in the level; I think that's just part of the magazine. Some other magazine pages showing different game screen shots also had the words in some of them. Also given what the red words are saying which go along the lines of 'coming soon' is a big indication that its probably a insert from the magazine company.
The early Sonic for some reason gives me a huge "Who Framed Rodger Rabbit" feel as well as being extremely similar to Mario as many had already pointed out. Madonna being like Peach blonde hair and all, this blue / purple monster being like a Goomba, Sonic basically the anthropomorphic version of Mario etc. It makes sense why they changed it in the end. I also just thought of something. Eggman is not the big guy in charge in this version. He's a random bumble bee guy with clawed hands lol. XD I have a feeling that big scary / badass looking monster in the very back of the picture was the original antagonist / big guy that was the sole reason for whatever bad things were happening in the world and the story plot.
Posted 29 February 2012 - 12:45 AM
You could always read it if you want.
Otherwise, just know that I think these scans are super awesome.
Posted 29 February 2012 - 12:46 AM
MattManAGES, on 28 February 2012 - 11:17 PM, said:
Posted 29 February 2012 - 12:46 AM
Posted 29 February 2012 - 01:31 AM
Sik, on 29 February 2012 - 12:46 AM, said:
MattManAGES, on 28 February 2012 - 11:17 PM, said:
It's very possible. Virgin Group is based in the UK and from what I can gather Virgin Games used to deal with PC games. They could've been publishing or even just investing in the project. They also published games for a variety of systems at one point according to Wiki
Looks like SEGA ended up publishing it by final release though. Wonder what happened there...
Posted 29 February 2012 - 01:47 AM
Posted 29 February 2012 - 02:35 AM
Just out of curiousity, who was the designer/creator of the Sonic 1 sprites? Is he around on the 'net? Since we wasted our chance showing Yuji Naka this because of that idiot hoax, maybe we can ask someone else from the early days about Monster Guy.
Posted 29 February 2012 - 02:51 AM
Also, I'm glad the full page scan exists as well as the crop of the two screens - it means we also have a clearer shot of the title screen than the previously existing one, which allows a slightly better look at the details that differ from the final version.
Hoepfully something else from this demo will eventually turn up; be it screens, footage, or even the build itself (hey, I can dream). For now, though, it's wonderful to have an extra peek into something a lot of us probably thought we'd never see anything more of - especially as it's revealed elements of this demo that we hadn't previously been aware of. = )
Posted 29 February 2012 - 03:27 AM
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A disgraced former city manager accused of masterminding a brazen municipal corruption scandal that drove a modest Los Angeles suburb to the brink of bankruptcy pleaded no contest Thursday to 69 counts of fraud, misappropriation of public funds and other charges.
Robert Rizzo was charged with stealing more than $5 million from the blue-collar city of Bell, where one in four people live below the federal poverty line.
"Mr. Rizzo is trying to send a clear message that he accepts responsibility for wrongdoing," said his attorney, James Spertus. "He made mistakes and he's trying to make amends for that."
Rizzo became the face of a widespread city government scandal after it was revealed in 2010 that he was giving himself an annual salary and benefits package of $1.5 million. His $800,000 in wages alone was double that of the president of the United States.
When he was arrested, he was living in an expensive home in the upscale oceanfront community of Huntington Beach and owned a thoroughbred horse ranch in Washington state. He posted $2 million bail to get out of jail.
Authorities said he paid most members of the City Council some $100,000 a year, even though the panel meets only about twice a month to handle matters for the city of about 35,000 people.
Rizzo, 59, is scheduled to be sentenced on March 12 and expected to be sent to prison for 10 to 12 years.
Spertus said that in the weeks ahead, his client also plans to plead guilty to federal tax charges and resolve a lawsuit filed by the state attorney's general. Spertus anticipates that Rizzo will be allowed to serve any possible sentence on the tax charges concurrently with the fraud term and could reasonably expect to be released on parole in five to six years.
The lawyer said Rizzo entered the plea in state court to have a fair sentence and return to his family with his legal problems behind him.
Spertus said Rizzo also plans to cooperate with authorities still prosecuting other figures in the Bell corruption scandal, including his former top assistant, Angela Spaccia.
The plea, just days before Rizzo and Spaccia were set to go on trial together Monday, "totally surprised" her, said Spaccia's attorney, Harland Braun.
"We're going to go to trial," he said. "She's innocent. We gave her a polygraph test and turned it over to the district attorney."
District Attorney Jackie Lacey said prosecutors had cut no plea deals with Rizzo
"Although we were prepared to go to trial and felt confident we could convict Mr. Rizzo of all charges, we are pleased he chose to admit his guilt and accept full responsibility for the irreparable harm he caused the people of Bell," Lacey said in a statement.
Braun said separating Spaccia's trial from Rizzo's should benefit her by simplifying the case and weakening prosecutors' presentation against her. He said Rizzo's testimony about what happened in Bell could also help Spaccia, who is charged with 13 counts of fraud.
Authorities say Spaccia was paid more than $375,000 a year.
Last March, five former Bell City Council members were convicted of fraud charges after jurors determined they paid themselves salaries for sitting on boards and commissions that did no work and existed only to pay the defendants. The council members had blamed Rizzo for that, saying he assured them they were doing nothing wrong.
Authorities accused Rizzo of diverting gas taxes and other funds into accounts used to pay the exorbitant salaries and of illegally raising property taxes to one of the highest levels in Los Angeles County even though Bell is one of its poorest cities.
He was also charged with falsifying municipal documents to hide officials' salaries when residents became suspicious.
The salaries came to light in 2010 after Rizzo released them to the Los Angeles Times. He had stalled the newspaper's reporters for weeks until they threatened to have their attorneys demand the documents under California public records law. The Times won a Pulitzer Prize for uncovering the scandal.
Subsequent investigations raised allegations that the city's police officers were pressured to stop young Hispanic drivers and have their cars towed, and that voters were intimidated by police officers into casting absentee ballots for City Council candidates favored by Rizzo.
All of it was allegedly done, authorities said, to keep money flowing into the city treasury so Rizzo could pay himself and his political cronies. Those allegations remain under investigation.
As more allegations surfaced, angry residents complained that their modest city of just 2.5 square miles had been widely embarrassed. Friends and relatives from across the country and even other countries called them, they said, to ask what had happened.
A recall campaign ended with every council member being voted out of office. By then, the council had fired Rizzo and Spaccia.
Longtime Bell resident Ali Saleh, a leader of the recall campaign, expressed mixed feelings about Rizzo's plea.
"This is a bittersweet moment for the residents of Bell," said Saleh, now a member of the Bell City Council. "We have really fought hard and have been waiting for over three years for this moment, but the reality is that without a trial we don't get to learn more about how deep the corruption went and who all was involved."
It will take several more years before Bell recovers financially, he said.
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I know it (probably) didn't happen like this, but I like to imagine that after his enjoyable but incredibly misleadingly-titled 1971 thriller Die Screaming, Marianne, director Pete Walker got a lot of complaints. I picture pile upon pile of postcards and letters flooding his office a la the courtroom scene in Miracle on 34th Street, with irate moviegoers threatening boycott if Walker did not, in his next film, deliver everything that the title promised in spades.
Duly chastised, Walker started work on the next script sitting on his desk. That script (in my imaginary scene) was a variation on the old Phantom of the Opera story, with a group of groovy, attractive young actors rehearsing a play that could be their big break, all the while stalked by a faceless, murderous shadow. The title, printed in block capitals across a coffee-stained title page, was THE FLESH AND BLOOD SHOW.
In my mind, Pete Walker smiles. This, he thinks, I can deliver.
The movie opens on a foggy oceanscape, while a bit of pre-credits text informs us that, at a certain "easily recognisable" section near the climax of the movie to follow, we should all don our manager-provided 3-D glasses so that we can "experience the pleasures of three dimensions!" As a dvd viewer of the 21st century, I was already a bit disheartened. Where were MY glasses? How would I experience these promised pleasures? If only I could magically whisk myself back to the early 70s in London, I could don those papery glasses and ogle the miniskirted birds and their go-go boots to my heart's content. Ah well, many of us are born well past the era we were made for...
Shaking off my disappointment, I tried my best to throw myself into the images on screen, which wasn't hard as Walker immediately gives us a scream and some blood! The red stuff flows into the tide under a boardwalk/pier theatre, eerily reminiscent of the salt lake pleasure palace of Carnival of Souls. Before we can get too creeped out, however, Walker sets to work fulfilling the other half of the requirements, as a pair of sleeping Anglohotties are awakened in the middle of the night by a pounding at their door. One of them, bodacious blonde Carol (Luan Peters), rushes to answer the call--completely in the buff! The delights continue when she opens the door--NUDE--to find gangly colleague John (David Howey) clutching a bloody knife embedded in his abdomen! He stumbles in and expires, only to leap up a moment later revealing it was all a gag--but not before Walker gives us more than an eye-full of Luan's wonderfully jiggling talents.
Flesh--check. Blood--check. Now we can get on with the show!
As it turns out, joker John and eventually-clothed Carol are both actors, recently cast in a theatrical production called (wait for it!) The Flesh and Blood Show, along with Carol's roommate Jane. (Meta-fiction, anyone? Ooh, I'll have some, thanks!) Before you can say 'ow's yer father? the three are on their way to the seaside resort from the opening credits.
Once there they check out the theatre, which has been abandoned since a mysterious incident during the war (cue ominous music). There they find their director Mike and a few of the other cast members--one of them a buxom Eurobabe asleep in the auditorium, inexplicably topless! There's also another "fake death" thrown in just for laffs, making the audience start to wonder if they can ever trust what the director is showing them.
The production is to be a cutting-edge theatrical experience with no set script, entirely improvised by the actors. This means pretty much anything goes when the actors are "performing," and in the first improvisational scene we find them screeching and dancing around the stage in caveman outfits, with plenty of cleavage and wigging out. The impoverished actors decide to bed down in the theatre itself to save money during rehearsals, and Carol immediately drags Aussie castmate Tony into one of the old dressing rooms for a bit of slap and tickle, while the topless sleeper Angela puts lesbonic moves on Jane, with John watching frustrated from the sidelines. 20 mins in, and the flesh requirement for this and three more flicks like it is more than satisfied!
a giant evil jester's head, creepy realistic mannequins, and a working guillotine! Working too well, as it turns out, when Mike discovers Angela's head sitting on a shelf in the basement! Not wanting to panic his actors, Mike goes for the police himself and returns to find the head is missing and John is back and accounted for. Is this another one of the gruesome practical jokes we've come to expect? Is John the sinister shadow? Is something more dastardly going on here?
Next the final member of the cast shows up, up-and-coming movie star Julia Dawson (Jenny Hanley). She bunks down with Carol and Tony, and the Aussie's roving eyes while Julia strips down in the dressing room get his blonde bunkmate's Irish up. (I have to note that Hanley makes use of a glaringly obvious body-double here, whose breasts are easily two cup sizes larger than the actress's--not that I'm complaining.) Mike finds a note from Angela saying she's quitting the play, and while the cast goes out for breakfast (and putting each other through even MORE practical jokes, such as the time-honored severed-hand sandwich), we are treated to some hair-raising crazy-laughter from the Phantom under the sage, very reminiscent of similar noises from the unknown maniac in Bob Clark's Black Christmas. And that's a very, very good thing.
It quickly becomes apparent that the laughs are on the cast though, as after Angela's SMOKIN' HAWT replacement Sarah shows up (Oh Candace Glendenning, oh won't you be mine?) the Phantom kicks it into high gear and starts offing actors left and right. Julia and Mike practice amateur psychology and professional hanky-panky, Carol is attacked by an extremely creepy Innsmouth-esque hobo, John disappears, the management behind the play proves suspiciously elusive, and a pair of dessicated corpses under the stage point toward a terrifying secret long buried that their play has brought bubbling to the surface.
3-D sepia-toned flashback that goes on for ten minutes and as far as I could tell only twice makes use of the 3-D effects (unless perhaps the full-frontal nudity in this section--both male and female--made use of it...I couldn't tell)--but it all leads up to a fairly well-telegraphed reveal and a satisfying, scenery chewing crazy speech of the kind I love so much. And if that weren't enough, we get an extra five minutes of the surviving cast members sitting around on stage explaining what just happened and why, though it's not at all clear how they arrived at their intricate knowledge of events that occurred well before their own births. After laying out the audacious explanation, one of the actors exclaims, "It could almost make a movie script!" Oh, Pete, you sly devil. Say no more.
For me, this movie is one big hunk of steaming joy. Copious, absolutely gratuitous nudity? A slavering maniac? Meta posturing? Crazy 70s muttonchops? Sex, sex, and more sex? Occasional perversity and bloodletting? Intermittent effective creepiness? Shakespeare? SIGN ME UP.
Though in the final analysis it's a little bit light on the "blood," the "flesh" side of the equation delivers more than you could possibly hope for. The women are gob-smackingly gorgeous (particularly Ms. Glendenning, who gets a very memorable exit), the acting's enthusiastic and compelling, the set and Phantom are suitably creepy, and it's just batshit insane enough to keep you smiling even through the somewhat slow-moving flashback sequence.
3+ thumbs for this exploitative almost-meta proto-slasher boob-fest. See it soon.
And Pete--I'll never doubt your word again. :)
Thanks once more to Karswell for providing the pixels. You rock!
Friday, March 21, 2008
The Flesh and Blood Show (1972): or, The Phantom of the Sexy Place
Posted by The Vicar of VHS at 8:38 AM
Labels: '70s, 3+ Thumbs, Pete Walker, Psycho Killer
3 comments:
- Karswell said...
I thought you'd like this one... I like it alot too but believe it or not though it's my least favorite Pete Walker film!
And you stay away from Candace Glendenning, she's all miiiiine!
- March 21, 2008 at 10:53 AM
- The Vicar of VHS said...
Well, flipping through the three or four other PW films you flung at me a couple of weeks ago, I'm definitely looking forward to giving them a look!
So you like Die Screaming, Marianne better than this? Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed DSM, but this just seems over and above and beyond it in so many ways...
- March 21, 2008 at 10:55 AM
- Karswell said...
I guess I sort of like Die Screaming Marianne about the same... I love Susan George though so maybe that's why it gets a better tip. Although! If I were standing in a room with her and Candace Glendenning and the choice was given to me to take either one back home for some free, no holes barred playtime I think I'd appreciate Flesh and Blood Show better as a movie. If you get my meaning...
PS: Did you get your fishing horror post I left for you this morning? ha ha
- March 21, 2008 at 11:56 AM


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Brussels, 21 January 2009
The European Union's maritime transport policy for 2018
For Europe, shipping has contributed largely to economic growth and prosperity all along its history. At the start of the 21st century, the maritime transport system is at the forefront of the globalisation process and has provided the vehicle for an unprecedented growth of world trade and industrial and commercial interconnections in the world economy.
In terms of volume, 90% of the freight exchanges of Europe with the rest of the world are seaborne. Maritime transport services, including off-shore activities, are essential for helping European companies compete globally. Among EU Member States, short sea shipping is a key element in reducing congestion, ensuring territorial cohesion and promoting the sustainable development of the European continent. With more than 400 million sea passengers a year travelling through European ports, passenger ships and ferry services have a direct impact on the quality of life of citizens in islands and peripheral regions.
Shipping represents one of Europe's largest export industries, providing deep sea transport services between Europe and the rest of the world, as well as in cross trades between third countries. European shipping is present in all segments of the sector in all regions of the planet. Transport of freight and passengers at sea generated € 24.7 billion in 2006 as a net contribution to the EU balance of payments. In terms of added value, traditional maritime sectors represent a share of 1.09% in the total GDP of the EU-27 and Norway. Maritime transport activities' related employment in Europe amounts to 1.5 million people. Some 70% of shipping related jobs are onshore – in shipbuilding, naval architecture, science, engineering, electronics, cargo-handling and logistics.[1]
Challenges and opportunities for maritime transport in the next 10 years
The continuous success of European shipping in world markets cannot be taken for granted. A number of major challenges have been identified by experts consulted by the Commission. The current crisis of the international financial system, its impact on the real economy and the sluggish recovery prospects in different parts of the world have affected seaborne trade and thus the different branches of the shipping industry.
Moreover, recent developments in the energy markets, including the cut of pipelines for gas supplies, have underlined the strategic importance of LNG tanker-ships for ensuring a stable and long-term solution to guarantee reliable energy supplies to the EU. In a wider context, those developments remind the importance of the fleet, in all its branches of activity, for the well being of the European citizens and of the European economy as a whole.
Operators involved in the provision of maritime transport services and the European maritime transport as such will face significant challenges in the years to come. They will have to cope with the fluctuations in sea-borne trade, the negative impact of the financial crisis and other external factors, such as the risk of overcapacity in certain market segments, the rise of protectionist measures affecting world trade, environmental concerns related to climate change, volatility in energy and other commodities markets and loss of European maritime know-how because of the scarcity of skilled human resources.
Moreover, competitive advantages given by third countries to shipping businesses entail a real risk of de-localisation of head offices and maritime industries outside Europe. Often the position of European operators is undermined by unfair competition, which results from lax enforcement of safety, security, environmental and social standards in certain parts of the world. Achieving effective governance of maritime affairs and an international fair level playing field for maritime transport remains a crucial challenge to the global community.
Strategic options at European level
The EU's sustainable transport policy aims at addressing the economic, social and environmental needs of our society. An efficient maritime transportation system is essential for Europe's prosperity, having significant impacts on economic growth, social development and the environment.
In autumn 2007, after having consulted the main stakeholders of the sector, the Commission started a strategic review of the EU's integrated maritime policy, examining also the challenges European and international maritime transport will face in the next ten years.
This work has included the conduct of a prospective study analysing trends and signals of change in the maritime sector (the so-called 'shipping scenarios' for 2018). It has also involved consultation with experts from maritime administrations in the Member States and Norway, as well as advice from a group of senior industry leaders representing different interests within the maritime transport industries.
The prospective study "Benchmarking strategic options for European shipping and for the European maritime transport system in the horizon 2008-2018" can be downloaded from the following address:
The three basic shipping scenarios for the year 2018 ("Asian Phoenix", "Break Point" and "Global Fissures") are briefly described in annex.
The recommendations of the group of senior shipping professionals (see IP/08/760 of 19/05/2008) present an industry opinion on the more urgent issues to be addressed and on the way the EU could intervene. The recommendations can be downloaded from:
In both cases, two major issues guided the reflection:
Strategic recommendations
Several important conclusions come from this strategic review exercise. First of all, the recovery of the world economy from the current financial crisis would lead to a growth in international trade and will require a maritime transport system able to deliver advanced logistic solutions. Moreover, in a recession period, short sea shipping is a perfect vehicle for stimulating intra-EU trade exchanges and thus supporting recovery of growth in the EU and its neighbouring countries.
Overall, the next ten years may offer a unique opportunity to reinforce the competitiveness of European shipping, and to strengthen its contribution to the objectives of a sustainable European transport policy.
The strategic recommendations concern seven main issues:
The Communication on the EU Maritime Transport Strategy 2018 is addressed to the European Parliament and the Council. In the light of their opinion and conclusions, the Commission will continue to look for concrete ways to implement the recommendations. This work will involve close cooperation with all interested parties
The significance of the European Maritime Transport Space without barriers
In maritime transport, voyages from one port of an EU Member State to another are always considered international even when the cargo transported consist of goods in free circulation ("Community goods").
A vessel is considered to leave the customs territory when it leaves a Community port for another Member State port with a consequence that maritime transport of goods is subject to complex administrative procedures that decrease its attractiveness for the transport of Internal Market goods.
The European maritime transport space without barriers is a concept which extends the Internal Market wider to intra-EU maritime transport through the elimination or the simplification of administrative procedures in intra-EU maritime transport, in order to enhance its attractiveness and reinforce its efficiency and competitiveness, and contribute to a higher protection of environment.
To implement this concept, the Commission identified a series of measures, which are described in the parallel Communication "establishing an EU Maritime Transport Space without barriers". Those measures are:
In addition, recommendations should be given that Member States implement further enabling measures, each time the local conditions permit to do it in an efficient manner, namely:
The administrative simplification is expected to reduce costs for undertakings and to induce a significant modal shift from land to short sea shipping which will bring environment benefits and reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases emissions. The benefits for undertakings was estimated at 2.4 billion €, which is probably an underestimated figure as it does not take into account the effect of modal shift.
[1] Source: ECOTEC study, for DG Maritime Affairs, 2006
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