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Delve into nature's triathlon at Olympic National Park
By Matthew Casey, Special to CNN • Updated 8th August 2013
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The Hoh Rain Forest doesn't let visitors see far into the trees. Its annual rainfall exceeds 12 feet, providing the fuel to grow thick canopied foliage that once stretched continuously from Alaska to Central California.
But the Olympic peninsula isn't just home to some of the last slivers of
temperate rain forest
in North America. Eastward through the impenetrable trees stands glacier-capped
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and to the west is
state's rocky coast.
Olympic National Park
celebrated its 75th anniversary on June 29. From the 600-foot deep
Lake Crescent
to the Douglas firs at
, the park's nearly one million acres is one of the last stretches of untouched wilderness in North America.
Park stats:
Olympic National Park was the
seventh-most visited
national park in 2012. It has
averaged nearly 3 million visitors a year
since 2008.
The location:
The park is on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, about two and half hours northwest of Seattle. The
Washington State Ferry
system offers a variety of ways to access the Olympic Peninsula.
William R. Fairchild International Airport
, the closest airport to the park, is in Port Angeles, the closest city.
If you go:
Park admission is $15 a vehicle. Individual passes are $5 (hiker, bicycle, motorcycle) and children 15 and younger are free. Passes are valid for seven days.
Backcountry visitors must purchase a
Wilderness Camping Permit
. The cost is a $5 registration fee plus $2 for each camper.
are required for camping in certain areas.
Olympic National Park's nearly 1 million acres consist of mountains, rain forest and beaches. Each area has unique weather patterns that can be unpredictable. Be sure to check tide charts and trail conditions before planning adventures.
Meet our ranger:
Barb Maynes is the public information officer at Olympic National Park.
Originally from New Jersey, Maynes, 57, says her infatuation with nature started earlier than she can remember because her family took yearly camping trips in national parks. When Maynes was 13, they spent six weeks exploring national parks in the Southwest. At the Grand Canyon, Maynes says she befriended a ranger.
"He had quite a bit of patience with me, answered all the questions I had," she says. "By the end of the four days, I decided I wanted to be just like him when I grew up."
Maynes worked as an intern at
Shenandoah National Park
during college. After college, she applied to
Grand Canyon
"on a lark" and was hired as a winter employee. She spent eight years working as a seasonal ranger in six national parks before landing her first permanent job at
George Washington Birthplace National Monument
. Maynes came to Olympic National Park in 1988.
"Olympic has a little bit of everything, and it is extremely diverse," she says. "Whatever your mood is, you can do that here -- be on a mountain top, walk through a sheltered forest or walk on a beach."
For a day trip, don't miss:
Seeing the sunrise from
Hurricane Ridge
, driving along Lake Crescent, visiting the
Hoh Rain Forest
and heading toward the coast.
"(Hoh) is the place where you can experience a temperate rain forest, and it's a pretty rare sort of ecosystem," she says. "In spring, there are days when it really does look like the air is green."
Favorite less-traveled spot:
An approximately seven-mile hike on the Grand Ridge Trail between Obstruction Point Road and Deer Park Road. Maynes said both roads are gravel and are at high elevations. They do not require a four-wheel-drive vehicle, she says, but don't try driving an RV on them.
"They tend to have 10 to 12 feet of snow during the winter and don't typically open until part way through the summer, so it's really a treat to get out there," she says.
Favorite spot to view wildlife:
Coastal tide pools during low tide. The pools feature a variety of wildlife including star fish and anemones.
"It's kind of a whole new world and a whole new picture of wildlife," she says.
Most magical moment in the park:
Fourth of July on
Rialto Beach
. Maynes went with friends to the beach to watch fireworks set off from the Quileute Indian Reservation (It is illegal to have fireworks in national parks). As the fireworks began to wane, she noticed the waves started to glow with bioluminescence.
"Wherever we walked and put pressure on the sand, our footprints were glowing behind us," she says. "We (also) had these phenomenal natural fireworks that were happening in the water."
Funniest moment in the park:
Stumbling upon a black bear in the Elwha Valley that was eating elk intestines like spaghetti noodles.
"I was thinking about bears, and I was thinking about how it was the time of year that you have a fairly good chance to see one because they are emerging from their dens," she says. "That was closer than I wanted to be to a bear."
Oddest moment at the park:
Her daughter falling into a tree well while they were snowshoeing on Hurricane Ridge.
Maynes says the winds that whip over Hurricane Ridge create massive snow drifts. But the snow does not accumulate at the base of trees, creating a well where you can sometimes see all the way to the ground around trees.
"I was trying to introduce her to being an outdoors gal, and we went up to have a closer look at the trees," Maynes says. "She said 'Mom,' and I turned around and she wasn't there. Thankfully, she wasn't hurt. We do caution people to stay away from the tree wells."
A ranger's request:
Pack in anticipation of varying weather patterns.
"It might seem intuitive," she says. "But I think it's a little hard to overestimate how changeable the weather is and to be really be prepared for anything."
Another park she'd like to visit:
Buck Island Reef National Monument
in the
Virgin Islands
. The island is surrounded by a coral reef.
"It's an area of the country that I haven't been and so that is very interesting to me."
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Sao Paulo is the home of Brazil's famous combination of dance and martial art: capoeira. There are several capoeira schools for tourists wanting to give it a try, including the Salão De Festas or Academia Spah.
The city also has some notable green spaces, including the manicured Botanical Gardens, the Sao Paulo Zoo, and the miniature rainforest in the Parque Siqueira Campos. The Praça da República in the city centre is surprisingly green as well, with lagoons, a fountain, and a bandstand.
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We Chat with Chef Daniel Boulud on his 20th New York Anniversary
"Cooking is sometimes emotional, sometimes seasonal, sometimes cerebral, and sometimes physical. So we have to live with the team, share that together, and take direction together."
"Hospitality" is something I only started considering seriously when I began this interview series over a year ago. The seventy or so chefs I've spoken with have taught me to expect more from my dining experience; to be open and understanding and communicative and, well, somewhat demanding. They've chosen New York City as theirs for a reason, ready to meet high expectations and work very, very hard to make their mark.
This month, Chef Daniel Boulud celebrates a very significant mark—twenty years with his flagship restaurant Daniel. For a man so busy, with many restaurants and a New York staff numbering over seven hundred and fifty, he engages in conversations and laughs deeply, whether it be during an interview or while making the rounds in his restaurants.
At his celebratory brunch this past Sunday—with every Daniel restaurant stationed in attendance and an overflowing crowd including an upstairs resident in jeans, Martha Stewart, Danny Bowien, and California forager Hank Shaw—guests seemed genuinely joyful and happy for the chef, and all overwhelmed at the generosity he shared that day and in his twenty years of feeding us. Later, Cafe Boulud Chef Gavin Kaysen tweeted, "This is one hell of a family to be a part of...thank you," with an accompanying image of Chef Boulud perched atop the filled room of staff who helped him celebrate.
To partake in this celebration, our interview was a meandering one about New York—why he chose us as the city in which to make his mark, how we've change in the thirty years since he set foot here, and what excites him about where we have yet to go. Here's what he shared.
So, first, congratulations Chef! Twenty years is a beautiful accomplishment. Yes, thanks, we're coming along!
Do you remember why you originally picked New York as your city? I was in Washington DC for two years and felt that it was a little tame for me. I had a chance to come to New York a couple of times and visit some of the best restaurants here, and felt that this was the best city to be in at the time.
New York was a rougher city at the time and food has changed so much since then... We think food has changed so much, and it has kept evolving in many directions, but there were a lot of good restaurants at the time. New York was so vibrant, so busy, and so crazy as well! Downtown was starting to flourish; Tribeca was starting to have some interesting restaurants. And chef-wise, when I arrived in New York in 1982 at the Westbury hotel, I had Thomas Keller as chef de partie, we had Alfred Portale, we were all young and starting in the business, you know?
Back then the home kitchen wasn't often as diversely stocked as it is now. Did you have a hard time sourcing products on a restaurant scale? I never felt any limitations. There were foods that were imported, and young guys were starting companies to bring in local foods. There was this big herb company in the Bronx in an old factory. And there were all kinds of suppliers emerging in every direction, and local fishermen and meat. It was really the beginning of a whole new generation of suppliers coming in and bringing us stuff. I never felt short of anything here.
Did this transformation start before you got here or were you on the cusp of it? It was just starting to transform. Before all the restaurants had amazing ingredients and they all had their own kind of identities but still things were imported. Italian restaurants were importing things from Italy, and French restaurants were importing things from France. But little by little you could almost still be "French" and local at the same time.
So that local push helped define restaurants? Absolutely. I don't know if there are more restaurants today than there were, but there is a great vibe today about food. That also has a lot to do with communication and social media and all that where you basically have instant pictures of anything, anywhere, any time, so it's different. Before—unless you were reading it in the press—discovering a new restaurant was a discovery. Today there's no discovery. If you miss the first day you see it all the next day!
All those social factors mean some of us don't just eat any more. It's very sad that people have to learn how to deal with it. And spend extra hours in bed on Twitter all night trying to catch up.
How do you focus amongst all that? For me it's the customer. The customer. We read every critique. We are always concerned about that; we can't be perfect—we're human—but at the same time we try to be very good at what we do and we have enough people to do it. But the customer does not need Yelp or anything to come back to a restaurant—they know if they want to come back. So in a way it's important to make a first comer very happy. And those people can really become your best PR. I don't know where it will go with all of this. Because it's mostly practiced by the younger generation. So far they're very volatile and they move a lot. And that's very fun—I've done it. Don't think that in the '80's it was so quiet and the world was born in the 2000's!
Do you feel fortunate that you came before this game? I'm very happy the way I came. I partied my share! But at the same time we'll see where it's going. There are so many positive things.
At your recent annual dinner for CityMeals-on-Wheels celebrating your 20th anniversary as well, you were surrounded by cooks you've worked with and taught. Was education a big part for you from the beginning? Oh yes, of course. I've trained so many. First at Le Cirque when I was there for six years—many successful American chefs today went through the kitchen there. Then also at Daniel, the last 20 years. So over my 30 years here I think I've lived the most exciting time in America when it comes to food.
I've heard from some chefs of your generation that the competitive energy in the kitchens has changed a bit, where there's not so much abuse given to younger cooks as there once was? The problem is only the weaker feel the pressure! It's like when you play football; if you don't catch the football and make some points you're going to feel the pressure! But at the same time, today there is more support than when I was young. For me, to be where I am today, I basically had to do it the hard way, which meant working very, very hard. Those that follow feel the tension of course, but get more support.
Training has expanded, too, with more cooks going beyond France and Europe to learn how to cook, and more international chefs coming here. Do you think that will help us develop our own national identity on a more sophisticated level? I think a lot of things are cementing themselves along the way, and I think it is important step and improvement in reestablishing the standard that we seek. We've seen it a bit in barbecue, and it's good because it's really cementing that there are now better chefs getting into it and doing a better job at it. And now guys like Sean Brock and many other young southern chefs are taking the soul of their cuisine and making it technically superior with the taste and texture and presentation. So that's good to see. For me I just have to stay French!
You might have stayed "French", but you've expanded in many ways within your realm of cuisine. Yes, of course, from Daniel to Patisserie Boulud, it's a whole different range. And yet is Epicerie Boulud a "real" French patisserie? No. It's who I am here, in America. Is Café Boulud a typical French restaurant? I don't think so either. To me, I feel that I really fulfilled my dream of creating restaurants with strong identities that are French but also New York and me—we embrace the talent here, and the product, and the understanding of the clientele.
How do you continue to grow? It's not a race! I don't have to worry about growing. But I had the chance over the years to build gradually and surround myself with a lot of people.
But knowing what you do, how do you continue to grow as a craftsman? I know so little! I'm sorry!
Ha! Some might debate that! It's true—I know so little! Tomorrow I wish I could become a Japanese chef, or a Korean chef or a Mexican chef! But we grow within our team. Cooking is sometimes emotional, sometimes seasonal, sometimes cerebral, and sometimes physical. So we have to live with the team, share that together, and take direction together. And so we keep maintaining our standards—and that's the most important thing in our business. And, now, celebrating 20 years shows a certain consistency. It's important to maintain the highest standard but also to remain creative.
What is the most important contributor to consistency and obtaining those 20 years? Cooking is a very laborious and hard and demanding job. And for a lot of young chefs today I wish for them not to fall into the tumble of media and this and that so that they're never in the kitchen, because then you can't hold your business and you lose it. It's tough. It's a business of people and you have to be with your people. So despite the fact that we have many restaurants, I spend quite a lot of time here at Daniel and at the other restaurants communicating with my chefs and trying to stay close to them.
So you feel like you've been able to remain true to your identity even with so many restaurants? I don't try to follow every trend. I don't try to follow the identities of others. For me, my favorite restaurants in New York are the ones that are the most classic; the ones that "change and that never change." That's what I like. But once in a while we make a change to refresh everyone, to refresh their brain; we don't want to feel too self-satisfied with what we have.
This may be a bit too romantic a question for you, but what are you most proud of the mark you've made, or most thankful for? You've inspired so many chefs... Yes, of course, and what I'm proud of are all the chefs and cooks that have worked for me. To me all the chefs over the 20 years who have continued the dream that I have and the journey we've done together and continue to do together, of course.
New York is very exciting, very competitive, and not for everyone. But at I think it's the most exciting city, and for me to be on the first step of my twenty years, I'm very proud of that, and of the team that has followed me into that. I'm inspired, motivated and driven by new talent, all the time. There's always a good thing about having people around you that make you secure, and people that give you insecurity but more drive. And the customer, that's important—that's the key in our business, to have customers who will support you along the way. You can't expect to keep all your customers, but you keep them and keep renewing them. And that's been fortunate for me.
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There's no way you can prove that.In any case, I'll probably skip on the next few games, I can only take so many SRW games at once.
I like you an all, but to say nobody cares about srw here is a little silly.Super robot wars has never been one of those kinds of series that get localized. But the fan base is as real now as it was 20 years ago.Whether they think it counts or not, the games still exist and are being released to the fanbase.
Small and more dedicated than most other fanbases, you have no idea.


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Chinese Internet stocks got hammered today on news that the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is cracking down on Chinese audit firms.
- Baidu (BIDU) is down 6% to $90.
- Sina (SINA) is down almost 8% to below $42.
- Sohu (SOHU) is down 4% to $38.
- Dangdang (DANG) is down to $4.
- Youku (YOKU) is down 8% to $15.20.
- Soufun (SFUN) is down to 5.5% to $22.
- Even Qihoo 360 (QIHU), which had good earnings two days ago, is down 5% to $26.
To me, this seems like an overreaction and probably a buying opportunity, as this is sending many of these stocks down to fresh 52-week lows.
The reaction is precipitated by the belief that the SEC now has religion about prosecuting Chinese audit firms and that this is going to lead the agency to uncover some financial shenanigans at some or all of these companies.
In reality, we're still a long way from the SEC actually doing anything. The agency will have to propose something - probably in conjunction with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, which oversees U.S. auditors. Then the rule would have to be debated and probably watered down. Finally, if it is supported (which isn't a slam dunk), it will be implemented.
Then and only then would there be any "crackdown" on any of these specific companies. However, determining which companies the agency might want to investigate will also take more time.
And then there's the issue of the SEC being able to legislate and prosecute actions in another country in which it has no jurisdiction. Of course, the SEC could always use the threat of asking some of these companies to delist from the U.S. exchanges, but I doubt the regulator really wants to push that, especially with some of these high-profile Chinese names. Suddenly, the SEC would have sparked some international diplomatic issue.
To summarize, there's not likely to be any quick action against any of these companies mentioned. What this news means, though, is that the SEC is going after the auditors who stamp approvals on all the financials that get sent over to the SEC every quarter.
Part of the market reaction today is a fear or expectation that this action will result in these auditors being much more fastidious in their jobs and asking tougher questions of their Chinese audit clients.
What it could lead to is more delays of filing their 20-Fs, which is the equivalent of U.S. companies' 10-Ks with full financials for the year.
If any of these Chinese companies were to suffer from a delay in filing their 20-Fs, they know that investors would sell first and ask questions later. None of them wants that.
There was a lot of concern earlier this year that Qihoo 360 wouldn't be able to file its 20-F. The company did, and its stock has almost doubled since then.
This SEC report is in the news today, but it will probably be forgotten in a week or two.


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Penn Study Finds Physically Abused Boys May Be more likely to Commit Domestic Violence As Adults
Most Abuse of Boys Done by Parents ... Most Frequently Mothers
(Philadelphia, PA) - According to a study in the October 18 issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine, a history of childhood physical abuse may be common in men from urban settings, and these men with physical abuse histories may be more likely to commit domestic violence. The study found that the childhood abuse was primarily committed by parents, with mothers being the most frequent abusers.
The results provide a circumstantial case that abused boys may learn' that violence is an acceptable method of conflict resolution in the home, said William C. Holmes, MD, MSCE, Assistant Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and lead author of the study. Our findings suggest that, at the very least, this cycle-of-violence connection deserves confirmation in a larger study.
The study was conducted among a sample of 197 men aged 18 to 49, living in Philadelphia zip code areas with high incidence of domestic violence against women and girls. Utilizing a scale that is also used to identify domestic violence among girls and women, the researchers found that 51% of the men experienced at least one form of abuse that met the definition of childhood physical abuse. The mean age at the start of abuse was approximately eight years old; the mean age at the end of abuse was approximately 14 years old. Examples of abuse include being hit with an object or being kicked, bit, choked, burned, scalded, or punched. (Other studies have shown abuse prevalence of 28% in male college graduates and 51% in active duty soldiers in the United States Army.)
The study also found that approximately 75% of the identified abuse was carried out by parents, and of these cases, a considerably larger share was attributed to mothers than to fathers. (The relative amount of time that boys spent with mothers versus fathers--a possible explanation for the difference--was not examined in the study.) Others responsible for abuse included extended family members as well as non-family members.
The findings point to a number of actions that can be taken, said Holmes, who is also an investigator at the Center for Health Equity Research and Promotion, Philadelphia VA Medical Center. For example, screening for domestic violence and protecting those who screen positive should be as important in boys as it is in girls and women. Reducing the abuse of boys, as well as developing post-abuse interventions for boys who have been abused, will generate direct benefits for the boys and may help their future intimate partners and children.
The study did not directly examine whether boys who were abused were more likely to engage in domestic violence in their adult years because any positive responses to such questions had ethical and potentially legal ramifications. The researchers would have been required to inform respondents of possible reporting requirements before conducting the study, thereby potentially biasing the study sample or responses.
Instead, participants were asked about a combination of factors that, taken together, might indicate a tendency toward violence. Previous studies have shown these factors - depression, substance abuse, sexual risk, legal problems, and incarceration - to be associated with dating violence, domestic violence, and other criminal violent behavior.
Holmes has conducted prior research into the physical and sexual abuse of boys. The combination of those earlier findings and the new results point to childhood abuse as a substantial risk factor for many poor outcomes in adult males. Nevertheless, Holmes cited two major reasons for caution in drawing definitive conclusions from the current study. First, the participants of the current study were from a non-affluent, largely minority, and urban-based population. Findings must be confirmed in other populations. Second, variables related to physical abuse, but not the physical abuse itself, might actually explain links to adult domestic violence. These could include age, sex, or educational attainment of parents; alcohol or drug use in the home or neighborhood; or household size and composition.
Historically, we have focused much of our energy and resources on abuse of women and girls, Holmes noted. In contrast, boys' experiences with domestic violence are understudied and, as a result, male-focused policy approaches to domestic violence are deficient. The experiences of boys may play a crucial but currently unexplored role in men becoming perpetrators of domestic violence. By studying and identifying patterns of behavior that may lead men to become abusive, we may be able to make major strides toward breaking the sequence of aggression.
PENN Medicine is a $2.7 billion enterprise dedicated to the related missions of medical education, biomedical research, and high-quality patient care. PENN Medicine consists of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (founded in 1765 as the nation's first medical school) and the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Penn' s School of Medicine is ranked #2 in the nation for receipt of NIH research funds; and ranked #4 in the nation in U.S. News & World Report' s most recent ranking of top research-oriented medical schools. Supporting 1,400 fulltime faculty and 700 students, the School of Medicine is recognized worldwide for its superior education and training of the next generation of physician-scientists and leaders of academic medicine.
The University of Pennsylvania Health System comprises: its flagship hospital, the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, consistently rated one of the nation' s Honor Roll hospitals by U.S. News & World Report; Pennsylvania Hospital, the nation's first hospital; Penn Presbyterian Medical Center; a faculty practice plan; a primary-care provider network; two multispecialty satellite facilities; and home health care and hospice.


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We followed the two eyasses around the neighborhood as they chased small birds and perched on various buildings and wires.
They are becoming extremely skillful fliers, landing smoothly and balancing effortlessly on the most precarious perches.
When one of them spots potential prey, it goes on full alert....
... and then takes off in swift pursuit of some small birds.
We have yet to see them actually catch anything, and their enthusiastic chases usually peter out with perching in a new spot - in this case, a classroom window at nearby Hallahan High School!
Hawkstalking often takes one to hidden corners of the city. Here is a little gem of a colonial street - Carlton Street - tucked behind the office buildings in Center City.
There is a Frick & Frack tendency with the eyasses as Carolyn Sutton documented on Saturday morning. They find the Barnes construction site simply irresistible, and have little respect for rules...
... as they dig in its dirt piles....
... and dive in the dumpsters!
Finally, one of our intrepid hunters was rewarded with a long-horn beetle...."Hey, ya gotta start small and work up..."
Several hawkaholics have been wondering whether the Red-tail parents teach their fledged eyasses to hunt, so I asked John Blakeman to weigh in with his thoughts:
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Beka Lamb is the debut novel of Belizean author Zee Edgell. It is the story of both Beka and Belize, an adolescent girl and an adolescent country. Set in Belize in the 1950s, fourteen-year-old Beka struggles with growing pains complicated by the society in which she lives while her country struggles to move from colonialism to independence.
The novel opens with three seminal events. The young Creole teen, Beka, has just won an essay contest at St. Cecilia's Catholic school, Beka's lifelong friend Toycie has died (but the traditional nine-day wake has not been held for her), and two members of the Belizean Peoples' Independent Party, Pritchard and Gladsen, are imprisoned for disloyalty to the British government. These events symbolize the often painful challenge of coping with growth and change.
Narrated by flashbacks, the novel covers a period of seven months. While preparing for bed one night, Beka vows to "keep a wake" for her deceased friend Toycie "in the privacy of her own heart." As she reminisces about the past months "waking the gone," her story unfolds. Beka recalls that her life started to change the day she decided to stop lying. Her last lie was a big one. Failing three subjects, Beka had not been promoted to the next grade. Beka's parents are struggling to pay for her private education. Fearing their reaction to her failure, Beka tells them that she passed, naively believing that they do not already suspect the truth. Beka's lying habit is the most serious of the many conflicts she has with her parents. She does not clean the attic properly, she throws garbage into the yard, she steals money from her father's pants pockets and she procrastinates with her chores. Beka's mother, Lilla Lamb, often complains about Beka's "laziness and ingratitude" to her husband, Bill Lamb, who then must discipline Beka. Beka seeks solace from her friend Toycie and her paternal grandmother, Granny Ivy, who shares a bedroom with Beka and usually takes her side.
In spite of these parent-teen conflicts, Beka does have a loving relationship with her parents. Her family is one of only two nuclear families in the community, and while her parents do not love all that Beka does, they do love her. Beka begs her father for a second chance at school, promising to pass this time, and Bill Lamb eventually relents. A nun at Beka's school, Sister Gabriela, takes Beka under her wing, encouraging her to enter an essay contest about Belizean history. Granny Ivy fears that Beka has no chance of winning any contest at "no convent school" because such prizes always go to "Bakras, Panias or Expatriates," but certainly not to a Creole girl. Yet Beka does win and the novel ends where it began, with the essay contest prize and a much bigger win for Beka – self confidence and hope for the future.
Toycie's Story
Beka's friend Toycie is seventeen, but she remembers what it was like to be fourteen. Beka is mature enough to "pretend seventeen" so the girls get along quite well. Both girls attend St. Cecilia's, Toycie at a great financial sacrifice to her family. Toycie is all that Beka is not. Abandoned by her unmarried mother and father, she is raised by her Aunt Eila. They are extremely poor, yet Eila works several jobs to pay for Toycie's tuition, knowing that education is the only way out of poverty in Belize. Beka and Toycie have been warned by the nuns about fooling around with boys and getting pregnant. Although Toycie is an excellent student and Beka must struggle, both girls do not want to end up like many other Creole women with no education, no husband and the only job available being "the washing bowl underneath the house bottom" or worse, prostitution. Despite Beka's warnings to Toycie that she might "wind up with a baby if you're not careful", Toycie continually sneaks away to meet with Emilio, a higher class "Pania." Granny Ivy tells Beka that Toycie is "trying to raise her...
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Hello All!!
Hope all is going well out there. We had a "fun" morning of chores and cleaning (I detest all the dog hair here - I have certainly asked myself why did I ever get a Golden Retriever - and then of course see how good he is with Brenna especially when she drags him all over the apartment...). Anyway, at least Brenna enjoys our cleaning - she loves helping with the dusting, sweeping (a.k.a - stealing my broom and taking back to her room), and especially cleaning the windows - that is her favorite. We also managed to get some laundry done (yeah- I'm finally caught up from our trip!)
Since I didn't post over the weekend, I forgot to put up that Dustin completed his first half-marathon over here. He ran the Heidelberg half-marathon on Sunday morning. I know that he was just glad to finish - he was very drained by the time he got home! Brenna and I had worked on laundry and scrapbooking on Sunday morning - it is amazing how far behind I am on that book! Where did my time go! She didn't quiet understand the difference between mommy's stickers and her stickers - who can blaim her (mine are pretty cool, lol)! Anyway, the Heidelberg race has a disclaimer on it that it is not a good race for beginners - the hills are especially brutal, but Dustin said the race was still packed - he had never seen so many runners (and the whole course had spectators).
I always feel bummed when I don't post a picture with my post - we will try to get something for tomorrow. Dustin has Friday off for a holiday - I'm really looking forward to the long weekend and the weather is supposed to be nice too :-) Dustin has to travel to England next week (bummer that he couldn't go after my mom was already here), but hopefully the days won't go to slow waiting for him to come home and my mom to get here.
Take Care!
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Wednesday, April 29
Hello All!!
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Tuesday, April 28
Hello All!
Can you believe that there are only 2 more days of April left?? Where did the month go? The weather here has been really nice this month - which we have enjoyed with more walking. I am not enjoying the number of ticks in our area - this area is evidently extremely high with the buggers...How do you effectively check a fur covered dog for these things?? I checked him yesterday after our walk and didn't find any (and I am so paranoid I try to keep him away from all the high grass and bushes on our walks, but to no avail), but he had one today :-( We are really going to have to be diligent to check everyone each time we come in from our walk (something we were not used to in our old neighborhood of few trees and no bushes - what happened to my subburbia??(is that a word)). The birds and water are also sounds that we are getting used to - it almost seems like we are in the country when we are so much closer to the stores here - kind of crazy. We have a deer in our backyard that Brenna calls her Reindeer (can you tell she has been influenced by Dustin's Santa Claus addiction).
It was a rainy day here today - Brenna and I stayed inside and did yoga and just played inside.
Well, that is about it for today!
Take Care!
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Friday, April 24, 2009
Flower Pictures
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Friday, April 24
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Thursday, April 23
Hello All!
Hope all is well out there. I looked at the dates and almost couldn't figure out how I missed posting yesterday - I'm sure it assisted in my confusion on which day of the week it was today, lol :-)
Brenna and I worked on housework today (why is it that I dread it and she seems to enjoy it - thanks for the clean-up song, Dora - if you want to hear what I am talking about find the Dora saves the Mermaid DVD, lol). It is not much fun sharing a washer after having your own (and I miss my dryer something terrible...), but some day we will be back to those "luxuries" again... I know that I am bound to miss my air conditioning this summer.
I must have burnt myself out on the camera after our trip - even I haven't felt like taking any pictures!! Maybe we will get out and get some tomorrow, it is amazing that I miss pictures on the blog when there aren't any...
Well, that is it for today!
Take Care!
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Tuesday, April 21
Hello All!!
We had another sun filled day here today (I know for anyone in the rain and cold how jealous you are!!). We took about an hour long walk this afternoon which was great since Dustin worked until after 8 - at least it made the afternoon not seem so long.
We had German class again this morning - it is going to seem weird to not have class on Thursday as usual...We have kinder group tomorrow so that should be fun for Brenna - hopefully I can get myself (and Brenna) moving on time (but not too early either - how do you find just the right balance??)... We went to the store twice today - it was a good time "killer" and being such a short walk - why not (although going when hungry didn't work out so great for my diet - especially since on the first trip we came home with cheese puffs!!).
I feel bad that there aren't any pictures so far this week, but I didn't want to put Brenna into picture overload (o.k., when isn't she on picture overload, but I thought a break might be good for both of us). Maybe tomorrow I will try to get some flower pictures for you all - they have some beautiful ones in the neighborhood right now... I wanted to get a picture of Brenna today in her overalls, but didn't push her on it, sorry (and she looked so cute too!!)
Well, that is it for today!
Take Care!
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Monday, April 20
Hello All!!!
Hope all is well out there. It was a quiet day here today, but at least the weather was nice - it is supposed to be sunny here all week :-)
We worked on cleaning this morning and then had German class. Brenna loves helping with the cleaning - hope that keeps up and we can put her to work in the future, lol :-) We have German class again tomorrow, so at least my homework tonight is light. Brenna had lots of fun in the tub today - she loves playing that she is a mermaid and splashing around. We had Brenna's favorite scrambled pancakes tonight - we tried them with applesauce instead of oil - still yummy :-)
We had a nice walk this afternoon - it is amazing to see how green everything is getting here :-)
Well, that is it for today!
Take Care!
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
Sunday, April 19
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Friday, April 17
Hello All!!!
Hope everyone is doing great out there. We had a quiet day here today, it was somewhat rainy here today. Brenna and I made some white chocolate playdough this afternoon - she loved it - although very messy (got very sticky quickly when she played with it)!! At least it cleaned up easily.
I worked on uploading our trip pictures to shutterfly today - at least it is something you can start and step away from :-) Dustin said I should comment on the green apple juice in Venice. It was a little scary looking the first time, but it was green Granny Smith apple juice - it tasted pretty good and Brenna did like it. It was also amazing at the rest area in Italy that they had bottles of olive oil (like ketchup bottles in the US) to take to the tables (and they didn't have ketchup bottles!).
Tomorrow we celebrate Brenna's gotcha day... I'm going to let her decorate her own cake - can't wait to see the results on that one :-)
Well, take care!
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Thursday, April 16
I loved her face on some of these!!
One of the Italians gave Brenna some corn so that the birds would land on her hand - she had 3 at one time!! If you have seen Just Married - the birds at San Marco square are a little nuts - they aren't shy at all and don't move when you get close!!
Not sure if she was dancing or playing her air guitar!!
Some of my favorite shots from Venice - gotta love Gondola parking. It was interesting to see them sign them out in the morning as well!
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Lab Techs in Venice and Florence
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Wednesday, April 15
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
Thursday, April 9
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Wednesday, April 8
Hello All!!!
Hope everyone out there had a great day today. Brenna and I had some fun with a lunch picnic in her room (she loved this and wanted to do supper there as well) and also colored some Easter eggs. Brenna thought the eggs were much too hot, so it wasn't as interesting to her as the set up, but oh well.
We leave for Venice on Friday (our trip will include Venice, Florence, and Pisa) - hopefully we will have a great time. They are calling for rain most of the days we are traveling, but what can you do. Hopefully, it won't be constant. At least I have most of the memory sticks for the cameras cleaned off. Just have one stick to do tomorrow and the packing...
Well, I am off to relax for the evening. Dustin is out playing volleyball with our landlord.
Take Care!
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Tuesday, April 7
Hello All!!!
It was another really nice day here in Germany today. We managed to take the dog out for a nice long walk this afternoon. Brenna didn't sleep well last night so we didn't have much of a morning - we were both too tired to do much, lol.
Happy birthday to my niece Alexis today - hope you have a great day (and hopefully you got our birthday wish song!)
Take Care!
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Monday, April 6
Hello All!!
Hope everyone out there had a great day. The weather continues to be beautiful here - Brenna loves just hanging out on the balcony :-) Brenna took a run with Dustin today in her stroller.
Not too much else going on - just enjoying the nice weather. I found that I could walk to the local store today and get my needed groceries and get back to the apartment in about 8 minutes today. I ran out while Dustin was playing with Brenna and the pizza was in the oven. I made it back in plenty of time to take the pizza out of the oven, lol!
Happy birthday wishes go out to my Grandma Heath today - hope you had a great day!
Take Care!
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
Sunday, April 5
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
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The Hunger Games is my favorite, but I also really liked Wither.ReplyDelete
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Divergent! For standalone, my favorite is X-Isle.ReplyDelete
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The Hunger Games.ReplyDelete
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I would have to say my favorite Dystopian is Divergent, but I'm definitely hooked on dystopian books!!ReplyDelete
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I loved The Hunger Games trilogy, Partials and many others. But my favorite is Unwind by Neal Shusterman. It's my first dystopian book. :)ReplyDelete
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Campus safety remains a top priority at UH HiloUniversity of Hawaiʻi at Hilo
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HILO, Hawaii - With the 2007-2008 academic year just underway, and the tragedy at Virginia Tech still fresh in the public consciousness, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo officials report that campus safety and security remain a top priority for its students, faculty and staff.
"The safety and well being of our students, faculty and staff continues to be our paramount concern here at UH Hilo," noted Chancellor Rose Tseng. "We pride ourselves on providing a quality education with aloha, which means that our top priority is a secure, well-lit campus with a trained, professional and courteous security staff.
"At the start of another school year, we have worked hard to meet the challenges of ensuring everyone's safety and peace of mind while on campus," she added.
UH Hilo currently has in place a variety of safety preventative programs, direct services, informational materials, policies, and designated positions to reduce the risk of violence toward students, and to ensure reasonable efforts are made to provide a safe and secure learning environment.
"We have created a safer environment in which our campus is proactively engaged in dealing with situations involving acts of violence, enhancing campus safety and security, and increasing educating our students," Tseng said. "We will continue to address these situations for the benefit of our students, as well as our faculty and staff."
Currently, the University has the following in place:
· 18 Emergency Call Boxes
· Emergency Internet communication system
· Counseling Center
· Community partnerships (YWCA Hawaiʻi Island, Hilo Women's Shelter, Dept. of Health, Victim Assistance Program, Turning Point for Families, GirlFest Honolulu, Hawaiʻi State Coalition on Domestic Violence)
· UH Hilo Women's Center
In addition, UH Hilo has spent over $250,000 on exterior lighting improvements, fire alarm modernizations, and removal of dangerous landscapes. Renovations to coordinate exterior night lights on a central computer scheduler are in progress.
"We also have multiple security guards patrolling our campus as well as two shifts assigned exclusively to the residence halls," Tseng said. "All of our security guards go through eight hours of campus-specific training before they are eligible for University assignments.
"Our Campus Security recently upgraded their walkie talkies, which share the same frequency as our Housing Staff," she added. "Security cameras have also been purchased and are being installed in public areas around campus."
Proposals for the future include a UH Hilo Safety Educator, a Sexual Assault Support Services Coordinator, and additional programs and services, such as Safe Walk, NO HARM: Men's Alliance Against Domestic Violence, and annual guest speakers.


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A Florida man has died after a dog jumped into a van and pushed the accelerator, causing the vehicle to strike the man as he opened a gate outside of his home, authorities said.
The Florida Highway Patrol reported that 68-year-old James Campbell was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel.
The strange incident began as Campbell and Iris Fortner, 68, returned to their home in Cantonment, Fla., on the Florida Panhandle on Monday.
According to an FHP report, while Fortner, who was driving, backed a 1995 Chevy van into their property, Campbell got out of the passenger's side of the vehicle to open a metal gate outside their home.
As Fortner opened the driver's side door to see where Campbell was standing, her large boxer came running toward the van and jumped in, pressing the accelerator, the report said.
Before Fortner could stop the vehicle, it struck and ran over Campbell, trapping him under it, according to the report. He was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.
Campbell's death is under investigation. Fortner has not been charged.


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Cosco Busan oil spill
|Cosco Busan oil spill
The damaged MV Cosco Busan after striking the bridge tower fender
|San Francisco Bay
|7 November 2007
|Cosco Busan collision with the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in thick fog.
|Fleet Management Ltd.
|Spill characteristics
|53,569 US gal (202,780 l; 44,606 imp gal)
|150 sq mi (390 km2)
|Shoreline impacted
|26 mi (42 km)
The Cosco Busan oil spill occurred at 08:30 UTC-8 on 7 November 2007 between San Francisco and Oakland, California, in which 53,569 US gal (202,780 L) of IFO-380 heavy fuel oil, sometimes referred to as "bunker fuel", spilled into San Francisco Bay after the container ship Cosco Busan, operated by Fleet Management Ltd., struck Delta Tower of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge in thick fog.
Investigators found that maritime pilot John Cota was impaired because of his use of prescription pharmaceuticals while piloting the container vessel, which rendered him unable to use the onboard radar and electronic navigation charts correctly. This occurred despite the fact that the Vessel Traffic Service of the United States Coast Guard warned Cota that the vessel was headed for the bridge.[1] Cota was sentenced to 10 months in federal prison for his role in the incident.[2]
Then California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency after meeting federal, state and local officials overseeing the cleanup. The proclamation made additional state personnel, funding and equipment available to assess and clean up the environmental damage.[3]
- Causes 1
- Responsibility 2
Bay Area impact 3
- Environmental 3.1
- Economic 3.2
- Volunteering 3.3
- Cleanup timeline 3.4
- Aftermath 4
- See also 5
- References 6
- External links 7
The National Transportation Safety Board determined the following probable causes of the accident:[4]
- the pilot's degraded cognitive performance from his use of prescription medications, despite his completely clean post accident drug test,
- the absence of a comprehensive pre-departure master/pilot exchange and a lack of effective communication between Pilot John Cota and Master Mao Cai Sun during the accident voyage, and
- (Cosco Busan Master) Sun's ineffective oversight of Cota's piloting performance and the vessel's progress.
Other contributing factors included:[4]
- the failure of Fleet Management Ltd. to train Cosco Busan crewmembers (which led to such acts of gross negligence as the bow lookout eating breakfast in the galley instead of being on watch) and Fleet Management's failure to ensure that the crew understood and complied with the company's safety management system;
- the failure of Caltrans to maintain foghorns on the bridge which were silent despite the heavy fog;[5]
- the failure of Vessel Traffic Safety (VTS) to alert Cota and Sun that they were headed for the tower. VTS is legally required to alert a vessel if an accident appears imminent, yet they remained silent;[5]
- the malfunctioning radar on Cosco Busan, which led Captains Cota and Sun to use an electronic chart for the rest of the voyage. Although Coast Guard investigators found the radar to be in working order, they did not examine it until days after the accident (allowing time for faulty equipment to be fixed, which is not uncommon after a marine accident)
- Captain Sun's incorrect identification of symbols on the electronic chart;
- the U.S. Coast Guard's failure to provide adequate medical oversight of Cota, in view of the medical and medication information he had reported to the Coast Guard.[4]
In addition, investigations conducted by independent experts from the international maritime community also highlighted the potential effects of insufficient Human-machine interface design, contributing to such accidents even though "human error" is often directly used as the main cause without further investigating shortcomings in the HMI. This is, even though HMI has been accepted as a significant factor in aviation accidents for many decades:
|Lack of investigation of accidents at sea and the rash classification of the causes in the category of "human error" will help to cover weaknesses in the design of man-machine- interfaces. This is supported by legal regulations for the Bridge Team Management, the high investment cost for ship handling simulators, the low contribution of human-oriented research and its public support, as well as the readiness of manufacturers to develop more integrated and reliable process control systems. Although an inappropriate behaviour of the parties involved in the accident can be proved by the investigation report, the true causes of such accident like the container ship "Cosco Busan" stay in the darkness or in the field of speculation! The faulty design of man-machine-interfaces and deficiencies in information processing and others remain largely unmentioned. Based on a careful analysis of the accident documents the author proves that technical weaknesses were overlooked as well as failures in displaying and processing of information had not been taken into account. For the developers of new support systems and the aimed level of "dependability" of integrated ship bridge systems this is a great disadvantage.[6]
Senator Barbara Boxer and San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom criticized the Coast Guard for its response, as its initial reported figures, between 100 to 400 US gal (380 to 1,510 L) of oil, were significantly lower than those of the actual spill.[7]
On Friday, 30 November 2007, the United States government filed a lawsuit against the ship and the pilot.
On 23 July 2008, a federal grand jury indicted Fleet Management Ltd of Hong Kong, the company that operated Cosco Busan. The indictment included six felonies for allegedly falsifying documents to interfere with a federal investigation and two misdemeanor counts of criminal negligence for allegedly helping to cause the spill.[8] The company offered to plead guilty to the misdemeanors. This federal criminal case was resolved when Fleet paid $10 million in fines and restitution. $8 million went to a victim/witness fund and $2 million went to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to be used for environmental projects in the Bay Area.
On 23 October 2008, the California state Board of Pilot Commissioners released a report, saying the spill was the result of a series of mistakes by the maritime pilot Captain John Cota. The 18-page report found Cota had made seven serious errors in piloting the ship, including failing to correctly read an electronic chart on the ship, sailing in fog so thick that he could see only 200 feet ahead and sailing at an unsafe speed. Cota faced seven federal charges for spilling oil and killing federally protected birds.[9]
On 6 March 2009, Cota negotiated a plea agreement with prosecutors to federal water pollution and migratory bird killing charges.[10] The agreement called for him to serve two to ten months in prison and included a fine between $3,000 and $30,000. On 10 July, he was sentenced to 10 months imprisonment.[11]
On 19 September 2011, federal, state, and local agencies announced a final comprehensive civil settlement for $44.4 million. It included the following:
- $32.2 million for natural resource damages (to be spent on restoration projects)
- $1.25 million for state penalties.
- $10.9 million for unpaid government response and assessment costs
Bay Area impact
The tidal mechanics of San Francisco Bay caused the spill to spread rapidly, affecting a large area of the California North Coast, including the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Ocean Beach and the Marin Headlands.[12]
More than 50 public beaches were closed, including Crissy Field, Fort Point, Baker Beach, China Beach and Kirby Cove.
By 14 November 2007, beaches as far south as Pacifica, California had been closed due to the spill.[13]
Richmond's shoreline and wildlife were seriously affected by the spill. Beaches and shorelines were closed, but later reopened. However, access was still restricted as of December 2007.[14] The government organizations responsible for the cleanup response and recovery devoted much effort to the East Bay and Rodeo Beach since they were the areas most impacted. The Rodeo Beach and Albany Beach segments were the last ones to be signed off as cleaned because of the additional maintenance and monitoring that were required.
According to the federal and state natural resource trustee agencies, the spill is estimated to have killed 6,849 birds. 2,519 were collected: 1,084 were collected alive (789 of which died; 295 of which were rehabilitated and released) and 1,856 were collected dead.[15] About 200 miles (320 km) of coastline, incorporating 3,367 acres, was oiled. The eggs laid by herring, which typically enter the bay in December, were killed in areas affected by the spill. It is estimated that 14 to 29% of the herring spawn in winter 2007-8 were lost due to the spill.[16]
Several fisheries in the Bay Area may have been affected by the spill and the crab and sport fishing seasons were postponed by several weeks.[17] As of 30 November, State biologists had tested more than 1100 samples of fish, mussels and Dungeness crab in San Francisco Bay and coastal waters outside the Golden Gate. The tests found unsafe levels of contaminants in mussels from Rodeo Beach and the Berkeley pier.
An estimated 1,079,900 recreational use days were also lost as a result of the spill. This includes general shoreline use as well as recreational fishing and boating.
Total monetary damages were estimated at $2.1 million for the ship, $1.5 million for the bridge's fender, and more than $70 million for oil spill cleanup.[4]
Initial official releases from public agencies warned against involvement of volunteers, and worked to deflect volunteers into non-contact activities. This included asking people to act as drivers for bird transport, or as support staff to other efforts. The U.S. Coast Guard directed volunteers to clean non-oiled beaches.[18]
For the first few days OSHA rules were interpreted as requiring HAZWOPER certification, a minimum of 24 hours of classroom time, before involvement in any effort that may result in oil contact. Eventually, and after significant pressure from would-be volunteers, a four-hour "Disaster Service Worker Volunteer Certification" subset of the course was offered.[19] OSHA rules require exactly 240 minutes of classroom time, and the certification is valid for only one incident, e.g., this oil spill.
Cleanup timeline
Ad-hoc volunteers were discouraged from cleaning beaches during the early days following the spill, as government workers and private contractor The O'Brien's Group handled the official disaster response. On 11 November 2007, cleanup and reports were focused on damage assessment of Cosco Busan.[20] Oil-soaked birds were put in boxes and driven to the San Francisco Bay Oiled Wildlife Care and Education Center in Fairfield to be rehabilitated by University of California, Davis, veterinary medical students, and as of 25 November, some birds were returned to the wild.[21]
On 21 December 2007, Cosco Busan sailed out of San Francisco Bay en route to Busan, South Korea with a new crew under her new name Hanjin Venezia.[22] US$1.5 million in repairs were completed to the bridge fender, three weeks ahead of schedule and $500,000 under budget around the same time.[23]
See also
- ^ John Upton (27 May 2009). "Prisoners of the COSCO Busan". The East Bay Express. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ John Upton (, 5 November 2009). "Old Bridge Bumper Technology Means Future Oil Spills Likely". The San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ Marshall, Carolyn (10 November 2007). "Oil Spill Spreads in San Francisco Bay". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 April 2010.
- ^ a b c d Rosenker, Mark V.; Sumwalt, Robert L.; Higgins, Kathryn O'Leary; Hersman, Deborah A. P. (18 February 2009). with the Delta Tower of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, San Francisco, California, November 7, 2007"Cosco Busan"Marine Accident Report: Allision of Hong Kong-Registered Containership M/V (.PDF). NTSB/MAR-09/01. National Transportation Safety Board. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ a b bridge recording from Cosco Busan
- ^ Diethard Kersandt (August 2008). "San Francisco Bay Bridge Allision".
- ^ Emergency Response Division, Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service (2010). "Cosco Busan"M/V . IncidentNews. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, US Department of Commerce. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ Bob Egelko (24 July 2008). "Felony Charges for Ship's Management". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
- ^ Carl Nolte (24 October 2008). "Oil Spill Ship Pilot Found at Fault in Accident". The San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 12 May 2010.
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External links
- Cosco BusanPath of
- Cosco Busan Natural Resource Damage Assessment
- Fleet Management Limited official website
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