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European Commission: a fisheries policy for the future
Brussels, 13 July 2011 – In its proposals for a major reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), the European Commission has set out a radical approach to fisheries management in Europe. The plans will secure both fish stocks and fishermen's livelihood for the future while putting an end to overfishing and depletion of fish stocks. The reform will introduce a decentralised approach to science-based fisheries management by region and sea basin, and introduce better governance standards in the EU and on the international level through sustainable fisheries agreements.
When presenting the proposals, Maria Damanaki, Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, said: "Action is needed now to get all our fish stocks back into a healthy state to preserve them for present and future generations. Only under this precondition can fishermen continue to fish and earn a decent living out of their activities."
She continued: "This means that we have to manage each stock wisely, harvesting what we can but keeping the stock healthy and productive for the future. This will bring us higher catches, a sound environment and a secure seafood supply. If we get this reform right, fishermen and coastal communities will be better off in the long run. And all Europeans will have a wider choice of fresh fish, both wild and farm produced."
Sustainability and long-term solutions are the key points of today's proposals which set out the following elements:
EU fisheries are affected by several interconnected problems. Most fish stocks are being overfished by a fishing fleet that is too large and too efficient. Catches are dipping year after year and coastal communities, which often depend on fishing, watch their economic opportunities fade away. In decision making, political leaders tend to favour short-term interests rather than long-term resource conservation; and a top-down legislative approach from Brussels has so far given the sector little incentive to behave responsibly and contribute to a sustainable use of resources.
In April 2009, a Green Paper analysed the shortcomings of the current policy and opened a public consultation which lasted until the end of 2010. Input to the consultation and conclusions from several stakeholder events fed into the preparation of today's reform package, which consists of the following components:
This new package is being submitted to the European Parliament and Council for adoption under the ordinary legislative procedure (co-decision). The Commission aims for adoption and entry into force of the new framework by 1 January 2013.
Later this year the Commission plans to put forward a new funding mechanism for fisheries and maritime policy, in line with the Multi-Annual Financial Framework.
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KINGS MOUNTAIN � Logan Smith knows her life will be much different a year from now, and she said she�s ready for the challenge.
Early mornings, late nights, short hair and rigorous workouts will all be part of her routine. That�s because the Kings Mountain High senior has received a full scholarship to play volleyball at The Citadel.
�I�m really excited about the military lifestyle,� Smith said. �It�s different than any other college.�
She is considering either majoring in engineering or working toward going into the Air Force as an officer upon graduation from The Citadel.
Third-year Mountaineer coach Ashley Pridgeon�s first reaction was to ask whether her player was ready for such a rigorous training program. But she said it makes sense Smith would pursue the opportunity.
�She�s kind of always been that girl that likes it,� Pridgeon said. �She likes hard practices. She�s always the girl that�s asking for more conditioning.�
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The military wasn�t initially in Smith�s plans, but she fell in love with the school when she visited. Though struggles are certain in the first year, Smith knows she�ll have others to lean on.
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Smith knows the value of going to school at such a respected institution, with lucrative job opportunities often surfacing for students even before they graduate.
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Story highlights
- Zimbabwe says it only has $217 left in the bank -- American dollars
- BlackBerry still enjoys popularity in Africa despite plummeting sales in the U.S.
- Drones come to the rescue of rhinos in Kenya
Every week, we bring you some of the most interesting stories from around Africa. Here are the five you need to know this week.
Court: Shell Nigeria must pay farmer for pollution
Nigerian farmers who filed a suit against Shell received bad news this week. Except one of them.
In a landmark ruling, a court said parent company Royal Dutch Shell was not liable for the oil spills in the Niger Delta region. But in the case of one farmer, it asked the local Shell subsidiary to pay up for pollution.
The Dutch court rejected claims by four farmers, agreeing with parent company that the leaks were caused by sabotage, not negligence.
However, it ordered Shell Nigeria to compensate a fifth farmer because the company did not take adequate measures to prevent saboteurs from attacking oil pipes. Damages in that ruling have not yet been determined.
The case, watched by environmentalist and multinational companies, was rare because it involved Dutch jurisdiction on a company that though headquartered in the Netherlands, was in court for offenses blamed on a foreign subsidiary.
You may be richer than Zimbabwe
Next time you are moping over your bank balance, take heart you're not Zimbabwe.
The country says it is down to its last US $217.
Finance Minister Tendai Biti's revelation, reported by various media outlets, raised collective eyebrows worldwide.
After paying civil service employees, the government was left with only $217 in its coffers, Biti said Tuesday, according to Zimbabwean paper NewsDay.
Biti later said his statement was taken out of context. He said his comment aimed to highlight that the government is broke and spending a bulk of its revenue on paying civil employees.
The government is working on measures that will cut the wages, which amount to 70% of the nation's total revenue, Biti told the paper.
Zimbabwe is no stranger to fiscal mess.
Four years ago, it suffered massive hyperinflation, forcing it to introduce a 100-trillion-dollar note worth about $300 in U.S. currency. At the time, a loaf of bread cost about 300 billion Zimbabwean dollars.
The cash-strapped revelation sparked discussions on the 263Chat, a weekly crowdsourcing venture among Zimbabweans on Twitter.
Some wondered how the country will hold its presidential election -- an expensive exercise -- with no money to its name.
Blogger Nigel Mugamu asked why the government is not meeting its revenue targets despite its massive diamond resources.
Shunned in the U.S., BlackBerry still a hit in Africa
BlackBerry's loss of market share in the United States is the stuff of legends.
Last fall, about 2% of American phone users were still carrying their BlackBerry mobiles.
But though the phone is losing its popularity in North America, its market in urban Sub-Saharan Africa remains vibrant .
BlackBerry estimates it holds a 70% market share in countries such as South Africa.
And in Nigeria, the phones are such a hot commodity, the nation's film industry has a movie called "BlackBerry Babes," which features women luring men into buying them the phone.
Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to add 175 million new mobile users in three years, making it an especially lucrative market.
Unlike their counterparts in Europe and America, most Africans use their mobiles as their primary link to the Internet, hence the preference for physical keyboards over touch screens. The BlackBerry's free messaging service, BBM, is also a big hit in the continent.
Unmanned drones ... for animals
At a game reserve in Kenya's vast plains, conservationists are resorting to unique measures to protect endangered rhinos: Unmanned drones.
Rampant poaching, escalated by beliefs that rhino horns have healing powers, has led to a record number of animal killings in recent months.
And the 90,000-acre Ol Pejeta Conservancy game reserve wants to change all that.
Boasting a wide array of wildlife, including the endangered black and white rhinos, the conservancy plans to deploy drones to monitor and track wildlife. The drones will provide immediate notifications when poachers are sighted.
This is the latest high-tech effort to track wildlife, a major source of tourist dollars for the east African nation.
Last year, Kenyan conservationists put GPS-enabled collars to send automated messages via wireless networks to researchers who map lion locations.
Malian troops accused of human rights violations
After three weeks of fighting, Malian troops, with the help of France and several other countries, have largely wrested control of the north from the militants.
But at a steep cost, human rights groups say.
France has been helping its former colony flush out Islamist fighters from the vast desert in northern Mali, a region world leaders feared would turn into an al Qaeda haven.
But Malian troops have carried out extrajudicial killings and abuses during the offensive, according to French-based International Federation for Human Rights.
There have also been reports of attacks on the Tuaregs tribe members, the rights group said.
A Mali military spokesman declined to comment about the allegations.
Malian and French military officials have repeatedly called for respect of international humanitarian law and human rights.


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I do see something. That cloud has a definite shape. I'm not sure what it is, though. I WOULD say that its a dragon. Because the "neck" looks like that of a dragon. But, the "face" doesn't. And that other cloud on top of it's "head" makes it look like something.
Is this the one with the Lamb in it?
I didn't see it first time around in the other post but now I do lol
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No, he didn't use those exact words, but in condemning 47 percent of the nation for paying no income taxes, Romney was denigrating the sacred base of the modern GOP: the Deep South.
In a nutshell, here's why: seven of the lowest ten paying states in income taxes are in the Deep South. Yes stretching from South Carolina to Texas, the states that have the highest percentage of people Romney considers leeches on the government are in the GOP Southern Strategy vote belt. And if you toss in Idaho, which is a red state, you have eight of the lowest paying states in income taxes getting a sneering kick from Romney.
The conservative Tax Foundation provides the facts behind this reality, including a devastating chart as far as Mitt Romney lambasting his base with his "47 percent" derisive remarks
The Tax Foundation unequivocally states, "Nine of the ten states with the largest percentage of nonpayers are in the South and Southwest. In Mississippi, 45 percent of federal tax returns remit nothing or receive money with their federal tax returns; that is the highest percentage nationally. Georgia is next at 41 percent, followed by Arkansas at 41 percent, and Alabama, South Carolina, and New Mexico at 40 percent."
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The only blue state among the states Romney apparently reviles for being loaded with non-tax payers is New Mexico, with Florida – a swing state – also included. But seven of the states are rock solid southern states, plus Idaho. These are the core states of any Republican presidential electoral strategy, and yet Romney apparently holds them in contempt.
Here, according to the Tax Foundation are the top ten states with percentage of non-filers in 2008:
1 Mississippi
2 Georgia
3 Arkansas
4 New Mexico
5 Alabama
6 South Carolina
7 Louisiana
8 Texas
9 Florida
10 Idaho
In fact, the southern states, as BuzzFlash has pointed out before, are subsidized, in government dollars, by the taxpayers of northern blue states. Take a state like Mississippi, which receives more than $2.00 from the government for every dollar it pays into the federal treasury. On the other hand, a blue state such as Obama's Illinois receives only about 75 cents back on each dollar it pays to the federal government, for a net loss.
BuzzFlash at Truthout covered Romney's hypocrisy about the Mississippi federal dependency syndrome in a March 2012 commentary entitled "Mississippi Freeloads on the Back of Blue State Taxpayers for Federal Subsidies to Survive." In that commentary, BuzzFlash at Truthout noted:
In short, the MS state government run out of Jackson is a leech upon the US government, but try telling that to Mitt Romney.
While pandering for votes in Mississippi before the recent presidential primary, Romney declared: "If the federal government were run more like here in Mississippi, the whole country would be a lot better off." Say what?
Romney, the man who would be president, is saying that Washington DC should emulate a state propped up by federal subsidies -- arguably the poorest and least educated state in the Union.
In short, Romney's foundation for any chance of electoral victory is composed basically of welfare states.
Not to mention that there remains the outstanding question of whether or not Romney paid US income taxes in any of the years, particularly 2009, for which he has not yet released his tax returns.
In addition, not paying income taxes does not mean not paying taxes. For instance, if you are working and paying into social security and Medicare through payroll taxes you are contributing to earned benefits that will be paid back in the future, not living off the government dole. As for seniors, such as in the state of Florida (which has such a high percentage of non-income tax payers because of its elderly population), is Romney proposing that aged Americans should be taxed on meager Social Security payments that they earned through hard work? Not to mention veterans, students, the disabled, etc.
When Romney talked to his wealthy contributors about 47 percent of the nation being drains upon the public purse -- people who in Romney's words "believe that they are victims" -- he was sticking it into the eyes of his white bastion of support below the Mason-Dixon line: the South.


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2018 was a year all about impact — on the planet, on solving crimes, on mosquito populations, on reversing paralysis, and more.
Year in Review
In 2018, AI bested humans at following fauna, diagnosing disease, mapping the moon and more.
From black hole insights to the future of self-driving cars to figuring out what it means to be human, 2019 will be a big year in science.
This year, some missions started exploring the cosmos, while others were winding down.
Discoveries about fossils, the Big Bang and more could shake up the scientific world – if they turn out to be true.
In the #MeToo era, the scientific community is confronting its own sexual harassment problems and looking to research for solutions.
Climate attribution studies and new data on global warming targets put climate change in the spotlight this year.
A researcher in China announced he created two babies using CRISPR. Many scientists questioned the study's ethics and medical necessity.
DNA searches of a public genealogy database are closing cases and opening privacy concerns.
Particles associated with a blazar kick-start the field of neutrino astronomy.
Scientists disagree on what a possible crater found under Greenland's ice means for the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis.
An early lab test of exterminating a much-hated mosquito raises hopes, but is it really such a great idea?
Studies claiming that alcohol in even small amounts is dangerous weren't designed to address risks of moderate drinking.
High schoolers' use of e-cigarettes shot up from 2017 to 2018, and public health officials are concerned that a new generation is at risk for nicotine addiction.
Planetary scientists are still trying to explain how a lake could have formed beneath a kilometer and a half of Martian ice.
A handful of people paralyzed from spinal cord injuries have learned to walk again.
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ncasanova necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 65 diseños de 21 diseñadores freelance.
DevelopmentEngine, ResultsEngine, Friday5s
I need to be clear that this contest is for three logos or similar look and feels for our 3 products- DevelopmentEngine, ResultsEngine and Friday5s. It is not a logo for the company, Fort Hill. I'm looking for a consistent aesthetic that can be used for all 3 product names.
About Fort Hill: We're in the change management, leadership, development space and we work with Fortune500s. We're a technology/ consulting company that's looking to rev up our product images.
The culture is part new school and part suit and tie corporate because that's our client base. We like to be seen as professional, trusted advisors on the cutting edge.
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We work with Learning and Development professionals- VP humans resources, Chief Learning Operators, Organizational Development...and the senior members of the C suite- CEOs, CFOs... Our clients are national and international and they are the senior leaders at the world's top companies who are in charge of building leaders.
This is for three logos or basically one unified look and feel. I thought about posting one logo first but think it would be foolish to base everything off of what one of them may look like since their names are so different.
Go to our site and take a look at the logos for(or don't and just go big):
These are our follow-through tools. It's a web-based system that allows people to take their goals and see them to fruition. They are reminder systems where people can come in and update their progress on their goal, get content specific to the context they're working in, coaching and collaboration. They all do very similar things so it would be nice to have something that ties all of our follow through tools together... font, color, something consistent.
Friday5s is used the most. It's used behind any training so that people can take what they've learned and apply it back in the workplace.
DevelopmentEngine- can be used for personal development goals
ResultsEngine- Can be used for goals around strategic initiatives
help us join the 21st century with something slick yet very professional.
oh and can you make it in vector format please?
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Many people tend to associate Chuck Hagel with John McCain, and not without reason. But here's a big difference — while both can be spectacularly wrong, McCain can also be spectaculary right.
Consider Senator McCain's statement to CBS News about the analogy between Vietnam and Iraq that Senator Hagel has posited:
Vietnam never had a legitimate government in Saigon that the people believed in and trusted. There was superpower engagement in a huge way. [In Iraq] we [have] a problem with the Syrians — but nothing like what the Chinese and Russians were doing for the North Vietnamese. You had basic sanctuary in North Vietnam. The whole situation, I think, was very, very different.
And I'd like to point out one additional aspect. When we left Vietnam, there wasn't a fear that the Vietnamese would come after us. If we fail in Iraq, it will be cataclysmic. You'll see factionalization and eventual Muslim extremism and terrorist breeding grounds that would, I believe, pose a direct threat to the security of the United States. And I'm very glad that the American people — understandably dissatisfied, understandably frustrated — still, the majority of them don't think we ought to cut and run.


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It's got to the point where I can't really bluff through it anymore. The fact is, I've got a terrible cold. Awful. I haven't been able to taste anything since about 11am on Monday when the snot in my nose reached a critical mass.
It's my fault - I failed to deploy my First Defence when I first felt that fatal "uh-oh" back-of-the-throat tickle. Anyway, not being able to taste anything (plus a coldy weakness in my brain) means that even if I could drag myself to the kitchen to cook something, I wouldn't be able to tell you if it was nice or not. So I'm going to have to talk about something else today.
You may have noticed that I've got the radio tuned to Capital FM. Well, I say "tuned", but it's a digital radio so you just press a button and there it is. Anyway, it's on Capital FM not because I drive a white van in my spare time or am a third year at boarding school in the home counties, but because of my last job.
I wasn't that crazy about my last job - as evidenced by the fact that I'm not doing it anymore - and when I was there, in order to drown out various things that made being there especially unbearable, (the sound of my desk phone ringing, people asking me to do things etc), I used to listen to the radio through my computer, on headphones. It's possibly the most anti-social thing I've ever done in an office - aside from consistently refusing to wear shoes.
Anyway, the only radio station that came through loud and clear without endless "buffering" was Capital FM. So that's what I listened to for at least three hours a day, five days a week for about a year.
Then I left and quickly realised that because of that constant association of work with Capital FM, I now can't do anything unless I'm listening to it. I can't write, cook, tidy up or really concentrate on anything (except TV) unless Capital FM is on, somewhere. Strange. But true.


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Students typically complete the program in 16-21 months depending on previous individual course work. A Reading Specialist license may be awarded upon successful completion of degree requirements, state test, and verification of two years of teaching experience in Illinois. This license will allow the holder to become a director of Reading in K-12 Illinois public schools. Other opportunities upon completion of the program include: become a reading teacher, teach at a community college, or simply improve your classroom teaching methods for all age groups. Students must maintain a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.5.
Convenient courses are offered one night a week with the exception of one daytime summer practicum. Students complete the entire program with one group of classmates. The cohort model creates an ideal environment where mature teachers benefit from peer interaction and classroom support. Groups begin the MAE-Reading program at specific start and end dates. Greenville University is approved to offer the program in Alton, Belleville, Centralia, Godfrey, Greenville, Lincoln, and Litchfield. Class locations are dependent on student enrollment.
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Medieval Europe: a short sourcebook
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This collection of documents in medieval history is designed to accompany the recently revised MEDIEVAL EUROPE: A SHORT HISTORY by C. Warren Hollister and Judith Bennett. However the diverse selection of sources also makes it a useful supplement for courses in Western Civilization. As in previous editions, this reader continues to provide a lucid and approachable introduction to each of the documents and a special chapter devoted to visual sources in medieval history. In addition to these hallmark features, the fourth edition includes new Internet resources, thought questions at both the reading and chapter level, and a more geographically diverse range of readings.
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Osmocom GPS timing source with u-blox LEA6-T
Recently we have been looking for an inexpensive way to generate a high-accuracy clock source for E1 lines, as it is required by a number of classic BTSs that don't have a sufficiently accurate OCXO built-in.
Luckily, the Digium E1 cards like TE-410P have a timing connector, to which an 8.192 MHz signal can be injected. Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any OCXOs around for that frequency. That's where the u-blox LEA-6T comes into play: It has a configurable TIMEPULSE2 output that can generate any frequency up to 10 MHz. We use this in our board to generate 8.192 Mhz and want to feed that into the Digium card.
So all we had to do is build a small board that contains the module and connector for antenna input, clock output and the obligatory 2.5mm stereo jack for the OsmocomBB-style UART:
Thanks to Sylvain for doing the schematics/PCB design, and thanks to Pablo for writing the code to configurea and activate the 8.192MHz output.
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GiriFacili is a web service designed to organize, plan and optimize the commercial carriage, delivery trips and business meeting list.
It is reccomended for companies or individual professionals who use vehicles or that delegate transports to external operators, leaving however in the company, the planning and control functions.
GiriFacili creates your tours under the costrains of your daily job like the characteristics of the vehicle, working hours, time zones, the place of delivery and much more.
As soon as you made the planning, GiriFacili send orders to TomTom WEBFLEET and directly to the Driver Terminal.
GiriFacili has an intuitive web interface and doesn't require any training investment, no cost for maintenance of infrastructure
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Jakarta International School Sexual-Abuse Trials to Look at Janitors' Role
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JAKARTA—Court trials will begin this week in Indonesia over alleged child sexual abuse that has riveted Indonesia's the expatriate and business communities and could help determine the future of one of Asia's best-known schools.
Three families have alleged that contract janitors and school staff sexually abused young boys at the prestigious Jakarta International School. The five janitors—who are expected go on trial Tuesday and Wednesday—and two staff members arrested in the case have denied committing any crimes....


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The Department of Defense announced the death of a Texas Marine in Afghanistan on Jan. 19, 2012.
Cpl. Joseph D. Logan from Willis was 22 years old when he died in combat operations in Helmand province.
Also killed in the battle were Capt. Daniel B. Bartle, 27, of Ferndale, Wash., Capt. Nathan R. McHone, 29, of Crystal Lake, Ill., MSgt. Travis W. Riddick, 40, of Centerville, Iowa, Cpl. Jesse W. Stites, 23, of North Beach, Md., and Cpl. Kevin J. Reinhard, 25, of Colonia, N.J.
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Lance Armstrong is coming clean about his decision to use performance-enhancing drugs during his storied career as one of the world's most iconic cyclists.
In a much-anticipated sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey that aired Thursday, Jan. 18, cycling's former golden boy admitted to doping throughout his career, including each of his seven Tour de France wins.
During the intense interview, Winfrey grilled Armstrong, 41, with a number of questions concerning the pressures of fame, his decision to use drugs, and how he will apologize to the many people he retaliated against in his climb to the top.
"I view this situation as one big lie that I repeated a lot of times," Armstrong admitted to Winfrey. "I know the truth. The truth isn't what was out there. The truth isn't what I said."
"I'm a flawed character, as I well know," he continued. "All the fault and all the blame here falls on me."
The disgraced cyclist also admitted that he didn't consider his decision to take performance-enhancing drugs "cheating" at the time — rather, it was simply a way to create a "level playing field" since so many of his fellow competitors were also doping.
(Armstrong declined to name specific dates, people, and locations where the illicit drug use took place.)
He did, however, detail the "cocktail" that he used before competitions: A mixture of EPO, blood transfusions and testosterone. He also previously used cortisone.
"I didn't invent the culture, but I didn't try to stop the culture," Armstrong said, by way of trying to explain his behavior.
The cyclist claimed that he stopped using drugs in 2005, and competed in the Tours de France in 2009 and 2010 completely drug-free. He placed third in 2009 and 23rd in 2010.
The reason Armstrong refused to come clean before, he said, was because he got caught up in the "momentum" of his fame and popularity as an American treasure, a superhero who could do no wrong.
"It just gets going and I lost myself in all that," he told Winfrey.
Armstrong did have a bone to pick with former teammate Tyler Hamilton's claim, however, that he had failed a drug test during the Tour de Suisse in 2001, and then paid off the International Cycling Union to keep the results under wraps.
"I'm gonna tell you what's true and not true," he said, insisting that the UCI was the one who approached him for a donation. "That story is not true. No positive test, no paying off the lab, no secret meeting with the lab director."
But when addressing reports that he was ruthless in his determination to uphold his squeaky-clean image, Armstrong was a bit more cautious in his answers.
"There was never a directive" that the other members of his team had to take the drugs with him, he clarified, though he confessed: "I was a bully. I tried to control the narrative."
"At the time did it not feel wrong?" Winfrey asked incredulously.
"No," Armstrong replied. "Scary."
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Tailor-made Travel Consultant - Luxury Middle East Role! We're currently working with a highly established, multi-award winning, luxury tour operator who is looking for talented travel consultants to join them at a very exciting time of growth for their business. These newly created luxury Middle East tailor-made Travel Consultant roles are to support their Middle East department growth, with this in mind you will be joining a successful business which can deliver long term progression and development opportunities!
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Sophomore Representing Ireland on International Stage
NEW HAVEN, Conn.—Yale men's cross country team sophomore Kevin Dooney—a native of Dublin, Ireland—will compete as a member of Ireland's Under-23 squad at the 20th SPAR European Cross Country Championships in Belgrade, Serbia, on Sunday. Dooney will be competing in the 8K race, serving as a representative not only of his country, but also of Raheny Shamrock AC, an Irish athletics club devoted to competitive running. Athletics Ireland, the country's official national athletic association, made its team selections on Nov. 25. Dooney is one of three runners from American colleges competing for the Irish U-23 team.
Dooney, who also represented Ireland at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Barcelona, emerged as a national cross country star during the recently concluded season. He placed eighth at the Ivy League Heptagonal Championships (Heps) before placing 11th at the Division I NCAA Northeast Regional Championships and becoming the sixth Yale runner to qualify for the Division I NCAA National Championships since 1991. It was at Heps that Dooney set his 8K personal record (23:56.6)—a mark he will be looking to break again in Belgrade.
"Being chosen to represent your country is a great honor, and I'm certainly looking forward to it," Dooney said. "Following my runs at Heps and Regionals and then again at NCAAs, I knew I had a chance at making the team, but it's a competitive group, so I took nothing for granted and was delighted to get the nod."
Head Men's Cross Country Coach Paul Harkins believes Dooney is slowly becoming one of Yale's all-time cross county greats and has high hopes and expectations for the sophomore heading into the weekend.
"It is a great honor for Kevin to be recognized for his accomplishments this season by Athletics Ireland," Harkins said. "I am confident that he will represent both Ireland and Yale extremely well. Hopefully, this is a start of a long international career for Kevin that will extend well beyond his time at Yale."
Dooney believes his two years of running under Coach Harkins will prove beneficial when he takes to the course on Sunday.
"I feel running at the collegiate level will help me in such a race," he said. "I've been exposed to great competition and highly competitive fields, and hopefully those experiences will stand to me in Belgrade. You have to take each race on its merits and just go out knowing you're ready for it."
All European Championship races will take place on Sunday. The U-23 men's race is slated to begin at 12:19 p.m. Serbian time (6:19 p.m. EST). The meet's official website can be accessed here, and a map of the course at Friendship Park is available here. The full Irish roster for the meet, meanwhile, is available here. Results will be available on www.yalebulldogs.com following the conclusion of the race.
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January 28, 2011 1:09 pm ET
If one needs additional proof that the "pro-Israel" lobby and the policies it dictates to US policymakers are bad for both the U.S. and Israel, look no further than what is happening in Egypt.
The regime that the Israeli government and its U.S. lobby have depended upon to enforce the status quo is going down. It is not clear when, but it's going to be soon, much sooner than anyone ever anticipated. And you can be sure that any democratic government that takes Mubarak's place is not going to play the role of America's (let alone Israel's) enforcer in the Middle East.
Hopefully, the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty will survive — thousands of lives on both sides have been saved by President Carter's Camp David Treaty — but there are no guarantees. Far from it.
Of course, no one would even be worried about the peace treaty if the Israelis had agreed to implement the critical second part of the Camp David Accords.
That was the part that would have ended the occupation. But the Israelis chose to ignore it and the lobby and the ever-faithful Congress blocked Carter's efforts to push it through.
Few would argue that the imminent collapse of the Mubarak regime (and other Middle East dictatorships) derives from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Neither Egyptians nor Tunisians are risking and losing their lives for Palestinians. They are doing it for themselves. They want freedom.
But the hatred for America that the revolutionaries feel stems in large part from our support for the occupation and the regional dictators who help enable it. And that support stems entirely from the lobby's power to intimidate policymakers.
I am often accused of harping on the lobby's baleful influence. I plead guilty. But it's my obligation because (1) I know from personal experience — 15 years on Capitol Hill and four at AIPAC — how it operates, (2) I know how little it really cares about Israel, and (3) I am free to tell the truth about it. If I worked in the mainstream media or in the U.S. government, I wouldn't be.
Another area where the lobby has done so much damage is in our relations with Iran.
AIPAC is dedicated to "crippling" sanctions and eventually war with Iran if sanctions don't bring down the regime. Later this spring, AIPAC will host its annual conference which will, as has been the case for a decade, feature mind-numbing warnings about the danger posed by an Iranian nuclear bomb.
Unfortunately for the lobby (and happily for everyone else), there probably won't be an Iranian bomb anytime soon, thanks to the Stuxnet worm which, somehow, the Israelis devised to rip the guts out of Iran's centrifuges.
Israeli officials say that any Iran bomb will be delayed for years and maybe forever.
One would think that the lobby would be ecstatic, but it barely mentions the Stuxnet triumph. Why is that?
Because it was never really worried about an Iranian bomb (especially since Israel has 200 nuclear weapons) but worried that a nuclear-armed Iran would challenge Israel's regional hegemony. (It's the same reason the lobby despises Turkey.) So the lobby pretends as though Stuxnet didn't happen. We need more "crippling sanctions" and then possibly war, they maintain.
This is from the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). (Note: Rep. Howard Berman is, by far, the member of Congress closest to AIPAC.)
The Stuxnet revelations, if anything, reinforce the need for a tough stance, said Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the ranking member of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee. They underscore how committed Iran is to producing a bomb, he told JTA.
"It's a reason to push down on the pedal," said Berman, who crafted the most recent Iran sanctions law in the Congress.
Berman added:
"Let me know when Iran certifiably suspends enrichment and allows inspections, throughout all its territory, and then we can have a conversation about sanctions," he said. "Having that military option on the table is an important part of achieving that goal and affecting their calculations."
Prime Minister Netanyahu himself, who uses the Iran nuclear threat to win support at home and in the United States, is also unhappy. Reuters reported that he is "miffed" at the Mossad for reporting on the diminished nuclear threat. He is angry that Stuxnet removed his pretense for war. And that means Congress, pushed by AIPAC, will keep passing sanctions bills that punish not the Iranian regime but the Iranian people.
And Iranians will always remember it and hold it against us.
Isn't it time for the United States to begin implementing policies that are in our national interests, not the lobby's organizational interests? Policies that are good for America are good for Israel, too. Policies that weaken America, that reduce our influence throughout the entire Middle East, are also bad for Israel.
That's one of many lessons that we can learn from the bloody events in Egypt. It's not too late for America to get on the right side of history.
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SCARBOROUGH — Delhaize America, owner of Hannaford Bros. Co., is laying off 350 corporate employees, including an unspecified number at the supermarket chain's headquarters.
Michael Norton, a Hannaford spokesman, wouldn't confirm how many of the 350 layoffs would take place in Scarborough, where the company employs roughly 1,000 people in corporate, back-office functions.
"We're not parsing it now because we're still telling people," he said Wednesday.
However, he said the layoffs are "pretty balanced" between North Carolina, where Delhaize America is based, and Scarborough, though equity in layoffs wasn't the company's primary focus.
Delhaize America, which is owned by the Belgian-based Delhaize Group, is also leaving 150 corporate slots unfilled, for a total of 500 job cuts, Norton said.
The roughly 8,500 jobs at the 56 Hannaford grocery stores in Maine will not be affected, he said.
The layoffs are certainly disconcerting, said Tom Hall, Scarborough's town manager.
"This is a matter of regional and state significance," Hall said. "I don't expect any immediate fiscal impact … but to the extent this suggests more drastic changes in the future, that's certainly a point of concern."
Hall said the town would do what it could to help the displaced workers.
The layoffs are a sign that Delhaize America is a company in trouble, according to David Livingston, a Milwaukee-based supermarket analyst.
The recent layoffs come in the wake of other staffing changes at Delhaize and Hannaford, spurred on by a new chief executive of Delhaize America, Roland Smith. In December, Smith moved Beth Newlands Campbell from her position as president of Hannaford to be president of North Carolina-based Food Lion, Delhaize's largest grocery store chain with roughly 1,000 stores. In Scarborough, Smith promoted Brad Wise to president of Hannaford.
Then, last month a leaked memo from Smith revealed that corporate leadership changes resulted in the elimination of 15 vice president positions, including six in Scarborough.
Livingston said Smith was brought on to manage Delhaize America through a major downsizing, which isn't a good sign.
"You don't downsize to prosperity," Livingston said. "They're going to decline, and they won't be coming back."
To be clear, Livingston separates Hannaford, which he called the company's "flagship jewel," from Delhaize America's other grocery store chains, such as Food Lion and Sweetbay in Florida.
While Hannaford has been adding stores, the other chains have been shuttering some, Livingston said.
In fact, Livingston was in Florida on Wednesday, where Delhaize recently announced the closure of 33 Sweetbay stores and the laying off of 2,000.
"(Delhaize America) has been getting their clock cleaned by Wal-Mart on one hand and upscale stores on the other in about every market they're in," Livingston said.
While Livingston hasn't been in a Hannaford store in the past 10 years, he said the other Delhaize stores are 20 to 30 years behind the times, calling them "1980s, plain vanilla" grocery stores.
The struggles of Delhaize America's other grocery chains will likely hurt Hannaford, Livingston said.
"Hannaford stores were an extremely well-run company when Delhaize bought them, and now they've dumbed them down a bit to where they're an average grocery store," said Livingston, who said he was a consultant on Delhaize America's acquisition of Hannaford in 2000. "They're not failing, they don't seem to be in major decline like the rest of the company is – but the thing is, they're owned by a company that has a failing history."
That failing history, Livingston said, will certainly have an impact on Hannaford going forward.
"These struggling (Delhaize) divisions could prevent Hannaford from putting capital back in the stores," he said. "And, the thing is, you're going to lose talent because your best employees will start looking for a job elsewhere. No one wants to work for a company in decline."
Norton disputed Livingston on every count, saying the grocery store analyst "doesn't know what he's talking about."
"Hannaford is better and stronger now than it was in 2000," Norton said. "It's represented in the store count, it's represented in the profitability, in all those initiatives like Guiding Stars, sustainability and the LEED stores. … With all due respect, he doesn't understand the grocery store business in North Carolina and Maine. We're going to win this marketplace."
While acknowledging that Hannaford is a great grocery store, Norton also disagreed with Livingston that it's Delhaize's "flagship jewel."
"Hannaford has performed well, but Food Lion has a bigger store count, a bigger opportunity to drive profitable growth for this company," he said.
Norton said Smith, Delhaize America's new CEO, has been forthright about the company's need to become more competitive. That's what the layoffs are all about, Norton said. They're not a sign of a dying company.
"As difficult as these decisions are, it's decisions like this that make this company stronger," he said.
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Father of Venus and Serena to Marry Woman His Daughters' Age
Richard Williams, the father of American tennis-carrying sisters Venus and Serena Williams, has announced he will be married following the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami — to a woman the approximate age of his daughters. ADHEREL The 67-year-old Williams plans to marry 30-year-old Lakeisha Graham in early April. Williams have been divorced from his former […]
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Потрясающая культура, живописные виды и оживленная ночная жизнь - в Корке есть все! Роскошные гостиницы Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa находятся всего в 10 минутах от всех достопримечательностей Корка с его бесчисленными музеями, уютными пабами и необычными магазинами. Совершите потрясающую поездку по побережью вокруг Западного Корка, остановитесь в историческом Кобхе и насладитесь обедом в гастрономической столице Ирландии - Кинсейле. трономической столице Ирландии - Кинсейле.
Welcome to Ireland's second city
Lying in the southwest of Ireland on the Atlantic Ocean, Cork is a vibrant city with a deep natural harbour. The River Lee runs through the centre of the city creating the landscape of meandering streets with picturesque bridges connecting the separate islands which create Cork.
Although the successful butter making, shipbuilding and car manufacturing years have now passed, Cork thrives on prosperous technology companies, pharmaceuticals, brewing, distilling and tourism. The locals get their kicks from referring to Cork as the 'real capital'; there is an ongoing friendly rivalry between Cork and Dublin.
Discover Cork's culture
From the Radisson Blu Hotel and Spa, Cork city is easy to visit and stroll around. The main shopping district is Patrick Street, with its lively shops and pubs. This long and winding shopping street boasts a variety of side streets which play host to charming cafes, individual boutiques and interesting attractions for everyone to enjoy. It's here you'll have a good view of Shandon Clock, 'The Four Faced Liar.' Each of the four clock faces on the tower tells a different time. For a better view, you can climb the tower itself and even ring the bells.
The Crawford Art Gallery welcomes 200,000 visitors a year to see its historic and contemporary art pieces. You'll find fresh local produce and quirky shops in the English Market; locals and visitors alike flock here for the great atmosphere. It's here that you'll find all sorts of native delicacies and boutiques to embrace your inner local. Chat to our hotel concierge about booking a table for lunch at the Farmgate Café & Restaurant in the English Market. This covered market has been trading since 1788 with fresh local produce, and the knowledge the staff have of food is amazing. You can try local delicacies– or just sip on a hot drink while enjoying the busy ambience. It's a real joy having lunch at Farmgate Café and Restaurant, which overlooks the market and perfect for people watching. This one of a kind eatery serves the produce the market sells. You can't get much more locally-sourced than that!
If you enjoy a spot of shopping, stop by Mahon Point Shopping Centre and Merchants Quay Shopping Centre – both relatively close to the Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, Cork. Mother Jones Flea Market is also worth losing yourself in – discover vintage clothing, books, records and more.
Irish whiskey, festivals and events
Can there be a trip to Cork without having a tipple? The Jameson Experience is a good choice if you want to learn all about Irish whiskey – it's distilled 3 times to give it a smoother flavour. The distillery is not far from Cork in the town of Midleton.
Cork really lights up with its festivals and events throughout the year – it holds a film festival every November and the annual jazz festival every October when the streets are filled with the sounds of saxophones and trombones and revellers. Pubs, theatres and cafes overflow with the soul of the city. This city swings with fun and friendliness, and is a great place to relax and explore on your trip to Ireland.
Things to do in Cork
Cork is a pretty town on the banks of the River Lee. Here are some fun things to do in Cork, both on and off the water.
Visit Fota Island Wildlife Park
The Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa, Cork is situated close to the Fota Island Wildlife Park. It's the perfect place to spend a family day out in Cork. Fota Island is also home to Fota House and Gardens, as well as a golf course, so there's something for all the family to enjoy.
Wander the city
Take a stroll or hire a bike to get around Cork, and be sure to stop and look around. Cork's energy is contagious both day and night, and you need to be in the action to feel part of the fun. From the pubs, bars, restaurants and parks to the water sports, popular shops and markets – you won't be short of things to do during your Cork holiday.
Play some sports
If you like playing sport then you're in luck. Cork has several spectacular golf courses, including one close to the hotel Cork Golf Club. If you're more into watching sport than taking part, then settle down with a pint and enjoy watching one of Ireland's hurling games. Cork is famous for Hurling –It's a popular sport and provides a great opportunity to join in with the locals and watch a game in Pairc Ui Chaoimh stadium.
Visit the Jameson Experience, Midleton
The Jameson Experience is just 15 minutes from the hotel, and tells the story of whiskey over 3 centuries. A little known fact that the smoothness of Irish whiskey is down to the fact it has been distilled 3 times, unlike Scottish whiskey, which is distilled twice.
Stop by Triskel Christchurch
Triskel is Cork's principal arts centre, and as such is the best place to experience contemporary arts in Cork. Whether you'd like to see a play, marvel at some visual arts or kick back and listen to some live music – you won't be disappointed by the splendor this building can offer.
Cork festivals
There's a good chance you'll be in Cork for one of its many festivals. The city is always buzzing, but the festivals add to the friendly atmosphere on the streets. Here are a few that take place throughout the year – get involved!
Celebrate the Emerald Isle
In March you can experience the Cork St. Patrick's Festival – a real celebration of the Emerald Isle. There are stalls, parades, events, music, dancing, drinking and eating galore! The centre comes alive with colour and laughter, making this a great time to visit the city.
Run a marathon
The Cork City Marathon and Half Marathon usually take place in June – be sure to check the exact date online, as it's a great event to take part in during your Irish trip. Afterwards you can recover in the hotel with a big brunch!
Dance in the streets
You'll also be able to take part in the Shandon Street Festival in June, which fills the centre of Cork with colour and music. There are food stalls, dancing and merriment on the city's streets.
Jump on a bike
Grab your bike in July for the Cork Cycling Festival – it's free, and there are various parties and bicycle events to join in. You can even have a portrait made of you and your bike, or buy some cool new cycling gear.
Party at Cork Pride
The Cork Pride Festival for the LGBT community is hosted over the summer. There's a fantastic party atmosphere with plenty of activities, music and food stalls. The festival is really popular, and everyone is welcome to join in the fun.
Celebrate the written word
Visit in September and put on your literary hat for the Cork Short Story Festival, the oldest annual festival of its kind in the world. Listen to readings, discover some new authors and enjoy short stories from the city and beyond.
Order some jazz with your Guinness
Join the Cork Jazz Festival celebrations in October. It's been running since 1978 and each year for a week, Cork mellows into a moody, jazzy city, with a variety of acts spanning from bands to choirs. The Guinness Cork Jazz Festival – arguably the best party in Ireland – is on the last weekend in October where tourist travel from far and wide to enjoy not only the citys Jazz, but the smaller fringe festivals around the county also.
Enjoy a festival of film
November is all about films, and the Cork Film Festival explores films from all genres, communities and countries. There are around 80 films shown during the festival across the city in a range of unusual venues.


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Vicente López Portaña (1772/1850), Ritratto di Juan Gutiérrez de León (1840) Madrid, Museo Lázaro Galdiano
The priest is painted wearing a cassock and cape, over which he is wearing the grand crosses and sashes of the Orders of Isabella the Catholic Queen and the Chaplains of Honour, in addition to the medal of senator. López has executed the portrait with a sober, elegant simplicity, not often found in his "oeuvre", and the source of particular attraction that this painting holds. This is without doubt one of the best clerical portraits from the artist`s later years, painted at the age of 68.
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The Red Star Line: Changing America's Face and Place in the World
In the spring of 2012, the Red Star Line Museum will open in Antwerp, Belgium. The museum will tell the story of the international shipping line, founded in Philadelphia in 1871, as joint venture between Americans and Belgians with ports in Antwerp, Liverpool (UK), Southampton (UK), New York City and Philadelphia. This web portal is created to link the National Archives' Red Star holdings to other efforts related to the museum's opening and to engage the public with a series of significant interconnected events in U.S. and world history regarding transportation, immigration, commerce, and national security that continue to shape America today.
The period immediately following the Civil War saw the development of large industrial and transportation enterprises. These enterprises changed the character of the American merchant marine and corporate maritime activities, as well as made possible the construction of iron-hulled, ocean-going steamships in American shipyards. The prosperous and influential Pennsylvania Railroad Company fostered a significant measure of this transformation. The company provided a $1 million bond guarantee in 1871 that enabled the construction of four transatlantic liners under the International Navigation Company, also known as the Red Star Line. With this move, the railroad sought to expand its operations by providing through-service for immigrants and trade from Europe into the interior of the United States, and compete with its rival the New York Central Railroad transportation services out of New York City. The Pennsylvania Railroad wanted to gain global control of passengers and freight from Europe, either by establishing American-flag steamship lines or by acquiring foreign-flag lines. Within a short few years, the railroad was able to increase its profits by 40%. This vertical integration helped the Pennsylvania Railroad become the largest railroad by traffic and revenue in the U.S. throughout the first two-thirds of the 20th Century. When Congress enabled American-registry of American-owned steamship lines in the 1890's, the federal government not only gave federal protection to the American merchant marine and shipping lines, but also established the country's intent to be a first-class maritime power alongside England and Germany.
The Red Star Line sailed between Philadelphia and Antwerp, Belgium. Its first liner, the Vaderland, carrying passengers and grain, landed in Philadelphia on February 18, 1873. The Pennsylvania Railroad, although seeking to keep quiet as possible its connection to the line, constructed a new terminal at Girard Point for handing petroleum and grain, as well as a large new freight house on Delaware Avenue at Dock Street. This allowed goods imported by Philadelphia merchants from Belgium, Holland and Germany to come directly to the city and no longer enter via the New York Customs House. Within ten years, this development along with that of other companies transformed the Philadelphia waterfront. Passengers on an arriving steamship could disembark, go through customs and board a westbound train within an hour. The Red Star Line weathered the depression of 1873 and added additional ships larger than those previously owned by the company, as well as opened New York-Antwerp service. One of the new ships, the Belgenland, had accommodations for 150 first-class and for 1,000 steerage passengers. The company's first and second class pleasure tourist trade was boosted by America's Centennial Exposition, which created the first great wave of tourism in U.S. history and helped to generate an American middle-class appetite for vacation travel away from home. The Line also served as important transportation for working class people returning to Europe to live.
Steerage, the cheapest transportation option, played an important role in Jewish immigration to the United States from Eastern Europe. Some authorities have credited the Red Star Line for more than 40% of this Jewish immigration that came to North America between 1873 - 1934; most travelling in steerage. Images of these travelers were captured in the works of Belgium artist Eugeen Van Mieghem as he sat in his mother's tavern on the Antwerp docks. The shipping line transported three million immigrants from Antwerp to the United States and Canada and by doing so transformed Antwerp as well as the destination cities of North America, like Philadelphia. Between 1883 and 1889, the line's Antwerp service carried an average 25,000 steerage passenger per year to New York and 40,000 passengers to Philadelphia in 1882 alone. The company's business benefited from the work of many charitable and commercial organizations that aided immigrants arriving from Europe. Among the commercial enterprises were the so-called "ethnic" or "immigrant" banks, conveniently located in Jewish neighborhoods where newly-arrived immigrants settled. These banks were places where recent immigrants could save money and make arrangements to purchase steamship tickets to bring their families across the Atlantic. Some of these businesses evolved into our modern day travel agencies.
The immigrant trade was very profitable for the Red Star Line company and its managers paid particular attention to the facilities offered for these patrons. It was also a major expense for immigrants. A typical second class ticket to cross the Atlantic would cost around $143 and steerage around $25 - $35, the latter being two to three weeks salary for a worker. The Red Star fleet became well-known to the knowledgeable traveling public, whether first and second class or steerage. However, like other shipping lines, the Red Star was hit hard when Congress passed more restrictive immigration regulations starting in 1921 by setting quotas as a result of fears about immigrant political radicalism and labor unrest over exploitive working conditions. Although immigration restrictions affecting Asians were in place since 1875, the new law and subsequent ones limited the number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, thus favoring Northern Europeans. The quotas remained in place until the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which equalized immigration by allowing more immigrants from non-European countries. This latter law, signed by President Lyndon Johnson, has changed the ethnic make-up of America, making the country more diverse today.
Immigration and passenger travel are only one piece of the Red Star Line story. The story is also about America's rise as an international and commercial power by the end of the 19th Century. The early part of the 20th Century saw the development of commercial holding companies with subsidiary shipping and trade companies, as well as ship building companies, with interlocking directorates. The import-export of various products and international mail services were also important aspects of the Red Star Line's business model and prosperity, and is evidenced by the construction of first Red Star liner, the Vaderland. From the ship's keel up, it was designed to carry a combination of passengers, general cargo and petroleum products. Although having passengers and petroleum products together was quickly abandoned, the ship's services always included other valuable commercial cargo. The Red Star Line handled its cargo in Philadelphia through the International Mercantile Marine holding company, the world's largest steamship conglomerate. In 1901 banking magnet J. P. Morgan and Red Star Line President Clement A. Griscom engineered a merger that created the International Mercantile Marine Corporation. This grandiose speculation later collapsed, however.
International mail services, subsidized by national governments, as well as governmental protections and registry played a critical role in the solvency of shipping lines. To address these issues for the Red Star and related companies, Clement A. Griscom, President of the Red Star Line from 1888 - 1902, is credited as instrumental in pressuring Congress in 1890 to change federal policies, subsidies and registration laws and to build an all-American merchant marine that would rival that of Britain and Germany. His efforts were helped by Americans' reviving interest in navies and maritime affairs and a compromise Griscom was able to strike with America's largest ship builder, Charles Cramp, that made possible contracts to the Cramp Shipyard in Philadelphia to construct high-performance vessels exceeding 8,000 gross tons for Griscom's shipping line. Senator William P. Fryre of Maine, a leading proponent of federal aid and protection of American merchant marine, put forward the legislative changes in Congress. Fryre's bill was the first significant piece of legislation to aid the American merchant marine in 32 years. It was followed by subsequent acts of Congress, which resulted in the much needed steps in formulating a United States merchant-marine policy. The new laws had five goals:
- To secure regular and quicker service to countries now reached;
- To make new and direct commercial exchanges with countries not now reached;
- To develop new and enlarge old markets in the interest of producers and consumers under the reciprocity treaties completed and in progress;
- To assist the promotion of a powerful naval reserve; and
- To establish a training school for American seamen.
On May 10, 1892 Congress authorized American registry of Griscom's shipping line and the company's umbrella name changed to the American Line. 1891 saw the beginning of nautical training at the state level for an officer corps among merchant sailors. Finally, in 1936, Congress passed the landmark Merchant Marine Act and two years later, the U.S. Merchant Marine Cadet Corps was established. The first training was given at temporary facilities until the Academy's permanent site in Kings Point, N. Y. was acquired in early 1942. (Learn about NARA's holdings on the Merchant Marines)
Today, airlines have replaced shipping lines and ocean liners as the primary means for intercontinental travel. Although passenger service has diminished, every hour of every day America's shipping lanes are filled with all types of ships, carrying all types of goods, materials, and merchandise bound for foreign ports or arriving in the U.S. for consumers. Vessels, owned by U.S. companies, registered and operated under the American flag, comprise the U.S. merchant marine. This fleet is a major part of the nation's system of commerce, helping to guarantee access to foreign markets for sale of our manufactured goods. In time of war or national emergency, the U.S. merchant marine is vital to national security and an essential part of American sea power as the "fourth arm of defense," delivering military supplies oversees to the nation's forces and allies. Most recently, the merchant marine crew of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama faced down Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden.


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