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Lamborghini will announce the flagship 2012 Aventador LP700-4 at the Geneva Motor Show, a $370,000 supercar that will replace the Murciélago model. Lamborghini has filed for a trademark in the U.S. for the name "Lamborghini Aventador" and it will feature a 6.5-liter V12, 700-horsepower engine, 509 lb-ft of torque, a single-clutch transmission, carbon-fiber monocoque build to reduce weight and fuel consumption, a top speed of 217 mph, and a 0-60 mph time of 2.9 seconds. The Aventador also has similar styling to the Lamborghini Reventon and features large air intakes behind the doors.
Lamborghini is said to already be taking orders for the new Aventador LP700-4 where production has already begun in Italy. We may see the Aventador in showrooms by Q2.
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Gay Man's Guide to Becoming a Dad
Posted on April 1, 2016
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In Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment's upcoming Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor video game, you will explore a new part of J.R.R. Tolkien's universe as a ranger of Gondor going behind enemy lines into Mordor. As you do so, you will discover your Wraith-like powers that give you the ability to move stealth-like among the evil Sauron's orcs. As the hero Talion, you'll find that you can control the minds of orcs, from the lowest foot soldiers to the war chiefs. And you can turn them against Sauron, one by one.
If you try to slaughter the captains of the orcs head-on, you'll find out how tough they can be. You'll also discover that every orc is unique, with its own personality and physical qualities. And as you kill these characters, you may feel some moral ambiguity. This isn't just about good and evil, as it is an original story set in Middle-earth and inspired by Tolkien's writings. While it is true to the canon of Tolkien, it doesn't copy any of the tales in the books. The story of Talion and his quest for vengeance reveals the gray areas in between black and white, according to Michael de Plater, the design director at WBIE for Shadow of Mordor, in an interview with GamesBeat.
"That was really important to us," de Plater said in our interview. "We really do want to show shades of gray." Find out why in our edited transcript below.
GamesBeat: Can you summarize what you're showing this time versus what you initially showed? What kind of impression did you want to make with this latest demo?
Michael de Plater: We wanted to show a couple of things today. One was the new area of Mordor, the sea of Núrnen, and exploring deeper behind enemy lines. The other was the story and a little bit more of a reveal around where that's going to go, the themes of the wraith and who really holds some of the keys to the mystery of that. And also, from that, how the power of the wraith grows. We go beyond just being able to hunt down your enemies, into actually being able to bend them to our will and create an army behind enemy lines. It's how those things tie together – the stakes rising in the story together with the power to manipulate your enemies.
GamesBeat: I've been waiting to see if you actually command Gondor at some point against Sauron and against the orcs. Is this something you're waiting to show? Or are you actually spending most of the game behind the lines in Mordor?
De Plater: The focus is on Talion and the wraith. The two of them behind enemy lines, using the powers of the enemy, the powers of the shadow, against him. It really is about being deep behind enemy lines. There are human allies, other humans that do fight alongside you. Queen Marwen does have some forces there that are holding out against the orcs, and there are some others you liberate. But Gondor is not coming to anyone's aid at this point. They're dealing with their own problem, which is what Talion has to deal with, and why it falls to him to hold the Dark Lord there.
GamesBeat: Why did you go down this route for the story, with this trip behind enemy lines?
De Plater: It's a combination of elements: some driven by gameplay and wanting to create a new sort of experience where we could empower players, and others by wanting to be very authentic to Middle-earth — within Middle-earth, wanting to explore the themes of power.
A big starting point for us was when Boromir is at the Council of Elrond and they've got the One Ring, and he says, "This is a gift. We should use the power of the Enemy against him." In the same way, Galadriel, when Frodo offers her the ring, it's very interesting. "I could take this and face Sauron, but if I did and I won, you wouldn't have a dark lord, you'd have a dark queen." Those themes in Middle-earth – using the power of the Enemy against him, being as ruthless as he is – we very much wanted to explore that.
When Frodo and Sam are going to Mordor and they're in Cirith Ungol and the orcs slaughter each other and can be turned against each other, that was interesting as an idea to manipulate. Also, wanting to show somewhere very iconic, but that also could be unfamiliar. There's nowhere better in Middle-earth that fulfills those goals – being so iconic and core to the story, but also so relatively mysterious. We got the best of both worlds there as well. So it was a lot of different elements coming together.
GamesBeat: You get to express some creativity, showing things that are nowhere in the books themselves. They're just places on a map there.
De Plater: Yep. We get to explore our creativity and do something new that hasn't been seen, but we get to do it 100 percent within the canon and authentic to the lore. That was something within the lore that was important to us, to explore these characters with interesting shades of gray. Characters that are more along the lines of Saruman, wanting to raise an army to challenge Sauron, or Boromir or Denethor or Theoden, or Thorin with his fall because of the temptation of the Arkenstone, or Thranduil. There are all these amazing characters in The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings that aren't just good guys or bad guys. That was very interesting to us.
GamesBeat: You have a lot of choices in how to take down a war chief. What's the most complicated thing you could do?
De Plater: I can't even imagine. I'm sure I haven't seen it yet. We wanted the story to be very driven, back when we saw the Queen, but we want players to be free as to how they go about pursuing that. One of the fun things is, players can set their own goals. Whether it's something as simple as, oh, "I want to absolutely dominate and control every orc in this region," or "I want to kill them all," or "I want to take this guy who's a poet and make him a war chief too," or "I want to make every captain in the world be a bodyguard for this guy and then send him off into the world." It's almost like a mission creation screen. You're creating these different missions and these different options through gameplay and interacting with these enemies, rather than doing it through an editor.
GamesBeat: It looks like, if you're impatient, you're probably not going to be successful going straight in against a war chief. Do you have a chance that way?
De Plater: You do have a chance. It's very much, again, empowering players. You can control your own difficulty. If you want an incredibly hard challenge, by all means, run right in. You very well may die, but one of the key things in the game is that we want the loop of death to be interesting and to open up new opportunities, because you are a wraith.
Death isn't a traditional video game death, where you just rewind time and do things again and hope it turns out differently. Time is going to move forward. New opportunities present themselves. In particular, when you go and take your vengeance on the guy who defeated you, he's going to remember that. It's about being able to create these grudges and these personal moments with your enemies as well.
GamesBeat: Even though you are the wraith, though, you can be spotted by the orcs? I made the assumption that they wouldn't see me if I was a wraith.
De Plater: You're harder to see as a wraith. It's more like the elven cloaks that Frodo and Sam had. It can hide you in plain sight from unfriendly eyes, but it's not invisibility. It's not like the ring.
GamesBeat: So you do have to pay attention to exactly how you approach the enemy's territory.
De Plater: Yeah. The strongholds, the bases where they're concentrated, especially if the alarms go off, they're very dangerous. But they're full of opportunities in the environment to use against your enemies. Whether it's breaking open a cage to release the monsters inside, or the flies that Sam and Frodo meet. They're incredibly nasty stinging creatures. You can drop their nests. There are walls you can destroy, flammable opportunities like the orc grog and so on. It can get very crazy and very dangerous, but you can turn the tide of the fights very quickly as well.
GamesBeat: You're getting to create a lot of new things here, new monsters and other things we haven't seen before. The canon permits for that.
De Plater: It does. It's a key part of being authentic to the canon. Constantly, on the journeys of both The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, encountering new wonders, new monsters, new enemies. That sense of discovery, I think, is key to the authenticity of Middle-earth.
GamesBeat: Is there any opportunity to take anything that's come out from the new Hobbit movies and bring that in somehow? Or is it mostly separate?
De Plater: We're inspired by them, very much. One thing that has come out of those films is, because they also draw on the appendices, we get to see some more of Sauron and flesh him out a bit more as a character. That's obviously something we're also inspired by, exploring more of Sauron and his role and developing him.
GamesBeat: You're bringing some humanity to the orcs, to the enemy, which is interesting. They were kind of just these great masses in the movies. Here you're making the player care about who each orc is.
De Plater: That was really important to us. There was a line Tolkien wrote, which is, "We were all orcs in the Great War." We didn't want to have a kind of generic fantasy approach to the orcs. We wanted to treat them as what orcs represent. These are like human beings, but they're human beings who are driven by the emotional extremes of fear and hate.
Humans can very much act like orcs. We wanted to take very believable human traits and just turn them up a bit to explore that. We wanted them to be real characters. That's important to the nemesis system, because these have to be real characters and real villains with real motivations. It's key to the whole idea of what power and domination mean. It's about using fear and hatred to get people motivated in a certain way. That's core to the game.
GamesBeat: It makes me wonder if that throws more gray into your main character, Talion.
De Plater: Exactly. As I say, we want to explore those shades of gray. It's more along the lines of what Boromir would have been, if he had taken the ring. If you're willing to use the same level of ruthlessness as your enemy, what does that make you?


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State Representative Cherelle Parker, who represents Pennsylvania's 200th Legislative District, which includes sections of the Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill and Roxborough neighborhoods, was found guilty Jan. 16 in Philadelphia Municipal Court of driving under the influence, when she was stopped on April 30, 2011, for driving the wrong way on a one-way street in Germantown.
The ruling was made by Montgomery County Common Pleas Court Judge S. Gerald Corso, to whom the case was assigned at the request of the state Attorney General's Office.
In November 2011, Senior Deputy Attorney General John J. Flannery Jr. requested that Municipal Court Judge Charles Hayden, who earlier ruled that testimony from Parker's arresting officers was not credible, recuse himself from the case after the media reported that Hayden and Parker were Facebook friends.
Corso sentenced Parker to three days in the county jail and suspension of her driver's license for a year. In an article in the Philadelphia Daily News, Parker's lawyer, Joseph Kelly, said Parker "maintains her innocence and plans to appeal."
According to police reports, two police officers stopped Parker after observing her driving the wrong way on a one-way street. A Breathalyzer test determined that she had a blood alcohol level of .16. The legal limit for drivers in Pennsylvania is .08.
The Philadelphia Daily News also quoted Flannery as saying:
"'She [Parker] was driving the wrong way on Haines Street. She had glassy, bloodshot eyes. She had a strong smell of alcohol on her breath. She was swerving side-to-side as she was coming down the street. That in and of itself is enough to convict somebody of driving under the influence. Then you couple that with the Breathalyzer results of .16, which is double the legal limit. That's about as guilty as you can possibly be."


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Hollywood Records (2061-62464-2)
Release Date: July 27, 2004
Conducted by Pete Anthony
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The Hollywood Studio Symphony
Formats: CD, Digital
Average Rating: 4.67 stars (6 users)
Best of 2004: Best Soundtrack (Honorable Mention)
|Noah Visits
|What Are You Asking Me?
|The Bad Color
|Those We Don't Speak Of
|Will You Help Me?
|I Cannot See His Color
|The Gravel Road
|Race to Resting Rock
|The Forbidden Line
|The Vote
|It Is Not Real
|The Shed Not to Be Used
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|by Andrew Granade
August 10, 2004
Over the past few years I have begun to anticipate each new James Newton Howard score written for an M. Night Shyamalan film with something approaching glee. Howard's scores for those films are consistently among his best and I remember touches from each one the evocative use of undulating breathing in The Sixth Sense, the seemingly incongruous techno beat that perfectly complemented David's discovery of his powers in Unbreakable, the simple and powerful shift of a minor ostinato to major at the moment of revelation in Signs. Howard and Shyamalan represent one of the most successful director/composer pairings working today.
The Village continues this streak. I have come to believe that there are two reasons these scores work so well. First, Shyamalan seems to have a keen musical sense when it comes to his movies. The atmosphere in each has been deliberately chosen and the music matched to augment the desired mood. Since The Village is a fairy tale period piece, the score is full of classical gestures such as Paganini-like obbligatos. To supply those obbligatos, as well as the beautiful main theme, Howard turned to Hilary Hahn, a rising young violinist who coaxes a bright and sweet tone from the violin. Her presence marks this recording and adds a depth and character often lacking in score recordings. The violin and its double dominate the score's soundscape, but Howard also rounded out the ensemble with open flutes and horns backed by strings and percussion. These instruments have the notable capacity of shifting from innocent to ominous in a few heartbeats, a useful trait in The Village. For example, listen to "Bad Color." The four-minute cue begins with flutes pitch bending in an aleatoric manner underscored by chimes and rattling percussion that is quickly replaced by a sinister burst of violin arpeggios that leads to a delicate statement of the main ostinato/theme. But in the cue's final minute, the violin plays a rapturous solo passage that is heartbreaking in its beauty. This instrumental duality is necessary for the film to work and Howard matches the atmosphere wonderfully.
The second reason has to do with the pacing of Shyamalan's movies. In a day and age when it seems as though movies are cut every seven seconds, it is a pleasant change to watch a movie where camera movement builds tension. Befitting the languid plotting, Howard's deft and delicate score has room to grow and develop. Instead of simply plugging in a character's theme whenever he or she appears on screen, Howard is able to let the music grow and change with the movie's character arch. He is allowed long, full cues that shift and develop, enriching the film instead of merely accompanying it. This style makes for interesting listen that may not please on the first hearing, but given time yields new and fresh insights.
In The Village, Howard juxtaposes the romance and the horror evident onscreen both between cues and within the musics structure. The overture, "Noah Visits," is a perfect example. It presents what I have been calling the main ostinato/theme for the first time. It is a term I have deliberately chosen as it represents what I have found to be a common feature in Howard's scores. He often sets up a repeating pattern that can serve as a theme while being easily and successfully developed. It allows for a great deal of compositional flexibility. In "Noah Visits," the violin enters with a soaring, expressive line that is replaced halfway with the full ensemble playing the ostinato/theme. It is a deceptively simple ostinato/theme, centered on the scores A-flat tonality, a suitably dark-tinged major key. The theme, which appears in some form in most of the cues, is a simply walk up and down between the seventh and fourth scale steps that outlines a tritone. The tritone, or "devils interval," is an extraordinarily dissonant construct that can resolve any number of ways, changing its color with its surroundings. This allows him to use the ostinato/theme in a number of situations, from dark to light, always in service to the movie, always in perfect juxtaposition.
One final word: I have long complained about cue titles on scores giving away too much about a movie's plot points. This practice is especially irksome in regards to movies like Shyamalan's where final revelations can make or break the movie. For The Village, the titles are specific enough to allow for recognition among those who have seen the movie, but are general enough that they would not unintentionally ruin any surprises. Bravo, Hollywood Records.
The Village is a rare score. It is mournful, surprising, delightful, balanced. And I challenge you to find a cue is more wrenchingly beautiful than "Gravel Road." It is just the right mix of darkness and light, wonderfully summarizing the movies themes. Given all of this, isn't it time you visited The Village?
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How the Linux Kernel Manages Virtual Memory
Virtual Memory is Fundamental to OS Performance
Virtual memory is one of the most important, and accordingly confusing, pieces of an operating system. Understanding the basics of virtual memory is required to understand operating system performance. Beyond the basics, a deeper understanding allows a system administrator to interpret system profiling tools better, leading to quicker troubleshooting and better decisions.
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In addition to swapping, virtual memory is used to manage all pages of memory, which are required for file caching, process isolation, and even network communication. Anything that queues data, you can be assured, traverses the virtual memory system. Depending on a server's role, virtual memory functionality may not be optimal. An administrator can dramatically improve overall system performance by adjusting certain virtual memory manager settings.
To optimally configure your Virtual Memory Manager (VMM), it's necessary to understand how it does its job. We're using Linux for example's sake, but the concepts apply across the board, though some slight architectural differences will exist between the Unixes.
How the Virtual Memory Manager Works
Nearly every VMM interaction involves the MMU, or Memory Management Unit, excluding the disk subsystem. The MMU allows the operating system to access memory through virtual addresses by using data structures to track these translations. Its main job is to translate these virtual addresses into physical addresses, so that the right section of RAM is accessed.
The Zoned Buddy Allocator interacts directly with the MMU, providing valid pages when the kernel asks for them. It also manages lists of pages and keeps track of different categories of memory addresses.
The Slab Allocator is another layer in front of the Buddy Allocator, and provides the ability to create cache of memory objects in memory. On x86 hardware, pages of memory must be allocated in 4KB blocks, but the Slab Allocator allows the kernel to store objects that are differently sized, and will manage and allocate real pages appropriately.
Finally, a few kernel tasks run to manage specific aspects of the VMM. Bdflush manages block device pages (disk IO), and kswapd handles swapping pages to disk.
Pages of memory are either Free (available to allocate), Active (in use), or Inactive. Inactive pages of memory are either dirty or clean, depending on if it has been selected for removal yet or not. An inactive, dirty page is no longer in use, but is not yet available for re-use. The operating system must scan for dirty pages, and decide to deallocate them. After they have been guaranteed sync'd to disk, an inactive page my be "clean," or ready for re-use.
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I've never been much of a dried fruit fan, and I think I can trace the root of this back to those little red boxes of raisins so frequently tossed onto my elementary school lunch bag. In my memory, the raisins always ended up packed tightly into the bottom of the box, requiring precision coaxing to remove them from their cardboard shell. They may very well have been nature's candy, but I would just as well have skipped dessert altogether.
Considering the marketing tag line that raisins are just "grapes and sunshine," DIYing your own might not seem all that necessary or cost effective, and I would give you that. Still, I had read some things about how lovely homemade grapes could be and wanted to try them out before those really amazing grapes I can never stop myself from purchasing in large quantities hit the farmers' market this year.
I ended up being very glad I did, because even though the process is rather obvious, the taste was something of a surprise. I've always found commercial raisins to be small and papery bits of sugar that practically dissolve on the tongue after one or two bites. However, the Red Magic seedless I dehydrated last week, for example, offered a subtler though richer sweetness and more complex flavor overall. I don't mean to get all wine snob on you—though, admittedly, I just used writing that description as an excuse to eat a few more handfuls—but as you might expect, different varieties will net different flavor profiles.
Grape Types
Most commercial raisins are made from sultana, aka Thompson Seedless, grapes. Dehydrating your own opens up your options and is perhaps the biggest reason to do so. For those who have their own vines, another big motivator may be managing a sudden yet bountiful harvest. Either way, you will likely want to select a seedless variety, unless you're game to de-seed them yourself (I've done this for other projects and will never, ever do it again) or chew through seeds in your dried fruit.
One thing I noticed when purchasing fresh grapes to dehydrate is that some are treated with sulphur dioxide as a food preservative, while the raisins in my pantry specifically say "sulfite free" (not the same thing, but related). Point being, if additives are of concern, be sure to read your labels/chat with your farmers.
Before You Dehydrate
The dehydration of fruits and berries with a waxy skin is more efficient if they're blanched or "checked" for about a minute in hot water so that the skin develops cracks through which moisture can better escape. I've also read that following that up by freezing the fruit for a few hours before dehydrating aids the process, but I've never taken it that far.
Dehydrator vs. Oven (vs. Sunshine)
I find that using a dehydrator is the most efficient way to make raisins at home with less chance of over drying. However, realizing that not all readers have that option, I also tried a batch in the oven at 165°F with the fan on (if you have a convection option) and the door cracked a couple of inches (I use a old wine cork wedged in over top of the oven light switch on the door). The higher temperature resulted in faster drying, but required diligent tossing and more careful babysitting.
Sun drying is also an option once the weather is offering high heat and low humidity. Even if the steamy summers here in Maryland would cooperate, I doubt the pests in my urban lot would let me get very far with this method unless I also developed a screened-in drying cage that could fight off attacks by land and air. But by all means, make use of the free sunshine if you can. Drying this way will likely require at least a few days in strong sun.
The Verdict
This is a DIY project I would say is all about unique taste and quality rather than cost—at least until the season hits locally. What began as two pounds of grapes (@ $4.98) reduced to approximately six ounces after drying. To put that in perspective, I can buy 20 ounces of standard commercial raisins for $3.19. Still, as a former raisin-despiser, I have now found a dried grape product so attractive to me that it seems quite worth the occasional time and expense.
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Bush administration officials said on Monday that the cost of United States military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan had been omitted from President Bush's budget request for 2005. But they said the White House would make a separate supplemental request, after this year's elections, seeking up to $50 billion.
The officials said the omission was justified because they had no way to know exactly how much money would be needed. But Democrats criticized the omission, saying it led to a significant understatement of the likely deficit and masked the financial and political costs of the missions.
''This budget attempts to hide the true cost of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan by delaying funding on all known and necessary costs of the war until a supplemental appropriation can be approved next year,'' said Senator Jack Reed, a Rhode Island Democrat who is on the Armed Services Committee.
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said the administration should ''level with the American people about the true costs'' of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The president's proposal is in keeping with recent practice. In November, Congress approved $87.5 billion for Iraq and Afghanistan, including $65.8 billion for military operations there in the 2004 fiscal year. That followed a supplemental spending package of $78.5 billion, which was approved last April and included $62.4 billion for the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan and related military needs in the 2003 fiscal year.Continue reading the main story
The president's 2005 budget includes no such amounts. ''It's not appropriate to put a number in there because we don't know what it's going to be,'' said Joshua B. Bolten, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget. ''It's going to be requested in supplemental funding.''
Mr. Bolten said that $50 billion was ''the upper limit for what might be needed'' for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan in the 2005 fiscal year, which begins in eight months.
The budget director said Mr. Bush would request the additional money for Iraq next year, ''when there's a clearer picture of what the security needs will be.'' The administration does not expect Congress to offset the additional spending.
''When you're fighting a war, it's hard to come up with cuts that can match that,'' Mr. Bolten said.
For more than a decade, Republican and Democratic administrations have financed wars and peacekeeping operations largely by asking Congress to reimburse the Pentagon for costs incurred after the fact.
This practice of requesting a supplemental appropriation came after Congress generally refused to create a separate military contingency fund, fearing that establishing such a discretionary pot of money would erode Congress's power of the purse.
In the late 1990's, however, Congress established the Defense Emergency Response Fund, which allowed the Pentagon to budget every year for missions that had become predictable, such as peacekeeping in the Balkans and flying patrols over northern and southern Iraq.
Administration officials argue that the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan are too unpredictable to consider financing in the regular budget. Pentagon officials are planning to field about 110,000 troops in Iraq and about 10,000 troops in Afghanistan this year. But in Iraq especially, they are hoping to reduce that number as more Iraqis take over security functions around the country.
Representative John M. Spratt Jr. of South Carolina, the senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said the administration should have included some money for military operations in Iraq because it was certain the cost would be more than zero. ''We can do a rough calculation of the likely costs,'' Mr. Spratt said in an interview. ''Administration officials should do that themselves and send us an approximation of the cost.''
Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota, the senior Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, said the omission was one of many examples of ''funny money accounting'' in the president's budget request. ''He's not telling the American people the real state of our fiscal condition,'' Mr. Conrad said.
Senator Robert C. Byrd, the senior Democrat on the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the repeated use of supplemental spending bills was a deceitful tactic that hid the true costs of American operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. ''The administration views Congress like an automatic teller machine,'' Mr. Byrd said. ''Just put the request in the A.T.M., and the money slides out in seconds, no questions asked.''
Over all, the president's budget shows the deficit rising to $521 billion in 2004, from $375 billion last year, and he predicts it will decline to $364 billion next year.
But Mr. Bolten said the number for 2005 ''does not include spending for our ongoing operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.'' Accordingly, he said, ''we will need supplemental funding to continue that.''
The military budget the Bush administration proposed on Monday seeks a major increase in missile defenses, holds steady on money to buy new weapons systems, and increases spending on personnel.
The $401.7 billion for the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1, represents a 7 percent increase over current spending, but proposes no big changes in major weapons systems or sharp departures from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's goal to revamp the military into a more agile, yet still lethal, fighting force.
''I don't expect it to be a very controversial budget this year,'' said Steven M. Kosiak, director of budget studies at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessment, a research group. ''It doesn't require making any hard choices, which may be required by the end of the decade.''
One contentious area could be the administration's request for missile defenses. The request for the Missile Defense Agency is $9.2 billion, about 20 percent higher than this year's $7.6 billion.
The Pentagon's goal is to have the first 10 long-range interceptors operating by the end of this year six at Fort Greely, Alaska, and four at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. A larger system of 20 ground-based missile interceptors and 10 sea-based interceptors would be in place by the end of 2005.
The proposed budget would finance immediate needs, like more armored Humvees, remotely piloted reconnaissance aircraft and advanced ships, as well as longer-range equipment, like a laser-based communications network and a new Army combat system.
The administration is also seeking up to $500 million to train and equip military and security forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and neighboring friendly nations. This would expand on existing programs, that Pentagon officials said had been particularly useful in Afghanistan.
''We were able to take raw recruits, who couldn't even crawl on the ground and keep their helmets on at the same time, into a sophisticated force that operates alongside us and that creates a very positive image for the central government of Afghanistan,'' Dov S. Zakheim, the Pentagon comptroller said at a news conference on Monday.Continue reading the main story


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A couple of months ago, the marketing team for 360 Vodka offered me a sample bottle for review. And although I took them up on the offer, I'm only now finding the time to write anything up. (I can't tell you how happy I'll be to put this overtime period behind me, but I still have three weeks to go.)
It must be difficult to market an unflavored vodka. The taste is so subtle that it's hard to sell it on that front. Additionally, many vodka drinkers are steadfastly brand loyal (although I'm puzzled as to why), so you're not going to convert them. McCormick Distilling, the creators of 360 have chosen to carve out a "green" niche for themselves, as I'm sure many of you already know from reading earlier reviews.
And it's apparently not just hype; McCormick uses locally grown grains to cut back on fuel emissions, it bottles and packages the vodka in recycled materials, and it offers a program through which it will donate a buck to environmental organizations for every returned swingtop bottle closure. Thanks to the swingtop, though, I'm probably going to reuse the bottle, so although I think the return program is cool, I won't be taking advantage of it.
But really now, how does it taste? To judge that, I mixed it up into a martini, with a healthy splash of vermouth. Nice. It won't knock the gin martini off our Friday-night slate, but it's worth adding to the mix every now and again. The flavors are clean with a hint of grain; nothing metallic or "off" in the taste or the finish. It makes me enjoy vodka martinis, and that's saying something.


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Boeing (NYSE:BA) is undergoing the second probe by U.S. safety officials in just six months related to fires on its new 787 Dreamliner.
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The National Transportation Safety Board, which began investigating reports on Monday of smoke on a grounded Boeing 787 operated by Japan Airlines at Boston's Logan Airport, said it found "severe fire damage" on the auxiliary power unit battery.
Preliminary reports indicate the airplane maintenance and cleaning personnel were on the aircraft with the battery pack in operation just prior to detecting smoke in the cabin.
Rescue personnel located the fire in the electronics and equipment bay near the APU battery box. The fire was extinguished about 40 minutes after arrival of the first rescue, according to the NTSB report. One firefighter sustained minor injuries.
The board sent another investigator to the scene on Tuesday following reports that United Airlines (NYSE:UAL) found wiring problems onboard one of its Dreamliners, according to a report by The Wall Street Journal citing a person close to the matter.
The NTSB is now looking into airworthiness and fire on the 787 as well as airport emergency response at Logan. In addition to Boeing and the Federal Aviation Administration, Japan's Transport Safety Board has also been asked to assist in the investigation and will represent Japan Airlines.
Boeing has not commented on the fire, citing the ongoing NTSB probe.
Earlier on Tuesday in a separate incident, a different 787 also operated by Japan Airlines and destined for Tokyo, was sent back to the gate just prior to takeoff after 40 gallons of oil were spilled on the tarmac.
Boeing said it is working with its customer, Japan Airlines, on the leak and the FAA said it is "looking into" the cause of it.
Both incidents, as well as United's reported findings, have prompted new concerns regarding the safety of Boeing's new fuel-efficient jet.
"The NTSB has dispatched an investigator to Boston," the group said in a statement. "Based on a review of the factual information gathered, the NTSB will determine the extent of its investigation."
The fire comes six months after a newly-built 787 destined for Air India's fleet was probed when its General Electric (NYSE:GE) GEnx engine caught fire and spewed debris following a test. Boeing at the time confirmed that it was "working closely" with the NTSB on the incident, which has since been resolved and deemed an accident.
Also last summer, Dreamliner jets owned by All Nippon Airways were grounded because of corrosion found in engines during testing. The twin-aisle aircraft, which seats up to 290 passengers, made its first passenger flight in October with the Japanese carrier.
Boeing had said that problems related to the All Nippon Airways jets were caused by changes to a manufacturing process. The airline began returning those jets to service shortly thereafter.
The Dreamliner, Boeing's new fuel-efficient highly-desired jumbo jet, has been plagued by problems since first launching in 2011. All Nippon Airways, which owns 11 of the latest-generation 787s, has also reported problems with the landing gear.
While the jet's hiccups have raised concerns, flight safety continues to improve as airlines modernize their fleets and acquire safer in-flight mechanisms. Last week, the Aviation Safety Network said 2012 was the safest year for civil aviation since 1945 with just 23 fatal accidents.
At the same time, the company was slapped with a downgrade by BB&T Capital Markets, which lowered the Illinois-based jet maker to "hold" from "buy" citing the Boston fire incident.
"Electrical problems with new aircraft are to be expected," BB&T analyst Carter Leake said. "Problems that result in fires or in flight diversions are not."
Commercial aircraft are designed so that the system can automatically detect, isolate and quarantine a problem before it reaches the level of overheating, Leake said. Without further information from Boeing, however, Leake said it appears as though the architecture failed on Monday.
"We can only assume the other three electrical incidents are related to similar failings of the system to handle electrical anomalies in proper fashion," he said. "As such, we believe it prudent to step to the sidelines until this very serious issue is sorted out."
Jets of this size are operated using millions of lines of code, more than 50 miles of wiring, 50,000 connectors and hardware. The cause of the fire could be derived from any one of these components, with some easier to discover than others.
While BB&T continues to believe in Boeing's leadership in the market and long-term competitive positioning, it notes that the current challenge will likely keep Boeing's stock at the current range or lower until it can prove the problems are fully resolved.


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Photos from {R}ake @ Issue Project Room – April 22, 2010April 25th, 2010
All photos by Chris Jordan – thanks Chris! Video by Giles Hendrix. Music by Richard Lainhart. Video of my set coming soon as well.
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Corruption Fight Aided by Technology
Good governance is critical for all countries around the world today. When it doesn't exist, many governments fail to deliver public services effectively; health and education services are often substandard; corruption persists in rich and poor countries alike, choking opportunity and growth. It will be difficult to reduce extreme poverty — let alone end it — without addressing the importance of good governance.


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By Chris Wright
The Association of Nigerian Prostitutes have promised to give away "a week of free sex" should the Nigerian national side go on to win the Africa Cup of Nations after ousting tournament favourites Ivory Coast in the quarter-finals on Sunday.
The Super Eagles (or should that be 'The Spread Eagles'?) now face Mali in the semi-finals and the ANP are doing their bit to keep the players' peckers up, with secretary Jessica Elvis issuing the following statement:
"We want to congratulate the Nigerian national team, the Super Eagles, for qualifying for the next round of the competition.
"To show our support for the national team, we'll be declaring one week of free sex if the Super Eagles can win the trophy."
It's as yet unclear whether it will be the players alone who are offered the week of gratis nookie or if everyone in the country will be able to cash in as, sadly, Pies' haven't got round to perusing the small print yet.
On a side note, isn't it funny how stories about prostitution always start cropping up when major international tournaments roll around? It's as if journalists have one-track minds or something.
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"mountain bluebird"
made by mondocherry
Inspired by the rich, layered texture of tribal juju hats as well as the intricate detail of an individual feather, this artwork, titled 'mountain bluebird' is both beautifully detailed up close and incredibly graphic from afar.
Each feather is individually handcut from quality watercolour paper and then carefully water coloured. Once dry, subtle metallic detail is added to the feathers before they are layered to create an original and one of a kind artwork.
The vivd colours of 'mountain bluebird' are complemented by a solid oak box frame measuring 103cm x 103cm x 4cm.
All our artworks are custom framed here in Melbourne.


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Wide receiver Jordy Nelson sat out a couple of days of practice and quarterback Aaron Rodgers has been under the weather, but the Packers are heading to San Francisco with a roster as healthy as they could probably hope for at this point in the season.
Nelson is one of seven probable members of the Packers on their final injury report of the week, which means he'll almost certainly be on the field against the 49ers on Saturday. The quality of the field that he'll be on drew some interest after 49ers kicker Billy Cundiff posted a picture of the shabby looking playing surface on Facebook earlier this week.
"A lot of the grass fields are that way towards the end of the season. It'll be the same for everyone," said Nelson, via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. "You just have to feel it out. In pre-game, make sure you have the right cleats on, what you feel comfortable in. You have to make sure you play fast. I don't know if it will be all soggy or whatever, and slippery wet. We'll just have to feel it out. I've only been there once. I believe it was my first preseason game, so, different time of the year."
Rodgers wasn't listed on the injury report at all as a result of his illness, which is likely a similar strain to the one that kept wide receiver Randall Cobb out of practice earlier this week. Cobb, linebacker Clay Matthews, running back Alex Green, linebacker Dezman Moses, running back James Starks and tight end Jermichael Finley are the other probable Packers.


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Transferring / Re: Class rank: Ratio --> %« on: July 31, 2011, 03:11:17 PM »
You always round up. I was at the top ~1.03% after my 1L year. On my resume for OCI I just listed my rank without the percentages marked. If I were to list my percentage on my resume I would have to list it as top 2% or if I knew the top 1% cutoff (I don't...school only releases cut offs in 5% groups) I could list it as: Rank X/XXX (Top 1% = 3.9XX GPA).


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SMOKE stands for "Scripting Meta Object Kompiler Engine".
SMOKE is language-independent enough for other bindings (e.g. to
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KDE/FreeBSD team presents KDE SC 4.9.5 ports!
- kdebindings ports have been renamed to match upstream.
- kdemultimedia and kdenetwork have been split.
- New port games/pairs added.
- Trim Makefile header
- Convert to new option framework
- New USE_KDE4 components: libkcddb, libkcompactdisc
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databases/akonadi to 1.9.0
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textproc/redland-bindings to 18.104.22.168
textproc/soprano to 2.9.0
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The area51 repository features commits by Schaich Alonso, avilla, dbn,
jhale, makc and rakuco.
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- Tobias Berner
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KDE/FreeBSD team presents KDE SC 4.8.4, probably the last release in 4.8.x
Official announcement: http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.8.4.php
- Convert USE_QT_VER=4 and QT_COMPONETS to USE_QT4
Review by: bapt, David Naylor (kde team)
- update png to 1.5.10
KDE/FreeBSD team presents long awaited KDE SC 4.8.3!
kdeaccessibility4 and kdeutils4 are now meta ports. deskutils/kdepim4 updated
to match KDE SC version, old kdepim preserved in deskutils/kdepim44.
Follow UPDATING instruction!
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The KDE/FreeBSD team is pleased to announce KDE SC 4.7.4, which
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The official release notes can be found at:
The KDE on FreeBSD team is pleased to update the KDE4 ports to 4.7.3.
This is an incremental update and should be much easier to handle than
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The official release notes can be found at
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Along with the trend of integration in the world, Vietnam is considered a country with rapid and strong growth, in which, industrialization and modernization are focused on developing a uniform set and achieve high performance. Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City are considered the two cities and dynamic development in Vietnam.
In particular, Hanoi, the potential capital for developing and attracting foreign and domestic investment. Therefore, the investment from businesses to the city is seen as an advantage and the best. To evaluate how such advantages are, the following article will analyze in detail as follows:
First, the labor force
Hanoi is considered a capital with a longstanding historical developed tradition. The population is heavily crowded, reaching about 7 million after 4 times of adjusting the administrative boundaries in 2014. Ha Noi has become one of the 17 largest cities in the world. In addition, with favorable conditions, Hanoi is considered an attractive city for labor, especially qualified and highly skilled workforce. This is a particular advantage for businesses to invest in Hanoi, because the amount of labor leads to a consequence that cost for labor is cheap and a large workforce will provide for industries requiring a large amount of labor force.
Second, the pace of economic development
In 2014, the economy of Hanoi has continued to grow and controlled inflation. In addtion, GDP in the province is estimated at 8.8% and revenue is estimated at 130.000 billion, with 103% of the mathematics. Besides, administrative reform, improvement on the investment environment, business environment, policies to remove difficulties for enterprises often deploy, which made PAR index of cities rise 2 levels compared with 2012 and No. 5 of the 63 provinces and cities nationwide. Thus, with the stable and strong economic development, Hanoi is a city that brings stability for businesses to invest and develop business in this city.
Thirdly, facility
With the aim of developing Hanoi based on critirea of synchronous and modern infrastructure, leadership of Hanoi has attempted to offer policies to promote infrastructure construction of the city in order that Hanoi will become more modern, in which, the traffic system in Hanoi must be built and upgrades more modern. This is considered particularly advantage, because the synchronous development of infrastructure will bring to the development of economy of the city.
Fourthly, administrative and tax policies
With attractive policies for investment, Hanoi has implemented policies solving administrative procedures with only a door. This policy is seen as a new step forward the people of Hanoi in general and businesses having demand to invest in Hanoi in particular. With this open policy, the procedures for establishing businesses, dissolution, business transformation become quickly and easily than ever before, creat favorable conditions for the development of business and resolve administrative procedures. In addition, in order to facilitate business development for businesses, Hanoi has many policies to reduce taxes in order to create favorable conditions for development of new business with low capital.
Fifthly, geographic location
Judged to be a convenient location, with synchronous traffic system, a northern – southern railway, highway 1A, along with the expanded domestic and international routes, Hanoi is considered a city with the most convenient trade location in Southeast Asia and the gateway to the East Sea of Laos and other countries. Thus, Hanoi is the right choice of businesses that need an exchange between domestic and international provinces.
Sixthly, broad market
With the population of 7 million, belonging to one of the 17 cities with the largest population in the world, Hanoi is considered a city which has the largest consumer goods market in the country. Abundant work force, along with the large number of people from suburbs, strong demand for consumer products, services lead to favorable conditions for businesses in production and consumption of consumer products and services. These come from a reason that if the demand rises, the number of products will also lead to increase and as a consequence, economic growth of enterprises will also increase. It can be said that this is a particular strength of the city that businesses investing here are looking forward. From the analysis given above, it can be said that Hanoi is considered to be an attractive destination for small and medium enterprises, especially for enterprises with foreign investment into the Vietnam market. To better understand how to establish enterprises and choose the best type of enterprise, ANT Consulting is honored to be served our customers and provide the best services for customers. We hope cooperation from you.
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Battle of Bosworth
The Battle of Bosworth (or Bosworth Field) was fought outside the town of Market Bosworth, Leicestershire, England on 22 August 1485 between an Anglo-Welsh army led by Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, who had landed in Wales some 2 weeks before, and the forces led by the English king Richard III who had been waiting for him since that June.[1]
Richard's force out-numbered Henry's, however their morale was low after nearly two months of inaction, and the increasing unpopularity of the king; and various barons did not want to fight. Richard led a charge against Henry's position, however troops with the Stanley family, hitherto Richard's ally, changed sides in mid-action and Richard was killed in the ensuing defeat. His death brought to an end 331 years of Plantagenet rule and brought the Tudor Henry VII to the throne.
1485 is usually given as the date of the end of the Middle Ages and the start of modern times in matters of English history.


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Contact: David J.Tubman, Jr., Counsel to Commissioner Doyle (202) 523-5723
Good morning. I would like to thank Eno's President and CEO Joshua Schank as well as Secretary Mort Downey for inviting me to speak with you this morning. I would also like to thank the officials from the Panama Canal Authority who are present here today-- Ilya Marotta, Executive Vice President for Engineering and Program Management, and Rodolfo Sabonge, Executive Vice President for Planning and Business Development.
I am a Commissioner with the U.S. Federal Maritime Commission. The Federal Maritime Commission is an independent regulatory agency responsible for regulating the nation's international ocean transportation for the benefit of exporters, importers, and the American consumer. The FMC's mission is to foster a fair, efficient, and reliable international ocean transportation system while protecting the public from unfair and deceptive practices. With that said, I should emphasize that my thoughts and comments here are mine and mine alone – they do not reflect the position of the Commission, and they should not be construed to represent the positions of any of my fellow Commissioners.
I am pleased that Eno has taken the time to put together this forum on the Expansion of the Panama Canal. Indeed, the expansion represents one of the greatest public works projects in modern history.
The United States and Panama have a long and cooperative history with regards to the Panama Canal.
In 1902 the SS SHAWMUT was built in the Sparrows Point Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1910 the vessel was purchased by the Panama Railroad Company so that it could be utilized for the construction of the Panama Canal. The name of the ship was changed to the SS ANCON, 1 named after Ancon Hill which overlooks Panama City, Panama, adjacent to Ancon Township on the west coast side of the Canal. Last month, August 14, 2013, marked the 99th anniversary of the official opening and transit of the SS ANCON through the Panama Canal. We've come a long way since then.
Today, the Panama Canal is undergoing a $5.3 billion expansion project that is expected to be completed in early 2015. The expansion will enable a doubling in the tonnage of trade that can pass through the Canal. In terms of ship size, the canal's expansion will allow a 160% increase in the size of ships able to transit the Panama Canal.
The Obama Administration, members of Congress and state and local officials support the tremendous economic, business, job-supporting, energy and transportation related opportunities the expanded canal will bring to the United States.
To meet the Canal's expansion, ports are deepening their shipping channels and harbors, updating their rail lines, raising bridges, improving tunnels for railways, increasing dock facilities, and installing new cranes to accommodate larger ships and much greater cargo volumes. And the modernization of U.S. ports is not just happening on the East and Gulf Coast — West Coast ports are also updating their infrastructure to accommodate larger vessels.
I would like to highlight the importance placed on our ports by the Obama Administration with a couple of examples:
The Administration recognizes that the Panama Canal expansion project will be completed in 2015 and the U.S. needs to be ready. Some of these initiatives are part of President Obama's "We Can't Wait Initiative" and are based on a March 2012 Presidential Executive Order titled Improving Performance of Federal Permitting and Review of Infrastructure Projects. 10
While the progress that the U.S. makes in building its infrastructure in anticipation of the Canal widening is important, users of the Canal are also looking at alternatives, namely transits through the Suez Canal. In 2008, only 14 percent of total transpacific TEU capacity calling at U.S. East Coast ports transited the Suez Canal. In 2013, that percentage has increased to 35 percent. 11 This year Maersk Line and the G6 Alliance 12 of container carriers each rerouted one U.S. East Coast transpacific service through the Suez instead of Panama. 13
Currently, Panama can allow vessels of up to about 5,000 TEUs , while the Suez can allow the largest container ships afloat today. Carriers have the ability to replace two Panama services with one string of much larger ships using the Suez Canal to gain economies of scale. Maersk adjusted its service this year whereby it sends one 9,000 TEU vessel through the Suez as opposed to two 4,500 TEU vessels through Panama. 14
According to Maersk, the fees for the Panama Canal have tripled over the past five years for a 4,500 TEU vessel. APL, CMA-CGM and MSC have also switched some of their transpacific services from Panama to the Suez citing vessel size accommodations and better economics. 15
It is worth mentioning, that within the past month, a ship transiting the Suez Canal was reportedly attacked by rocket propelled grenades (RPGs). 16 The apparent terrorists even filmed their two prong RPG attack on the vessel COSCO ASIA container ship and posted the video on YouTube.
Now, Egyptian security officials claim that "the operation was a random operation that is not backed by an organization." 17 Bloomberg recently reported that Egyptian authorities had "tightened security along the Suez Canal" after the attack on the COSCO ASIA. 18
The shipowners, operators and shippers will review their trade route options as we get closer to the completion of the expanded canal. Included in their decision making will be security and a cost benefit analysis -- which means that the decision makers need to know as soon as possible the costs associated with transiting the Panama Canal.
The Panama Canal Authority (ACP) recently met with the Japanese Shipowners Association (JSA) and several car manufacturers in Japan as part of the ongoing discussions with the vehicle carrier segment on the Expansion Program's progress and future toll structure for the canal. 19
During the meetings, the ACP provided an update on the expansion program and presented the analysis of the results for the potential pricing structure for the car carrier segment taking into account the feedback received recently from this group.
I understand that ACP officials have engaged in similar discussions with the container carriers.
It is important to keep an ongoing an open dialogue regarding transit costs with all stakeholders and segments of the shipping community.
I would like to provide an example of a new type of U.S. manufactured export product that could really benefit from the expansion of the Panama Canal.
Not long ago the United States was positioning itself to be the world's largest importer of natural gas. In 2006 there were approximately 50 proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) import projects in some stage of regulatory review. 20 The U.S. was on the verge of becoming ever more reliant on the Middle East for its natural gas.
That all changed in 2008 when the independent natural gas producers in the U.S. proved that abundant amounts of natural gas could be extracted and produced from shale basins in places like the Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. 21 Indeed, these producers perfected the technique known as horizontal multistage hydraulic fracturing. 22
Today, the U.S. has not only slashed its imports of natural gas from overseas, but we are on the verge of becoming a major competitor on the supply-side of natural gas through our LNG exports.
The world's largest market for liquefied natural gas is Asia. As it stands now, South Korea and Japan are the largest importers of LNG. In the coming years, China may be added to that list. 23
With the Dominion Cove Point decision issued by the Department of Energy last Wednesday, the Obama administration has now authorized 6.37 billion cubic feet of liquefied natural gas to be sold overseas. 24 Dominion, located in Maryland, is the first East Coast export project that has been approved and it is the closest terminal to Appalachia's Marcellus and Utica shale formations.
Previously, the Energy Department approved conditional export licenses to three Gulf Coast terminals: Lake Charles, Louisiana project, as well as the Freeport LNG project on Quintana Island, Texas, and, in 2011, Houston-based Cheniere Energy's Sabine Pass facility in southwest Louisiana.
How do we get the domestically produced natural gas into the export market?
Once the expanded Panama Canal opens, the distance to ship U.S. natural gas from the Gulf Coast of the United States to Asia will decrease by 9,000 miles. 25 Only 21 of the existing global fleet of 370 LNG tankers can currently fit through the Panama Canal. 26 None use the Canal.
However, more than 80 % of the tankers will be able to make the passage through the Canal once the widening is complete (Platou Consultants). 27 The U.S. will be competing with Australia, Russia, East Africa and the Middle East as a natural gas supplier for Asia. The development of U.S. natural gas resources, together with the Panama Canal Expansion, will have a transformative impact on the U.S. energy and transportation landscape, helping to improve our energy security while spurring economic development and job creation around the country.
I have a close and personal relationship with Panama and it citizens. These relationships began prior to my days as an Officer in the U.S. Merchant Marine when I transited the Canal and delivered petroleum to Chiriqui Grande.
I am a 1992 graduate of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy. I was fortunate to meet and become friends with Panamanian cadets at Mass Maritime. Back then, Panama was planning its transition as a nation to take over full operational control of the Panama Canal in 1999. Thus, many Panamanian students entered the Maritime Academies in the United States to receive maritime training and earn maritime related degrees.
I would like thank Captains Leopoldo Icaza and Luis Carlos Casco Arias of the Panama Canal Pilots Association for attending this forum today. We all understand the importance and need of shipboard pilots on the canal. Leo and I were classmates at Mass Maritime.
Espanola: Ahora, casi 20 años después, los Panameños graduados de las Academias Marítimas de los Estados Unidos, incluyendo la Academia Marítima de Massachusetts, han llegado a posiciones de liderazgo en todas las disciplinas publicas y privadas con respecto a las operaciones y Administración del Canal. Todos ustedes han hecho un excelente trabajo. Felicito a todos esos Panameños egresados de las Academias Maritimas de los Estados Unidos y quiero mandarles un saludo muy especial y felicitar a mis amigos Panameños de la Academia Marítima de Massachusetts.
English: Now, more than 20 years later, Panamanian graduates of the Maritime Academies, including Mass Maritime, have entered into leadership roles in and around all public and private disciplines with respect to the operations and management of the Panama Canal. You have all done well. I congratulate all those Panamanians who are graduates of the U.S. Maritime Academies and I want to especially say hello and congratulations to my Panamanian friends from Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
It is Panama's commitment to modern infrastructure and world oceanborne commerce that is spurring the U.S. to meet the challenge. It is our great --U.S. / Panama-- working relationship that will make this project a success. I'm convinced the United States will meet the infrastructure challenges and it will be a win for American workers and a win for the American economy.
Thank you.
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I find it hard to believe that when the (then) IDC was formed all we needed to do was combine a few communities, put a fancy name on it, and call it a day.
We haven't done any sort of community rework since the standup some xx (can't remember) years ago -- s-ame Officer designators, same enlisted rates, same stovepiped commands.
Meanwhile, we keep experimenting with cross-detailing -- first Flag billets, then O-5 command, then major command, now O-4 XO. Meh...
We wouldn't need to worry about trying to build exposure if we were optimally organized.
As far as SIGINT under Intel goes, all of the other services do this. Are we the only service doing it right? Or are we the only service doing it wrong?


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If you loved the first 50 Shades movie, no doubt you've been gearing up for number two.
The theme for the flick, which almost didn't star Mr. Grey, Jamie Dornan, is definitely intrigue.
The promo shows Mr. Grey bringing out masks, which seems pretty tame, when you think of the kind of toys he introduced Anastasia to in the first movie.
Though, in true 50 Shades style, they're probably keeping everything saucy for the moment you sit in the cinema chair.
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Rylan wrote:Is it just me or has story in video games really gotten stale/down right terrible the last few years? Maybe I am getting tired of video games or something, but very few games have a plot worth going through anymore.
That's a pretty good observation. I played a number of really good games lately that had a stupid ending. That includes the first Borderlands.


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Incidentally, readers are welcome to come to the ceremony as my guest. If you would like to know the exact time and place, please send an email to Ross at Crosswordman.com and I will provide all the details.
Clearly I will need to re-title the blog, but I have also decided it is time to discontinue the daily crossword commentaries. I started writing these with the aim of learning about American culture through crosswords and feel that after two years, I have absorbed the US-specific references to the point where I don't have anything very different to say to the other regular commentators on the New York Times puzzle. If I do now have any original thoughts on the day's puzzles, they can adequately be expressed in comments to Wordplay, Rex Parker, Crossword Fiend, or other crossword forums.
In fact, while focusing on US puzzles, I've been solving less and less cryptics and doing no cryptic construction or clue writing. This was brought home to me recently: I was invited to collaborate on a memorial puzzle and found it hard to get back into the mindset, particularly when it came to writing the clues. I don't particularly miss cryptics: after about 40 years solving them at every level, I was finding very little new to keep me interested; our cryptic solving is now reduced to the Araucaria crosswords in a monthly magazine we subscribe to, and I don't particularly miss all the other puzzles I used to solve.
Now that I'm freed from the daily blog-writing commitment, I'd also like to focus more attention on creating US-style puzzles. I made some failed attempts back in 2009 and would like to have another go with the benefit of another year or so of solving under my belt. The challenge for me has been coming up with original enough and "tight" enough themes - I know from the commentaries I've written that it's very rare to find holes to pick in published themes and meeting these high standards is challenging for a newcomer.
Thank you all for reading the commentaries, and for your feedback in blog comments and by email. I've had a lot of fun doing the research for the posts and choosing the images. I hope you'll find something of value in the Cheat Sheets to come.


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Pitching for his Dodgers' life, Dan Haren threw one of the games of his life.
And it bought him the precious commodity of time.
If he keeps delivering performances like his 7 1/3-inning lockdown of the Angels on Wednesday on a brilliant summer evening in Anaheim to send the Dodgers to a 2-1 win, his spot in the rotation will become permanent rather than tenuous.
If ever there was a pitcer in need of a strong performance after the career-high five-game losing streak he's endured and a 15-game stretch in which he was mostly bad, it was Haren.
"I think that's probably the understatement of the year," Haren said.
And while the Dodgers didn't officially proclaim it, his spot in the rotation was certainly under question.
But all that changed Wednesday.
Haren went from getting rocked to being rock solid, taking a perfect game into the sixth inning and leaving with one out in the eighth with a 2-0 lead after giving up just three hits.
His ball was darting and diving and driving the Angels batty.
He was in command, daring and dynamic.
He worked quickly and efficiently and dominated a powerful Angels lineup, needing just 84 pitches to get through seven innings.
And on a night the Dodgers' bats gave him just minimal support with two second-inning runs, he made sure they stood up through his time on the mound.
It was everything the Dodgers needed from their fourth starter. And everything Haren hadn't been for far too long.
For one night, anyway, he solidified his spot in the rotation.
And gave himself some peace of mind.
"I didn't want to be the weak link," he said softly.
He isn't out of the woods yet.
But considering the baggage he hauled to the mound against the Angels, he deserves the chance to breathe a little easier.
The former All-Star carried an 0-5 record with a 10.03 ERA over his last five starts into Wednesday's game, surrendering six home runs over 23⅓innings.
Prior to Wednesday, he hadn't completed five innings in four of his last seven starts, done in by the long ball and an inability to minimize balls in play. Opponents were hitting .289 against Haren over his last 15 starts and knocked him around with 20 home runs.
In the process, Haren gave his team very little chance to win the games in which he took the mound.
And it's put the Dodgers in the very precocious position of having to deal with him.
Because we all know liabilities eventually must be eliminated. The stakes are too high and the space separating the Dodgers and the rest of baseball's upper echelon too thin to let a weak link like Haren continue taking the mound every fifth day.
No one understood more than Haren.
"We can't go all year with (Clayton) Kershaw winning all of his games and me losing all of mine."
All of which made the start against the Angels one of two very different things.
It was either the beginning of a much-needed turnaround or the beginning of the end to his stay in the rotation.
The Dodgers wouldn't say that, of course.
As badly as they needed Haren to get straightened out, the last thing they needed was to send him out to the mound with an "or else" ultimatum. Especially considering the ferocity and long-ball capability of an Angels lineup that includes Mike Trout, Albert Pujols and Josh Hamilton.
"We just want to see him have some success," is how Dodgers manager Don Mattingly described it.
That's one way of putting it.
But we all know the Dodgers need much more than that from Haren, not to mention fellow starter Josh Beckett. They simply can't afford the kind of uncertainty their fourth and fifth starters have created, not if they want to push through to the World Series for the first time since 1988.
Mattingly knows as well as anyone.
But with the trade deadline passing and the Dodgers unwilling to part with any combination of their top three prospects — or have a young, cost-controlled major-leaguer to use as trade bait — they were helpless to match up on a deal for either Jon Lester or David Price.
Instead, the Oakland A's and Detroit Tigers added the two All-Star aces.
Meanwhile, the Dodgers make do.
"Starters aren't just everywhere," Mattingly said, explaining the difficulty in replacing Haren.
Apparently not even on the farm.
"(Maybe) if we had five guys in the minor leagues knocking on the door and beating it down saying, "I should be the guy getting that start,'" Mattingly said. "But right now we don't."
Which means Haren will continue to take the mound.
And the Dodgers will hold their breath and hope he performs like he did on Wednesday.
At least until they locate a better option, perhaps by adding a starter through a waiver-wire deal.
Haren went a long way toward reducing some of the concern Wednesday.
But it only matters if he builds off the performance.
They might be able to survive their weak links and win the division, thanks mostly to the wobbly San Francisco Giants and the rebuilding Colorado Rockies, San Diego Padres and Arizona Diamondbacks.
But the Dodgers are about so much more than another NL West crown, their payroll a loud reminder of their desire to play November baseball.
Somewhere along the line, be it during the regular season or National League playoffs, their vulnerabilities won't just be exposed — they'll cost them.
It happened last year when injuries to Matt Kemp and Hanley Ramirez and uncertain pitching beyond Kershaw, Zach Greinke and Hyun-Jin Ryu undid them against the St. Louis Cardinals in the NLCS.
The Dodgers can't afford similar uncertainty this fall.
But Haren was creating it, his inability to be even decent recently cost the Dodgers a chance to bury the Giants further in the standings.
But he flipped the script Wednesday and delivered a performance worthy of a fourth starter on a playoff contender.
Now he has to build on it.
His spot in the rotation depends on it.
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VIDEO: Derrick Rose sits out of Wednesday's game against the Dominican Republic
HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Ten games in two years.
That's the sum total of work Derrick Rose's knees have allowed him to put in with the Chicago Bulls of late. Knee injuries and issues have robbed Rose and Bulls fans of two years of the one-time MVP's prime, time he'll never get back.
So if Rose wanted to bail right now on his commitment to USA Basketball for the 2014 FIBA World Cup, no one could blame him. The breathtaking talent is still there. We've seen enough of that during this current exhibition run to the competition in Spain, even with Rose sitting out Wednesday's game against the Dominican Republic. But we're watching it, holding our collective breath, hoping the basketball higher powers spare Rose and the Bulls any further injury agony.
There is a philosophical debate going on right now in the Windy City. Should Rose continue his road back now with USA across his chest? Or should he bow out gracefully right now and make sure he's ready to go when the Bulls kick off their championship hunt in two months?
Rose doesn't owe it to anyone to push his sore knee(s) beyond their comfort zone right now. He owes it to himself to continue to listen to that voice inside of his head that tells him when to push it and when to step back. He did it with his recovery with the Bulls and has no reason to ignore that voice this time around.
As disappointing as it would be for the folks at USA Basketball to lose yet another superstar, they would understand where Rose is coming from given his recent injury history.
Nothing will make up for the time he missed the past two seasons. Not even a gold medal in Spain, which I think can be attained with or without Rose in the fold — especially with James Harden, "the best all-around player in the NBA" in uniform.
Selfishly, I'd love to see Rose on the court in Bilbao, Barcelona and Madrid, leading this U.S. Men's Senior National Team in the World Cup. Without Kevin Durant, Kevin Love and Paul George on the roster, the margin for error shrinks considerably. But the strongest team in the field remains whatever combination of players USA Basketball boss Jerry Colangelo and coach Mike Krzyzewski choose to take to Spain.
If Rose wasn't experiencing any soreness and was completely healthy, there would be no need for debate. Bulls coach Tom Thibodeau, one of Krzyzewski's assistants this summer, insists Rose is "fine." And to some, like Sam Smith of Bulls.com, Rose's rebirth is a product of his affiliation with USA Basketball and their comprehensive program. There's a sentiment that he owes it to the program to stick it out this summer.
But he's already being held out of practices and exhibition games as a precautionary measure. Why risk it? There's a reason for the nervousness, from some, in Chicago.
Rick Telander of the Chicago Sun-Times voices some of those concerns beautifully:
I know this is hard for Rose to take. An elite, driven athlete is never sated just by tons of money. He wants to play. He wants to dominate. That's what he was put on earth to do.
But for Bulls fans, the wait to see a healthy, resilient Rose has been like dripping water torture.
Patriots though we may be, we have no similar interest in the United States' dominance in world basketball. We know the globe now plays the game. We've seen our Olympic teams beaten by Argentina, Puerto Rico. We're still the best, overall. So it goes. Every global star either plays in the NBA or is named Nikola Mirotic. Hooray.
But Kevin Durant and other stars are not playing for Team USA. They're preparing for the NBA season and the preseason practices that begin — for all teams — just five weeks from today.
Rose's first knee injury — a torn anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee — may be totally healed. And his second major injury — a torn medial meniscus in his right knee — has been stitched back together and supposedly is good to go.
But God — or old David Stern — generally built players' bodies pretty well before surgery. No normal knees get better with surgery. There isn't a rocket chip doctors can put in there. Yet.
So Rose is damaged goods. Sorry, it's the truth. Hurts to say it. Just like it hurts to say former MVP.
Arthritis likely will be his new closest friend. That and inflammation and swelling and good old ''soreness.'' Oh, and fatigue.
All of which are just indicators that he's not a yearling in a spring field of flowers anymore.
Who cares if he wins with Team USA or loses with them or becomes the team mascot. Does anybody in America care that our beloved Blackhawks captain Jonathan Toews won the gold medal for Canada in the 2014 Olympics? Or that his beloved teammate Patrick Kane lost for the U.S.?
No. The Stanley Cup is all.
The Larry O'Brien trophy is all that matters to Rose and Bulls teammates like Joakim Noah, Taj Gibson, Jimmy Butler and newcomer Pau Gasol, all guys whose vested interests should come before whatever limited role Rose might play in Spain.
If Rose cannot go all out now, why would anyone expect him to do so once the Bulls start training camp?
There is no shame in recognizing that more rest is needed. There would be a level universal understanding, within the basketball community and beyond, if Rose took himself out of the mix.
If he thinks his knees will hold up, that he needs this challenge to prove to himself that he's all the way back, I'm fine with that. If this hurdle is emotional and not physical, play on sir. Do your thing.
But knowing what we've missed for all but 10 games the two seasons, knowing what sort of agony Bulls fans have had to endure without their hometown superstar in uniform, if this hurdle is physical and not emotional, I'd have no problem with Rose bowing out gracefully.
VIDEO: All-Access look at USA Basketball's recent visit to Chicago


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